St. Bonifatius (Dietenhofen)

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St. Boniface

St. Bonifatius is a Roman Catholic church named after St. Bonifatius in Dietenhofen ( Herrieden deanery of the Eichstätt diocese ).

Parish

In 1925 only 25 of the 762 inhabitants in Dietenhofen were Roman Catholic. These were parish to St. Vitus (Veitsaurach) . After the Second World War , expellees from Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia were settled, which led to a sharp increase in the number of Catholics. Initially, mass could be held every second Sunday afternoon in the Protestant St. Andrew's Church . In 1947, Dietenhofen and Großhabersdorf were declared a curate and incorporated into the parish of Heilsbronn . In late autumn 1947 a small building was rented and used as a chapel. In 1955, a 1,100 square meter plot of land on the Weinbergleiten was purchased, on which a small emergency church was built, which on the outside hardly differed from a simple house. It was consecrated to St. Boniface on October 28, 1956 by the cathedral capitular Josef Klebl.

The Catholic parish of Dietenhofen has included the Catholics of the political community of Dietenhofen since the 1980s at the latest. There were 600 parishioners at the time. On July 1, 1993, the Curatie St. Walburga Dietenhofen-Großhabersdorf was raised to a parish, which belonged to the deanery Schwabach. The Weihenzell districts of Forst , Frankendorf and Petersdorf also belong to the parish . The parish is now part of the Heilsbronn Parish Association.

The emergency church became too small for the growing Catholic community and was also in need of renovation. It was decided to build a new building. For this purpose, a piece of land on the former butcher's site was purchased in 1992, on which the current church was built from 2006 to 2009 according to plans by the Eichstatt diocesan master builder Karl Frey . On September 27, 2009 , Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke consecrated the branch church of St. Bonifatius.

Church building

The entire design is based on the basic dimension of 12 cm or the number twelve. All dimensions of the architecture and the equipment can be derived as a multiple of this unit. The postmodern, elliptical building (24 × 16 meters) has an outer shell made of a steel frame with 384 ribbed industrial glasses, while the inner walls consist of 288 hand-painted and fired glass panels. It is closed by a flat, monolithic concrete ceiling. A cubic wooden bell housing is located on a steel frame next to the church. Thanks to the combination of photovoltaics and geothermal energy, the building is energetically self-sufficient.

The floor is made of Pappenheimer Jura marble. The octagonal baptismal font faces the altar in the east, to the left and right of which there are benches for around 120 people attending the church. 14 stations of the cross, which were created by Rudolf Ackermann from Eichstätt, are integrated into the outer shell. Otherwise the church is picture-less.

Curates or pastors of St. Bonifatius Dietenhofen / St. Walburga Großhabersdorf

  • 1947–1949 Curate Walter Führich
  • 1949–1953 Curate Norbert Ubl ( O.Praem. )
  • 1953–1968 Curate Franz Gollan
  • 1968–1972 curate Franz Kurzendorfer
  • 1972–1983 Curate Franz Hein
  • 1983–1992 Curate Josef Herrmann
  • 1992–1995 Curate / Pastor Ewald Scherr
  • 1995–1998 Pastor Josef Vollnhals
  • 1998–2003 Pastor Bernhard Kroll
  • 2004–2010 Pastor Sturmius Wagner

literature

  • Josef Kollar (Ed.): Market Dietenhofen . 1985, p. 93-96 .

Web links

Commons : St. Boniface  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1269 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ J. Kollar (Ed.), Pp. 93ff.
  3. ↑ weihenzell.de
  4. ↑ On July 1, 1993 the curate of St. Walburga Dietenhofen-Großhabersdorf was raised to a parish.

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 1.3 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 18.9"  E