St. Boniface (Giessen)

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St. Boniface from the west
Tower front

St. Bonifatius is a Roman Catholic parish church in Giessen and the main Catholic church in the city. The three-aisled basilica was built in two phases from 1902 to 1905 and from 1934 to 1936 in the neo-Gothic style . The complex structure with a 70 meter high church tower is a Hessian cultural monument .

history

In the area of ​​today's church square was in 12./13. A "chapel" was built in the 18th century and was first mentioned in a document in 1248. This Pankratius chapel was consecrated to St. Pankratius and Maria and a branch of the Peterskirche, which stood in the village of Selters at the gates of Giessen. Probably in the 14th century the Romanesque chapel was replaced by a two-aisled Gothic church, the “town church”, which was first referred to as the “parish church” (“parochialis ecclesia”) in 1334. With the introduction of the Reformation , Gießen changed to the Evangelical Confession in 1527. From 1532 there was no longer any Catholic priest in Gießen and Catholic life in the city largely came to a standstill for over 250 years.

From 1784 onwards, Franciscans from Wetzlar held catholic services in Gießen again. The employment of his own pastor followed, referring to the "Darmstädter Freyheitsbrief" in 1791, for which Landgrave Ludwig I gave permission. The number of Catholics increased sharply from the beginning of the 19th century. Many of them were employees of Giessen University , which had a Catholic theological faculty from 1830 to 1851. A professor at the university was also the pastor of the Catholic community. From 1804 the evangelical castle church was also used, and a bell of the evangelical town church was allowed to ring during the catholic church services. From 1823, the services were initially held in the town church, as the castle church was demolished in 1824. Later, a former clinic in the old barracks in Liebigstrasse served as a meeting place. On August 1, 1838, the foundation stone was laid for a new building, which was inaugurated on September 7, 1840. At this point in time the community had 314 members with around 45 school children. There were also around 200 Catholics from the surrounding area and 34 Catholic theology students. This first Catholic parish church in Giessen after the Reformation stood on the Seltersberg (corner of Frankfurter Strasse / Liebigstrasse, roughly on the site of today's Martinshof) and was consecrated to St. Boniface and St. Peter. Soon there was no longer enough space for the growing congregation, which in 1892 had around 1,800 members. Because of the nearby railroad tracks that have now been installed, this first church could not be expanded. In the immediate vicinity on Liebigstrasse, the community acquired property from the former Fernie mining administration in 1898.

Construction of the new representative parish church for the Giessen Catholics began in 1902. The architects were Ludwig Becker , Anton Falkowski and Hugo Becker. The on-site site management was taken over by the Giessen architect H. Kockerbeck. Until 1905 were in a first phase choir , the transept and the first longhouse - yoke with the sacristy completed. The church was founded on 24 September 1905 by the Mainzer Domkapitular Friedrich Goedecker benediziert . The tower had not yet been erected at the time. A brick wall temporarily closed the building to the north. Dreymann's organ was taken over from the old church, as were the old church stalls , which were replaced in 1908 by the Giessen carpenter Joh. Lenz. At this point in time the parish had about 2000 members. The previous building was converted from 1910 to 1911 into the "Catholic Club House". In 1917 the organ's two large bells and the pewter prospect pipes were confiscated for armament purposes. The new rectory was occupied on July 1, 1929. The construction of the large-scale plan for the neo-Gothic church was only possible from 1934. After review of the plans and the addition of two other yokes and the tower under construction manager Peter Grode was the consecration by Albert Stohr be celebrated on June 27 1936th

The spiritual care of 46 villages in the vicinity of Gießen, all of which were looked after by St. Bonifatius as the only parish, presented a great challenge. In 1944, the church suffered considerable war damage from a heavy explosive bomb. The east aisle and the five choir windows, which Bernhard Kraus had painted in 1930 under the theme “the five laws of the painful rosary ”, were destroyed. The vaults were cracked, roofs damaged, smashed doors and organ and the conversation Enge shattered the high altar in many items. The church was restored from 1945 to 1949 under the direction of Peter Grode. The destroyed club house was initially restored as a "hall building"; later it gave way to a new building, the "Martinshof". Due to the influx of expellees, mainly Sudeten Germans, the community grew to 19,000 Catholics after the Second World War, 7,000 of whom lived in Giessen. The church received an exterior plaster in 1960. From 1976 to 1979 a profound renovation and redesign took place. The sacrament chapel was completely redesigned and the chancel of the main altar was moved forward. He received a front altar near the community, in accordance with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . The floor was covered with new stone slabs and the corners of the vaulted caps were painted with floral motifs. The bronze portal was inaugurated in 1987, the exterior renovation was completed in 1994 and the large Trinity bell was re-cast in the same year.

architecture

Vestibule to the sacrament chapel

St. Boniface is built as a three-aisled basilica on a cross ground plan with a polygonal high choir in early Gothic forms. The church stands on an artificial plateau on a hillside south of the old city center. It is not geosted , but oriented from northeast to southwest according to the surrounding streets. The masonry is plastered white on the outside and inside, with arches, reveals , vault ribs, the corner blocks and other dividing elements made of red sandstone. A two-sided flight of stairs leads over the Lungstein retaining wall to a narrow forecourt on the northeast side. St. Bonifatius is characterized by a differentiated roof landscape.

The gable front portal has two towers, but only the south tower with the bells was built in full height. The gable side is divided into two zones by a cornice and bordered at the sides by stepped buttresses . The representative, pointed arched main portal with tympanum is a total of 7 meters high and 2.50 meters wide. In the two-stepped, fluted jambs a large rectangular recess is recessed, which is filled above the ogive with tracery and breaks through the cornice. The sculptor Josef Welling from Koblenz-Horchheim designed the two-winged bronze door including the tympanum. The door leaves show eight scenes in figural representation from the life of St. Boniface . In the bronze tympanum above a frieze with the twelve apostles and Paul , Christ can be seen as judge of the world in a mandorla , which is surrounded by the four symbols of the evangelists . At the side of the portal are small round windows and above them pointed arch windows with tracery. The upper zone is dominated by a large rose window with tracery filling. In the top of the gable there is a small ogival triple window, the middle window of which is elevated.

The two towers on a square floor plan are divided into floors of different heights by cornices. The low upper floor of the north tower is tapered and has three pointed arched windows on each of the free sides. The octagonal pointed helmet only reaches the height of the roof ridge from the central nave. A connecting building from 1929, in which the Catholic public library (founded in 1899) and the Christian art room are housed, forms the transition to the gable-front parsonage. A large pointed arch allows passage to the inner courtyard and the sacrament chapel . The mighty tower on the east corner tapers slightly upwards and reaches a height of 70 meters. Its weight is 2700 tons. The tower hall serves as a baptistery. The upper floor as a bell room has a large ogival sound opening with five-lane tracery panels on each side. The octagonal cone point with corner turrets between decorative gables is crowned by a tower knob, a simple cross (7 meters) and a weathercock (1.05 meters).

The entire north side is three pre-built houses and the cross Zwerchhaus the sacristy coined. The three-bay central nave is covered by a steep gable roof, which is equipped with small dormers with turrets. A roof turret with ornamental gables rises above the crossing . A tower knob and a simple cross crown the slender pointed helmet. The upper storey has ogival tracery windows. The south aisle is covered by a monopitch roof, which merges into buttresses above. Three confessionals with carved doors are built into the outer wall. A transept with a burial chapel is built in front of the north aisle. The two side aisles end in vaulted side chapels that flank the high choir and have two obtuse-angled choir walls to the west.

The two transepts each have a large pointed arch window, while the gable triangle is filled with pointed arches made of red sandstone. The southern transverse wing has a porch with a monopitch roof, from which a small entrance hall with a profiled pointed arch and transverse gable emerges. A pointed arch with tracery panels is attached above the portal with a cantilever arch . The choir with a five-eighth closure is illuminated through large pointed arched windows with tracery, which are structured by stepped buttresses. In the western corner between the north wing and the choir, the sacristy is built on. It contains the sacristy of the priests, the sacristy of the acolytes and a work room for the sexton. It is illuminated on the gable side in the south-west through two pointed arched windows with tracery and in the north-west through three rectangular windows. In the gable triangle there are two very small ogival double windows and a round window with tracery under the dwelling.

Two transepts in front of the north side wing form the two-bay sacrament chapel , which is accessed from the street side through a small vestibule with a gable roof. The chapel is 10 meters long, 6.25 meters wide and about 6 meters high. The vestibule has a multi-tiered pointed arch, the tracery of which is filled with fish bubbles over a round arch. The vault ribs form dragon squares , which form a cross at the apex, which is decorated with flowering tendrils. Two large pointed arched windows with tracery and leaded glass windows are set in towards the crossing (4.80 meters high, 2.80 meters wide). The two ogival exterior windows have two-lane tracery with leaded windows (2.85 meters high, 0.90 meters wide). One was donated in 1950 by members of the community and shows Saints Tarzisius (with the Eucharist under the robe) and Agnes (with a lamb and a palm branch). Pastor Karl Joseph Deuster donated the other window for his silver jubilee as a priest. Thomas More (with cross and scroll) and Saint Elizabeth, who cares for a poor, are depicted .

Furnishing

Interior facing northeast, 2014, after the old organ was dismantled and before the new owl organ was built
Chancel of St. Boniface Church
Sacrament chapel
Pentecost window

The central nave is spanned by a slender net vault, the side aisles by ribbed vaults . The organ gallery in the northeast stands on a three-bay hall with pointed arches . Corresponding arcades open the aisles to the central nave. Between the arcades, the services for the vault ribs rest on simple consoles . The high choir, which has been raised by four steps, has been moved into the central nave since the interior renovation in the 1970s. A stone pre-altar made of light sandstone has tracery panels in front.

The most remarkable piece of equipment is the figurative winged altar with filigree tracery structure in the choir. The altar was acquired in 1904 from the collection of Ernst Franz August Munzenberger in Frankfurt am Main for 10,000 marks. The Frankfurt sculptor Josef Schnitzer integrated the late Gothic fragments into a neo-Gothic whole, which was supplemented by a tabernacle , ostensorium and cracks . The outer sides of the double doors show full-length paintings in four fields, which possibly go back to the environment of Edward von Steinle . You can see the four saints Bernhard , Theresa , Elisabeth and Francis . The front of the cafeteria is decorated with tracery. The tabernacle in the middle of the predella is surrounded by two wood-carved scenes. In the middle of the retable stands a crucifix in the center against a golden background, flanked on the left by three female figures of saints ( Saint Catherine , the Crescent Madonna and Mary Magdalene or Saint Barbara ) and on the right by three male figures ( Stephen , Boniface and John the Baptist with a lamb) becomes. The side wings each have four polychrome wooden reliefs with gilding, work from the end of the 19th century. The left wing shows the Visitation of the Virgin Mary at the top left, the Nativity of Christ with the Adoration of the Shepherds at the top right , the Annunciation at the bottom left and the representation of Jesus in the temple at the bottom right . On the right wing scenes of the birth and childhood of Jesus are shown: top left flight to Egypt , top right the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple , bottom left the adoration of the kings , bottom right the Holy Family at work at home. The bursting with tracery and pegs is dominated by the central representation of the mercy seat in a six meter high peg, in front of which a crucifix is ​​attached. On the left St. Leonhard and the Evangelist John and on the right St. Laurentius and James are incorporated into four meter high pegs. Due to the subsequent interruption of the predella by the tabernacle, Christ as Salvator Mundi and the twelve apostles as half-figures are irregularly distributed over the four fields of the predella.

The ambo , like the six altar candlesticks by Josef Welling, is made of bronze. In the baptistery, the octagonal, cup-shaped baptismal font made of anthracite-colored marble stands on a square foot. The Way of the Cross , painted in the Nazarene style by the Munich painter Rouge 1912–1913, is a copy of the paintings that Louis Hendrix created for the Antwerp Cathedral in 1864–1868 . The carved oak frame with pinnacles , cross and finials 1914 designed the carpentry Alber Jungnitsch from Hofen. In the south side chapel there is a Marian altar, in the north a Joseph altar. Steinmetz Franz Zeller from Miltenberg created the two altar tables in 1953. The seated Madonna and Child and the figure of Joseph with a lily are made of sandstone and are by an unknown artist.

Above the crypt in the burial chapel, a Pietà commemorates Johannes Bayer, who was pastor in St. Bonifatius from 1892 to 1938. It was created in 1939 by Philipp Müller from Heppenheim. A sandstone slab is reminiscent of Pastor Karl Josef Deuster. It is flanked by two semi-sculptural sandstone reliefs that used to adorn the two ambones there before the alteration of the chancel; they show Christ as the sower and Paul. Another confessional is built into the outer wall north of the burial chapel. The church stalls from 1908 leave a central aisle free. The carved fillings on the cheeks were made by Josef Schnitzer.

The stained glass windows of the aisles comes in part from before the Second World War. The destroyed ones were replaced in the 1950s and 1960s. The colored glazed rose window goes back to the 1950s. The emergency glazing was replaced in the choir in 1979, in the transept in 1980 and in the central nave in 1981. The designs by Wilhelm Buschulte from Unna were carried out by the Oidtmann company in Linnich. The large window of the south transept shows the feast of Pentecost, which in the north transept shows the second coming of Christ .

The sacrament chapel has a small wooden altar with coffered panels (1.30 meters long, 0.90 meters wide, 0.95 meters high). On the southwest wall hangs a large three-nail type crucifix (2.30 meters), which is based on templates from the 17th century. The torso of a Madonna enthroned with a standing child has been on a console at the bottom left since 1976. It is a copy of an early Gothic Madonna from around 1322, which stood in the monastery church of Schiffenberg Monastery in the pre-Reformation period . On the right on the wall is the three-part sacrament house made of red sandstone, which was delivered in 1976 by the sculptor Willi Hahn from Trier. On the square foot you can see emaciated people lying down, who rise in a winding band on a column (1.33 meters) and go on a wandering. Above and behind the tabernacle (0.90 meters) with a lockable lattice door, the folds of a curtain curl. The upper end is formed by eight cuboids tapering towards the top and arranged in pairs with ears of corn (1.20 meters), symbol of the growing kingdom of God . Below the double windows, a memorial plaque with an inscription commemorates those who died in the First World War of the Hasso Rhenania student union (1.45 meters long, 0.90 meters wide). The two figures (0.90 meters) on consoles on the side walls show a younger bishop without a beard and an older bishop with a beard.

Organs

Main organ

Old main organ of St. Boniface

The community acquired its first positive organ in 1823 from organ builder Heinrich Leicht from Gießen. For the previous church, Bernhard Dreymann built a two-manual organ with 15 stops , which was transferred to the new church in 1905 and placed on the temporary rear wall. The instrument was destroyed by the war in 1944. The Lich company Förster & Nicolaus built a new instrument on the north gallery after a two-manual harmonium had served as a replacement for years. In a first construction phase, the Rückpositiv with cone shutter was built in 1956 and the three-manual organ was completed in 1965. The main organ was dismantled in 2013, and in its place a new organ by Hermann Eule with 41 sounding stops , distributed over three manuals and pedal , was installed in 2015 . Since then, the rose window in the north wall has also been visible again. The registers with a total of 2659 organ pipes include three extensions and a high pressure register (355 mm water column). The key action is mechanical, the key action electrically. The gaming table is free-standing. The disposition is designed in an English-romantic way and is as follows:

New main organ of St. Boniface (2015)
I Hauptwerk / Great C – a 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal Major 08th'
3. Principal minor 08th'
4th Claribel Flute 08th'
5. teller 08th'
6th octave 04 ′
7th Harmonic flute 04 ′
8th. Duplicate 02 ′
9. Cornett II-IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Mixture IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Trumpet 08th'
Tuba sonora (= No. 32) 08th'
II Oberwerk / ChoirC-a 3
12. Quintatön 16 ′
13. Violin principal 08th'
14th Flauto traverso 08th'
15th Lovely covered 08th'
16. Viola d'amore 08th'
17th octave 04 ′
18th Flauto amabile 04 ′
19th Nasard 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Piccolo 02 ′
21st Progressio III – IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Clarinet 08th'
Tremulant
Tuba sonora (= No. 32) 08th'
III SwellC-a 3
23. Contra viola 16 ′
24. Concert flute 08th'
25th Viol d'orchestre 08th'
26th Viola celeste 08th'
27. Viola alta 04 ′
28. Violcornett III 03 1 ⁄ 5  ′
29 Bassoon horn 16 ′
30th Cornopean 08th'
31. Orchestral oboe 08th'
32. Tuba sonora 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
33. Stand (Ext. No. 35) 32 ′
34. double bass 16 ′
35. Sub bass 16 ′
Contra viola (= No. 23) 16 ′
36. Octave bass 08th'
37. violoncello 08th'
38. Bass flute (ext. No.34) 08th'
39. trombone 16 ′
40. Trumpet 08th'
41. Clarion (Ext. No. 40) 04 ′
Tuba sonora (= No. 32) 08th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I (mechanical), III / I (electrical), III / II (electrical), I / P (mechanical), II / P (mechanical), III / P (electrical)
    • Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III
    • Super octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III, III / P
  • Playing aids : 10,000-fold setting system , roller with 4 programs, sequencer, 2 swell steps, storage
  • Remarks:
  1. ↑ a b Swellable.
  2. ↑ high pressure register.

Choir organ

Choir organ St. Boniface Giessen

On the east wall of the central nave is an English organ made by T. Hopkins & Sons from 1912, which was acquired second-hand from north-east England in 2006. The instrument has 13 registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedal. The soft bass is a wind weakening of the Bourdon. The disposition is:

I Great organ C – a 3
Open diapason 8th'
Stopped diapason 8th'
Dulciana 8th'
octave 4 ′
Harmonic flute 4 ′
Piccolo 2 ′
II Swell organ C – a 3
Violin diapason 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Viol d'orchester 8th'
Voix celeste 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
Bourdon 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P, II 4 ′ / II
  • Playing aids: 1 combination, 2 fixed combinations (p, f)

Peal

In 1937 the community acquired the bell cage with five bronze bells from the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen for 22,203 marks , four of which were confiscated for the armaments industry in 1942. Three bells returned after the Second World War . The largest bell on strike note b, the Trinity Bell , with a diameter of 1.73 meters, was lost. It bore the inscription "In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritu Sancti - Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas". In 1994 it was replaced by a new bell of the same size from Rincker .

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Mass
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1 Trinity Bell 1994 Rincker , Sinn 1710 b 0 " Gloria Patri et Filio et Spritui Sancto - Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas. "
2 Marienbell 1937 Otto , Hemelingen 2157 1477 of the 1st “ Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. "
3 Boniface Bell 1937 Otto, Hemelingen 1501 1215 it 1 " For Germany, implore grace to God that it will always stand firm in faith," O holy Boniface. "
4th Peter Bell 1937 Otto, Hemelingen 1053 1172 f 1 “ You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. "
5 Pancratic bell (measuring bell) 1937 Otto, Hemelingen 275 739 c 2 ( des 2) “ He completed many years early because his soul was pleasing to God. St. Pancras, pray for us! "

Pastor

  • 1791–1793: Bonifaz Carl Siegmund Schalk
  • 1794–1796: Carl Basilid de la Broisse, parish administrator
  • 1796–1805: Johann Jacob Belner
  • 1806–1811: Adolph Heinemann, parish administrator
  • 1811–1817: Franz Joseph Herold
  • 1817–1823: Peter Leopold Kaiser
  • 1823–1826: Tobias Höfer
  • 1826–1830: Peter Schroth
  • 1830–1835: Johann Baptist Lüft , university professor
  • 1835–1838: Caspar Riffel, university professor
  • 1838–1848: Franz Josef Hartnagel, university professor
  • 1848–1864: Jakob Fluck, university professor
  • 1864–1865: Heinrich Götz, parish administrator
  • 1865–1888: Johann Baptist Rady
  • 1888–1892: Friedrich Elz , Dean
  • 1892–1938: Johannes Bayer, clergyman, honorary canon and dean
  • 1939–1969: Karl Joseph Deuster, clergyman and dean
  • 1969–1975: Adam Hainstadt
  • 1974–1986: Kurt Peter Lohner
  • 1986–1997: Horst Schneider, senior teacher and clergyman
  • 1997–2011: Hermann Josef Zorn
  • since 2011 0 : Hans-Joachim Wahl, clergyman and dean

literature

  • Folkhard Cremer, Tobias Michael Wolf and others (arrangement): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hessen I: administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03092-3 , p. 315.
  • Karl Joseph Deuster: Catholic community Gießen. In: Karl Glöckner ( arr. ): Gießen 1248–1948. Seven hundred years of casting in words and pictures. Brühlsche Universitätsdruckerei, Giessen 1948, pp. 81–83.
  • Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (Ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. Druck & Graphic, Giessen 1996.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.), Karlheinz Lang (Ed.): University City of Gießen. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse. ) Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1993, ISBN 3-528-06246-0 , p. 182 f.
  • Michael Przibilla: The old bell tower still holds up today. In: Gießener Anzeiger of November 24, 2001, p. 56.
  • Otto Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. Libertas, Erolzheim 1958.
  • Board of the St. Bonifatius Church Choir (Ed.): Festschrift 100 Years of St. Bonifatius Church Choir. Droese & Mandler, Butzbach-Niederweisel 1982.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 183.
  2. ↑ Casting. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on March 28, 2015 . .
  3. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 9.
  4. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, p. 9.
  5. ↑ a b Michael Przibilla: The old bell tower holds its own until today. 2001, p. 56.
  6. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, p. 11.
  7. ^ Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 3: Former province of Upper Hesse (=  contributions to the Middle Rhine music history 29.1 . Part 1 (A – L)). Schott, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-7957-1330-7 , p. 362 .
  8. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Deuster: Catholic community Gießen. 1948, p. 81.
  10. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 11.
  11. ^ Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. 2008, p. 315.
  12. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 14.
  13. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, p. 24.
  14. ↑ a b Deuster: Catholic community Gießen. 1948, p. 82.
  15. ↑ Short history of the church on the website of the support group Neue Orgel St. Bonifatius e. V.
  16. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 18.
  17. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse. 1993, p. 182.
  18. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 19.
  19. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 22.
  20. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 20.
  21. ↑ a b Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 26.
  22. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 32.
  23. ↑ Pictures of the interior (flickr.com), accessed on March 6, 2015.
  24. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, p. 22.
  25. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 39.
  26. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, pp. 41-42.
  27. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 36.
  28. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 16.
  29. ^ Siegler: Sanct Bonifatius Giessen. 1958, pp. 28, 49.
  30. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 27.
  31. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 29.
  32. ↑ Catholic parish of St. Bonifatius (ed.): Church leader St. Bonifatius Gießen. 1996, p. 31.
  33. ↑ Support group New Orgel St. Bonifatius e. V. , accessed on November 20, 2017.
  34. ↑ Disposition of the Eule organ (PDF file; 32 kB), accessed on November 20, 2017.
  35. ↑ Support group New Orgel St. Bonifatius e. V .: Choir organ , accessed on November 20, 2017.
  36. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular page 540 .
  37. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 498 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 44 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 10"  E