St. Boniface (Winkels)

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St. Boniface, Winkels
St. Boniface Church
place Angle
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Patronage Boniface
Construction year 1937
Construction type Hall church
function Parish church

The St. Bonifatius Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Bavarian town of Winkels , a district of the spa town of Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-250 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

The initiative to build the St. Boniface Church , named after St. Boniface , the “Apostle of the Germans”, was initiated in 1880 by the chaplain from Winkels, Father Franz Denner of the Sacred Heart Missionaries . Architect Carl Krampf was commissioned by the Bad Kissingen parish priest Friedrich Roth to draw up a floor plan.

The project was financed by a church building fund to which the farmer Johann Metz had bequeathed his entire property in 1894. In 1906 the fund was able to book an interim balance of 9,100 marks; In 1912 it was 11,300 marks.

The laying of the foundation stone for the church building, for the purpose of which the “Catholic Church Building Association e. V. Winkels ”took place on April 25, 1937. Volunteers broke the stones required for the construction from the private quarry provided free of charge by Mayor Hermann Albert. Help also came from the citizens of Nüdlingen , Reiterswiesen and Eltingshausen . The stones were broken by the men of the place; the women were responsible for building the church. The church, built according to plans by Eugen Altenhöfer from Würzburg , was inaugurated on December 12, 1937 by Würzburg Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried .

The crucifix in front of the church, which was made around 1800, is in a classicist style. It is made of sandstone and has lateral volutes . Right next to the church there is a memorial for the victims of the First and Second World Wars from Winkels . The names of the victims of the world wars are noted on panels on the memorial.

On May 26, 1947, on the initiative of the Bad Kissingen church administration, the St. Bonifatius branch church foundation was established with start-up capital of RM 1,000 .

From June to October 2011, renovation work took place on the roof of the church, which had suffered damage from a storm two years earlier.

  • Crucifix in front of the church

  • Memorial to the victims of the two world wars.

Architecture and equipment

The church is a south-facing building with a polygonal choir with a church tower attached to the south . The exterior is shaped by quarry stone . The construction of the 1920s was implemented in the simplest forms of the church.

The Schweinfurt sculptor Heinrich Söller created the high altar with the associated cross group and the side altars with the figures of St. Mary and St. Joseph in 1940 . The side altars were removed during a renovation in the early 1970s.

Around 1990 the church was supplemented by a figure of the church patron Bonifatius.

The four bells with an electric bell system were installed by the Ulrich brothers from Apolda in Thuringia . Three of the four bells had to be delivered in the Second World War to be melted down for the manufacture of war weapons; they were only replaced in 1954.

literature

  • The construction of the St. Bonifatius Church in Winkels in 1936/37. In: Franz Warmuth: 100 Years of the Herz Jesu Parish Bad Kissingen - Contribution to the history of the Parish Bad Kissingen. Bad Kissingen 1984, pp. 68-70.
  • Edi Hahn: Bad Kissingen: District of Winkels 1247 - 1972, 725 years of village history by EDI HAHN. Bad Kissingen 1985, ISBN 3-925722-00-9 .
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 158 f .
  • Thomas Mäusers: Church in Winkels received a new roof. In: Saale newspaper . November 23, 2011 ( infranken.de ).
  • Sigismund von Dobschütz: women built Saint Boniface. In: Main-Post . December 10, 2012.

Web links

Commons : St. Bonifatius Church in Bad Kissingen (Germany)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : War Memorial in Winkels (Bad Kissingen, Germany)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen: note 79, meeting on April 27, 1936.
  2. ^ Parish archive Bad Kissingen: Filialgemeinde Winkels, building a church.
  3. ^ Parish archive Bad Kissingen: Certificate for laying the foundation stone.
  4. ^ A b Sigismund von Dobschütz: women built Saint Boniface. In: Main-Post . December 10, 2012.
  5. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen, Volume 16: Protocol book of the Catholic church administration Bad Kissingen 1892–1963. Meeting on May 26, 1947.
  6. ↑ Thomas Mäuser: Winkels church received a new roof. In: Saale newspaper . November 23, 2011 ( infranken.de ).
  7. ^ Parish archives Bad Kissingen: note 86, bells.

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 20.2 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 9.1 ″  E