St. Bonifaz (Oberlauter)
The Roman Catholic Church of St. Bonifaz in Oberlauter , a district of the Upper Franconian community Lautertal in the Coburg district , was consecrated in 1957 and is a listed building . It is a branch church of the Coburg parish of St. Marien.
history
After the Second World War there was a Catholic community in Lautertal with around 500 members. As a result, chaplains from the Coburg parish of St. Augustin held services at irregular intervals in restaurants in Oberlauter and every four weeks in the Neukirchen retirement home .
In November 1954, chaplain Kurt Jahnke founded a church building association and in 1955 a building site was acquired in Oberlauter. The construction of the church began on July 15, 1956 with the laying of the foundation stone, and the topping-out ceremony took place in November 1956. On August 25, 1957, the Bamberg cathedral capitular Franz Joseph Schmitt, who was pastor in St. Augustin from 1933 to 1933, consecrated the church. The church was planned by the Coburg architect Josef Rauschen. It was financed by the Bamberg Archbishop's Ordinariate and donations from the Oberlauter paper factory and the community.
In 1958, two bells with the names Francis and Mary were pulled onto the bell arch. In May 1967, St. Boniface was assigned to the Coburg parish of St. Marien. In 1986 the parish had wooden cladding installed to improve the appearance and in 1994 it acquired an organ from the Schmid company with nine registers on two manuals and a pedal in Burghausen .
In the mid-2010s, the St. Bonifaz branch parish had around 700 parishioners in Lautertal, Meeder and Wiesenfeld near Coburg .
description
The church house is a saddle roof building with a steep, high roof and a sacristy extension . A parabolic bell arch made of reinforced concrete rises above the church roof by about two meters. It stands at the north-eastern gable with the main entrance and is designed as an open church tower in which the bells hang.
The southwest gable wall behind the altar shows an image of Christ in a parabolic glass window up to seven meters high from the Coburg art glass factory Bringmann und Schmidt. It represents the triumphant Christ and his work of salvation. Below is a dark, gray and purple zone. It stands for the passion , the suffering of Christ and also of human suffering. Above it is a golden yellow zone, which symbolizes the light, the resurrection, the resurrection from death through God's power and might. As crowned Christ the King, Jesus steps down from the cross, which is painted as the green tree of life of hope.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catholic Church Foundation St. Augustin (ed.): Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the parish church of St. Augustin in Coburg . P. 73.
- ↑ a b c st-marien-coburg.de ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lothar Hofmann: Monuments Region Coburg - Neustadt - Sonneberg: Places of contemplation and prayer. Historical sacred buildings. A guide through the churches in the districts of Coburg and Sonneberg . Verlag Gerätemuseum des Coburger Land, Ahorn 2007, ISBN 3-930531-04-6 , p. 105.
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 34.2 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 48.8 ″ E