St. Cäcilia (Mosbach)
St. Cäcilia is a Catholic parish church in Mosbach in the Neckar-Odenwald district ( Baden-Württemberg ). The church building was built by Hans Herkommer in 1934/35 and has been a listed building since 1983 .
history
A Church of St. Cecilia had existed in Mosbach since the Middle Ages . It was partially demolished in 1557 in the course of the Reformation and converted into the Mosbach town hall . The collegiate church of St. Juliana was still available for the then purely Protestant congregation, which finally became a simultaneous church in the course of the change of faith in the Electoral Palatinate in 1698 , which it has remained to the present day. By 1900 the simultaneous church had become too small for the Catholic parish of around 1900 people. In 1913 a church building fund was founded to build a new church, which in the course of time collected around 45,000 marks, but which was lost in the years of inflation. In 1926 a church building association was founded in order to push ahead with the new building.
As early as 1914 , Archbishop Nörber preferred the palace garden on the edge of the old town as the location for a new church , where in December 1924 the congregation acquired a plot of land measuring 4800 m 2 . In 1929, at the request of the parish priest Franz Roser (1882-1945), the government architect Hans Herkommer (1887-1956) was commissioned to plan the church and the parsonage. After several studies, the final design of the buildings was created in 1933. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 27, 1934, and the foundation stone was laid just under eight weeks later. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on November 22, 1934 . The church was solemnly consecrated on September 29, 1935 by Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Burger .
From 1946 Josef Krämer (1901–1991) was pastor at St. Cäcilia. In particular, he campaigned for social housing in Mosbach and received the nickname “Baudekan” and later also the honorary citizenship of the city. His building efforts were also noticeable in the development of the buildings in the parish. The rectory and community center buildings in the neighborhood of St. Cäcilia were built between 1947 and 1951. The church building association, whose activities had come to a standstill in the war years, was reconstituted in 1957 and in the following years collected the funds for the construction of the churches of St. Josef am Hammerweg and St. Brother Klaus in Mosbacher Waldstadt.
The church has been renovated several times since its inauguration. In 1954 structural changes to the roof construction were necessary, in 1955 the heating system was renewed, in 1964 and 1980 the church was modernized again. In 1971 a new organ was installed. In 1981 the basement of the church including the crypt was expanded. In 1981/82, the forecourt of the church, which was initially simply paved, was given a fire extinguishing pond during World War II and was later paved and converted into a parking lot, was designed to be attractive. The entrances to the church, the crypt and the sacristy were also redesigned. In 1983/84 the bell cage was renewed and the church roof was provided with thermal insulation. In 1985, the church was completely renovated and has been a listed building since 1983 .
description
architecture
The church is located in an east-west direction along Pfalzgraf-Otto-Straße . The building is functionally divided into three parts: entrance area, nave and steeple. The portal wing with a three-part arched arcade is perpendicular to the main structure. The three-figure portal wall design comes from Willy Oeser from Mannheim. For the first time under Herkommer's buildings, the roof structure was designed as a longitudinally tensioned wooden truss structure, which had to be reinforced with steel girders in 1954 for structural reasons. The massive tower has a flat pitched gable roof , the slope of which corresponds to the roof of the nave. On the street side, a sacristy with a pent roof is attached to the nave. A crypt extends under the choir and sacristy . In addition to the boiler room and group rooms, there is also an air raid shelter in the basement of the church .
Equipment and picture decorations
The altar area is in the east of the nave. The choir wall is adorned with a 3.40 meter tall statue of Christ the King, which is flanked by Mary and John. The choir wall figures as well as the figure of the Immaculate Mother of God above the right side altar come from Emil Sutor from Karlsruhe. The altars, communion bench and pulpit are made of dark marble. The pulpit to the left of the choir, which can be reached via a separate staircase, is decorated with evangelist figures by the Offenburg sculptor Kramer. The Joseph altar on the left side of the choir was designed by H. Hirt in Villingen.
In the west of the church, next to the entrance area, a large gallery for the organ and singers has been moved. To the left and right of the gallery there are side chapels with sculptures by the Karlsruhe artist Hugel and the Munich artist Adolf Giesin as well as with frescoes by the Karlsruhe painter Schilling. The frescoes show the baptism of Jesus and the crucifixion. In the side niches of the entrance there are also mosaic works by Berthold Müller-Oerlinghausen depicting St. Peter and St. Representing Paul. On the walls of the nave is a semi-sculptural 14-part Passion series by Edward Mürrle from Pforzheim.
The altar in the crypt is a replica of the tomb of St. Cäcilia in Trastevere , made by the Offenburg sculptor Kramer. The wall reliefs on the altar are again by Giesin. The niches in a side wall of the crypt are painted with additional depictions of Saints Albert, Heinrich, Lionba and Elisabeth von Schilling.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1970/71 by Michael Weise in Plattling . The organ has three manuals with 28 registers and a pedal with eight registers. A specialty is the Rückpositiv with eight registers.
Bells
The original seven bells of the church were cast by Grüninger in Villingen on February 28, 1935 and consecrated in Mosbach on March 31, 1935. They weighed between 1.6 and 66 quintals. The six largest bells were brought to Hamburg in 1942 to be melted down during the war. After the Second World War, three bells from the former Abbey of Grüssau came to Mosbach in 1952 after they were too big at the new domicile of the Grüssau monks, the collegiate church of St. Peter in Bad Wimpfen . In 1966 three more bells were cast at Perner in Passau, which completed the ringing of St. Cäcilia again. A small Christ bell was also hung in the bell tower for the funeral prayer, cast by Anselm Franz Speck in 1778 and originally in St. Juliana in Mosbach. The belfry was renovated in 1983/84.
literature
- St. Cäcilia in Mosbach 1935–1985. Church life in the past and present , Verlag Laub, Elztal-Dallau 1985
- Norbert Jung: Bells for St. Cäcilia: A contribution to the history of bells in Mosbach , Heilbronn 2005
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Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 46.4 ″ E