St. Francis of Sales (Kandern)

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Catholic Church Kandern

The Katholische Kirche Kandern is a parish church built between 1860 and 1861 and consecrated to St. Francis de Sales . It is also the only Catholic church in Kandern and its districts.

history

From 1850 on, the Catholics of Kandern had the right to use the cemetery chapel for their services. As the desire for an own place of worship became more and more pronounced, the Freiburg cathedral capitular Franz Sales Schmidt initiated a fundraising campaign in 1858. A year later, the Archbishop's Ordinariate commissioned District Building Inspector Heinrich Leonhard from Lörrach with the construction management and the implementation of the plans, which came from Building Director Heinrich Hübsch. After about two years of construction from 1860 to 1861, the church was consecrated on October 3rd of the same year by the Mainz bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler in honor of Franz von Sales.

In 1901 the choir area was extended and the building was supplemented with a sacristy . The main altar was relocated and the roof structure over the choir and the roof turret were renewed.

In the years 1959 to 1960 the sacristy was moved to the west side and the church was expanded to the west and east. The extension in the west received a side entrance. The font was moved under the newly designed gallery in the entrance area. Another redesign, this time mainly in the interior, took place in 1980 under the direction of the Waldkirch artist Hubert Bernhard.

description

Location and church building

The building, located north of the center of Kandern, a little off the beaten track on a slight slope, has two rectangular structures that intersect over the crossing . The nave is a gable roof covered the roofs of the lateral extensions are hipped . The main entrance is protected by a protruding vestibule with a small hipped roof. A roof turret rises above the main portal facade, which is closed off by a pyramid roof with an attached tower ball and cross. The dark shaft has acoustic arcades in the form of thin horizontal slits on each side. The nave has three narrow, arched windows on the long sides; the side extensions also have two of these.

There is a cemetery with a chapel on a separate site by the church.

Interior and outfit

The main altar made of Main sandstone has the shape of a large bowl. The tabernacle is located in a stele crowned with a large bronze cross , which symbolizes the tree of life . In place of the side altars on the left there is a large candle holder by Siegfried Fricker and a table with nativity scenes made of ceramic by Hermann Karl Hakenjos. Next to the confessional is a statue of the church patron Francis de Sales.

Bells and organs

Bell tower

At the beginning, the church had a small g-bell, which was donated by the city of Kandern in 1861 and baptized with the name “Concordia”. This is now in the local history museum. Two more bells with an unknown strike tone were cast by Benjamin Grüniger in 1901, which had to be handed in during the First World War .

Today's bronze bell consists of the following three bells:

No. Chime Surname Casting year Caster
1 cis ′ ′ Christ the King bell 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg
2 e ′ ′ Our Lady Bell 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg
3 fis ′ ′ Francis of Sales Bell 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg

The organ with electric action was built in 1953/54 by Willy Dold from Freiburg. It has two manuals , a pedal and ten registers .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Franz von Sales (Kandern)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, p. 25
  2. ^ Joseph Sauer : The Church Art of the First Half of the 19th Century in Baden , 1933, pp. 213–215.
  3. ^ A. Eisele: On the history of the Catholic Church in Kandern from 1083 to today , special print from: Die Markgrafschaft , 1961, pp. 28, 30–31.
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 141.
  5. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 142.

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 0.3 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 49.9"  E