St. Joachim and Anna (Kleinbrach)

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St. Joachim and Anna Church, Kleinbrach
The St. Joachim and Anna Church in Kleinbrach
place Kleinbrach
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Patronage Joachim and Anna
Construction year 1882/1883
Construction type Hall church
function

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Joachim and Anna is a church in Kleinbrach , Bavaria , 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-6-72-114-202 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

The church is consecrated to St. Joachim and Anna , the parents of Jesus' mother Mary .

history

After the Kleinbracher church was demolished because the thoroughfare had to be relocated, today's church of St. Joachim and Anna was built between 1882 and 1883 according to plans by the district architect of Morandell .

The high altar - but not the side altars - are based on designs by Valentin Weidner . A cost estimate from Weidner dated January 19, 1883 for the altars was too expensive for the Bad Kissingen pastor Andreas Dietz, so that Weidner submitted a proposal for the main altar with statues, crucifix, four candlesticks and two tabernacle lights on June 13, 1884, which was finally accepted .

As a supplementary document dated May 25, 1962 in the tower ball shows, the interior of the chapel was painted in 1914/1915 on behalf of the municipal administration by the painter Jakob Bissinger (1873-1933) from Hausen (cost 1,500 marks ).

The incorporation of Kleinbrach into Bad Kissingen in the course of the territorial reform of 1972 made it possible to finance an interior and exterior renovation of the church between 1981 and 1984. In the process, parts of Bissinger's paintings were exposed along with the Lamb of God and the pillars supporting the gallery. Complete exposure would have been too costly because Bissinger had not used any binding agents in his work. In addition, the church building got a new tower clock. The cost of the renovation amounted to 260,000 DM .

literature

  • Werner Eberth: Valentin Weidner . In: Kissinger Hefte , Volume 1, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1992, pp. 40f.
  • 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. 142 .
  • The painter Jakob Bissinger, Steinhof (1889–1933) , in: Werner Eberth: Contributions to the history of Hausen and Kleinbrach , Volume 3. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2011, pp. 108–112

further reading

  • Werner Eberth : 100 years of the Church of St. Joachim and Anna in Kleinbrach . Sources sheets No. 125 and 126

Web links

Commons : St. Joachim and Anna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Eberth: 100 years of the Church of St. Joachim and Anna in Kleinbrach , source sheets No. 125 and 126

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 13.6 ″  N , 10 ° 4 ′ 26.7 ″  E