St. Johannes Nepomuk (Biebergemünd)
The parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk is a Roman Catholic church and is located in the middle of the Biebergemünd district of Kassel.
history
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Formerly completely subordinate to the parish in the neighboring Wirtheim, the Kassel parish is appointed chaplain in 1785.
Until 1789 there was only a small chapel in the center of the village of Biebergemünd- Kassel . When this chapel was built cannot be said with any certainty today. However, on the south side of the choir there was a block of stone with a heavily weathered year, which the Bad Orb regional court interpreted as 1313 in 1895. Since this stone is no longer present today, this source cannot be confirmed. At that time, the chapel still enclosed the old village cemetery, where the last bailiff of the Wirtheim court was buried. Today its epitaph forms part of the front of the choir and is considered the oldest historical evidence of the old chapel.
At that time Kassel did not have its own parish and was under canonical law Wirtheim. Since at the end of the 18th century the Wirtheim parish church became too small for the believers from Kassel, Wirtheim and Höchst, a new church was to be built in place of the small Kassel chapel. In 1789, construction work finally began with the demolition of the chapel. 1790 started with the new building. This year number is encoded on the lintel above the west portal in a chronostitch : "Introlte In ConspeCtV DeI In eXVLtatIonIbVs et serVIte eI In treMore" (Step before God's face with cheers and serve him with trembling). The large Latin letters sorted according to their numerical size result in the number MDCCLXVVVVIIIIIIIIII = 1790. The construction costs of this expansion stage were 3750 guilders .
In 1806 the cemetery, which had been on the church square until then, was relocated to Spessartstrasse (then Lanzinger Strasse). This still exists today. Nevertheless, burials are only carried out at the new cemetery at the end of the village in the direction of Lanzingen.
When the population rose to over 900 at the end of the 19th century, this church quickly became too small. In 1903, the expansion of the church began, in which the choir (the last part of the old chapel) was removed and replaced by a transept. This complements the church to a cruciform church (transept and nave). The architect for this expansion stage was Georg Kegel from Kassel . On August 15, 1904, on the day of the Feast of the Assumption, the first service is celebrated in the new church. Although the actual church consecration was only celebrated on September 13, 1904 by Bishop Adalbert Endert from Fulda , the annual church consecration festival (called "Kirb" in Kassel dialect) is celebrated on the anniversary of the first mass .
In 1907 a clock was integrated into the church tower. In 1910 a statue of the world redeemer was attached to the west facade at a price of 300 marks.
In 1919 the parish of Kassel was appointed an independent parish by Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt .
In 1926 a war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War was erected on the church square . After the end of the Second World War , the list of names was continued accordingly.
After the sacristy egg was enlarged in 1970, the church was given its current appearance.
A major renovation took place between 2007 and 2010, during which the church was refurbished inside and out.
Building description
The church in its current form is 32 m long. The nave is 9.5 m wide and the transept 18 m. On the west side there is a 36 m high bell tower (under monument protection), which, like the rest of the church, is made of red sandstone. On the church square there is a war memorial in memory of the numerous citizens of the village who died in both world wars.
Bells
The original bells were melted down during the First World War in 1918 and only replaced by bad-sounding steel bells. As compensation for this, new bronze bells were installed in the church tower on February 23, 1958. Today there are 4 bronze bells made by Schilling, Heidelberg, with a total weight of 2295 kg in the tower. Each bell was consecrated to a name:
| Surname | volume | Weight | height |
|---|---|---|---|
| St.Josef | f | 1027 kg | 1.15 m |
| Ave Maria | as | 574 kg | 0.95 m |
| St.J.Nepomuk | b | 400 kg | 0.82 m |
| St. Guardian Angel | c | 294 kg | 0.78 m |
The bells can be heard on a recording by Hessischer Rundfunk.
Interior construction
The church includes a baroque high altar with carvings, Corinthian columns + shell-shaped main field, which represents the Mother of God with Jesus in her arm. Mary is standing on a globe and crushing a snake that entwines the earth. The altar was previously a side altar in the Dominican monastery church in Frankfurt and contained a Nepomuk statue instead of Maria. This is now in front of the choir. In 1827 the altar was only transported from Frankfurt to Kassel by cart.
On the side of the transept there is a Joseph altar from 1904 in neo-baroque style and a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1920 on which a globe can be seen. A heart rests on it, as a symbol of God's love for people.
There is still a rosary altar in the tower chapel, which was inaugurated on July 6, 1980. In the middle of it you can find a Gothic Madonna with a rosary under a shell, flanked by two statues of St. Agnes and the Evangelist John carved in 1904.
The Way of the Cross is shown in pictures along the nave . These oil paintings were made by Martin Herbert in 1793. The special feature is that the missing 13th station (Descent from the Cross) was once replaced by the Pietà altar. Probably in order to clarify the former patronage of “finding the cross”, an additional station had been added on which, according to the report of St. Ambrosius anno 320 the finding of the cross of Christ by the pious Empress Helena is shown.
A ceiling fresco with a diameter of 5 m, which shows the Ascension of Christ , is particularly eye-catching in the transept . It was created in 1982 by GF Ester from Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
organ
Today's organ is already the 3rd and was inaugurated on October 2nd, 1977. It was built by the Bernhard Schmidt organ workshop from nearby Gelnhausen . It has 21 registers (1360 pipes) on slider drawers . The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations
Important altar devices
- old measuring cup with the inscription: “RP MELCHIOR: KOLB: MOGVNT: PROFESS. EBERBACENS: CONFESSARY .: ENGELTHAL. 1677 "
- one in 1978 by Rome acquired relic of St. Johannes v. Nepomuk with baroque reliquary
- a baroque monstrance made at the beginning of the 18th century, which was purchased in 1775 for 14 guilders
- a richly decorated baroque chalice, which was donated in 1934 by the women of the parish
- a large monstrance from 1935, which was made from coins and jewelry donated by men
Individual evidence
- ^ Bells - St. Johannes Nepomuk Biebergemünd-Kassel
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company
- ↑ Melchior Kolb was a brother of Abbot Robert Kolb I of Arnsburg Monastery .
Web links
- Catholic parish of St. Johannes Nepomuk Biebergemünd-Kassel
- Hessischer Rundfunk: Article about the Church of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Biebergemünd-Kassel
Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 23 " N , 9 ° 16 ′ 41.5" E