St. John the Baptist (Kleinlüder)

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St. John the Baptist, Kleinlüder
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place Kleinlüder
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Fulda
Patronage John the Baptist
Construction year 1910/12 tower before 1656
Construction type Kreuzkirche
function Parish church

Coordinates: 50 ° 32 '58 "  N , 9 ° 30' 57"  E

Map: Hessen
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St. John the Baptist (Kleinlüder)​
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The Johanneskirche Kleinlüder is a Roman Catholic parish church in Kleinlüder , municipality of Großenlüder in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda . It belongs to the diocese of Fulda . The church building is located at Gerkecke 2 Gemeindestraße, not far from the L 3139.

The church is under the patronage of John the Baptist . His feast day is June 24th, St. John's Day .

History of the Church and the Parish

Location of Clein Lijder and S. Cruz. (Kleinheiligkreuz) on the map of the Fulda bishopric from 1574

Lüder small part after the establishment of Fulda Abbey (744) to the 812 to 822 under the Abbots Ratgar or Eigil founded proprietary church Grossenlueder, in turn, to Archidiakonat of Provost of St. Johann in Mainz Church province Mainz counted. It was first mentioned in a document from 953 in connection with a donation to Grossenlüder. An already mentioned medieval chapel belonged to the Fulda monastery.

"Clein Lijder" (Kleinlüder) and "S. Cruz “( Kleinheiligkreuz ) were already shown and mentioned on a map of the Hochstift Fulda from 1574. As early as 1656, under the Fulda abbot Joachim Graf von Gravenegg, a chapel in honor of John the Baptist was named, which was added to the existing fortified tower . The interior of the defense tower was used as a sanctuary . At that time the chapel was a branch church of Großenlüder. After the secularization of the Fulda monastery in 1803, Kleinlüder remained a daughter church of Großenlüder in 1812.

architecture

In the neo-Romanesque style, the church is built on a medieval defensive tower made of rubble and is brightly plastered. All structural elements, the buttresses , the walls of the portal and the windows, as well as the eaves , base chords and steps leading to the main and secondary portals are made of reddish or gray sandstone. The floor plan is a cross with lower extensions in the cross angles. In the triangular gable facade two arched windows, one in a niche with open canopy posted Heiligenfigur of Hl. Johannes the Baptist flank. The gable itself is crowned with a Greek cross . The roof, which is covered with clay tiles, is stretched in an east-west direction over three cross-domed vaults with narrow ridges and a small keystone . The four corner extensions are also covered with cross vaults. The chancel arch was in its original state with ornamental and figurative paintings of Art Nouveau decoration. The narrow gallery from the construction period was expanded in the 1960s. A spiral staircase made of sandstone leads to the gallery .

  • The former fortified tower of the church from the 13th century

In 1815 a cemetery cross was erected at the Kleinlüder cemetery behind the old chapel . The pedestal carried the donor's inscription carved into the stone on a plate decorated with leafy tendrils and four roses:

I only find sweet rest here, O Lord, at your feet So I want to end my life with you when you want 1815 .

Below was the name of the founder: "Anna Maria Mathes" . In 1963, in connection with the construction of the rectory , the cross was moved to the Boniface Beech at the pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz .

Umpfarrung

In 1840 Kleinlüder was separated from the parish of Großenlüder and assigned to the parish of St. Simon and Judas in Blankenau . In 1841 the chapel was renovated. The ridge of the chapel ran parallel to the street. The defense tower had a pointed pyramid roof . On May 17, 1894, a church building fund was established; the financial basis was a legacy of the pastor Kalb, who died on August 1st, 1892. On January 6, 1905, the parish council and council of Kleinlüder decided to build a new church.

New building of the church

Today's church

The Paderborn diocesan master builder architect Arnold Güldenpfennig was to be commissioned with the planning in 1905 . On March 12, 1910 and April 15, the planning was presented by the Fulda architect Hermann Mahr , Fulda and approved by the district building authority in Fulda on May 12, 1910. On June 5, 1910, the church was profaned . Construction began on June 7, 1910 by the Sturmius Grosch company from Fulda, the foundation stone was laid on July 24, 1910. On May 8, 1912, Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt consecrated the parish church.

organ

The church has an organ made by Gebr. Späth Orgelbau .

Bells

The St. John's Church has a four- bell bell which is located in the bell chamber of the bell tower of the former defensive tower .

Establishment of a local chaplaincy

Former cemetery cross on the Bonifatius beech at Kleinheiligkreuz The high cross is due to restoration work z. Currently dismantled (2020)

In 1960 the village received a local chaplaincy under Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt . In 1961, today's rectory was built on part of the former cemetery . The cemetery cross on the old military cemetery was moved behind the pilgrimage church Kleinheiligkreuz near the Bonifatius beech.

In 1962 the pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz, first mentioned in a document in 1348, was assigned to the parish of St. Johannes Kleinlüder by the parish of Giesel, founded in 1731 . On October 1, 1963, the parish became an independent parish curate under the Fulda Bishop Adolf Bolte . With effect from March 1, 2001, the Franciscan religious priest Ljubo Lebo von Blankenau was appointed as the new pastor of the parish.

In 2003, Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen initiated the demographically determined pastoral process in the diocese of Fulda, which also affected Kleinlüder. Since November 29, 2011 Kleinlüder has been a member of the “Kleinheiligkreuz” pastoral association.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Church monument preservation in the diocese of Fulda. Item 4. accessed on May 11, 2018.

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