St. Josef (Aschaffenburg)
St. Josef is a Catholic parish church built in 1928/29 in the northeast of the city of Aschaffenburg north of the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg railway line, today the Damm district .
history
At the same time as the Herz-Jesu-Kirche south of the Aschaffenburg-Würzburg railway line, the St. Joseph's Church was built to the north. Here, too, the population grew with industrialization ( white paper and cellulose factory, Aschaffenburg / Aschaffenburger Zellstoffwerke AG ) at the end of the 19th century. As early as 1910, Pastor Josef Ruppert, in whose parish St. Agatha the new city district was located, founded the Church Building Association St. Josef (patron saint of work). In 1913 it was already possible to acquire a plot of land in Uhlandstrasse for the construction of the church. But there was still a long way to go before the church was built. Service was celebrated in the dance hall of a former restaurant, then in a disused medical barracks. After the establishment of the parish , the native of Sommerau (Eschau) , Dr. Karl Pfeifer (1892–1944), formerly prefect at the Aschaffenburg study seminar, introduced on September 26, 1926 as the first pastor of St. Josef. In the years of the economic crisis, however, it was urgent to set up social facilities such as a kindergarten, nurse's station and handicraft school. The architect Albert Boßlet , who also built the Herz-Jesu-Kirche, was responsible for the design and planning, so that on the same day, November 28, 1928, the laying of the foundation stone was celebrated in both churches. On November 3, 1929, one week after the consecration of the Sacred Heart Church, Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried consecrated the new parish church of St. Joseph in Aschaffenburg. The characteristic of the church was the pointed arch-shaped design of the church interior, arches and window openings based on the Gothic architectural style.
In the devastating bomb attack on November 21, 1944, in which the Damm district was almost completely destroyed, the parish church of St. Josef and the rectory were also destroyed. Pastor Pfeifer, having come out of the air raid shelter, shouted at the sight of the destruction: "Oh, my beautiful church!" And collapsed dead.
Under the Aschaffenburg architects Karl and Karl-Georg Jung, the church was rebuilt in plan. The Gothic choir was not restored and the pointed arch windows were replaced by round windows.
In 1975 the crucifixion group of a gentleman carver from Val Gardena (Karl Senoner, Ortisei) was set up. In 1979 the celebration altar and ambo followed (works by Rudi Engert, Würzburg ). The Aschaffenburg artist Kathi Hock created the side altars - Marien Altar (majolica, 1930), Joseph's Altar (wood, 1934), Good Shepherd (wood, 1935). The fourteen Stations of the Cross (Holz, consecrated in 1930) are the work of the Würzburg sculptor and graphic artist Heinz Schiestl . The baptismal font and the figure of St. Joseph, both works by the Aschaffenburg sculptor Otto Gentil , were recovered from the rubble. During the reconstruction, however, the figure of St. Joseph was no longer inserted into the facade, as was previously the case, but rather cast into a concrete stele on the side in front of the main entrance with the unhewn side.
organ
The organ, inaugurated on December 22nd, 1963, comes from the workshop of the Hindelang brothers from Ebenhofen in the Allgäu . The instrument has the following disposition :
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Grinding box with electropneumatic action, own valve bellows construction in the wind box and grinding train motors. Free-standing gaming table, normal coupling, 2 free combinations, swell step, free pipe brochure .
In 1975 the organ was repaired by organ builder Stumpf, Großzimmer, and the reed trumpet 8 ′ was moved from the second to the first manual. The Dulzian 16 ′ was moved from the 1st to the 2nd manual.
Bells
In 1929 the renowned Otto bell foundry cast four bronze bells with the intonation: c sharp '- e' - f sharp '- g sharp' for the St. Joseph Church. The three first / larger bells were melted down during World War II, only the small G sharp bell still exists today. In 1959 Otto cast three new bells with the same tones as the bells from 1929. Today the chime sounds again on c sharp '- e' - f sharp '- g sharp'. The diameters of the bells are as follows: 1453 mm, 1222 mm, 1088 mm, 970 mm.
Pastor
- Dr. Karl Pfeifer (1926–1944) since 1924 Expositus , born September 16, 1892 in Sommerau (Eschau) , † November 21, 1944 in Aschaffenburg, buried in the priest's grave in Sommerau.
- August Wischert (1945–1960)
- Franz Kolb (1960–1985) * September 27, 1914 in Schweinheim , ordained a priest on February 17, 1940, 1956 full professor in the diocese of Würzburg , 1968 appointment as monsignor , from 1979 to 1979 dean of the deanery Aschaffenburg-Stadt, † July 1 2007 in Aschaffenburg.
- Hans-Peter Berg (1985–1996)
- Friedbert Simon (1996-2014)
- Robert Stolzenberger (since 2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish archives St. Josef, Aschaffenburg
- ↑ Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the parish church of St. Josef, Aschaffenburg (1979)
- ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association V., Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 532, 555 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 492, 510 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 1.7 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 48 ″ E