St. Josef (Darmstadt-Eberstadt)
The St. Josef Church is a Roman Catholic church in Darmstadt-Eberstadt .
history
The first Catholic services after the Reformation were celebrated in Eberstadt in 1875. In 1907 the parish of St. Josef was formed from the southern areas of St. Ludwig . The primary goal of the first pastor Josef Daus was to build their own church for the Catholics in Eberstadt.
At Pentecost in 1911, the church was designated by Dean Friedrich Elz. In the years 1911 to 1914 the sacristy, the rectory and the sister house were built. The neo-Gothic altars come from Georg Busch's art workshop, Steinheim am Main . The tower was built in 1933/34.
The windows were destroyed in World War II. Only the rose window with the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit (today above the main entrance) and a tracery window on the eastern side of the church remained.
At the beginning of the 1950s, the church was renovated and redesigned by the architect Ulrich Craemer , Darmstadt (gallery installation, etc.). The actual consecration took place on November 7, 1954 by Bishop Albert Stohr from Mainz.
In 1989 a parish center was built next to the church. In 1990 an extension followed to expand the church for weekday and group services.
organ
First Bosch instrument (1954–2018)
The church's first Bosch organ existed from 1954/56 to 2018 and was then replaced by a new instrument from the same company. She had mostly slider chests with mechanical play and register contracture . Individual registers stood on electropneumatic cone chests . The instrument had 17 sounding registers , which were distributed over two manuals and a pedal .
3 stops as well as the pedal drawer and the manual drawer of the first manual came from an older instrument by Bernhard Dreymann from 1854, which was originally in Rodheim in front of the height . These registers were also used again in the new building in 2019.
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- Coupling as kicks: II / I, I / P, II / P
Second Bosch instrument (2019)
The second organ of the church was rebuilt in 2019 by the Bosch company, reusing individual registers of the previous instrument. It has slide chests with mechanical play and electrical stop action. The instrument has 25 sounding registers and a tubular bell set, which are distributed over two manuals and a pedal.
As with the previous organ, 3 stops and the manual drawer of the second manual come from an older instrument by Bernhard Dreymann from 1854, which originally stood in Rodheim in front of the Höhe.
The new building was financed by the Darmstadt-Eberstadt-based Dotter Foundation .
The organ consecration was donated by the Vicar General of the Diocese of Mainz , Auxiliary Bishop Udo Markus Bentz , on August 10, 2019.
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- Playing aids : 10,000 typesetting combinations
literature
- 90 years of St. Josef
Web links
- Chronicle (web presence of the parish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006, p. 850 f.
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 8 " N , 8 ° 38 ′ 33.2" E