St. Josef (Brombach)

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St. Joseph's Church in Brombach
Aerial view of St. Joseph's Church

The church of St. Josef in the Lörrach district of Brombach is under the patronage of St. Joseph . The Roman Catholic church, built in 1899/1900, is located south of the village center on the through road from Brombach and is used as the parish church of the Josefsgemeinde of the same name in the village. The parish also extends to the districts of Haagen and Hauingen , which do not have their own Catholic church.

history

The Catholic parish in Brombach is relatively young. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that a significant number of Catholics formed after the interruption caused by the Reformation in 1556. In 1838 17 of the strongly Protestant villages around Lörrach counted 628 Catholics, 133 of them in Haagen, 24 in Hauingen and 34 in Brombach itself. They were all looked after by the parish of St. Fridolin in Stetten . Due to the rapid industrialization, the number of required workers and residents also increased the number of Catholics, so that the need for a church of its own grew. In 1845 the communities of Haagen, Hauingen and Brombach were assigned to the curate in Steinen -Höllstein. With the completion of the Bonifaziuskirche in Lörrach, the three places were looked after by the newly founded quasi-parish in Lörrach from September 26, 1867.

Construction of the Josefskirche

The number of Catholics continued to grow, so that at the beginning of 1896 the parish office in Lörrach declared in a report to the Archbishop's Ordinariate of Freiburg the urgency to build their own church in Brombach. In the same year a church building association was founded, which set up a building fund in Brombach on October 1 of the same year and acquired a building site of 85 square meters for 5744.44 marks. In the following year two more parcels were acquired for the church and the rectory, the costs of which were borne by the Bonifazius Association. On September 11, 1898, the board of trustees decided to prepare a building plan for a church for 1200 to 1500 believers, so that the foundation stone could be laid on September 3, 1899. After less than two years of construction, the new church was inaugurated on November 25, 1900 by the then Auxiliary Bishop Justus Knecht . Of the total costs of 83,900 marks, about 7200 marks were taken over by the Archbishop's Ordinariate; the remainder was financed from grants and donations.

The deed of establishment of the new quasi-parish dates back to November 29, 1900, the official recognition of Brombach as its own curate took place on August 4, 1902. Already in that year the board of trustees submitted the proposal to the Catholic upper board of trustees in Freiburg im Breisgau that Brombach should have its own parish to build. For financial reasons, many of the other furnishings could only be purchased in the next few years, for example the high altar by the sculptor Dettlinger in 1906. In 1910 the Kuratiebekreis had 4,447 inhabitants with 1,431 Catholics. In the spring of 1911 the curate rose to become its own parish. In 2001 the parish looked after 3541 members, including 1750 from Brombach, 1010 from Haagen and 781 from Hauingen.

description

Exterior construction

Joseph's Church from the southwest

The architect of the rectory and the simple church built in the neo-Gothic style was the architect Mölle from Lörrach. The main building is completed by an acute-angled hipped roof. The upper edge of the roof of the two side aisles ends with the lower edge of the roof of the main building. There is a stair tower in the entrance area on the southwest side aisle . Above with a tent roof closed stump architecture is a relatively small bell tower , which because of its size a roof turret similar. The slim, octagonal 33 meter high tower continues the roof section of the choir. Below its sound windows, it carries a clock on two sides facing the street, which was consecrated on April 7, 1968. The tower closes with a very pointed tent roof, a tower ball and a weathercock on a cross .

To the north-east of the church is the rectory, to the south-west of the Brombach cemetery with its own chapel from 1868/69 , which was built in the 1860s . The entrance of the rectangular building with pitched roof is of a pent roof protected. A small bell tower protrudes from the top of the gable and is crowned by a stone cross.

Furnishing

View into the nave

St. Josef offers 450 seats and 300 standing places. The first high altar of the church was designed in honor of St. Joseph by Freiburg sculptor Joseph Dettlinger (1865–1937). The St. Mary's altar on the side was donated by the Bonifazius Association, as was the organ , which came from an emergency church in the Muggensturm community in the Black Forest.

In the years 1962 to 1966, extensive renovation work was carried out, especially inside the church, and part of the furnishings were replaced. The new high and side altar, font , cross , armored tabernacle and communion bench were designed by Haslach sculptor Herbert Maier. The choir windows show the move into Jerusalem and Emmaus and come from the Freiburg artist Rainer Dorwarth. Alfred Erhard from Freiburg created the hanging cross above the high altar. In the middle of the church, a pietà on a pillar commemorates the victims of both world wars. The stone carved by Wilhelm Schuckart from Haagen was inaugurated on December 7, 1947.

organ

View to the organ gallery

After an order was placed with the organ builder Stehle in Bittelbronn in 1961 , the new organ was inaugurated just one year later on December 23, 1962 . It has two manuals , a pedal and 23  registers . It works with a mechanical action mechanism and an electrical register circuit; its housing is made of limba wood. The new organ cost 48,500 marks , the total renovation costs amounted to 248,200 marks.

The organ has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Gedacktpommer 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Gemshorn 4 ′
Copper octave 2 ′
Sesquialter II-III
Mixture IV-V 1 13
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Wood-covered 8th'
Willow arrows 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Hörnlein II 1 13 ′ +1 ′
Scharff IV 23
Rohrschalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Quintad 8th'
Octave bass 4 ′
Intoxicating Bass II 23
bassoon 16 ′

Bells

Bell tower

The company Großmann in Brombach gave the three bells with the striking note h, d flat and f sharp for a price of 1,800 marks. They were cast by the Benjamin Grüninger-Söhne company in Villingen . As a result of the First World War , two of the bells had to be handed in for war purposes in November 1917. It was not until 1924 that new bells could be replaced. During the Second World War , the two larger bells were removed on February 5, 1942. In 1949 an order for new bells could be submitted, which were financed by donations and consecrated on February 19, 1950. The belfry was donated to the parish by the Brombach community.

No. Name
(patron)
Nominal Casting year Weight Dimensions inscription
1 Big Bell
(Maria)
H 1949 320 kg 46 cm above,
85 cm below,
height 70 cm
Hail Mary
2 Middle bell
(Josef)
g sharp 1949 250 kg 35 cm above,
62 cm below,
height 54 cm
St. Joseph pray for us
3 Little Bell
(Bonifazius)
f sharp 1924 120 kg 29 cm above,
54 cm below,
height 45 cm
Boniface's bell, bright and pure,
rings us into heaven

literature

  • Adolf Kramer: History of the Catholic parish Brombach in: Brombach parish (ed.), Fritz Schülin: Brombach , pp. 971–987.
  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 176–178.

Web links

Commons : St. Josef  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kramer, pp. 971/972
  2. Kramer, p. 972
  3. a b Kramer, p. 973
  4. Kramer, p. 974
  5. Kramer, p. 975
  6. The history of the parish of St. Joseph
  7. Kramer, p. 981
  8. Kramer, p. 977
  9. a b Kramer, p. 982
  10. Catalog raisonné of the Stehle Orgelbau company
  11. St. Joseph: The bells

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '53.2 "  N , 7 ° 41' 16.8"  E