St. Josef (Eschelbronn)
The St. Josef Church is the Roman Catholic church building in the Eschelbronn community in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg . The Joseph-der-Arbeiter-Kirche is located in Lerchenweg and was built in 1957 according to plans by the architect Anton Elsässer from Karlsruhe-Durlach . Church patrons are the craftsman Saint Joseph with reference to Eschelbronn as a carpenter's village , the martyr Margareta von Antioch , to whom a wooden church in the Eschelbronner Gewann Kirchwiesen is said to have already been dedicated, and Bernhard II von Baden , whose 500th year of death on the completion date of the church fell.
history
With the influx of displaced war refugees into the community of Eschelbronn after 1945, the need arose for a space for Catholic worship services. These were first held in the neighboring community of Neidenstein and later in the Protestant church in Eschelbronn.
With the participation of the local pastor August Breunig, the Roman Catholic parish acquired the building site in 1957 from the Baron von Venningen on the then largely undeveloped corridor Im Grund . The construction of the church was commissioned according to an instruction from the Freiburg Ordinariate on February 8, 1957.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 19, 1957, the foundation stone was laid on August 25, 1957 and the topping-out ceremony on November 12 of the same year. According to the source, the church was consecrated on November 12, 1962 or August 31, 1958 on behalf of Archbishop Eugen Seiterich by Bishop Augustin Olbert . At the laying of the foundation stone, Pope Pius XII was on behalf of the then incumbent . , Dean Josef Mundel of the Waibstadt deanery , parish priest August Breuning, Federal President Theodor Heuss , Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Reinhold Maier walled in an edition of the church newspaper , the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , the Sinsheimer Tageblatt and coins of the common currency. The foundation stone is marked with the year 1957 and is located on the left side next to the main entrance of the building.
The St. Joseph Church initially only had a loan bell from the Schilling bell foundry in Heidelberg . A separate bell with an electronic bell system was approved by the ordinariate on August 8, 1973, cast in Karlsruhe on February 6, 1974 , picked up on March 16, 1974 and consecrated on March 17, 1974 by the then dean Hermann Bläsi from Bad Rappenau . The cost of the bell system was 42,000 D-Marks.
From 1978 to 1982, renovations were carried out at a cost of 295,000 D-Marks and the church building was extended by an extension. This included heating, sanitary facilities and a kitchen.
On October 2, 1988, the then chaplain and later Bishop Emil Stehle held a pontifical office in the Eschelbronn St. Joseph Church.
In 2004, the belfry was replaced during renovation work and the tower was painted.
Mortgage lending
The building site owned by Baron von Venningen was purchased for 4500 D-Marks. The Bonifatius Association funded the purchase with a sum of 3,000 marks. The construction costs of the church amounted to 197,000 DM. The construction financing was carried out with 10,000 DM from own funds and a loan in the amount of 15,000 DM; 163,000 DM were subsidized by the parish of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . The coordination of the financing was taken over by a church building association founded for this purpose, which, even after the full payment in 1964, collected donations for various construction projects until 1982.
Furnishing
The sculptor Franz Bernhard designed the depiction of the Way of the Cross on the wall and a hanging cross made of mosaic . The church has an electric organ from 1976. A pipe organ was dispensed with for financial reasons.
Bells
The church has the following bells:
| Weight | volume | inscription |
| 310 kg | H' | "Saint Joseph the worker, everything you do be done in the name of Jesus the Lord" |
| 200 kg | d´´ | "Mary, mother of the Lord, all generations call me blessed" |
| 145 kg | e´´ | "Michael, praise the Lord, you his angels" |
| 90 kg | G | "Philip and James, whoever sees me also sees the Father" |
Web links
- Catholic Church at eschelbronn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Catholic Church at eschelbronn-online.de
- ↑ a b c d Katharina Graupner: On the history of the Catholics of the branch church St. Josef zu Eschelbronn in 1200 years Eschelbronn 789–1989 , Mayor's office of the municipality of Eschelbronn, page 67 ff.
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 0.6 ″ N , 8 ° 52 ′ 6 ″ E