St. Josef (Reinhausen)
The Catholic parish church of St. Josef at Wieshuberstrasse 2 forms the core of the Reinhausen district and thus one of the centers in the north of Regensburg .
history
When the church of St. Nikolaus became too small for the larger congregation, Pastor Michael Wieshuber von Sallern finally gave the impetus to build the church in Reinhausen after a church building association in Reinhausen had been founded in 1898 . On July 29, 1906, the foundation stone was finally laid by Vicar General Franz Xaver Leitner. The church of St. Josef was built in 1906-08 by the architect Heinrich Hauberrisser . At St. Joseph's in 1908, the ceremony took benediction by diocesan Bishop Anthony of Henle instead. The rectory was completed at the end of June 1911. On November 18, 1913, the canonical establishment of the parish took place. On October 13, 1910, Josef Wimmer from Amberg was appointed to Reinhausen as the fifth branch and installed as the first pastor of the Reinhausen Church on March 15, 1914.
In 2007, the 100th anniversary of the church was linked to the 1000th anniversary of the town of Reinhausen ; Both anniversaries were celebrated at the same time with a large festive service, in which the then Hwst. H. Diocesan Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller was present as celebrant . For the 100th anniversary of the elevation of the church to a parish, a Holy Mass was held on the 1st of Advent 2013 with the Hwst. H. Diocesan Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer .
After the lowering of the Church of St. Nicholas to a side church, weekly masses on weekdays as well as some smaller masses, such as B. at petitions , wedding anniversaries, etc. held.
The pastor of St. Josef zu Reinhausen is also the city pastor , as the church has the status of a city parish church . This status describes individual churches that represent the independence of a place in political terms; With the construction of the Church of St. Josef, Reinhausen became more independent from Sallern and Weichs and, above all, from the city of Regensburg. Politically, this situation lasted until the village Reinhausen was incorporated in 1924; The special title of the church as well as the definition of the Reinhausen parish and (church) associations as specifically Reinhausen and not belonging to Regensburg testify to the earlier independence of the place. Today the parish and church are the largest in the diocese.
building
The neo-baroque church is a hall building with a transept and retracted choir, choir flank tower with a dome roof, tail gable facade and sign with branch gable. Next to it is the neo-baroque building of the catholic church. Parish office of St. Josef from 1910.
The building is located on the corner of Donaustauferstrasse and Wieshuberstrasse and is therefore centrally located on one of Regensburg's main streets. However, the church is not directly on either of these streets; On the west side in front of the main portal there is a large forecourt, on the south side a path through a small green area with trees leads along the church. To the north of the church there is a spacious square with a fountain and a large wooden crucifix with a gilded figure of Christ, to which the parish home and the St. Anna children's home adjoin, so that the square is enclosed on three sides and only borders on Wieshuberstrasse to the west . The rectory begins with a passage about halfway up in the east of the square and goes over the corner to almost the tower. There is also a nursing ward in the rectory itself. In the east of the church is the spacious garden of the parish hall, which extends to the kindergarten garden in the north and the catholic garden in the south. Parish office is sufficient, which at the same time with the corridor that connects it with the parish church, represents the spatial delimitation of the garden from the street. The rectory is also set back a little from Donaustauferstraße by a small green area, so the entire church is somewhat distant from the outside world and larger processions, for example around the church with entry through the main portal, are possible without obstruction to traffic.
An architectural feature of the church is the wide nave with the wide transept openings, which is covered with a mighty dome ( flat barrel ). The width of the transept is 28 meters in the crossing ( 17.5 meters in the nave ); the dome has the largest span of all Regensburg churches (including the Regensburg Cathedral ).
The mighty structure is 60 meters long and 14.5 meters (or 18.5 meters in the dome), the tower with its five bells rises 57 meters into the sky. The church can hold more people than the Regensburg Cathedral (measured in seats), there is space for well over 1000 people.
On the high altar, consecrated on May 29, 1910, the coat of arms of the founder, Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis, is attached to the height of the Joseph statue . St. Joseph is enthroned in the center; on his arm he carries the Christ child, who carries a golden scepter in his hand. Under his statue is the ornate large tabernacle for the monstrance , flanked by two angels and crowned by a cross (the tabernacle and cross are built into their own shrine, so to speak); St. Joseph himself is also accompanied by two angels to the side. Next to St. Joseph are St. Albertus Magnus and St. Emmeram , patron saints of the diocese , each separated from St. Joseph by columns. Above everything, the figure of God the Father sits enthroned on clouds, who sends the Holy Spirit down to earth.
In addition, the church has four other side altars: On both sides of the high altar there are paintings of St. John the Baptist with the image of the caller in the desert (south side or to the right of the entrance) and the painting of St. Anna (above Tabernacle on the north side), in which one sees needy children who are included by St. Anna in her intercession to the Blessed Mother Mary . In the lower right corner of this painting you can see how a priest hands over the children to the intercession of St. Anne and St. Mary in a pointing gesture; it is assumed that this priest is pastor Michael Wieshuber, although other sources assume that the first pastor Josef Wimmer is shown here. A nun can also be seen, who is standing in the lower left half of the picture in a similar gesture as the priest; It is assumed that the content of this image also refers to the St. Anne's home, opposite the church to the north, in which nuns operated a children's home. The motif of the praying or caring nun is very often found in the large variety of paintings in the church, as is the case with the picture of orphans on the dome.
In the nave there is the Sacred Heart Altar on the north side (on the left as seen from the entrance) and the Marian altar (Mary as patroness of the workers) on the south side; both altars were created around 1910 and consist mainly of the paintings of the respective scenes and an (unused) tabernacle. The oil paintings on the left, the apparition of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in front of Marg. Maria Alacoque, on the right, Maria as the protector of the working people, are by the church painter Josef Wittmann , painted in 1910. The altar is artistically adapted to the rest of the church.
Next to the Sacred Heart altar there is a smaller statue of the Virgin Mary with a child, scepter and crown; on the other side, next to the altar of Mary (in front of the large painting of John the Baptist), there is the stone baptismal font. Behind the railing above the baptismal font and Marien Altar are choir stalls facing the people's altar, but on the north side there is only a wooden wall with a seat plate on the wall. The priest's seat is next to the painting of St. John the Baptist. Furthermore, near the main portal in the west (this is also the location of the organ gallery ) there is an altar of the Sorrowful Mary donated by the Vistula warrior women .
The ceiling paintings were made by Waldemar Kolmsperger in 1930 and 1931 and primarily describe the life and work of St. Joseph; However, there are also depictions of the biblical Joseph (at the main portal) and paintings of important personalities of the Catholic Church such as Pope Pius IX. (when he declared St. Joseph to be the patron of the Catholic Church) with flags of the Regensburg student and other church associations, "workers' bishop" Ketteler of Mainz and center party chairman Windthorst ; also some pictures of the life and work of Jesus Christ (Christ driving the traders out of the temple, Christ and the adulteress) and a picture of the Pharisee and the tax collector.
Particularly noteworthy, however, is the large painting in the dome, which is one of the most important characteristics of the parish church due to its large span (see above). This painting glorifies St. Joseph as a helper and intercessor of humanity. The painting shows, symbolized by four figures, the troubles of mankind concern (created by orphans without parental care, a pair of parents in grief, farmers worried about their crops), misery (sufferers and sick people, dying people to whom communion is given, ship crews with masts and sails destroyed by the storm), fear (eyes fearfully looking into the uncertain future, apocalyptic riders , fire, fire and soldiers, sometimes struggling with death) and horror (collapsing buildings and monuments, desperate and unhappy people fleeing with the Expressions of panicked horror on their faces). In the middle, however, the clouds open and you can see St. Joseph praying for the people before Christ.
The cardinal points of the respective parts of the painting should also be noted: on the west side, i.e. opposite the high altar, are the most desolate destruction, the worst fires, most of the soldiers, while directly above the high altar is the image of St. Joseph as intercessor before Christ.
The artist's signature, Waldemar Kolmsperger, is also affixed to the west side of the dome. Because of some cracks in the signature but it is not clear whether it is not rather here to Munich artist Waldemar Kolmsberger is (1881-1954), which deals with a B writes.
Over the center of the dome, marked by an opening, stands the Holy Spirit crossing tower .
The windows on the north and south sides in the transepts are noticeable because of their unusual width and are decorated with motifs from the life of St. Joseph, such as the pictorial representation of his death on the north side of the building. All other windows in the church are not decorated with pictures, but only with artistic ornaments on the edges.
There are four window niches at the high altar, but only three windows, as the south-east window niche also forms the wall of the larger than average, spacious two-story sacristy . The two church windows, which are located diagonally behind the high altar, are decorated with the images of St. Peter and St. Paul ; the northeast window shows St. John .
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Above the sacristy there is a small gallery, which can be entered from the upper sacristy and from which the sisters from the St. Anne's home opposite used to take part in Holy Mass. Today the gallery is unused and is only opened sometimes in order to be able to take photos of the sanctuary from there during larger masses. Opposite this is a large crucifix with Jesus on it, on the base of which there is a skull on crossed bones. Next to this are the statues of St. John and St. Mary .
The church is famous for its church music achievements; This is not only due to the excellent acoustics of the spacious church interior, but also to the performance of the choir itself, which is famous far beyond the diocesan borders.
There is a very large three-manual organ with 46 registers on the western organ loft of the church, which was ordered in 1992 (contract awarded to Sandtner ) and inaugurated on November 20, 1994. It is artistically adapted to the church interior. It replaces the used organ from St. Kassian, the newly built Weise and the Meier organ from 1918 and 1968.
The St. Nikola organ, a valuable baroque organ from the Church of St. Nicholas, was completely renovated in 1988 and moved under the north window of the parish church of St. Josef, where it is now played at church services with a small choir.
In the parish there is an almost village-like club life, in most areas the offspring is guaranteed here. Through the increased efforts of the parish in the field of youth work, successes could also be achieved here, which u. a. clearly shows in the lively participation of the KjG and the enormous number of acolytes .
gallery
The purpose of this gallery is to show the Church in more detail than is possible in the text of the article.
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Image of St. Anna with the altar of Mary on the north side of the high altar
Ceiling painting on the west portal: picture of the customs officer (Lk 18.14 EU )
Choir of the parish church of St. Josef (Reinhausen), high altar
Marien side altar (south transept)
Window depicting the Holy Family, south transept
Window depicting the death of St. Joseph, above the baroque organ, north transept
Bust of Adolph Kolping , south side entrance
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 602 .
- ↑ http://www.st-josef-reinhausen.de/vereine | Naming of the Reinhausen clubs as specifically Reinhausen clubs
- ↑ Wolfgang Wittmann in: Festschrift for the inauguration of the organ . Parish office St. Josef Reinhausen, Regensburg 1994, pp. 12–15.
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 24.8 ″ E