St. Thaddäus (Augsburg-Kriegshaber)
The Catholic parish church of St. Thaddäus is located on the corner of Reinöhlstrasse and Ulmer Strasse in the Augsburg district of Kriegshaber (Neukriegshaber) at the Augsburg-Oberhausen train station opposite Keller & Knappich .
The Kriegshaberer Church of St. Thaddäus belongs to the deanery Augsburg II . Since 2005 it has formed the Augsburg-Kriegshaber parish community together with the Church of the Holy Trinity .
history
In 1936 city chaplain Alois Vogg was appointed pastor by St. Ulrich and Afra as the branch of St. Thaddäus. In the same year the emergency church on Tunnelstrasse was consecrated and a first service was celebrated. In November the St. Thaddäus Expositur became an independent pastoral community. In 1938 the architect Thomas Wechs sen. the church building contract in a church building competition. On March 8, 1939, construction of St. Thaddäus began near what was then the Somme barracks ; the lower church was consecrated on July 19, 1942. On October 17, 1948, St. Thaddäus was consecrated by Bishop Joseph Kumpfmüller .
In the next few years the organ (1951) and the baptismal font, the completion of the tower chapel and the bell tower, the Stations of the Cross and the completion of the interior decoration followed. The exterior renovation began in 1977, followed in 1981 by the interior renovation with the installation of the glass window cycle.
The building is a listed building .
description
It is a nine-axis long, east-facing hall church. In the west there is a double tower facade, the northern, 45 meter high tower of which houses the clock and the bell. In the east, the interior of the church ends in an octagonal choir, which rises like a tower over the nave. The difficult external circumstances of the post-war period are reflected in the restrained design of the church. Instead, the architect Thomas Wechs used effective external forms. The ceiling consists of simple spruce boards and forms a light barrel vault over the middle of the nave. Solnhofen tiles are laid in a Roman compound in the church floor. The side of the church is divided into an arcade by masonry. The arcades run into large arched windows that let a lot of light flow into the church. The spatial experience is particularly impressive, as the visitor enters the church through the low, arched vestibule and the church interior opens up in front of the visitor. The eye falls on the octagonal chancel, which is separated from the nave by two round arches. The tower chapel can be reached through a glass door from the vestibule.
Tower chapel
The octagonal tower chapel, completed in 1953, is located behind a double-leaf glass door. In the corners, pillar-like wall projections protrude, which open into a dome-like bulge on the ceiling. The walls and ceiling are made of exposed brickwork. The chapel is decorated with twelve large candles on metal bowls painted in matt black. Light penetrates into the quiet room through four small, colored arched windows. The floor is laid out with a small pavement mosaic of dark basalt stones and three concentrically arranged circles of light Jurassic limestone.
A mosaic crucifix by Elisabeth Hoffmann-Lacher from Munich is embedded in the masonry above the altar. A heavy steel tabernacle rests on the altar. It bears the inscription: “Whoever eats this bread will live forever.” The script drafts for the tabernacle doors and the altar stone slabs come from Prof. Lisa Beck from the parish of St. Thaddäus. The three marble slabs on the altar base are removable. The niche behind it is decorated every year in Holy Week for the Holy Sepulcher.
On a small table on the western side wall of the chapel lies the “Book of the Dead of the Parish of St. Thaddäus Augsburg-Neukriegshaber”, in which all the deceased of the parish since it was founded in 1936 are listed. On May 2, 1999 the new people's altar was consecrated. An ambo followed in spring 2001. In December 2001, a carved Madonna by Sister Bernardine Weber CJ from Munich-Nymphenburg was added to the furnishings. Since the tower chapel cannot be heated, the weekday masses only take place here in the summer months between Easter and All Saints' Day.
Peal
The six bells of the parish church of St. Thaddäus were cast in 1956 by master bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg. On October 14, 1956, they were consecrated by Abbot Johannes Ruhland OSB (St. Stephan, Augsburg). In the parish letter for Advent in 1956, the clerical councilor Vogg wrote: “Our congregation has received a bell that exudes a fullness of sound full of solemn dignity and inner warmth and, in its strict melody, contains a number of liturgical motifs (Te Deum, Gloria, Preface, Pater noster, Pange lingua ua) “Prof. Lisa Beck designed the tapes and the motifs of the bells.
The St. Ulrich bell weighs 2425 kg, height and diameter 152 cm, and is tuned to the tone c '. It rings on solemn festivals and other major holidays, such as first communion or confirmation. Her bell picture shows St. Ulrich on horseback, who asks for victory. The bell inscription reads: "Fighters in need, helper to God, bishop and hero, pray for us, Ortisei!"
The St. Thaddäus bell weighs 1620 kg, height and diameter 135 cm, and is tuned to the tone d '. She is the caller on Sundays and other holidays and rings the bell at weddings. Her bell picture shows St. Thaddäus with the club. It bears the inscription: “Beloved! Build yourselves on your most holy faith and keep yourselves in the love of God! "
The Mother of God bell weighs 1050 kg, height and diameter 112 cm, and is tuned to the tone f '. It bears the additional name "Angelus bell". It sounds when the daily 12 o'clock bells and on Sundays and public holidays together with the other “holiday bells”. The bell picture is a protective cloak Madonna. Her inscription reads: "Maria, spread your coat ..." (1st stanza).
The Pope Pius X bell weighs 725 kg, height and diameter 100 cm, and is tuned to the tone g '. It is dedicated to the only canonized Pope of the 20th century. He lived from 1835 to 1914 and was canonized as early as 1954. This bell calls for the weekday masses. Her bell picture shows the Bible and chalice. As an inscription: "You redeemed, come to the holy work of Christ!"
The guardian angel bell weighs 600 kg, height and diameter 95 cm, and is tuned to the tone a '. As a baptism bell it rings at every baptism. As a bell it shows the shepherd and herd. Their inscription reads: "May shepherd and flock be living bells of God!"
The St. Michael bell weighs 500 kg, height and diameter 90 cm, and is tuned to the tone b '. As the “arm soul bell”, it rings the requiem. Her bell picture shows a soul scales. The bell inscription reads: “St. Michael, Prince of Angels, Guardian of the Church, guide the souls of the dead into St. Light of God! "
Modern glass window cycle
With his seven-part cycle of stained glass windows completed in 1981, Prof. Georg Bernhard from Kriegshaber gave the apse of St. Thaddäus Church a strong artistic appreciation. The color of the windows dampens the incoming light and gives the room a contemplative atmosphere. The apse itself is nine-sided in plan, but two segments fall out through the openings towards the nave.
The motifs of the windows from left to right:
The dove as a bird of peace after the flood in the deep blue of the air - the element of air.
The tablets of the law and the eye of God. The burning bush of Moses as an element of fire.
Heaven and Earth; symbolized by the vegetative element on earth connected with the forces of heaven.
The image of the Lamb in the Heavenly Jerusalem occupies a central position in the window cycle. In the Revelation of John 23: 2 we can read: "And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, descending from heaven from God." A red chord from ocher and sienna to ox blood and old rose. The upper excerpt of the picture shows the four winds, the four currents of paradise (Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates), alluding to the four evangelists.
For the element earth, Christ's saying about wrong and right care appears in Luke 12:24: “... They neither sow nor reap, they have no granary and no barn; for God nourishes them. How much more are you worth than the birds! "
Deer strive for the source - the element of water. In the second verse of Psalm 42 it says: “As the deer thirsts for fresh water, so, God, my soul thirsts for you. My soul thirsts for the living God ... "
A synopsis of the four elements. Designed by the artist as a decorative representation.
Early Gothic hanging cross
The crucifix from the 14th century with Spanish design elements, acquired in 1982, dominates the space above the altar of the parish church as a hanging cross and is also its most valuable work of art. The cross comes from the private collection of the art lover dean Georg Winterholler from Dießen. Originally the cross at the junction between the body and forearms was equipped with a movable mechanism, because on Good Friday Christ was taken from the cross and placed in the Holy Sepulcher. So that the arms could be placed sideways, they had to be movable. The instruction for such a Good Friday liturgy is z. B. from the Benedictine convent near Regensburg around the year 1489 in written form. Instead of the black and somewhat too small cross bar, the cross was given a lighter and larger cross tree in 1985, based on an idea by Prof. Erhard Hößle. This corresponds to the conception of the early Gothic, which saw the cross tree as the tree of life, sprouting from the buds of everlasting salvation. The work comes from the daughter of Prof. Hößle, the sculptor Sophia Hößle. The spruce beam comes from a 400 year old granary.
organ
The organ of St. Thaddäuskirche was thoroughly renovated and consecrated again in the spring of 1984. It has little in common with the church's first organ, built in 1951. The renovation and expansion of the old organ, which is prone to failure, is largely thanks to the commitment of Jochen Capelle. In an essay he writes about the eventful architectural history of the St. Thaddäus organ: “The organ installed by the Zeilhuber company in Old Towns in 1951 had 30 sounding registers , which are distributed over two manuals and a pedal . (...) In 1980, the organ expert of the Diocese of Augsburg, Prof. Anton Göttler, worked out a disposition for an organ that corresponded to the proportions of the Thaddäuskirche. On the basis of this disposition , after the church renovation in 1981, the expansion of the organ was pushed ahead with determination. First, the second manual could be expanded with eight registers. The Max Offner company has understood how to combine the innovations with the old, usable material in such a way that a harmonious sound image resulted. The fact that internationally renowned organists have now been won for concerts in our church confirms the success of this expansion. According to experts, today's organ has a good sound quality and in this respect is one of the best in the wide area. "
The Schmid company from Kaufbeuren renovated the organ from summer 1992 to February 1993. Today, the Orgelbau Andreas Offner company from Kissing takes care of the maintenance of the instrument, which installed a new console in 2014 .
Thanks to a donation of very well-preserved wooden and metal pipes as well as a wind chest with an organ motor and further financial donations from the parish, the idea of a remote organ in the high choir of the parish church, which organ builder Andreas Offner and organist Werner Zuber developed together, was able to be realized in autumn 2015 . The remote organ was installed in the attic of the rectory on the south wall of the apse; the sound is emitted through a window that the architect Thomas Wechs sen. already used in the construction of the church. So this remote control will probably be unique in Augsburg outside of the church interior via a sound opening "make the church interior sound".
The organ builders involved in the instrument with the respective expansion stages of the instrument were: 1951, Orgelbau Zeilhuber (II / P / 30); 1984, organ builder Offner (III / P / 44);
2014, organ builder Andreas Offner (new console); 2015, Fernwerk in the high choir, organ builder Andreas Offner (Martin Geßner, intonation).
Today's Thaddäus organ has 52 registers, which are divided into three manuals and pedal. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: I / I, II / I, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III
- Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I, III / I, III / III, III / III, III / P
- Fernwerk at I, II, III (as swell in the attic / apse), pedal quint coupling
- Playing aids : Electronic setting system with 10,000 combinations, Campanelle (glockenspiel) on I, II, III , Zimbelstern , crescendo step
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ About us - website. In: pg-kriegshaber.de. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 51.6 ″ N , 10 ° 52 ′ 11.2 ″ E