St. Kilian (Möckmühl)
The Catholic Church of St. Kilian in Möckmühl in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg was inaugurated in 1970. The church's furnishings include a historic bell from 1680, stained glass windows by Josef de Ponte and pictures of the Stations of the Cross by Tony Nwachukwu .
history
Since Möckmühl was part of Württemberg during the Reformation , the place was purely Protestant until the early 19th century. Only the reorganization of the German south-west after the Napoleonic wars and, above all, industrialization in the second half of the 19th century brought Catholics to the town. These were initially looked after by the church from Kochertürn . Already in the last years of the 19th century there were considerations to set up a Catholic church service in Möckmühl, but it was not until 1907 that a small barrack church for Catholic church services was built in Kleiner Binsach . In 1937 the barrack church was replaced by a massive building that offered space for over 100 worshipers. After the Second World War , the Catholic community grew rapidly due to the influx of displaced persons and refugees. Despite the installation of a gallery in 1948, the Catholic Church was soon again too small for the number of believers. In 1956 the parish of St. Kilian was established, to which, in addition to Möckmühl, the branch communities Ruchsen and Bittelbronn belong and from which the Catholics in Roigheim , Züttlingen , Siglingen , Kreßbach and Reichertshausen are also looked after. The patronage of St. Kilian , whose bones are kept in Würzburg , should remind us that Möckmühl belonged to the diocese of Würzburg before the Reformation .
The present church was built according to plans by the Stuttgart architect Rainer Serve and consecrated on April 26, 1970 by Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht . It is a modern polygonal building with a free-standing bell tower. The stained glass windows of the church were designed by Josef de Ponte . A historic church bell from 1680 was donated by Count Hubert von Waldburg-Zeil from the Zeil Castle Church to the Kilian's Church . In 1978 a second bell was added to the ringing. In 2005, the Nigerian artist Tony Nwachukwu was invited to create a sequence of the Stations of the Cross for the church.
literature
- Erich Strohhäcker: Möckmühl - picture of a city , Stadt Möckmühl 1979, pp. 314-320.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '27.3 " N , 9 ° 21' 20.5" E