St. Kilian (Aschaffenburg)

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St. Kilian's Church, 2010
Kilian's Chapel from 1720
Interior view of the Kilian's Chapel

St. Kilian is a Catholic parish church built in 1952/53 in the Aschaffenburg district of Nilkheim .

history

The oldest Christian testimony mentions that the Mainz bishop Rigibert consecrated the church, built by the priest Adalhuno and dedicated to St. Dionysius of Paris , in the first half of the 8th century. In the Markgräflerkrieg in 1552 the chapel and the surrounding property were destroyed. The dilapidated chapel was torn down in 1577 when it was united with the Parish of Our Lady . Today's chapel, dedicated to St. Kilian and his companions, dates back to 1720. The hereditary tenants of the Nilkheim estate, Johann Jacob and Maria Martha Morhard, whose epitaphs are kept in the chapel, are named as the donor couple . The baroque altar from 1731, flanked by two columns, depicts St. Kilian, St. Kolonat and St. Totnan on the altar painting .

Church building

In 1932 industrial settlements resulted in the first residential buildings for employees east of the port railway line towards Aschaffenburg. The population growth at the end of the Second World War prompted the establishment of a branch office on September 15, 1946 by the Würzburg Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried . The expelled priest of the Teutonic Order , Father Otto Maly (OTeut), became Expositus. With his motorcycle he came from Aschaffenburg to the old Kilian's Chapel to proclaim the word of God to the residents of the new district and to celebrate Holy Mass with them. On May 30, 1952, he had a fatal accident with his motorcycle at Aschaffenburg Main Bridge. The first plots of land for the construction of the new church were acquired as early as 1950, the planning came about in the Aschaffenburg architectural office Grimm and Schmitt (later Goldhammer and Schmitt). The groundbreaking ceremony on Christ the King's Festival (October 26th), 1952, was made by the new Kuratus Ferdinand Scherpf, who was introduced on June 28th, and the foundation stone was laid by the Vicar General in the Diocese of Würzburg Dr. Vinzenz Fuchs took place on November 23, 1952. On October 25, 1953, St. Kilian's Church was consecrated by the Würzburg bishop Julius Döpfner .

St. Kilian's Church inside

The church

The church made of red and white sandstone, 40 meters long, 16 meters wide with a detached bell tower connected by the vestibule, is entered through three doors covered with copper sheet. Above the portal a mosaic of the Franconian apostles Kilian - Kolonat - Totnan by the sculptor Hans König from Trennfurt . Under the gallery on the right, the weekday chapel (side chapel) and on the left the niche with the priestly graves, Otto Maly and Ferdinand Scherpf. The interior, with the slightly retracted choir, has a continuous coffered ceiling, a singing room is set up above the sacristy, which opens up to the chancel with a large window. The altarpiece, made of 65,000 sintered plates, shows Christ as the good shepherd, as fine as the fabric of an oversized tapestry (eight meters high and five meters wide). Above right UT VITAM HABEANT (“I have come - so that they have life”) ( Joh 10.1-10  EU ), the altar table, baptismal font and priest's seat made of dark Lower Franconian shell limestone, also by Hans König; he also created the Way of the Cross (60/80 cm sheet copper, chased). The tabernacle, gold-plated brass from the workshop of the Würzburg goldsmith Josef Amberg with the inscription SANCTA - SANCTIS (“the holy of the saints”).

St. Kilian, baptismal font, ambo

According to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council, redesigned by the Aschaffenburg artist Hermann Kröckel and supplemented with a triumphal cross, tabernacle column and a bronze figure of St. Kilian from the Grundhöfer art foundry. The Mother of God with Child, a wood carving figure is also a work by Hermann Kröckel.

Bells

Four bells ring in the 28 m high tower, tuned in the tone sequence of the Te Deum (EGAC) that was cast in the Erdinger bell foundry (Karl Czudnochowsky) and on July 5, 1953 by HH. Domkapitular Johannes Kötzner, Würzburg were solemnly consecrated. Bell 1: Our Lady (peace bell) "Opus justitiae pax" (Justice creates peace - Pius XII. ) (E), (17 quintals). Bell 2: To the Precious Blood (G), (11 quintals). Bell 3: Saint Kilian (A), (7 quintals). Bell 4: To Saint Gaspare del Bufalo , that intrepid preacher and missionary of Rome in the Napoleonic period (C), (4 hundredweight).

organ

In the organ loft is a work by Michael Weise Orgelbau in Plattling from 1955. The cone store instrument has 26 registers on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic. The free pipe prospectus (draft Alois Grimm) is divided into five parts. The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Coupling flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Quintad 4 ′
6th Night horn 2 ′
7th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
9. Sing. Dacked 8th'
10. Willow pipe 8th'
11. Far principal 4 ′
12. Pointed flute 4 ′
13. Octave 2 ′
14th Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Sif flute 1'
16. Sesquialter II
17th Scharff IV 1'
18th Hopper shelf 8th'
Tremolant
Pedal C – f 1
19th Principal 16 ′
20th Sub-bass 16 ′
21st Soft bass (from No. 20) 16 ′
22nd Octave bass 8th'
23. Wood quintad 8th'
24. Chorale bass 4 ′
25th Rauschpfeife III
26th trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

In the Kilian's Chapel there was a historical positive with the following disposition: Gedackt 8 ′, Flute 4 ′, Principal 2 ′, fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′, cymbal I 1 ⁄ 2 ′

Pastor

Last resting place of P. Otto Maly OT./Pfr. Ferdinand Scherpf
  • (1954–1978) Ferdinand Andreas Scherpf * December 1, 1919 in Frankfurt am Main , ordained a priest on April 21, 1946 in Kufstein ( Austria ) , † October 3, 1978 in Aschaffenburg, from 1952 to 1954 Kuratus in Nilkheim.
  • (1978–1987) Josef Otter * March 31, 1944 in Haibach , ordained a priest on June 29, 1969, † April 12, 2006 in Aschaffenburg.
  • (1987–1991) Gerd Eugen Goldhammer * 1941 in Aschaffenburg, ordained a priest on June 29, 1968.
  • (1991–2004) Richard Mechler * 1934 in Kirchzell , ordained a priest on March 13, 1960.
  • (since 2005) Wolfgang Kempf * 1962 in Aschaffenburg, ordained a priest on February 20, 1988 in Münsterschwarzach .

Oddities

When the construction work began after the groundbreaking, there was a small excavator in the construction pit, which had to be dug four meters deep because of the parish hall to be built under the church. Kuratus Scherpf said: "Yes, if we only had an excavator from the American army", the answer of a construction worker: "Do det isch halt emol froche." The Kuratus went to the barracks after registering by telephone; The right ones were there, the work equipment that led the way, but he didn't dare to ask what it would cost. Major Salomin smiled: “You can get an excavator for your church and it costs nothing.” The next day, a heavy excavator rolled over the Main Bridge, along Großostheimer Strasse to the construction site and the foundation work could be completed before the onset of winter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Heßler: From the history of the churches of St. Dionysius… 1250 years of Christian Nilkheim s. u. - The stone document that confirms the date 711/716 was unfortunately lost
  2. ^ Max Spindler, Sigmund Benker: History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century. Bd.3 / 1, p. 109, 237. In: Andreas Kraus (Hrsg.): Handbook of Bavarian History. Complete works in 4 volumes, CH Beck, 1997.
  3. ↑ Main-Echo No. 149 of July 2, 1952.
  4. ↑ a b Parish Archives St. Kilian.
  5. ↑ Volksblatt No. 101 of July 8, 1953.
  6. ↑ Volksblatt No. 44 of October 24, 1953.
  7. ↑ Main-Echo No. 308 of December 30, 1988.
  8. ↑ Main-Echo No. 152 of July 6, 1953.
  9. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association V., Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
  10. ↑ so
  11. ↑ Main-Echo No. 187 of November 5, 1952.

See also

literature

  • Ferdinand Scherpf: 1250 years of Christian Nilkheim - Festschrift for the 1250 anniversary of the first consecration of Nilkheim 711 - 1961. i. A. of the church administration St. Kilian Aschaffenburg-Nilkheim 1961.
  • Franz Schaub : A quarter of a century parish history - marginalia to the chronicle of Nilkheim. Wenzel, Goldbach near Aschaffenburg 1977.
  • Aschaffenburg studies. II Documentations, Volume 12 - Nilkheim - From Christian Settlement to District. Compiled by the Nilkheim History Working Group, publisher: Stadt Aschaffenburg, 1997, ISBN 3-922355-17-X .

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '24.3 "  N , 9 ° 7' 3.5"  E