St. Kunigund (Bamberg)
Sankt Kunigund is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Gartenstadt district of Bamberg . It was built in 1952–53 according to plans by Josef Lorenz.
history
Although the Spinnseyer settlement , as the Bamberg garden city was called until 1951, had an enormous population growth before the Second World War , the construction of its own parish church was postponed for a long time, probably also because it ran counter to the National Socialist settlement planning. Therefore, the Catholic faithful were cared for by the parish of Sankt Heinrich until 1950 . In the same year the decision was made to build a separate church for the garden city, which was to be consecrated to the Bamberg city patron, Kunigunde of Luxembourg . However, the originally planned building site on today's Gartenstädter Markt had to be given up for reasons of urban planning. Instead, the current location was chosen on the northeast side of the square, which was to form the new center of the settlement. The foundation stone was laid on November 1, 1952.
Thanks to generous donations and help from the population, the church was able to build on 10/11 after just under a year of construction. Inaugurated October 1953 by the Archbishop of Bamberg, Joseph Otto Kolb . Previously, a barrack on Stauffenbergstrasse (instead of today's house No. 138) had served as an emergency church. Due to the high costs caused by the complex foundation of the new church in the clay soil of the garden city, one had to - much to the chagrin of the population - forego the planned construction of a bell tower; This circumstance, which was still often discussed and criticized in the following decades, and the concise shape of its high gable roof , with evil tongues, earned the church the unflattering name “barn”.
In the course of the Second Vatican Council , the interior of the church was partially redesigned from 1974. In 1983 a weekday church was set up in the southern extension of the nave , which was largely furnished by the Cologne artist Egino Weigert. The last interior restoration was carried out in 1994.
architecture
The civil engineer Josef Lorenz (1903–1971), who originally came from Bamberg, was responsible for the planning. He had previously designed the new construction of the bombed-out quarter on the fruit market. His project for Sankt Kunigund, in which - as a local newspaper reported in 1952 - "the good old in construction should be organically combined with the beautiful new", is based on the so-called "God's castles", which were used for church building in the Archdiocese of Bamberg in the interwar period were characteristic. This corresponds to the stone-sightedness of the outer walls and the alienated quotations from medieval sacred architecture, e.g. B. the steep gable roof and the monumental west facade with the outside staircase and the deep arched portal.
The interior of the Kunigunden Church is a simple hall with a field ceiling. In the west there is a vestibule that contains the wooden organ gallery and is opened to the church interior through a high arched arcade . In the east, an arcade of the same design separates the just closed, separated choir room from the nave . It is raised compared to the nave and is illuminated by a strip of windows running around it high in the wall. The nave windows are designed similarly. Both the vestibule and the choir are shifted to the south from the longitudinal axis of the building so that a wooden side gallery can be found on the north wall of the church. Behind it, in the north wall, an apse opens up for the so-called Marienkapelle (which is also a war memorial site). Other side rooms (including the weekday church) are located on the south side of the church.
Furnishing
Most of the interior furnishings of Sankt Kunigund were only created in the years after the final consecration, especially after the Second Vatican Council. Mostly artists from Bamberg and the Franconian area were involved . A curiosity is the retable high altar , which is still part of the original equipment of the church: It is a detailed copy of the Isenheim altar by Matthias Grünewald and was made by the Altmannshausen pastor Karl Sohm over many years. Worth mentioning are also the colored combined crossroads reliefs of Bamberger sculptor Maria Lerch in cement casting (dedicated 1957) as well as the loft of the font (1958) from Kroll and Gisela Georg Wohlrab, Nuremberg . In 1975 the furnishings were enriched by an almost life-size sculpture of the church patroness Kunigunde by Robert Bauer-Haderlein, who hid the city of Bamberg under her cloak like a protective cloak Madonna . For the Marienkapelle in the north nave wall, Josef Leismüller created a wooden Pietà in 1977/78 , the design of which is based on the Pietà Ignaz Günthers (1764) in the Weyarn monastery church .
organ
The organ was built in 1996 by the organ building company Sandtner (Dillingen). The purely mechanical grinding loading -instrument has 28 registers (1692 pipes) on two manuals and pedals.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Outbuildings
The original design envisaged a spacious complex that would take up the entire area between Elderweg, Josef-Otto-Kolb-Straße, Seehofstraße and Gartenstädter Markt. In addition to the actual church, a round war memorial chapel in front of the west facade, a high bell tower and a three-winged multi-purpose building in the south were planned. However, for cost reasons, only some of the planned buildings were implemented.
Both the sacristan's house in front of the west facade of the church and the rectory on the south-east side (built in 1952) are still committed to the pre-war homeland security style . The characteristics of this style are particularly evident in the rectory with its striking corner rustication , the steep hipped roof and the bat dormers .
literature
- Roland Hinzer: St. Kunigund in Bamberg . Michael Imhof, Petersberg 2004.
- Catholic parish St. Kunigund (Ed.): 50 years St. Kunigund Bamberg. 1953-2003. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the parish fair in St. Kunigund Bamberg . Self-published, Bamberg (no year [2003]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franconian Day of October 31, 1952, quoted after 50 years of St. Kunigund Bamberg 2003, p. 19.
- ↑ On the subject of the “God's castles” cf. Peter Stuckenberger: Castles of God. Church construction under Archbishop Jacobus von Hauck (1912-1943) . Self-published, Bamberg 2004, ISBN 3-9808138-2-7 .
- ↑ More information on the history of the organs and the Sandtner organ in St. Kunigund ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ See the plan sketch by Josef Lorenz ( Church leader. Chronicle of St. Kunigund: Planning of the Church. (No longer available online.) In: Parish St. Kunigund Bamberg. Catholic parish of Sankt Kunigund, Bamberg, archived from the original on 28. March 2016 ; accessed on 3 July 2008 . information: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link under. instructions and then remove this notice. )
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '53 " N , 10 ° 55' 26" E