St. Laurentius (Giesel)
| St. Laurentius, Giesel | |
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| Tower , front portal with church square and pentagonal nave | |
| place | Giesel (Neuhof) |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| diocese | Fulda |
| Patronage | Lawrence of Rome |
| Construction year | 1962 |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| function | Parish church |
St. Laurentius is a Roman Catholic parish church in Giesel , municipality of Neuhof in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda and is assigned to the dean's office of Fulda . The church building is on Laurentiusstraße, the L 3206 . The parish is currently one of the six Catholic parishes in the municipality Neuhof, near the district town of Fulda , in which the Catholics live in the majority. It belongs to the pastoral association St. Antonius von Padua Fulda-West imDeanery Fulda, to which the parishes St. Markus ( Haimbach ), St. Andreas ( Fulda-Neuenberg ) and Heilig Kreuz ( Maberzell ) also belong.
The church is under the patronage of St. Laurence . The Catholic Church celebrates its feast day on August 10th.
History of the churches
A chapel existed as a branch of Haimbach as early as 1150. In 1330, the first currently dilapidated and rebuilt chapel was mentioned, which was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene . In 1333 a castle chaplain was named Nikolaus (Roslon?) For Giesel, which at that time belonged to the parish of Haimbach. The Gieseler Chapel was consecrated again in 1489 to St. Mary Magdalene. The Protestant chaplain Peter Bang worked in Giesel from 1569 to 1573.
In 1594 the now mentioned castle chapel belonged to the parish of Haimbach. In 1604, under Prince Abbot Balthasar von Dernbach, the last inhabitants returned to the Catholic Church on the occasion of a re- Catholicization. In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) there was probably also destruction of the castle. From 1632 to 1634 the Protestant preacher Magister Bremer worked in Giesel during the Hessian occupation under Wilhelm V of Hessen-Kassel .
In 1657 the baptismal font , which is still in use today, was erected and in 1659 Giesel's own church records were started (Haimbach parish office).
In 1731, under Prince Abbot Adolf von Dalberg Giesel, it was raised to a separate parish in the dean's office in Großenlüder, to which the pilgrimage church of Kleinheiligkreuz also belongs. During a visitation in 1763, the walls of the church (castle chapel) in Giesel were identified as solid, the tower and roof as undamaged, but the interior as dark and damp.
On January 1, 1831, under Bishop Johann Adam Rieger, the branch church of the Birth of Mary (Istergiesel) was separated from the parish of Haimbach and reassigned to the parish of St. Laurentius Giesel. In 1840 Giesel came to the newly formed dean's office in Neuhof with the subsidiary community of Mariä Birth Istergiesel.
Old parish church
In 1856 construction began on a new parish church on the site of today's parish church, Laurentiusstraße 40. It was completed in 1859 and consecrated on August 4, 1861 by the Fulda Bishop Christoph Florentius Kött in honor of St. Laurentius, thus changing the patronage.
In 1890 the new church received its first organ from the organ builder Heinrich Hahner from Fulda, the instrument with 10 registers was based on mechanical cone chests.
The existence of four churches or chapels is documented from the Giesel church history. The location of the first church (chapel) was in Schlossstrasse or Zellertstrasse on the old cemetery that was abandoned and leveled in 1959 (today plot at Zellertstrasse 6. The castle chapel and cemetery had access from Schlossstrasse) near the former castle or of the moated castle (today Schlossstrasse 2). The second church was St. Laurentiuskirche, consecrated in 1859. It was at the same location as today's third church, the second Laurentiuskirche, in the former "Joßgarten" on Laurentiusstrasse.
New parish church
In 1961, after 101 years of use, the previous church of St. Laurentius from 1859/61 was demolished due to rising damp and the growing parish, and today's modern parish church of St. Laurentius was rebuilt.
The foundation stone was laid by Eduard Paul (Flieden) , the dean of the Neuhof dean's office commissioned by the diocese leadership, on July 23, 1961. On March 12, 1962, the Fulda Cathedral Chapter Dr. Gottfried wing the consecration of the new four chimes, supplemented by two new bells (Laurentius and Anna) . On June 3, 1962, the new parish church, built in a modern architectural style, was consecrated by the Fulda auxiliary bishop and later bishop Eduard Schick in honor of St. Lawrence .
In 2015/16, the interior of the Laurentius Church was renovated (painting work) in coordination with the Episcopal Vicariate General Fulda - construction department.
architecture
The church with its slim, free-standing 35 m high bell tower ( campanile ) was built in 1961 by the Ulrich-Bau company (Schmalnau / Fulda) according to the plans of the architects Erich Weber ( Fulda ) and Herbert Roer ( Margetshöchheim ). It is a hall church with concrete glass light strips on both sides on the floor plan of an irregular pentagon with a separate altar area and motif glass windows on both sides.
The roof rises towards the altar, where it has the greatest expanse and the greatest abundance of light. The popular altar made of black marble stands as a clearly shaped table on a slightly raised stepped pedestal. It is surrounded by the oversized altar cross , candlesticks and ambo . The tabernacle stands in front of the angled altar wall and, in its crystalline form, is the center of the choir and thus of the entire interior of the church. In a flat semicircle in three unequal bench packages according to the ceiling construction, the 400 seats for the faithful are arranged in three bench packages around the age. The arrangement is chosen so that the eyes do not meet.
The material inside the church is largely natural; the raw, hand-painted brick of the choir wall, the wood of the ceiling, the rough slate of the floor and the visible floor. The side walls, crowned with light-guiding concrete glass windows (light strips), are whitewashed.
The roof is a steel construction from J. u. W. Eickhoff, Hildesheim and the concrete glazing was made by the company J. Donath and Son ( Gelsenkirchen ) based on templates by Jupp Jost .
The characteristics of the whole structure of the church correspond to the architecture of the 1960s through a modern simplicity, almost rigor.
Artistic design
The entrance portal consists of four centrally arranged large doors. According to the artist Agnes Mann, they should represent "the purification of the spirit and the body when entering the house of God, to Him who with his spirit - hovered over the waters -". Clear glass crystals were embedded in the chased shells of the copper doors, each with a double-leaf structure. Symbols of the pure water that falls from the sky and stand there like dew pearls, for those who pass through to the house of the Lord - like the passage through the Red Sea. The artistically designed, oversized door handles are made of cast bronze.
Like the entrance portal, the tabernacle is a work by Agnes Mann , Poppenhausen. It is shaped as a reflection of the church architecture in the form of a crystal. The crystal is a symbol of the spirit and is reflected for the artist Agnes Mann (1907–1994) in the tabernacle shape. As a decorative element, she chose the grown crystal, clear, unpolished, for the door, and crowning and dripping from the edge of the golden shrine, which lies secure and is raised in a crystal pedestal. The artist also thought of the heavy stone that was rolled in front of Christ's grave.
The Way of the Cross is a work by Günther Zeuner (1923–2011) (Speyer).
The designs for the two concrete glass windows are by Jupp Jost (1920–1993) from Hattersheim.
Altar window
The two large altar windows with motifs of the seven sacraments are works by master glassmaker Karl-Heinz Pfeifer (Weidenau) from 1990. They show the sacraments in the order from top to bottom.
Left window
- Baptism - cross
- Sacrament of ordination in the three stages of deacon, priest and bishop ordination - chalice with host
- Marriage - entwined rings
- Anointing of the Sick - Holy Unction / Drops
- Eucharist - bread and wine
- Penitential sacrament - crossed stole
Right window
- Confirmation - Holy Spirit in the form of the dove
Organs
First organ 1890
The first plans for an organ for the Giesel Church were made in 1826 under the pastor Johann Bettinger (Böttinger). "The organ maker from Bimbach, (probably Joh. Markus Oestreich), had offered a new organ for 220 florins", which was not purchased due to the lack of financial resources.
In 1844, pastor Georg Paul Körber again had the plan to purchase the "old organ from Johannesberg Krs. Fulda". However, this plan failed because the organ was unplayable. Pastor Damian Graner presented a new cost plan for the new building (probably the new church) in 1855, which also included 525 guilders for a new organ. In 1859 the application to the diocese for a subsidy for the procurement of an organ was unsuccessful.
The first organ in Giesel was built in 1890 by the organ builder Heinrich Hahner from Fulda. It was an instrument with 10 registers on mechanical cone chests .
Second organ from 1928 and reconstruction from 1963
In 1928 a second organ was built by the Späth brothers . It is unknown whether parts of the existing first organ were used. The second organ was made possible by an American donation in the old church.
She had the following disposition:
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- Coupling : 5 normal, sub and super octave coupling
- Playing aids : 1 free combination, 2 fixed combinations, tutti, swell box for the whole work
Cone shutter , pneumatic action .
Prospect : three neo-Gothic fields.
In 1963 Alban Späth carried out a third renovation for the new, modern parish church . Fulda:
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- Playing aids like 1928.
New free pipe prospectus.
Bells
The old previous church from the years 1856/1859 had a triple bell (Laurentius, Josef and Maria) that lasted until the First World War . In the war year 1917, two bells of the peal for the manufacture of armaments were confiscated . The bells of the 19th century in particular had to be delivered to be melted down. The same was repeated in the Second World War in 1942. The two bronze bells "Josef" and "Maria" which had to be taken to the central bell cemeteries in Hamburg were affected . In the post-war years of 1922 and 1950, the bells that had been melted down in both world wars were procured.
The new church received a free-standing 35 m high bell tower in 1962 . This is crowned with a movable weathercock . The bell chamber is located in the top of the tower under the weathercock . The four-bell ringing is hung in the steel bell cage, with the Laurentiusgocke, the largest bell, swinging out of the open tower facade with its clapper. The new peal was supplemented by the procurement of two new bells (St. Laurentius, St. Anna) in 1962, the consecration of which took place on March 23, 1962 by the Fulda cathedral capitular Gottfried Flügel.
In 1962 the new cemetery chapel was inaugurated. The Laurentius bell from 1950 that still exists was installed in the bell carrier and rings at funerals.
But as early as 1971 they had to be replaced by new ones, as the bells from the Monasterium Eijsbouts bell foundry in Münster were already showing irreparable cracks. The two newly cast bells were cast like the ones in 1950 in the bell foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock from Gescher in Westphalia. Master Hans Hüesker was responsible for the new bell casting .
| No. | Surname | volume | Casting year | Foundry, casting location |
Weight (kg) |
Weight (ct.) |
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| 1 | St. Laurence | g sharp 1 | 1971 | Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , Gescher | 550 | 11 Ztr. | "HL. LAURENTIUS PLEASE FOR US - GIESEL 1971 "Foundry mark: Medallion relief with coat of arms (three bells) and inscription:" INGENIEUR HANS HÜSKER ME FECIT PETIT & EDELBROCK GeschER i. WEST" |
| 2 | St. Anna | h 1 | 1971 | 325 | 6.5 Ztr. | "HL. ANNA PLEASE FOR US - GIESEL 1971 "Foundry mark: Medallion relief with coat of arms (three bells) and inscription:" INGENIEUR HANS HÜSKER ME FECIT PETIT & EDELBROCK GeschER i. WEST" |
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| 3 | St. Joseph | c sharp 2 | 1950 | 225 | 4.5 ct. | "JOSEF 1950" foundry mark: simpler foundry mark from Petit u. Gebr. Edelbrock, on brass knuckles a double decorative hoop and on the flank a relief of St. Joseph. The neck is adorned with an ornamental ribbon and between decorative rings the inscription "JOSEF 1950" |
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| 4th | St. Mary | g 2 | 1950 | 125 | 2.5 Ztr. | "MARIA 1950" foundry mark: simpler foundry mark from Petit u. Gebr. Edelbrock, on the brass knuckles a double decorative hoop and on the flank a relief of the Immaculate . The neck is adorned with an ornamental band and the inscription "MARIA 1950" between decorative rings |
Pastor of Giesel
literature
- Ingeborg and Winfried Lorei: Sankt Laurentius Giesel , ed. on the occasion of d. 250 years of existence d. Parish of Giesel 1731–1981. Kolping family Giesel, 1982.
- Gottfried Rehm : The organs of the city of Fulda, the districts of Fulda, Hünfeld and Schlüchtern. 4 volumes. Pape-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel / Berlin 1966/1970/1975/1978.
- Erwin Sturm : BONIFATIUSBOTE 1962 / I; Storm 1986; and Episcopal General Vicariate Fulda: inventory list as of January 4, 2010
- St. Laurentius Giesel near Fulda: Festschrift for the consecration of the church; Franconian company printing house, Würzburg. Published by: Katholische Kirchengemeinde Giesel, 1962.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 8 ″ N , 9 ° 34 ′ 10.4 ″ E