St. Maria (Tiefengruben)

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St. Maria (Immaculata), Tiefengruben (Nhf.)
Deep pits (Nhf); Church of St. Maria.JPG
Front portal with attached bell tower, church square and nave with 4 window axes
place Deep pits
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Fulda
Patronage St. Mary
Construction year 1852
Construction type Hall church
function Branch church

St. Maria (Tiefengruben) is a neo-Gothic , Roman Catholic branch church in Tiefengruben , Neuhof municipality , in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda . It is a branch church of the parish church St. Michael in Neuhof and belongs to the diocese of Fulda .

The church building is at Kapellenstrasse 5 at the confluence with Belandsweg. The solemn feast or patronage "Mary Immaculate Conception" of the Virgin and Mother of God is on December 8th.

Church history of deep pits

Tiefengruben is located in the area of ​​the Karlmann donation , which the Franconian caretaker Karlmann gave in 747 to Bonifatius and thus to the Fulda monastery he founded in 744 . The small settlement "Tifengruba" was first mentioned in a document in 1200. It belonged to the parish Flieden in the archdeaconate of St. Johann in Mainz. In 1560 it belonged to the Neuenberg (Andreasberg) priory as a subsidiary of the Fulda Imperial Abbey .

A first chapel made of wood, measuring 18 × 20 feet and without a tower , was approved by the spiritual government under Prince-Bishop Adalbert II von Walderdorff in 1757. It was located at the point where the road "Am Bildstock" now joins the "Chaussee von Kohlhaus nach Neuhof" (Kasseler Strasse), which was newly laid out in 1834 .

In 1787 it was assigned to the Oberamt Neuhof in Fulda.

In 1812 it was Neuhof's daughter church.

In 1837, during the term of office of Bishop Johann Leonhard Pfaff , the then Neuhof pastor Bernhard Mehler reported that the small chapel was in disrepair and that a new one was being requested. It was not until 1851 that the foundation stone was laid for a larger new stone building , the current chapel with 38 × 22 feet (11.58 × 6.70 m) and a tower height of 20 feet (6.08 m) after the approval of the planning by master bricklayer Adam Heres from Fulda ). After a year of construction, the new church building was on 8 December 1852 by Bernhard Dechant Mehler "solemnly in the presence of a great multitude benediziert " .

Church building

The foundation stone from 1851

The foundation stone was laid on August 23, 1851. The consecration of the chapel "in honor of the Immaculate Virgin Mary (Maria Immaculata)" took place on December 8, 1852 by the Neuhof dean Bernhard Mehler.

After the end of the Second World War , around 70 expellees came to Tiefengruben in 1946 from the former eastern German regions , mostly from the Egerland . Most of the new citizens were Catholic and so an expansion of the chapel was necessary. It was built according to plans by the Fulda architect Dipl.-Ing. Hans Weber extended the choir room by 5 meters and added a small sacristy . With the expansion of the church, the number of window axes was changed from two to four. On the patronage day on December 8, 1948, today's branch church was inaugurated by the Fulda auxiliary bishop Adolf Bolte .

Interior view with a view of the three-sided choir with ambo , altar and tabernacle (from left).
Interior with a way of the cross and a gallery

Interior

The oak-clad stone altar carried an attachment depicting the crucifixion of Jesus on the hill of the cross, Golgotha , as well as pedestals for the assistant figures. It consisted of the standing cross with Jesus on a hill and the assistance figures of the Mater Dolorosa and the evangelist John . The assistant figures were a gift from the Fulda Benedictine nuns . The altarpiece of the Golgotha ​​statue without a cross was a gift from the Sisters of Mercy from the Fulda rural hospital at the time .

The standing cross with body was a mission cross that existed in the old school of Opperz, which corresponded to the proportions of the altar and still decorates the chancel of St. Mary's Church with the two assistant figures.

The baroque figure of Anna herself on the north wall was again a gift from the Benedictine nuns in Fulda. The painting of the Holy Family is attributed to the last Fulda court painter Johann Andreas Herrlein . The 14 station pictures of the Way of the Cross are also said to come from the Herrleins painting school and were acquired by the community. The oil painting of Judas Thaddäus and the late Baroque Maria Immaculata are by an unknown master from the first chapel.

Baroque altar 1906–1947.

When the church was renovated around 1906, the church was equipped with a Baroque altar from Marborn , which was in the school's oratory there from 1850 to 1898 . When the church was expanded in 1947, this old baroque altar was removed.

Redesign of the interior of the church in 1970

Another major construction project took place in 1970. The entire church interior was redesigned to remove the defects in the church roof. Under the construction management of the architect Möller, the roof structure including the tower gable triangle and the existing triumphal arch of the choir from 1948 were removed. The entire church building was raised with a 60 cm high reinforced concrete ring anchor to stabilize the outer walls, and the previously removed triangular gable with bell tower was put back on. With this construction measure, the entire church space could be increased by 60 cm, which benefited the use of the newly built gallery. The old gallery height was previously around two meters.

With this construction measure, the choir was also designed with a girder and new reinforced concrete columns arranged on both sides to stabilize the outer walls. A new celebration table ( altar ) made of red sandstone was placed in the middle of the choir as a popular altar . The old altar table from 1851/52 was removed. Instead of the Radiant Madonna, which was attached to the front above the altar, the existing cross and the assistant figures Maria and John of the baroque altar from 1948 were rearranged on the rear wall of the choir. To the right of the crucifixion group , the existing tabernacle was also created in a new sacrament house as a tabernacle stele. The stone carvings made of red sandstone were made by the stonemason Dieter Mack, Neuhof. In the spring of 1971 the interior of the church was equipped.

Further renovations took place in 1980 and 1995/96. In 1987, new lead-glazed church windows were manufactured by the Robert Münch glass workshop in Groß-Umstadt.

Bells

The first baroque chapel from 1757 had no bell.

For the new chapel from 1852 a privately owned angelus bell was donated by farmer Johannes in Tiefgruben on the gable of the Ruppel farm - originating from the Wetterau and designated on the Frauenberge . The bell casting with a diameter of 34.5 cm and the tone "d" was made by the brothers Johannes and Andreas Schneidewind, Frankfurt am Main. The second and larger bell came from the broken old church in Weyhers and had to be delivered for armament purposes during the First World War and was newly procured at an unknown time.

St. Maria has two bells in the bell tower today.

These are the smaller angelus bell from the first church building in 1852 and today's larger bell has the tone "c". The diameter is 45 cm. The inscription on the neck of the bell is as follows: JOHANNES BERNHAD G. SCHENK ZV SCHWEINSGERG NVS A: D: 1620. A pilgrim with a hat, staff and rosary is shown in relief on one side. On the other side the coat of arms of Schweinsberg, who was provost of Neuenberg at the time and from 1623–32 prince abbot of Fulda.

During the Second World War , contrary to state demands, the smaller angelus bell was delivered to the Hamburg bell cemetery for armament purposes, but remained intact and came back to Tiefengruben in 1947.

literature

  • Wilhelm Weber: The "Maria Immaculata" chapel in Tiefengruben; Reprint from: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter 28 (2002), Rindt-Druck, Fulda

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Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 27.9 "  N , 9 ° 38 ′ 42.7"  E