St. Maria (Weil am Rhein)

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St. Mary from the southwest

The Church of St. Maria in Weil am Rhein in southern Baden is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Haltingen district that was built in the mid-1930s . The modern church is based on the style of the old Markgräfler village churches. It is located south of the town center, a little away from the B 3 through road .

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the then still small number of Catholics were looked after from Lörrach . Emergency services were still held after the First World War, initially in the Hirschen inn and later in a school room.

It was not until 1934 that the plans to build their own church became concrete. In the years 1936 to 1937, a church in the style of the old Markgräfler village churches was built according to plans by the Freiburg architect Georg Schroeder. On January 31, 1937, the church was initially provisionally consecrated by the Zeller Dean Stern.

The new church initially threatened to have to give way to the A5 , which was also under construction at this time . However, the danger could be averted and in 1938 Haltingen was elevated to an independent curate . During the Second World War , the church suffered damage that was repaired only a few months after the end, so that the church was finally consecrated on September 8, 1946 by the Freiburg Auxiliary Bishop Burger .

In 1961 the Haltinger Curatia was raised to the status of a parish . In 1965 the interior of the church was redesigned. Among other things, a more modern celebration altar replaced the old one. At the end of 2011, further renovation measures for 540,000 euros were completed, which included the renovation of the pews, the installation of modern underfloor heating and other structural improvements.

description

Church building

Bell tower

The Marienkirche in Haltingen consists of a rectangular nave building with a main portal to the west and a bell tower attached to the southeast. The basement of the church tower serves as a sacristy . The tower has a round arched acoustic arcade on each of the four sides on the upper floor. The clock faces of the tower clock are asymmetrically located on the sides of the openings. On the saddle roof , which is aligned across the nave , the church tower is closed off by a tower ball and a cross.

The slightly retracted choir adjoins a nave nave to the east . This consists of five segments of a regular octagon . On each longitudinal wall, five windows that close in round arches let light into the interior of the church. The nave is spanned by a flat wooden ceiling.

Furnishing

The colored windows in the choir were created by the glass painter H. Theodor Baumann from Schopfheim . Above the right side altar stands a statue of the Madonna by the Karlsruhe artist Emil Sutor , above the left the statue of Joseph of Nazareth . On the long walls there are the fourteen stations of the cross as relief work, which also come from Sutor. The large crucifix in the choir was carved by Egon Hummel from St. Märgen .

Bells and organ

organ

The original bronze bells come from the Grüninger bell foundry and were cast in 1938. Their bronze peal comprised a d 'bell (St. Bonifatius), an f' bell (St. Georg), a g 'bell (Marienglocke) and an a' bell (Karl's bell). The three largest bells had to be delivered in 1942 as a result of the Second World War. The preserved a′-bell was cast in an h′-bell in 1953 and at the same time the Heidelberg bell foundry FW Schilling supplied an e′-bell (St. Bonifatius), a g′-bell (St. Georg) and an a′- Bell (Maria), which forms the new bell.

In 1949, the community bought the old organ of the former Benedictine priory of St. Ulrich in the Black Forest . It is believed that this organ was built by Adrien Poltier in 1672. Some parts of this organ as well as others from the Schliengen organ were used. Organ builder Willy Dold from Freiburg put them together in two stages in 1950 and 1955 to create a new instrument: in the first step, a manual , a pedal and ten stops were built. The action was electric. In a second step, the organ was expanded in 1955 by a second manual with seven registers. Today's organ in St. Mary's Church was renovated by the organ builder August Späth from March 1980. The instrument consists of two manuals, a pedal and 18 stops.

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Maria (Weil am Rhein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 429
  2. ^ HE Walter: The local book of Haltingen, parts 6.1 and 6.3, 1962
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung : Bright, beautiful and joyful , November 28, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Helm: Church and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 430

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 40.3 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 58.5 ″  E