St. Maria Immaculata (Eberstadt)

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St. Maria Immaculata in Eberstadt
The bell tower houses two bells.

St. Maria Immaculata is a Roman Catholic church in the Eberstadt district of Licher in the district of Gießen ( Hesse ). The building was completed and consecrated in 1955.

history

In the year 1360 there is evidence of a chapel that was parish off to the mother church in Trais-Münzenberg until 1361 . Arnold Steyn was the first pastor to work in Eberstadt from 1367 to 1402. 100 years after the elevation to the parish church, the place was incorporated into the Arnsburg monastery in 1461 . In the late Middle Ages, Eberstadt belonged to the Trais-Munzenberg district in the Friedberg deanery and to the Archdeaconate of St. Maria ad Gradus in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation between 1556 and 1562, the congregation changed to the Evangelical Lutheran creed.

For centuries, Catholic life in Eberstadt came to a standstill. For the Catholics from Silesia and the Sudetenland , who settled in the area between Lich and Butzbach after the Second World War , after an initial supply in Butzbach in 1946 a local chaplaincy was established in Gambach, which provided pastoral care to Gambach, Holzheim, Eberstadt and Ober-Hörgern. In the post-war years, the number of Catholics in Eberstadt rose to 380.

The Eberstadt Catholics helped build the Catholic Church in Gambach at the beginning of the 1950s, and during this time they celebrated their own services in the Evangelical Church in Eberstadt . After the Munzenberg Chapel was built in 1952, the Eberstadt Catholics were looked after from there. Two years later they were given a building site on Gambacher Weg, on which a small emergency church from Mainz, which was sold cheaply by the “Swiss relief organization”. They and their interior fittings were designed from easily transportable individual parts based on the model of the architect Jean Cron. As the smallest type of Swiss emergency church, they erected today's church building. The church was consecrated on June 19, 1955 by the auxiliary bishop of Mainz, Josef Maria Reuss . It is consecrated to the mystery of faith of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother .

After Eberstadt was incorporated into the city of Lich in 1971, the parish broke away from Munzenberg and the Friedberg deanery with effect from January 1, 1978, and was assigned to the Lich parish in the Giessen deanery.

As part of a comprehensive building renovation from August 25, 1984, which was largely carried out in-house, the original wooden walls of the church were replaced by stone walls and plastered, a new altar was built to replace the wooden high altar, the floor was re-covered Glass windows reinforced with heat-insulating glass, the tower partially slated and a new confessional built in at the back to replace the old one at the front. Karl Lehmann took the consecration before the new stone altar on May 1, 1985th In 1986 a small organ was installed .

St. Maria Immaculata belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Paulus and St. Andreas in Lich and Hungen, respectively.

architecture

The white plastered hall building faces southwest in the west of the village. The simple church is covered by a flat asymmetrical gable roof, which is wider in the north than on the south side. In the northeast the entrance has a small wooden porch. A retracted half-timbered bell tower is built in the southwest, which houses two bells. It serves as a chancel on the ground floor and has been slated up on the upper floor since 1985. The wooden bell house is crowned by a gable roof with a cross and a weathercock.

The interior is lit on the southern long side by eight and on the northern side by four colorful, rectangular lead glass windows that bear the names of their donors.

Furnishing

Interior with a view of the altar
Organ by Förster & Nicolaus

Inside, the posts for the roof structure and the open roof structure are visible. The retracted chancel tower gives access to the rear main altar. The baroque tabernacle with an exhibition niche is flanked by two angels. The side altars are in front of the walls. On the left there is a carved crescent moon Madonna as Maria Immaculata and on the right Francis of Assisi . The central simple block altar from 1977 serves as a people's altar . The gray wooden church stalls offer 150 seats and leave a central aisle free.

In 1986 a positive organ was set up by the Förster & Nicolaus Orgelbau workshop , which has four registers on one manual . The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Dumped 8th'
Dumped 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Sesquialtera I-II

literature

  • Paul Görlich: Harmony between the parishes - The Catholic parish of St. Immaculata in Eberstadt. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 197, March 23, 2005, pp. 193-194.
  • Magistrate of the city of Lich (ed.), Paul Görlich (edit.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. Selbstverlag, Lich 1989, pp. 447-451.
  • Peter Weyrauch : The churches of the old district of Giessen. Mittelhessische Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Gießen 1979, p. 210.

Web links

Commons : St. Maria Immaculata (Lich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Görlich: Centuries-long tradition of pastoral work. Eberstadt has had its own pastor for around 540 years. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 199, May 24, 2005, pp. 201-203, here: p. 201.
  2. ^ Gerhard Kleinfeldt, Hans Weirich: The medieval church organization in the Upper Hessian-Nassau area (= writings of the Institute for historical regional studies of Hesse and Nassau 16 ). NG Elwert, Marburg 1937, ND 1984, p. 34.
  3. ↑ Paul Görlich: Trais was once the mother parish of Eberstadt. The "Pfaffenpfad" still reminds of this. In: Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter. No. 210, November 8, 2006, pp. 45-48, here: p. 46.
  4. ↑ Peter Fleck, Dieter Wolf (ed.): Catholic life in Butzbach in the Middle Ages and modern times. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Catholic parish of Butzbach . Lembeck, Butzbach 1994, ISBN 978-3-00-042379-6 , pp. 122 .
  5. ↑ a b c Görlich: Harmony between the parishes. 2005, p. 193.
  6. ^ Görlich: Harmony between the parishes. 2005, p. 194.
  7. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Lich (Ed.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. 1989, p. 450.
  8. ^ Parish group Lich-Hungen: Our churches . Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  9. ^ Weyrauch: The churches of the old district Gießen. 1979, p. 210.
  10. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Lich (Ed.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. 1989, p. 449.
  11. ↑ Magistrate of the City of Lich (Ed.): Licher Heimatbuch. The core city and its districts. 1989, p. 447.
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Falkenberg: Epochs of organ history. Förster and Nicolaus 1842–1992. Orgelbau-Fachverlag Rensch, Lauffen 1992, ISBN 3-921848-24-5 , p. 177.

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 42.9 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 26.2"  E