St. Mary's (Bebra)
| St. Mary | |
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| Bell tower , front portal with church square | |
| place | Bebra |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| diocese | Fulda |
| Patronage | Mary, mother of Jesus |
| Construction year | 1952 |
| Construction type | Hall church |
| function | Branch church |
St. Marien is a Roman Catholic branch church in Bebra in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda .
The church building is on Lindenallee 5-7 - corner of Mühlenstraße in Bebra. As St. Mary's Church, it is under the patronage of Mary, mother of Jesus .
history
Biberaho (Bebra) appears in the annals for the first time in a property register of the Hersfeld Monastery from the year 786, which shows that Bebra was a fiefdom of the Hersfeld Monastery at that time and thus belonged to the then ecclesiastical province of Mainz . In 1386 it was named as a landgrave's village in the Rotenburg district.
With the beginning of the Reformation , a first Protestant pastor named Petrus Nithaber was named as early as 1526. Johann Faber was his successor from 1543 to 1561. Under Landgrave Philip I , the Landgraviate of Hesse became Protestant in 1526 as a result of the Homberg Synod . Alongside Saxony and Württemberg, Hesse was one of the powerful champions of the Reformation in the German Empire . After the Reformation there was no Catholic parish in Bebra for 360 years. It was not until 1886 that a mission house with a St. Joseph chapel was built for the Catholics who had moved to Bebra and were now living in Bebra, under the Fulda bishop Georg von Kopp . Around 60 years later, the number of Catholics doubled due to the influx of many displaced persons and refugees in the post-war period of the Second World War . From this time on, the Catholic community in Bebra grew again and the chapel became too small. In the 1949s the construction of a new church was planned, the foundation stone of which was laid on July 20, 1952.
New Church
St. Marien is a single-nave hall church with a gable roof, the masonry is smoothly plastered inside and out. The free-standing campanile made of irregular, hewn natural stone is attached to the church building with a covered walkway. The plans for a church with 270 seats were carried out by the Paderborn architect Bernhard Lippsmeier (1885–1958).
The consecration of church and altar followed on the 3rd Sunday of Advent December 14, 1952 by the Fulda auxiliary bishop Adolf Bolte , on the patronage of "Madonna von Banneux, Virgin of the Poor". In the high altar were relics of the Roman martyr Boniface of Tarsus and the early Christian martyr Mercurius included.
The church was built with financial help from the Diocese of Liège to help those who were displaced from the East. Building a support point of the Diaspora - pastoral care by the ACN took place in 1952 with the construction of a convent near the old town. On May 12, 1959, the sister house and the house chapel were consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop and Capitular Vicar Adolf Bolte .
From 1969 to 1977, as a result of the changes in the liturgy after the Second Vatican Council , renovation work began on the interior of the church. The side altars and pictures from the side altar niches (flower miracles of St. Elisabeth and stigmatization of St. Francis) were removed. After the opening of the side altar niches and the closing of the opening to the choir in the south wall of the choir , a tabernacle stele was erected and the altar was moved to the center of the choir. In addition, the church ceiling was designed. In 1986 there was a breakthrough from the church to the chapel of the sister house.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 17 " N , 9 ° 47 ′ 38" E