St. Marien (Grossen-Buseck)

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Exterior view of the catholic church
Interior towards the altar area

The Church of St. Marien (officially: Immaculatae Conceptionis BMV = Church / Parish of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ) in Grossen-Buseck in the Buseck Valley was built in 1952/1953. The hall church with retracted choir is characterized by an integrated tower on the south corner.

history

The history of the Catholic Church in Buseck in the pre-Reformation period is connected with the medieval (later Protestant) church in Großen-Buseck . There is evidence of a pleban for them in 1199 , and two pastors in 1210. In particular, a “Dominus Sifridus” can be found in 1259. The von Trohe family held the patronage until 1505 , after which the Schutzbar family called Milchling . The Große-Busecker church was the main church of the Busecker valley . In the Middle Ages, the church belonged to the Archdeaconate of St. Stephan in the Archdiocese of Mainz . With the introduction of the Reformation , the parish changed to the Protestant creed. For more than three and a half centuries there was no longer any Catholic life in Großen-Buseck.

In 1901 the first Catholic family settled again in Großenbuseck. The Nikisch family attended church services in St. Bonifatius in Giessen . Before the construction of St. Marien, the Catholic expellees of the Second World War had the chapel of the castle in Grossen-Buseck available for weddings and prayer and the weekday masses. The castle was then owned by the von Nordeck zur Rabenau family .

After the Second World War , the Diocese of Mainz founded the pastoral care district of Großen-Buseck for the numerous expellees of the Catholic faith and the like. a. from the Sudetenland . Due to the displaced persons, the proportion of Catholics rose to 20% of the population of Grossen-Buseck. On September 13, 1946, Pastor Johannes Loos (born May 19, 1910 - October 11, 1969) was appointed pastor ("local chaplain"). The pastor from Römerstadt was himself an expellee and had been in Grossen-Buseck since May 1946. Until his death in 1969 he worked in the parish of St. Marien.

On December 8, 1949, the local council approved the purchase of a piece of land in Bismarckstrasse for the construction of a church. The construction of St. Marien was financed by many donations from the pastoral care district and from outside through petition campaigns, the Easter collection of the diocese of Mainz and a grant from the Bonifatiusverein Paderborn. The shell construction costs amounted to 56,772.89 DM. The personal contribution of the displaced persons was also considerable. The parishioners were also supported during the construction by the active help of Belgian scouts. The architect was Karl Josef Dicke (1906–1986), who was in charge of construction. After the groundbreaking on September 3, 1952, the foundation stone was laid on September 7, 1952 and the topping-out ceremony on November 10, 1952 . On September 13, 1953, Bishop Albert Stohr consecrated the church. It is consecrated to Saint Mary and its full name is Immaculatae Conceptionis BMV . This name was chosen by Pastor Loos because the parish council approved the project on December 8th (Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary).

On July 1, 1955, St. Marien was elevated to a parish curate and thus an independent parish. The back wall of the chancel was painted with a large, colorful picture of the pantocrator . During the first years of service of Pastor Heinz Schmitt (1970–1987) the church was renovated. The altar was advanced and the altarpiece was painted over. The congregation acquired a new tabernacle, an ambo, and a cross that now hung over the altar. The kindergarten, founded in 1957, was initially located in the basement of the church. The newly built kindergarten was inaugurated on November 19, 1960, the mother's school on October 1, 1966 as the forerunner of today's Catholic Family Education Center (FBS) and the nurses' house on December 22, 1968. The St. Elisabeth day care center was run by nuns until 1984. Under Pastor Franz Josef Schneider (1987-2000) the interior of the church was renovated in 1989, which included a redesign of the chancel. In 1990 the nurses' house was transformed into community rooms. Day care center and family education center were built from scratch in 1992. The sacristy was expanded over time, as it was originally designed to be very small. Andreas Puckel was pastor from 2000 to 2012, and Jonas Adam was introduced as his successor on September 9, 2012. At that time the congregation comprised around 3700 members.

architecture

Portal in the southeast

The plastered church is facing the street from the southeast to the northwest. The hall church is covered by a gable roof, which is continued over the slightly drawn-in rectangular choir . The tower on a rectangular floor plan is integrated into the southern corner of the nave and houses three bells that were cast in Gescher in 1966 by the company Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock . The bell storey has three narrow, arched sound openings on the long sides and two narrow, arched sound openings on the gable ends. The simple tower cross on the gable roof was renewed in 2002. The old tower cross has served as the altar cross of an open-air altar behind the church. A sacristy is added to the north .

A triple window consisting of three arched windows, the middle one of which is elevated, is let into the rectangular south portal. The interior is illuminated on the long sides through tall, narrow rectangular windows, five in the southwest and four in the northeast. The choir has three more rectangular windows in the southwest, the middle of which shows the Lamb of God with the victory flag, whose blood flows into a chalice. The altar side in the northwest is windowless and so is the choir on the northeast side due to the addition of the sacristy. The interior of the nave is characterized by five high, parabolic round arches. The choir arch is wider than the arches in the nave and thus marks the chancel. In addition, the altar area is raised by four steps opposite the nave.

Furnishing

Sanctuary
Devotional chapel

In the interior of the church, the figurative representations in the lead glass windows point to the Lauretan litany . The simple church stalls leave a central aisle free and face the altar area. In the center is the block altar, which is covered by a dark pink-violet marble slab made of Lahn marble and donated by the East Priest Aid. The large, egg-shaped baptismal font with a gilded lid, which is prominently placed in the chancel, is made from the same marble. The same material is also used for the edges of the altar, for the stele of the tabernacle and the ambo , which gives the liturgical furnishings a creative unity. The cube-shaped tabernacle is highlighted by its gilding.

On the altar wall is a large crucifix of the three-nail type attached, which dominates the church back wall. It was designed by Franziska Lenz-Gerharz and consecrated in 1992. While the body is made entirely of metal, the cross beams are made of wood. On the left of the choir arch is a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary, on the right a statue of Joseph of Nazareth with his carpenter symbols. On the sides of the nave between the windows you can see the 14 wood-covered stations of the cross , which were carved by a Silesian wood sculptor. In the south corner, next to the staircase to the organ loft, in a small devotional chapel under the tower, there is a smaller, wood-carved figure of Mary with the baby Jesus, which was acquired from Walldürn . Here, church and church attendants can light candles on a metal candle tree and linger in quiet personal prayer. Two confessionals were installed on the south-east side, the parabolic doors of which under a large arch reflect the design of the nave.

After a harmonium had been used to accompany the singing for decades , the congregation acquired a used organ from the Gießen Thomas- More Church , which was placed on the south-east gallery. Orgelbau Kreienbrink created the work around 1970, which has six stops on a manual and pedal . In 2018 the small organ was sold to the French community in La Peyratte and an electronic Kisselbach organ was purchased.

literature

  • Parish of St. Marien, Grossen-Buseck (ed.), Andreas Puckel, Kurt Rössler (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 50 years of St. Marien - a good testimony. Anniversary font. Grossen-Buseck 2003.
  • Ilse Reinholz-Hein: The historical development of the church in the Busecker valley. In: Elke Noppes (Ed.): The Protestant Church in Grossen-Buseck. 3. Edition. Local history working group Buseck, Buseck 2007, pp. 91–98.
  • Heinrich Walbe: The art monuments of the Gießen district. Vol. 1. Northern part. Hessisches Denkmalarchiv, Darmstadt 1938, pp. 149–163.

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Großen-Buseck)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grossen-Buseck. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Ilse Reinholz-Hein: The historical development of the church in the Busecker valley. In: Elke Noppes (Ed.): The Protestant Church in Grossen-Buseck. 2007, pp. 91-98, here: pp. 97 f.
  3. ↑ Walbe: The art monuments of the district of Giessen. 1938, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Ilse Reinholz-Hein: The castle chapel. In: Elke Noppes, Ilse Reinholz-Hein and others: The castle in Grossen-Buseck. History of a noble castle seat. Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-930612-15-1 , p. 138.
  5. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, pp. 38, 152.
  6. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 62.
  7. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 50 f, 169.
  8. ^ Gießener Allgemeine, September 10, 2012: Introductory service for Jonas Adam in St. Marien , accessed on March 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 149.
  10. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 171.
  11. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 90.
  12. ↑ Parish of St. Marien (ed.): You will be my witnesses. 2003, p. 69.
  13. ↑ Organ in Großen-Buseck, St. Marien , seen October 6, 2013.
  14. ↑ Diocese of Mainz: Much more registers to praise God! , accessed December 25, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 32.1 ″  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 51.7 ″  E