St. Marien (Gunzenhausen)

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The Church from the West in December 2011

The parish church of St. Marien is a Roman Catholic church in Gunzenhausen , a town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The building has the address Nürnberger Straße 34 and is registered under the monument number D-5-77-136-223 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. She has the patronage of the Immaculate Conception .

History and description of the building

The church was built from 1959 to 1960 by the Ingolstadt architect Josef Elfinger from limestone from the Altmühljura. It replaced a neo-Gothic previous building that was only built on the same site in 1875, but had become too small for the Catholic population, which had grown significantly after the Second World War . On May 1st, 1960 the church was consecrated by the Eichstätter Bishop Joseph Schröffer .

The building is a clearly structured hall church and is designed as a square room with a side length of 25 meters. In the east there is a semicircular apse , which includes the choir , a sacrament chapel , a baptistery , the sacristy and ancillary rooms. To the west, an open atrium with a distinctive, free-standing bell tower is added to the street. The nave and choir have the same height and are covered with a sloping ceiling made of concrete ribs. A skylight is limited to the choir area, which is thereby particularly emphasized. The spatial effect is characterized by the interaction of reinforced concrete and limestone as well as the lighting from the skylight and large window area with glass paintings on the south side. The natural stone comes from Gundelsheim .

Furnishing

The high altar by Blasius Gerg is carved out of a limestone block and decorated with a deep relief depicting Christ in the symbol of the Easter lamb . A late Gothic wooden crucifix (around 1520) by a Franconian master hangs above the altar in a new version . The choir wall is adorned with a 14 square meter tapestry with scenes from the life of Mary. A gold-plated tabernacle is decorated with uncut rock crystal and a green diabase in the shape of a cross, a symbolic reference to the transfigured Christ. Blasius Gerg also designed a double angel on the north wall of the church. He holds a fish on the inside and ears of corn in his hands on the outside of the church. He also made ambo made of cast iron, which shows Christ preaching. The large glass wall in the south is the work of Max Wendl and depicts scenes from the Way of the Cross . The two window fields in the south-west depicting the crucifixion and resurrection were added in 1977/1978 by Alpheda Puluj-Hohenthal . All glass windows are from the Waldsassener Lamberts Glass & Co. Max Wendl also created the stained-glass windows for the north wall with references to the Litany of Loreto , for the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, with references to the Eucharist and in the baptistery with references to Taufgeheimnis. The organ from Orgelbau Sandtner's workshop with 20 registers dates from 1974. A war memorial chapel is hidden below it.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Catholic parish church St. Maria in the monument list of the city of Gunzenhausen of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF)
  2. ↑ Festschrift 100 Years of the Catholic Parish of St. Marien in Gunzenhausen 1997, ed. Catholic rectory in Gunzenhausen.
  3. ↑ Art Guide No. 745, ed. Schnell and Steiner, Munich and Zurich 1961.
  4. ^ Schrenk / Zink, Houses of God, 88.

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 8.2 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 29.1 ″  E