St. Marien (Wiesbaden-Biebrich)
St. Marien at Breslauer Straße 1 is the oldest Catholic church in Wiesbaden-Biebrich .
Building
The three-aisled basilica without a transept , designed by Hugo Schneider in the neo-Gothic style, has a 30 meter high main aisles and two 20 meter high aisles. The choir closings are octagonal . The ceiling construction has a ribbed vault supported by eight columns with Corinthian capitals and eight services .
history
Catholics had lived in Biebrich since the beginning of the 19th century. They first visited the Bonifatius Church in Wiesbaden . In 1823, Duke Wilhelm von Nassau approved Catholic Sunday services in the palace chapel . This made the first Catholic worship service possible in Biebrich since the days of the Reformation . A few years later, in 1830, a branch church of the Biebrich and Mosbach Catholics was founded. From 1845 there was a German Catholic parish, from 1851 money was collected for the construction of a church. The initiator was the chaplain at the time, Andreas Eberhart. In 1865, Duke Adolph gave the 1200-strong congregation a building site for the church. After the Duchy of Nassau was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 , the ducal family left the castle. This made it possible to set up a tabernacle in the ducal box in the palace chapel .
The first plan for the church was presented in 1869 by building officer Richard Görz. He planned a neo-Romanesque church. However, this plan was rejected. Instead, the church building association founded in 1870 and the episcopal ordinariate finally approved the design by the architect Hugo Schneider in 1872 . In 1873 the building authorities approved and on April 19, 1874 the foundation stone was laid. Construction supervisor Eduard Zais took over . Kaiser Wilhelm I donated bronze from French guns from the Franco-German War of 1870/71 for the bell casting, which took place on September 21, 1876 at Andreas Hamm in Frankenthal . The two bells were named Maria and Andreas.
On October 3, 1876, Bishop Joseph Blum from Limburg consecrated the new church. In 1884 she received her first organ, which came from Heinrich Voigt from Igstadt . In 1887 a carved Stations of the Cross was added to the church , and in 1890 the church tower was added later . Confessionals, a figure of Mary and a figure of Joseph, a pulpit and candlesticks were donated in the same year.
During the Second World War , the two bells in the church were melted down for armament purposes. Another consequence of the war was the destruction of several windows in St. Mary's Church. Two windows from 1910 and 1916, which are now installed on the west side of the church, have been preserved. They show motifs from the life of Jesus, namely on the one hand the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple and the flight from Egypt, on the other hand stations of his ordeal.
In the post-war period the church was renovated and redesigned. The choir received three new windows in 1954, including one by Josef Henseler , on which the Coronation of Mary could be seen. The other windows were redesigned, wall paintings from the time of construction as well as neo-Gothic decorations and the altar structure were removed. Four figures from the altar, St. Elisabeth, Hubert, Kilian and Eugenia have been preserved in the choir. From 1958 the church had a bell again, this time with four bells.
Further changes were made in the 1970s. In 1974 new windows were installed in the baptismal choir with depictions of baptism and confirmation by Josef Henseler, and in 1977 the windows of the sacrament choir were also replaced. The motifs of the new windows, also by Henseler, related to the Eucharist and the Resurrection. In the sacrament chapel there is a pietà , including a lamb and pelican from the old communion bench from 1867. The teaching Christ from the old pulpit , which has been removed, is now in the sacrament chapel.
In 1978 the tympanum above the main portal was replaced, where the adoration of the three wise men could now be seen, and in 1982 choir windows by Hermann Gottfried were added, showing the Annunciation and the Incarnation.
In 1981 the Hugo Mayer company from Heusweiler replaced the old organ , which was supplemented by a choir organ in 1985. In 1983 St. Marien received a new rose window on the west side.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 22 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 27 ″ E