St. Michael (Hammelburg)
The Church of St. Michael is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church of Hammelburg in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen . The parish is part of the Lohr am Main deanery . The church is one of the architectural monuments of Hammelburg and is registered together with the rectory and the kindergarten in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-127-246 .
history
Hammelburg became temporarily Evangelical-Lutheran at the instigation of the mayor and city council in 1524. The abbot of Fulda, Balthasar von Dernbach, catholicized the city again in 1604 and drove out all Protestant residents. Only in the second half of the 19th century a small Protestant community emerged again when people moved there. This was looked after by the parish Waizenbach . From 1927 the property at Berliner Straße 2 was used as a prayer room (today the parish hall). With the influx of refugees after the Second World War , the number of parishioners increased sharply. That is why Hammelburg became an independent Protestant parish in 1950. In 1953 the prayer room was expanded to become the Christ Church. But soon after the establishment of the Bundeswehr base in Hammelburg in 1956, this was no longer sufficient. That is why the Church of St. Michael was built between 1962 and 1963 according to plans by the architect Olaf Andreas Gulbransson († 1961) under the direction of his pupil Karl-Heinz Schwabenbauer.
description
The church is built in concrete on a square floor plan and clad in red sandstone on the outside. The curved wood-clad concrete ceiling gives the church a diagonal orientation towards the altar . The church only has a few small windows. The altar, the pulpit , the baptismal font and the reliefs of the bronze portals ( St. Michael and the story of the angels) are works by the Munich sculptor Karlheinz Hoffmann . On the wall behind the altar, Professor Bromberger from the Munich Art Academy created the depiction of the heavenly Jerusalem from chapters 21 and 22 of the Revelation of John . The organ was installed by the Steinmeyer company from Öttingen. The church tower with four bells stands free as a campanile next to the church.
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literature
- Karl Brandler: Art monuments of Hammelburg and its districts , Hammelburg 1977.
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 47.8 ″ N , 9 ° 53 ′ 33.9 ″ E