St. Michael (Aschaffenburg)

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St. Michael in Aschaffenburg-Damm (2011)

St. Michael is a Catholic parish church built in 1877 in the Damm district in the north of the city of Aschaffenburg . It was destroyed in 1944 and rebuilt in 1951.

history

Michaelskapelle (before 1900)

The Michaelskapelle built around 1580, the old church at Damm, is described as a “modest”… “three-sided closed system without choir retraction” . This was destroyed in the Thirty Years War, rebuilt in 1655, expanded in 1714, 1795, 1799 and 1829. The interior was simple and simple, with two bells in the roof turret. After the inauguration of the St. Michael's Church in 1877 profaned , was "the old 'Kersh on the Aschaff" (the old church at the Aschaff ) over 100 years to 2008, home of the Twilight volunteer firefighters . A figure of Mary in the wall niche above the main entrance still reminds of the former purpose.

St. Michaels Church from 1877

St. Michael (around 1900)
Interior of St. Michael, painted in 1927

The Michaelskapelle was too small for the steadily growing population in the middle of the 19th century. Chaplain Christian Würth suggested building a new, larger church. With the consent of his pastor Franz Agidius Anderlohr von St. Agatha, he founded the Dämmer Kirchbauverein in 1843 , and the community contributed the corresponding property, a meadow acquired by the Reigersberg Hofgut in 1804. On April 26, 1874, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new church designed by the Frankfurt architect Max Meckel took place . Spiritual councilor Michael Schmidt, pastor of the mother parish of St. Agatha , laid the foundation stone on June 7th of the same year . The roof structure was erected at the beginning of November and the roofing was already beginning when the roof structure of the main nave and the right aisle and the inner brick columns collapsed on the morning of 12 November. Most of the artisans had left the church during breakfast. A 16-year-old apprentice roofer could only be recovered dead, six other craftsmen were seriously injured. Multiple deviations from the original plan, poor material and insufficient supervision by the architect and builder are said to have been the cause of the accident. The government initially banned further construction for a year. With loans and donations from emigrating to America, Damer was able to resume work in the spring of 1876. In the neo-Gothic built style, 14 m long and 16 m wide church was consecrated on 14 October 1877 peal of three bells of Bistumsverweser Franz Xaver Himmelstein (1811-1889) benediziert .

On May 24, 1897, the Damm branch was raised to an independent parish, the first pastor was the chaplain at the time, Josef Scherf. The Würzburg bishop Ferdinand von Schlör came to visit in 1904 and consecrated the church and the altar. The altars were created in the neo-Gothic style, in 1927 the church was painted by the young Glattbach artist Alois Bergmann-Franken .

In an air raid on November 21, 1944, the church and the rectory were completely destroyed, Pastor Eduard Keller and Chaplain Ludwig Soter were killed, 90% of the town center was in ruins.

Reconstruction in 1951

Immediately after the war, work began on clearing the ruins and securing the tower, and reconstruction could begin in early 1949. The most valuable thing the congregation owned was a 15th century Vespers group that was lost in the destruction. The architect Michael Niedermeier planned to create a large church without side aisles and with an unobstructed view of the high altar from all places by integrating the still preserved tower. On July 15, 1951, the foundation stone was laid by the Würzburg cathedral capitular Eugen Kainz . On September 27, 1952, Bishop Julius Döpfner consecrated the new church.

organ

In 1974 the Gustav Weiß workshop in Zellingen built an organ with slider chests , mechanical game and electrical stop action , normal couplings and an attached game console. The organ front consists of nine vertical pipe fields, each with two bass fields, breastwork, above the five-part main work; the upper work is invisible behind it. The instrument has the following disposition :

I. Upper structure C – g 3
1. Open flute 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Tube bare 4 ′
5. Sesquialtere II
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture V 1'
9. Third cymbal III 1 ⁄ 4 ′
10. Dulcian 16 ′
11. oboe 8th'
II. Major Work C – g 3
12. Quintad 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Reed flute 4 ′
15th Octave 4 ′
16. Pointed flute 4 ′
17th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th recorder 2 ′
19th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Trumpet 8th'
III. Breastwork C – g 3
21st Dumped 8th'
22nd Night horn 4 ′
23. Principal 2 ′
24. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Octave 1'
26th Sharp IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
27. Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
28. Principal 16 ′
29 Sub bass 16 ′
30th Octave 8th'
31. Pommer 8th'
32. Octave 4 ′
33. Flat flute 2 ′
34. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. trombone 16 ′

Pastor

  • 1897–1911: Joseph Scherf (* April 7, 1858 in Straßbessenbach ; † May 16, 1911 Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ; previously 1882–1887 chaplain in Damm)
  • 1911–1921: Valentin Reuss
  • 1921–1934: Anton Heckelmann (born February 23, 1881 in Kitzingen ; † March 4, 1964 in Kleinostheim ; then pastor in Aschaffenburg)
  • 1934–1944: Eduard Keller (born January 25, 1895 in Bürgstadt ; † November 21, 1944 during the air raid in Aschaffenburg-Damm)
  • 1944–1945: Father Franz zu Löwenstein JS as parish administrator
  • 1945–1948: Ludwig Schellhorn (born June 25, 1911 in Würzburg ; † July 10, 1982 in Erlenbach am Main ; ordained priest on March 8, 1936 in Würzburg; 1938–1941 chaplain in Damm, after returning from military service, parish administrator, 1948– 1980 pastor of St. Michael)
  • 1981–2011: Georg Müller (born January 14, 1941 in Bergstadt , Upper Silesia ; † December 11, 2019 in Würzburg; ordained a priest on August 25, 1964, pastor of St. Michael)
  • since September 1, 2011: Robert Stolzenberger (born March 1, 1980 in Aschaffenburg; ordained a priest on May 26, 2007)

literature

  • Martin Kempf (Red.): Twilight life, twilight people. Story in pictures. (= Aschaffenburg Studies, II. Documentations , Volume 8.) Aschaffenburg 1992, ISBN 3-922355-06-4 .
  • Church administration and parish council of St. Michael (Ed.): The organ of the Michaelskirche Aschaffenburg. Aschaffenburg dam 1974

Web links

Commons : St. Michael, Damm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KDM City of Aschaffenburg Munich 1918
  2. ^ Parish archives St. Michael - Franz Stumpf records
  3. ^ Observer am Main , No. 257 of November 13, 1874
  4. ↑ Main-Echo , No. 177 of August 3, 1957
  5. ^ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg : Würzburger Totenzettel .
  6. ↑ Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg churches. In: Volksblatt , No. 201 of September 1, 1988
  7. ^ Alois Stadtmüller: Aschaffenburg in the Second World War. Bombing, siege, surrender. (= Publications of the history and art association Aschaffenburg iK ) Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1970.
  8. ^ Franz Bayer: The fate of the Aschaffenburg monuments in the Second World War and their current condition. (= Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch , Volume 1.) Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1952.
  9. ↑ Martin Kempf: Twilight Life Twilight People. Story in pictures. (see literature )
  10. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association eV, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 10.3 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 15 ″  E