St. Michael (Schweinfurt)

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St. Michael is a Catholic parish church in Schweinfurt 's Musikerviertel district . The church was designed by the cathedral master builder Hans Skull and is located on Florian-Geyer-Strasse in the immediate vicinity of the Evangelical Trinity Church.

history

The so-called musicians' quarter in Schweinfurt emerged in the 1950s when the industrial city continued to expand. The Catholic Christians in the district were looked after by the St. Kilians parish at that time . The Kiliansgemeinde, however, already inhabited over 12,000 Catholics in 1960, so that it seemed inevitable to split off part of the area. In 1961, the Würzburg bishop Josef Stangl approved the establishment of a church foundation for a new parish church to be built.

On September 29, 1963, the Michael parish was founded. The parish church on Florian-Geyer-Straße was built between 1964 and 1968. The plans were drawn by the Würzburg cathedral master builder Hans Skull and erected with the help of Gabriele Ebert and Otto Pfister. First the parish center was built, later the church. On May 12th, 1968 the auxiliary bishop in Würzburg, Alfons Kempf , inaugurated the church.

architecture

The St. Michaelskirche consists of a parish center to which the actual church was built in the west. A low tower was added to the parish center as an entrance portal. He has no bells. From here you can reach an inner courtyard with a walkway , around which the community buildings are grouped. The actual sacred building presents itself as functional. It has a square floor plan.

Inside, the reinforced concrete skeleton with clinker bricks and large exposed concrete surfaces let through the glass windows by Ludwig Schaffrath. The exposed concrete also forms the central design element inside. The church does not have a choir recess, but was worked as a unitary building. A small weekday church was added to St. Michael in the northwest. A baptistery was also created as a room within a room.

description

The centerpiece of the furnishings are the individual pieces of the Way of the Cross by the American professor Walter Gaudnek . They were first installed here in 1995 and created in the style of Pop Art . Originally, however, the works of Ludwig Schaffrath were the dominant elements on the windows. The window openings in the church have an area of ​​330 m² and consist of hand-blown real antique panes connected with lead rods. The pictorial program does not refer to the history of salvation.

All stone carving was done by the Vasbühl artist Max Walter. A total of 15 works inside are by the artist. The altar from 1968 was made from Eibelstädter shell limestone and appears as a quote on the ancient column capitals. The surface was left largely rough and still shows the brownish inclusions of the shell limestone. The baptismal font is similarly raw. The weekday church was also furnished with objects by Schaffrath and Walter.

literature

  • Andrea Brandl: On the artistic equipment of the Catholic churches in Schweinfurt . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 307-334.
  • Erich Schneider: Catholic church buildings after 1945 in Schweinfurt . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 271-305.
  • Thomas Wehner: The development of the parish structures in Schweinfurt since the founding of the Heilig Geist parish . In: Erich Schneider, Uwe Müller (ed.): Search for traces. 1806-2006. 200 years of the parish of the Holy Spirit, 200 years of Catholics in Schweinfurt . Schweinfurt 2007. pp. 145-162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wehner, Thomas: Development of parish structures . P. 157 f.
  2. ^ Schneider, Erich: Catholic Church Buildings after 1945 . P. 295.
  3. ^ Schneider, Erich: Catholic Church Buildings after 1945 . P. 297.
  4. ^ Brandl, Andrea: Artistic equipment of the Catholic churches . P. 328 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 16.2 ″  E