St. Peter and Paul (Obernau)

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St. Peter and Paul in Obernau, portal from 1962 with the shadow of the church tower from 1792

St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic parish church built between 1960 and 1962 in the Aschaffenburg district of Obernau .

history

In the document of January 29, 1283, a chapel, 1656 in a church invoice St. Peter ad Vincula , is named within the cemetery, the mother church is St. Margaretha auf dem Felde ("parrochiam in Ruchil (n) heim") in Ruchelnheim in near the Sulzbach train station. In 1787 Ruchelnheim was dissolved, Obernau and Sulzbach became independent parishes. Sulzbach received the patronage of St. Margaretha and Obernau St. Peter and Paul . Pastor Philipp Eustach Cammer built a new parish church for Obernau in 1792; it burned down completely in the night of November 2nd to 3rd, 1942 - but not the effects of war, but a short circuit in the electrical system led to this accident. Construction on today's church, which was consecrated by Bishop Josef Stangl on May 6, 1962, did not begin until 1960.

Village view around 1900
Altar from 1882
Alabaster altar

Church from 1792

After the laying of the foundation stone (certificate dated July 25, 1792), the Aschaffenburg master builder Jodokus Hospes built a church building that was approx. 30 m long, approx. 10 m wide and approx. 10 m high. It had a little recessed choir, the nave had three window axes and a mirrored ceiling with a cove. The tower on the west side in the central axis jumped halfway into the nave, was three-story and approx. 22.5 m high, reached a total height of approx. 30 m with a flat dome with lantern and cross. A triangular gable was arranged over the west portal with a straight lintel; The year MDCCLXXXXII (1792) is noted in the lintel . A consecration date is not recorded, on Corpus Christi day (May 31) 1792 the first service was celebrated in the church with a provisional altar. The high altar, neo-baroque under construction, was created in 1794 by the Aschaffenburg-based sculptor Heinrich Höchstätter. In 1882 a new high altar was erected in the Renaissance style, it came from the workshop of the sculptor Fidelis Schäfer ( Hechingen ). In its center was a carved crucifixion group (Christ on the cross, Mary and John), right and left between columns with the church patrons Peter and Paul, above the cross God the Father with outstretched arms, above the dove, the symbol of St. Mind. The tabernacle came from the old high altar and was restored by the Würzburg goldsmith Josef Amberg. The left side altar came from the funerary chapel of the Würzburg Cathedral, between the twisted columns entwined with vine leaves and the broken gable stood changing wooden figures (Immaculate Conception, Heart of Mary, Heart of Jesus, Christ the King). The right side altar, a stately baroque complex made of black marble with alabaster figures, donated in 1702 by the canons of the Capitular Canon of St. Peter and Alexander Monastery, Johann Philipp Enderes, pastor for St. Agatha came from there. The burial of Christ was depicted in relief under the cafeteria. In the altarpiece stood two columns with gable pieces, in the middle a group of vespers in a round arch niche . A mercy seat was depicted in the elevator between two smaller pillars ; in the segment gable crowned by acanthus the coat of arms of the founder. On the right and left of the altar as well as on the gables stood plaintive angel figures. There is an inscription under the Vespers group. The artist is not known, there are similar tombs from the period in Mainz Cathedral.

On the night of November 2nd to 3rd, 1942, the parish church of St. Peter and Paul burned down. It was provisionally rebuilt without a tower helmet and was assigned on December 19, 1943. On June 26, 1962, the nave and the choir were demolished for the construction of the new church building.

In the niche of the remaining tower of the church, a protective cloak Madonna by the Würzburg sculptor Helmut Weber was set up for the 200th anniversary in 1992.

Altar with mosaic (Christ with the church patrons)
inside view
Madonna and Child, around 1490

Church from 1962

According to plans by the architects Goldhammer und Schmitt (Aschaffenburg), a church was built from pre-stressed concrete trusses cast on site and filled with hewn sandstone, with a length of 40 m, a width of 21.5 m and a height of 14.2 m. The choir has moved in, daylight comes into the chancel through the large wall of windows, and into the nave through a strip of light on the ceiling. The foundation stone of November 6, 1960 was walled into the rear wall of the altar. The wooden ceiling made of Black Forest spruce is hung directly on the prestressed concrete girders.

The 200 quintals heavy altar block as well as the pulpit and baptismal font are carved from local sandstone; the chandeliers of the Apostles were made from the broken pieces. The tabernacle, the cross and the candlesticks come from the goldsmiths of Münsterschwarzach and were designed there by master goldsmith brother Adelmar Dölger, a native of Obernau. Initially they were arranged on the altar table, but were later set up in the choir according to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . The mosaic altarpiece - Christ with Peter and Paul - was created by Sister Michaela Kroemer CPS ( Neuenbeken ).

The large gable window on the west side was created by Hannes Neuner, a lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , a native of Aschaffenburg who lived in Obernau for a few years after the war. Neuner writes about his work of art: "We tried to give the sublime church space the joy of colored light and to create an atmosphere of security and thus the willingness to talk to God through the dynamic of the form fabric." The reflections paint themselves particularly beautifully on the walls and Floor in the afternoon of a sunny day.

Mary as Queen of the Apostles, a wooden sculpture from around 1490, stands in front of the wall that supports the Apostle candlesticks. The Way of the Cross begins on the opposite side of the gallery, a copper drift based on a design by the Aschaffenburg artists Helmut Albert and Willibald Blum, executed by Theo Schneider; 14 stations are framed by a mosaic to form a picture (path). Here is also the entrance to the Rosary Chapel, a room of silence; Daylight comes here only through small oval windows, hidden behind an ornamental stone wall. On the front side hangs a large golden cross, the ends of which represent the secrets of the rosary on gilded enamel plates: above the "joyful rosary", in both arms the "painful rosary" with the crucified in the middle and below the "glorious rosary" - a work by the Frankfurt goldsmith Albert Welker , which was created in close collaboration with brother Adelmar.

Bells

In the 30 m high tower from 1792, four bells have been ringing since December 24, 1950, which were cast by the Albert Junker bell foundry in Brilon .

  • Bell 1: Trinity bell with the sound f 1 , 128 cm diameter, 1250 kg, with the inscription BENEDICTA SIT SANCTA TRINITATIS - consecrated to the Most Holy Trinity
  • Bell 2: Mary's bell with the tone as 1 , 106 cm, 710 kg, with the inscription AVE MARIA - Hail Mary
  • Bell 3: with the tone b 1 , 93 cm, 490 kg, with the inscription VIVENTIS DEFUNCTIS - the living and the dead
  • Bell 4: Church cartridge with the tone c 2 , 84 cm, 350 kg, with the inscription SANCTE PETRE ET PAULE ET MARGARETA ORATE PRO NOBIS - St. Peter and Paul and Margareta, pray for us

organ

Organ gallery in front of the gable window by Hannes Neuner

An organ from the Gebrüder Hindelang workshop in Ebenhofen im Allgäu with the opus number 281 from 1962 is on the gallery , it has the following disposition :

I main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Smalled up 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Schwegel 2 ′
8th. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Salicional 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. recorder 4 ′
14th Night horn 2 ′
15th Octave 1'
16. Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Zimbel III 1'
18th Krummhorn 8th'
pedal
19th Principal bass 16 ′
20th Sub-bass 16 ′
21st Octave bass 8th'
22nd Pomeranian bass 8th'
23. Chorale bass 4 ′
24. Heavy bass 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th trombone 16 ′
Rosary Chapel

Cone chests , electric action, normal couplings.

Eminent organists

  1. Siegfried Söder (until 2002)
  2. Manuel Kelber-Bender (from 2002)
  3. Alexander Dürr (from 2005)

literature

  • Hans-Bernd Spies, Renate Welsch ( arrangement ): Obernau 1191–1991. Contributions to the past and present. Aschaffenburg 1991, ISBN 3-922355-02-1 .
  • Horst Schäfer (Red.): Obernau then and now. Village image through the ages. (= Aschaffenburg Studies, II, Documentations , Volume 6.) Aschaffenburg 1997, ISBN 3-922355-07-2 .
  • Michael Pfeifer: The parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Obernau. A church leader for the 50th anniversary. Publishing studio Michael Pfeifer, Aschaffenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-933915-36-8 .

Web links

Commons : St. Peter and Paul Aschaffenburg-Obernau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Thiel: Document book of the monastery St. Peter and Alexander zu Aschaffenburg, Volume I. Geschichts- und Kunstverein eV, Aschaffenburg 1986, ISBN 3-87965-005-5 . (ecclesiarum in Obernheim)
  2. ^ Church accounts from 1656 in the parish archives
  3. ↑ Construction file in the parish archive
  4. ↑ Felix Mader : The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Lower Franconia , XXIV. District Office Aschaffenburg . (edited by Adolf Feulner and Bernhard Hermann Röttger ) Munich 1927.
  5. ↑ Foundation book entry in the parish archive
  6. ↑ Inscription: HOC ALTARE AO. 1702 IN VIVIS POSVIT IOANNES PHILIPPUS ENDERES HUIUS S. AEDIS CAP. ET AD: S: AGATHAM PAROCHUS AC ITA DOTAVIT APUD FABRICAM UT PRAETER ANIVERSARIUM SINGULIS DOMINICIS FESTIVIS VENERIS ET SABBATINIS DIEBUS SEMPER HORA X SUPER HOC PRO IPSO CELEBRATUR. (This altar was erected during the lifetime of Joh. Phil. Enderes, capitular canonist at this monastery (Aschaffenburg) and pastor at St. Agatha and equipped the church so wealthy that, apart from the day of the year, also on Sundays and public holidays, Fridays and Saturdays the Holy Sacrifice is celebrated for him at 10 a.m. at this altar.)
  7. ^ Hugo Schnell: The parish church Obernau a. M. Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich undated (Southern Germany S 486)
  8. ↑ Main-Echo No. 173 of July 29, 1992
  9. ^ Bells bill of February 9, 1951 in the parish archives
  10. ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association eV, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '2.4 "  N , 9 ° 7' 57.2"  E