St. Viktor (Guntersblum, Catholic)

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The Guntersblum Catholic Church

The Catholic Church St. Victor in the Rheinhessen municipality Guntersblum is a church with an important history. The building is now a cultural monument.

history

After a Catholic pastor named Matthias Ritter was appointed from December 1688 under the influence of the French occupying power ruling Guntersblum at the end of the 17th century and now, in addition to Protestant services, Catholic services were also celebrated in the Guntersblum Church , many different Christian denominations emerged in the period that followed Conflicts. The Catholics installed, among other things, new crucifixes , portraits of the Virgin Mary , a holy water kettle , a high altar with an image of St. Viktor, a large cross in the choir, a confessional and numerous church flags in the new Guntersblum Simultankirche , which led to great resentment among the Guntersblum Protestants. When, during the major church renovation that began in 1838, the Catholics were planning to give the Guntersblum Church a larger Catholic look and also wanted to procure its own organ , the protests of the Protestant citizens of Guntersblum reached a climax: when Guntersblum's mayor Karl Becht from the district council received the order to have an evangelical body elected to decide how to use the organ together with the Catholics after the church renovation and this date was boycotted for election, a second election date was set. On this election date on November 7th, 1839, a major uprising of the Guntersblum Protestants took place, in which the mayor was given a list of signatures with 192 signatures from a total of 318 male "evangelical local citizens" in Guntersblum. With their uprising and the signature campaign, the Protestants wanted to draw attention to the fact that the church was no longer used for two purposes by the Catholics.

However, after the district council from Mainz asked the Guntersblum mayor to suppress the uprising and he tried to do so, the Guntersblum Protestants again undertook a signature campaign. On December 18, 1839, 169 signatures were finally handed over. With their uprising and the signature campaign, the Protestants now demanded sole use of the Guntersblum Church by the Protestant citizens. Finally, on December 22nd, 1839, a letter from Guntersblum Protestants was sent to the Mainz district council, demanding that the simultaneous relationship be terminated. The Guntersblum Catholics now also wrote such a letter. On July 28, 1841 they finally received the "approval to dissolve the simultaneous relationship" from the district council. A short time later, the Grand Ducal Higher Building Directorate gave consent to the construction of a Catholic church, a Catholic school and the construction of apartments for the Catholic priest and the teacher of the Catholic school. The construction of the church cost about 7,000 guilders , the construction of the Catholic school and the apartments for the Catholic priest and the Catholic teacher cost 8,000 guilders. After all, the municipality of Guntersblum, which was tight in financial matters, financed the construction of the building from the sale of felled oaks from the island of Kühkopf in the Rhine . The new Catholic church has now been built on an open area in the courtyard of the Leininger Castle , the Catholic church and the apartments for the Catholic priest and the teacher of the Catholic school have been integrated into the rooms of the Leininger Castle. Finally, the new Catholic Church was inaugurated on November 16, 1845 by the Mainz Bishop Peter Leopold Kaiser . The certificate for the consecration hangs in the sacristy of the church.

In the following, the Guntersblum Catholic Church was in the hands of the Guntersblum civil parish for a long time. It was not until 1958 that the building was handed over to the Catholic parish. Finally, in July 1965, a separate pastorate was inaugurated for the Catholic pastor across from the Catholic Church in Alsheimer Strasse . About 20 years later, an own parish hall was built from 1982 to 1983. It was finally inaugurated on March 13, 1983 by the Cathedral Chapter Fahney. It was financed from our own funds and also from donations . Since then there has been an increasing ecumenical movement and in this context the relationship between the two denominations in Guntersblum has relaxed considerably.

Architectural style

The building was erected as a hall church in the neo-Romanesque style. Furthermore, the church, which was also consecrated to Viktor von Xanten , has three large windows built in Romanesque style and a round east choir . In addition, the church has a steeple attached to the west gable , which had two bells at the time of construction. In addition, the church had two altars when it was built . In addition, there is a stylishly designed image of the Virgin Mary from the 18th century in the side altar of the church. On August 28, 1960, the Guntersblum Catholic Church finally got four new bells after a roof renovation . In addition, the Catholic parish, which only came into possession of the church in 1958, acquired a new stone altar for its 750th anniversary in 1987, replacing its old wooden one. The new stone altar was finally consecrated in 1989.

location

The Guntersblum Catholic Church is located in the Guntersblum town center. It was built in the courtyard of the Leiningen Castle. A few meters to the north is the Homburger Hof . In addition, the New Castle can be found just a few hundred meters north . The Deutschherrenhof is also located on the opposite side of the street from the palace in today's main street . In addition, the old Guntersblum Town Hall was located in the immediate vicinity before it was demolished in the course of the move to the Leiningen Castle in 1834. In addition, a few hundred meters northwest of the Polysche Hof and a little further the Guntersblumer Kellerweg and the Julianenbrunnen . The Guntersblum Synagogue and the Guntersblumer Domhof are located a few hundred meters to the east.

investment

Around today's Guntersblum Catholic Church is immediately north of the former Guntersblums fire station , today's clubhouse of the workers' welfare organization . This is followed today by Alsheimer Strasse , one of Guntersblum's main streets, directly to the east . Directly opposite the Catholic Church, on the other side of Alsheimer Straße , is also the current pastor's house . The rectory of the Catholic parish of Guntersblums is also in the immediate vicinity. Immediately south of the Catholic Church is today's courtyard of the Leiningen Castle, where there is now a fountain and a parking lot . Furthermore, the area of ​​today's Kindergarten Zwergenpalast is directly west of the Guntersblum Catholic Church .

Todays use

The Guntersblum Catholic Church with the address Alsheimer Straße 25 and its parish are today organized in the Diocese of Mainz and further in the Deanery Mainz-Süd and in the parish group Oppenheim . The building of the Guntersblum Church is mainly used by the local Catholic parish as a room for church services. There is also a church choir and various other groups and circles.

See also

literature

  • Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, published by the local community Guntersblum, Verlag Stefan Kehl, October 1997, pp. 23–37
  • Volker Sonneck: The Catholic Church of St. Viktor in Guntersblum , Guntersblum 2009

Web links

Commons : Guntersblum Catholic Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Source: Informational directory of cultural monuments Rhineland-Palatinate for the Mainz-Bingen district as a PDF file, p. 22 f.
  2. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 1, p. 71
  3. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, pp. 23–34
  4. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 24
  5. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, pp. 30–31
  6. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 32
  7. a b Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 33
  8. a b c d e Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 34
  9. a b c d Information on regionalgeschichte.net
  10. a b Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 36
  11. Guntersblumer Geschichte (n) , Volume 2, p. 37

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 43.9 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 45.1 ″  E