St. Vitus (Wülfershausen an der Saale)
St. Vitus is a Catholic parish church built in 1963 in Wülfershausen an der Saale .
history
In 1018, Bishop Heinrich I of Würzburg (996-1018) donated the tithe from the parish of Wülfershausen to the St. Stephan monastery , which he founded in 1014 as a canon monastery . It is not known when the parish of "Vulvericheshus" was first mentioned in a document on May 3rd, 800. The foundation letter mentions the independent parish with four branches ( Saal an der Saale , Eichenhausen, Junkershausen with Wargolshausen and Waltershausen ). In the middle of the 13th century, Bishop Iring von Reinstein-Homburg donated the village and church to St. Stephen's monastery with the stipulation that clergymen from his convent would provide pastoral care; The monastery fully complied with this obligation until secularization in 1803.
Around 1400 a fortified church ( fortified church ) was built, in which the population could find protection in the event of a defense.
Church building from 1607
In 1607 under the priest and later abbot Kilian Gullmann (1609–1615) a new parish church was built. The defensive tower remained in place, was raised by 28 feet (approx. 9 m) in 1617 and was given a pointed roof, a typical Franconian real tower (named after Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn ), which from now on is the landmark of the place with a height of 35 m. In the 23 m long, 11 m wide and 12 m high church there were 200 seats and around 140 standing places. The altars were taken from the old church. The high altar was decorated with carved sculptures of St. Vitus , St. Catherine and the Franconian Apostle Kilian . The painted side wings represent St. Wolfgang and St. Dorothea . As side altars, “Secundum Altare Apostolorum” carved the Lord's Supper and on the wings, painted St. Laurentius , St. Ottilia , St. Apollonia , St. Ursula , St. Katharina and St. Barbara . In the cracks , crucifix with Maria and Johannes . " Beatae Mariae Virginis (BMV) " (Most Blessed Virgin Mary) carved the English greeting , on the wings, painted St. Elisabeth , the Mother of God, St. Sebastian and St. Erasmus . The ceiling, a wooden coffered ceiling , is decorated with ornamental paintings, flowers and shell work .
A hundred years later, in 1715, the church had to be expanded by 100 seats on the choir side. Furnished and painted in the late baroque or rococo style (the high altar is now in the basement of the tower), the church stood for 250 years and survived times of war and emergency.
Church building from 1963
Plans for a new, larger church were made as early as 1891, but implementation was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War . The outside area of the church was renovated in 1922/23 with the remaining donations.
On the occasion of a parish visit by Bishop Josef Stangl on June 15, 1958, he encouraged the church administration and congregation to build a new church and promised generous support from the episcopal authorities. Government architect Erwin van Aaken was commissioned with the planning and presented the first drafts in the autumn of the same year. They wanted to preserve as much of the historical complex ( Gaden ) as possible, but this turned out to be unsatisfactory for a new church building. In 1959, the architect presented new designs which were then approved by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , the church administration, the political community and, last but not least, the episcopal authorities.
After the appropriate land purchase, demolition of the old church building, securing of the tower, which was preserved as a landmark, the foundation stone was laid on May 1, 1962. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 26, 1962, and the church was solemnly consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Alfons Kempf on June 15, 1963 . The church in a rectangle 20 × 32 m with a pitched roof 17 × 9 m, the ceiling is clad with wood. Two thirds of the north side is a window area. The large concrete glass window depicting a vine and seven vines (seven sacraments) was made by the Würzburg company Steinruck according to designs by the painter L. Gast. The surrounding ribbon windows, the choir wall in dark blue and red tones, the entrance wall almost white, come from the same artist. During the last construction phase, the resolutions of the Second Vatican Council on the reform of the liturgy were adopted, the altar steps were lowered, the natural stone altar moved away from the altar wall and the tabernacle set up separately. The stations of the cross (email) were artistically designed in 1966 by Josef Amberg, Würzburg. The figures, a figure of Mary ( Immaculata ) donated by Pastor Conrad Haye in 1722 , from the old church and a Nepomuk figure from 1748 (once stood on the Saale bridge) decorate the church. A late Baroque “Madonna in the Rosary”, a figure of the church patron St. Vitus and a half-length figure of the Franconian Apostle Kilian with a reliquary opening in the chest were also taken from the old church.
In 1998, after extensive exterior renovation and the redesign of the entrance area, the interior was also redesigned. The art advisor for the Diocese of Würzburg, Cathedral Capitular Jürgen Lenssen, together with the architects Oskar Herbert and Thomas Buchholz, designed plans that were to put the altar facing north in front of the concrete glass wall. Later it was decided to keep the east-west direction. On a pedestal starting from the choir, the altar "verus populum" with gospel stele and ambo was moved into the center of the community. In the middle of the former choir room are the sedilies (priest's seat and altar servers), on the right the tabernacle stele, it was raised and decorated with cubic style elements, on the left the statue of the Virgin, on the choir wall the apostle candlesticks. A modern cross on which the existing body hangs was placed above the altar. The pews (reduced by 200 seats) were placed in a U-shape around the altar. The baptismal font from 1607 was moved from the side chapel to the center of the entrance area. In juxtaposition of the seven-armed candlestick, the old and the new covenant meet here symbolically.
The renovation work was completed in autumn 2003 and the new altar was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Helmut Bauer in a festive service.
Way of the Cross
In 1963, the academic painter Ludwig Haller-Rechtern created a Way of the Cross, which the Church Foundation acquired in 2003. He is considered a representative of the "missing generation"; their pictures were classified as "degenerate art" by the Nazi dictatorship.
Born on February 10, 1904 in Radebeul , he studied at the Dresden Art Academy and later at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris . In 1932 he received an invitation to spend a year at the Villa Romana in Florence , which he broke off prematurely when he was offered a chair at the Dresden University of Technology . In 1933 his professorship was canceled by the Reich Chamber of Culture and he was banned from painting and professions. After the war he lived in Bavaria, but, like many of his ostracized colleagues, was unable to recover from the events of the Nazi regime , so that his artistic work could hardly develop. He rarely exhibited his works and died on February 27, 1986 near the Danish border.
organ
With the renovation of the church in 1772, a new organ was installed, which was bought by the Würzburg organ builder Johann Philipp Seuffert for 295 Rhenish thalers.
In 1939 a new work was created in the Michael Weise organ building company in Plattling , which was transferred to the church from 1963. The organ and the prospectus were renovated and restored in 2003.
Bells
There were three bells in the "Juliusturm"; the big bell with the inscription: Anno Domini MDCXXVII (1627). Ave Maria gratia plena. Joh.Baunacher Abbas MNry S. Stephani Herbipoli . Valentin Beck Schulthes . Wülfershausen's municipal coat of arms on both sides, the handle bearing the year 1681. The middle bell, cast in 1696 with the inscription: Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum. Ignatius Kopp fecit Herbipoli municipal coat of arms : St. Vitus in the crucible. Johann Zahm Schultheis. Me. Englert village master . These two bells were removed and melted down during the First and Second World Wars. The "Viertelglöckle" remained in the tower; This bell from the 15th century, measuring 32.8 cm in diameter, had no clapper, it was struck from the outside with a hammer.
In 1950, four new bells were cast in the Albert Junker bell foundry in Brilon :
- Bell 1: Christ the King bell , with the sound d '137 cm in diameter, 1600 kg, bears the inscription Christ the King, guide us .
- Bell 2: Marienglocke , with the sound f '118 cm, 990 kg, bears the inscription Herz Maria, bless us
- Bell 3: Vitus bell with the tone g '98 cm, 600 kg, bears the inscription St. Vitus protect church and community
- Bell 4: Wendelinus bell , with a tone of 93 cm, 530 kg, bears the inscription H. Wendelin, shepherd animals and Au
literature
Reinhold Albert , Heike Waldvogel: 50 years of the new St. Vitus parish church in Wülfershausen / Saale 1963-2013.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years of the new parish church, Wülfershausen
- ↑ Falkenberg, Liah Louis Le Grand: Ludwig Haller-Rechtern, 10-2-1904 to 27-2-1986 Biography, English, Tolga, NQ, Australia: Fine Art Enterprises, © 2000
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 59.2 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 31.8 ″ E