St. Vitus (Bad Salzschlirf)

St. Vitus in Bad Salzschlirf

St. Vitus (Bad Salzschlirf) is a listed Roman Catholic parish church in Bad Salzschlirf in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda . The church building is on Kirchstr. 11.

Interior view around the altar

View of the organ

The parish is one of the current eight Catholic parishes not far from the district town of Fulda, where the majority of Catholics live. It belongs to the pastoral association Kleinheiligkreuz , in the dean's office Neuhof / Großenlüder, and includes the parishes of Bad Salzschlirf, Großenlüder , Bimbach , Müs , Kleinlüder , Hainzell , Hosenfeld , and Blankenau .

The church is under the patronage of St. Vitus . The Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial Day on June 15.

history

A first church in "Slirefa", today's Bad Salzschlirf, was mentioned in 885. On August 28 of the same year she was given to the “Lord Jesus Christ, St. Virgin Mary and St. Vitus ” consecrated . A renewal followed in the first third of the 14th century. Extension or new construction of the medieval church in Salzschlirf began in 1702 and was completed by five pastors in 1728. The choir tower and the nave walls date from 1702/28. Construction began in 1702 according to Fulda plans under the direction of master mason Matthias Mattei, a church builder from Tyrol. The final tower superstructure was added in 1902/03. A simultaneous expansion of the nave to the west with a neo-baroque west facade with side round stair turrets took place in the same construction period. In 1964 a side chapel was added. The last interior renovation followed in 1992. New lighting fixtures were installed. In addition, the church was enriched by the installation of statues of the parish patron St. Vitus (nave, left), St. Sacred Heart of Jesus and a Pietà in the 1964 extension.

Furnishing

three baroque altars and the pulpit with four evangelist statues from 1695, which originally come from the pilgrimage church Kleinheiligkreuz , which was secularized in 1805 , which was consecrated again in 1913 under the then Bishop Joseph Damian Schmitt after repurchasing and renovation with simpler furnishings .

Paintings by Johann Andreas Herrlein are embedded in the top of the side altars

The painted Way of the Cross from the second half of the 18th century comes from Herrlein’s workshop and also comes from Kleinheiligkreuz

Font from the first half of the 16th century

the church has six bells, four of which come from the renowned Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. The Otto family had four bronze bells as early as 1926, all of which were melted down in the world wars of the 20th century. After the war, Otto cast and delivered four bronze bells in 1950 and 1955.


Bell jar	I.	II	III	IV	V	VI
Surname function	Holy Family or Hero memory gl.	Vitus Bell jar	Bonifaz or Death knell	Neighbor or Angelus bell	Ave or Baptismal bell	Clock strike Bell jar
year	1955	1955	1950	1808	1950	?
Caster	F. Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen	F. Otto	F. Otto	?	F. Otto	?
Diameter in mm	1448	1217	1097	?	822	?
Weight in kg	2000	1100	800	400	350	?
Chime	cis'	e '	fis'	g sharp '	H'	c ''

In the parish garden there is a small Romanesque column from the old church

Picture gallery

Entrance portal
The font
Sacred Heart statue
St. Vitus statue
Left side altar
Right side altar
Main altar
The upper west facade
A small Romanesque column from the old church.

literature

Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments, Hessen . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966
Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - Family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto. Essen 2019. ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 .
Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Diss. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 2919. DNB access signature L-2019-333968.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, p. 588, here in particular 527, 546, 553, 573 .
↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , pp. 556, here in particular 488, 504, 508, 529 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
↑ Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 51 .

http://www.katholische-kirche-kleinlueder.de/kleinlueder/04_Klein-Heilig_Kreuz/01_Unsere_Kapelle/ | Parish Kleinlüder

50.624168 9.508839Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 27 ″ N , 9 ° 30 ′ 32 ″ E

[1] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, p. 588, here in particular 527, 546, 553, 573 .

[2] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , pp. 556, here in particular 488, 504, 508, 529 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

[3] Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 51 .