St. Wolfgang (Meitingen)
St. Wolfgang is the Catholic parish church in the Bavarian-Swabian Meitingen . It is a registered monument . The church, consecrated to St. Wolfgang von Regensburg (Remembrance Day: October 31), belongs to the dean's office Augsburg-Land of the diocese of Augsburg . It is protected as an architectural monument.
history
Meitingen had a St. Wolfgang church since the beginning of the 16th century. Ecclesiastically, Meitingen belonged to the parish Westendorf and half to the parish Ehekirch. After 1756 the parish was changed to the new St. Clemens Church in Herbertshofen , the other part of Meitingen followed in 1823.
In 1907 a church building association began collecting for a new building. After setbacks, construction began in 1929 with the demolition of the old church. After the church was rebuilt, St. Wolfgang was parish off with a rapidly increasing population of Meitingen. Built according to plans by the district architect Otto Lederer from Wertingen , the new church was consecrated on May 14, 1931 by Bishop Josef Kumpfmüller . The parishes of Meitingen now form a parish community.
architecture
The hall church with Zollinger roof was built in the New Objectivity style and has a ridge height of 20 meters with a length of 42 meters and a width of 19.5 meters. The church tower rises 47 meters with its French dome .
Furnishing
The furnishings were mainly created in the style of late expressionism . Karl Radinger (1912–1966), the brother of the first pastor of Meitingen, created the Way of the Cross, the Christmas picture in the side chapel, the side altar pictures, the painting behind the crucifixion group in the choir room and the painting on the choir arch ( Revelation of the Johannes ) as well as the Pietà of the war memorial.
The altar superstructures, choir stalls, pulpit, baptismal font, holy water font and apostle crosses were made from Ruhpolding marble according to the plans of the church's architect, Otto Lederer . The group of figures on the high altar was created by Franz Ragaller from Munich based on a design by Albertshauser.
The new people's altar was inaugurated in 1994 by Bishop Viktor Josef Dammertz with relics of St. Theresa von Lisieux and unknown martyrs . It was created in the form of a chalice from light Jura together with the ambo in the workshop of Wolfgang Schmidt in Meitingen according to plans by Georg Bernhard from Augsburg (* 1929, 1971–1991 professor at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences ).
In the side chapel, the altar structure and the baroque figures (St. Afra, St. Anna, St. Joseph, St. Florian, St. Ulrich) still come from the old St. Wolfgang church. The figure of Saint Anthony from limed oak across from the confessionals was made in 2003 by the Augsburg sculptor Christiane Sandler.
organ
The first organ was inaugurated in 1938 . The cone chest instrument with electric game and stop actions comprised 21 stops on two manuals and pedal . It came from the Augsburg organ builder Ludwig Poll. The disposition was as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, II / P, I / P, super octave coupling
- Playing aids : roller, 1 free combination
In 1990 St. Wolfgang got a new instrument from the organ builder Maximilian Offner from Kissing with 41 stops on three manuals and pedal as well as mechanical playing and electrical stop action. This organ has over 2800 pipes . When playing chords with full grip with both hands and feet and all stops are drawn, up to 609 pipes can sound simultaneously. The upper part of the organ case is 6.50 meters wide and has a total height of over 8.20 meters. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : III / I, III / II, I / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 32-fold setter
Bells
St. Wolfgang originally had six bells, one bell with the year 1520 still came from the old St. Wolfgang church, five were newly made in 1929 in the bell foundry of the Ullrich brothers in Kempten. Five bells had to be dropped during the Second World War. In 1951 Meitingen received five new bells, also from the Kempten workshop.
Web links
- Homepage of the parish of St. Wolfgang
- St. Wolfgang on schwabenmedia.de
- St. Wolfgang at bistum-augsburg.de
- Twelve bells of the Bavarian Radio from November 17, 2019 from the parish church of St. Wolfgang in Meitingen
Individual evidence
- ^ Diocese of Augsburg
- ↑ The place is now a wasteland near the Meiting district of Erlingen .
- ↑ a b Bavarian organ database online
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 43.8 " N , 10 ° 50 ′ 59.8" E