St. Wolfgang (Meitingen)

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Church of St. Wolfgang in 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

Choir view of the interior

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:

I main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Dumped 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th mixture 2 ′
7th Trumpet 8th'
II swell
8th. Lovely covered 16 ′
9. Gemshorn 8th'
10. Solo flute 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Night horn 4 ′
13. Forest flute 2 ′
14th Pointed fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass 16 ′ (Weakening from 17.)
18th Violon 16 ′
19th Octave bass 8th'
20th Bach flute 4 ′
21st Serpent 16 ′

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:

I Rückpositiv
1. Covered 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Prefix 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
6th Schwegel 2 ′
7th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. cymbal 1 ⁄ 2 ′
9. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II major work
10. Drone 16 ′
11. Coupling flute 8th'
12. Principal 8th'
13. Gamba 8th'
14th Hollow flute 4 ′
15th Octave 4 ′
16. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Super octave 2 ′
18th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Cornett V 8th' (from g)
20th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III swell
21st Wooden flute 8th'
22nd Salizional 8th'
23. Beat 8th'
24. Principal 4 ′
25th Gemshorn 4 ′
26th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Recorder 2 ′
28. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
29 Scharff IV 1'
30th Dulcian 16 ′
31. Rohrschalmey 8th'
Tremulant
pedal
32. Principal 16 ′
33. Sub-bass 16 ′
34. Bass quint 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Octave bass 8th'
36. Covered bass 8th'
37. Chorale bass 4 ′
38. Rauschbass IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
39. Bombard 16 ′
40. Bass trumpet 8th'
41. Clairon 4 ′

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

Commons : St. Wolfgang (Meitingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ The place is now a wasteland near the Meiting district of Erlingen .
  3. ↑ a b Bavarian organ database online

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 43.8 "  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 59.8"  E