Immaculate Conception of Mary (Fahrnau)

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Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in the Schopfheim district of Fahrnau is a Roman Catholic branch church that was converted from a former factory building in the 1950s.

history

When the Catholic community in Fahrnau was looking for a suitable place to build a branch church, the opportunity arose in 1953 to acquire the property of the Schanzlin machine factory. After a fundamental renovation, the church was given a name on May 2, 1954.

description

inner space

The Catholic branch church is structurally inconspicuous in the middle of a residential area. To the east of the church is an enclosed garden. The nave is a rectangular building with a gable roof that connects seamlessly to the neighboring house on the west side. On the northeast side rises a small roof turret with a square floor plan with a pyramid roof . The two bells cast in 1954 by FW Schilling from Heidelberg are suspended in the roof turret. The Marienglocke is tuned to the strike tone g ′ ′, the guardian angel bell is tuned to the tone b ′ ′.

Inside the church, the ceiling is drawn in at an angle. A simple altar , a crucifix and a tabernacle are set up in the slightly raised choir area . The equipment also includes a statue of the Madonna with the baby Jesus and 13 stations of the cross in the form of fire paintings on wood.

organ

The organ with six registers is placed in the corner to the left of the entrance. Your disposition is:

manual
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Cymbel 1 1 / 3 '
Flageolet 2 ′
Bourdon 16 ′

literature

Web links

Commons : Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary (Fahrnau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Establishment of the branch church in Fahrnau . In: The history of the cath. Parish and its church in the city of Schopfheim , 1955, pp. 19-20

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 37.4 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 17.1"  E