Our Lady (Aschaffenburg)
Our Lady , often only the Mother of God Parish called, is the oldest parish church in Aschaffenburg .
history
The first written mention of the parish church "Beatae Mariae Virginis BMV" goes back to the year 1183. A Romanesque portal tympanum is placed below the last window on the left as a stone foundation certificate. It bears the name of the Archbishop of Mainz Konrad von Wittelsbach in the legend and is dated to the beginning of his second reign 1183-1200. The brick tower, 42 m high, was built at the end of the second half of the 13th century. The foundation stone for today's church building was laid on September 28, 1768 by the pastor and archbishop commissioner Dr. Christian Stadelmann, who financed the new building from his own resources. The parish church was built by the master builder Franz Boccorny (1719–1771) from Bohemia as a hall church with the main altar in the south. The tower of the old, broken church on the east side was included in the 46 m long, 17 m wide and 15 m high new building. The main facade is adorned in the portal gable by the family coat of arms of the builder Christian Stadelmann, behind it in a niche the Virgin Mary - Baeta Mariä Virgine. Above in the segment gable is the coat of arms of the elector and archbishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim , whose successor Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal inaugurated the church on September 3, 1775. The core and the spiritual center of the church is the magnificent canopy of the main altar, which was completed in 1772. This is a foundation of the Count von Ostein, which was modeled on the high altar of the collegiate church from 1771 . The side altars, endowed by the Stadelmann sisters, were built after 1780. The figures of the right side altar show a Pietà (Mary with the dead son) in the middle , St. Anna with her daughter Maria on the left and St. Barbara on the right . The figures on the left side altar are St. Joseph with the baby Jesus, on the right the St. Michael (patron of the old church) and left of St.. Nicholas (patron of fishermen guild). The ceiling painting was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1967 by the Munich artist Professor Hermann Kaspar . A tympanum is still preserved from the old church.
In the chancel there are epitaphs of Anna Charlotte Maria, Countess von Ostein , and Maria Anna Karolina Franziska, Countess von Ostein, as well as Lothar Franz Michael von Erthal (brother of the archbishop), who have found their final resting place in the crypt under the choir. The builder Dr. Christian Stadelmann and his sisters Anna Maria and Maria Salome as well as the master builder Franz Boccorny and his wife Anna Maria are buried. The mortal remains of the mayor of Aschaffenburg, the imperial councilor Nikolaus Georg Reigersberg , who died in 1671 , were transferred from the old church.
organ
The organ from 1971 was built into the existing organ case by the organ building company GF Steinmeyer & Co. in Oettingen in Bavaria as a three-manual disposition with 31 registers . In a major overhaul in 1989, the organ was expanded by four stops. In Swell Cromorne were ', in Brustwerk Vox humana 8', 8 in the pedal added Trumpet 8 'and a Nachthorn 2'.
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Bells
Four bells hang in the tower. The largest, weighing 2,068 kg, is dedicated to Our Lady : “Queen of Peace, pray for us”. The second is consecrated to St. Joseph and has always rung as the “bell of the lost”. The third is dedicated to St. John Nepomuk . The fourth, smallest and 709 kg heavy bell is called the guardian angel bell . The two middle bells were cast by Georg Christoph Roth in Mainz in 1746 and have extensive baroque decor. Bells one and four were cast in 1958 by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling in Heidelberg .
“In 1186, Elector Konrad von Mainz decreed that the bell on the bell tower on the market in Aschaffenburg should be rung every evening, so that those who got lost in the area could follow the bell and find their way to the city. Back then and in the following centuries up to 100 years ago, the roads were in poor shape, and the forest reached the city 700 years ago. It was easy to get lost, as happened to a von Rieneck knight who got lost in the forest at night and endured a lot. He made a foundation that every evening the bell should be rung for a quarter of an hour, and the Elector of Mainz, Konrad, confirmed this foundation in 1186. When the tower on the market square, like the other city towers, was demolished in the last century, the foundation was transferred to the Parish of Our Lady. The foundation is devalued, but the bell should continue ”. This old custom should be continued now that the peal is complete again. Therefore, since the summer of 1958 at 9:00 p.m. and in winter at 8:00 p.m., the “stray bell” has been ringing again to show the spiritually lost people of our days the way to God.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Grimm: Aschaffenburg house book . Volume II: Old Town, between Dalbergstraße and castle ... . Geschichts- und Kunstverein eV, Aschaffenburg 1991, ISBN 3-87965-053-5 .
- ^ Hermann Fischer: Organs of the Bavarian Lower Main region. History and Art Association eV, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
- ^ Parish chronicle of the parish "Our Lady" - parish archive
literature
- Willibald Fischer, Alois Grimm: The parish of Our Lady. History and Art Association, Aschaffenburg 1975, ISBN 3-87965-099-3 .
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 25.7 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 37.2 ″ E