Our Lady (Fürth)
The parish church of Our Lady in the center of Fürth is the oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in the city. The classicistic hall church , built from 1824 to 1829, is a design by Leo von Klenze ; the Nuremberg builder Anton Brüger directed the construction work.
history
Fürth had been Lutheran since the 1520s . Only in the 18th century did Catholics move into the city again, for whom the parish was compulsory for the Lutheran city parish church of St. Michael ; around 1800 there were around 400 of the 13,000 inhabitants.
After Fürth came to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 , the Catholic community tried in vain to acquire the medieval Holy Sepulcher Chapel in the immediate vicinity of Michael ’s Church ; the chapel was demolished in 1812. As a result, plans arose to build a church. A Bavaria-wide collection brought in 33,600 guilders . The Jewish community of Fürth donated 300 guilders. A Lutheran merchant donated the big bell.
In 1824 the foundation stone of the new church was laid on the eastern edge of the old town; on October 6, 1829, Archbishop Joseph Maria von Fraunberg made the consecration . In 1837 the curate was given parish status . In the period that followed, various buildings and facilities were built around the church. The industrialization brought many working-class families from the strongly Catholic regions of the country to Fürth; Several daughter churches were built for them in the late 19th and 20th centuries in the city area.
A fundamental interior and exterior renovation of the Church of Our Lady took place in 1998. The parish currently (as of 2012) has around 4,100 Catholics.
architecture
The Fürth parish church is designed in strict antique classicism, with the sparing use of purely decorative structuring elements. In the north of the nave there is a horizontally closing facade yoke with a portal aedicula and a central, transversely rectangular bell tower, in the south a round apse is in front. In the middle of the west and east walls, gable-crowned risalite portal create the suggestion of a transept . The interior is flat and pillarless.
Furnishing
Of the original furnishings, the rich ornamental and pictorial ceiling painting, which is attributed to the Munich school, is particularly remarkable . In the apse apse there is a sculpture of Our Lady with Child from 1563. It was only installed there in 1961, embedded in a mosaic wall with depictions of the 15 mysteries of the rosary ; These and the stained glass windows made at the same time were designed by the Bamberg artist Alfred Heller . In 1972, the requirements of the liturgical reform were implemented with the folk altar and ambo made of shell limestone . In the same year the Eisenbarth organ with 25 stops on two manuals and pedal was installed.
Web links
- History and description (web presence of the parish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c History of the parish ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ History of the parish ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - The important Jewish community at that time had 2,500 members (ibid.).
- ↑ Presentation of the organ in the organ database Bavaria online , accessed on May 23, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 27 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 31.7 ″ E