Our Lady (Heilsbronn)

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Our Lady, west and south side
Our Lady, interior view

Our Lady is a Roman Catholic church named after Maria in Heilsbronn ( Herrieden dean's office of the Eichstätt diocese ).

Parish

Heilsbronn has been predominantly Protestant since the Reformation. In 1871 only 46 of the 998 residents were Roman Catholics. These were parish to St. Vitus (Veitsaurach) . On February 10, 1878, the first Catholic service was held in Heilsbronn in the former refectory of the Heilsbronn monastery , which Pastor Hofmann held there every fortnight from then on. At the end of August 1878, an assistant priest was appointed in Heilsbronn because the pastor of Veitsaurach could no longer provide the Heilsbronn pastoral care district, to which 117 localities now belonged, alone. In 1908 Heilsbronn became a branch of Veitsaurach. In 1889 the former refectory was bought by the Eichstätt diocese and rededicated to the Catholic Church. In 1925, 112 of the 1550 residents were Catholic. After the Second World War , the number of Catholics increased sharply due to refugees from Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia. They found a new home in the Schönbühl or Werkvolksiedlung founded in 1948.

Heilsbronn was raised to a parish in 1950. This included the St. Johannes Curate (Lichtenau) until 1970, the St. Franziskus Curate (Neuendettelsau) until 1976 and the St. Bonifatius Curate (Dietenhofen) until 1993 .

In 1959 the foundation stone of the Catholic Church was laid on the site on Ansbacher Strasse. Its inauguration took place on 7./8. January 1961.

On January 1, 1992, the following places were re-pastured to St. Franziskus: Adelmannssitz , Aich , Birkenhof , Frohnhof , Großhaslach , Hammerschmiede , Külbingen , Mausendorf , Mausenmühle , Neumühle , Schafhof , Steinbach , Steinhof , Steinmühle , Vestenberg , Watzendorf and Wollersdorf . Külbingen had asked for a re-parish years earlier, but this was not approved. In 2004 the parish association Heilsbronn was founded, to which Heilsbronn, Lichtenau-Sachsen and Neuendettelsau-Petersaurach belong.

The parish of Heilsbronn today has about 2100 believers.

Church building

Our Lady is a modern hexagonal building, with the west and east sides only a third of the length of the remaining four sides. The ridge of the roof rises slightly from the east to the west. The four long sides, pierced by trapezoidal windows, slope down from the higher west and east sides. The church is accessible through a rectangular portal in the west. The single-storey community center adjoins the south side. A little off to the southwest stands the church tower with a square floor plan, which ends with a four-sided pointed roof.

The sanctuary is to the east and is raised by three steps. In the center is a stone canteen, the tabernacle on the right and a statue of the Virgin Mary on the left. A crucifix hangs freely over the altar. The ambo is on the first step on the right. The organ gallery is to the west. In 2004 a new pipe organ was purchased.

literature

  • Adolf Lang (Ed.): Heilsbronn: The Franconian Munster City . Heilsbronn 1982, p. 79-82 .

Web links

Commons : Our Lady  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kgl. Statistical Bureau (ed.): Complete list of localities of the Kingdom of Bavaria. According to districts, administrative districts, court districts and municipalities, including parish, school and post office affiliation ... with an alphabetical general register containing the population according to the results of the census of December 1, 1875 . Adolf Ackermann, Munich 1877, 2nd section (population figures from 1871, cattle figures from 1873), Sp. 1207–1208 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00052489-4 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Ludwig Hefele: History of the parish Veitsaurach . Funk Druck, Eichstätt 1977, p. 29 .
  3. ↑ Heilsbronn on the website bistum-eichstaett.de
  4. ↑ Bavarian State Statistical Office (ed.): Localities directory for the Free State of Bavaria according to the census of June 16, 1925 and the territorial status of January 1, 1928 . Issue 109 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich 1928, Section II, Sp. 1196 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Hermann Dallhammer: Sachsen bei Ansbach. A chronicle . Ansbach 1999, DNB  958130183 , p. 253 .
  6. ^ Adolf Lang: From the history of the catholic community in Heilsbronn , in: Heilsbronn: Die fränkische Münsterstadt , p. 80.
  7. ↑ Michael Gebauer (Ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Church of St. Franziskus in Neuendettelsau . Neuendettelsau 2012, p. 37 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 14 ″  E