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22-516: At the end of the war the castle was seized by American soldiers, from 1946 it was rented by the Archdiocese of Bamberg under Jupp Schneider and sold in 1949. Since then the castle and the entire estate have been in use as a Roman Catholic youth and conference centre. Oskar Vierling was looking for a central location for his laboratories. The choice fell on a hill called the Feuerstein . Its design as

44-720: A synod was held in Frankfurt . Eight archbishops and twenty-seven bishops were present at the synod as well as the German King Henry II . Henry II intended to create a new diocese that would aid in the final conquest of paganism in the area around Bamberg. But the territory of the Wends on the upper Main , the Wiesent , and the Aisch had belonged to the Diocese of Würzburg since the organization of

66-417: A castle blended well into the countryside of Franconian Switzerland and was chosen for camouflage reasons. During the war it was disguised as a hospital and had tiles in the form of a red cross on the roof, but actually housed a laboratory for secret Nazi armament projects. After the end of the war it was abandoned and construction plans and documents were destroyed. Nevertheless, in 2011 a document came into

88-423: A rainbox, the sun and angels' wings. Both the mural and the window are works by the artist, Alfred Heller, from Bamberg. After leaving the lower church, the path runs past windows that portray the fundamental attitudes of Christian spirituality : Oratio – Meditatio – Contemplatio ("prayer - meditation - contemplation"). The upper church was designed by the architect Heinzmann and cathedral master builder Schädel. It

110-620: A riding stable and a glider airfield. Today Feuerstein Castle is a modern youth facility owned by the Diocese of Bamberg. In 1999 Feuerstein Observatory was founded, 500 metres south of Feuerstein Castle Airfield . The observatory took the name of the castle. The tower of the castle is used by the observatory as a microwave radio relay relay station to link it to the town of Ebermannstadt in

132-403: Is the present wine cellar, formally a walk-in safe with a ten-centimetre-thick steel door. The charm of the castle comes not from any medieval origin, but from its wartime history and its young age. The castle has been expanded by dormitory accommodation, a dining hall, leisure facilities (Kegelbahn, table tennis, volleyball, hard court, sports field), conference rooms, camping sites, agriculture,

154-633: The Peace of Westphalia (1648), the bishops recovered their possessions. In 1802, in the course of the German mediatization , the prince-bishopric was secularized and its territory annexed to Bavaria . From 1808 to 1817 the diocese was vacant; but by the Bavarian Concordat of the latter year it was made an archbishopric, with Würzburg, Speyer , and Eichstädt as suffragan sees. Georg Meistermann Georg Meistermann (June 16, 1911 – June 12, 1990)

176-638: The documentas I (1955) and II (1959) in Kassel . A devout Catholic, Meistermann worked for sacred rooms with great passion. With his art he wanted to praise the grace of God, looking for form-expressing solutions to glorify the Creator. However, he also criticized the Church, quarreling with those who thought they were in a position to claim special rights only because they administered the Christian faith: "I make propaganda for

198-520: The Middle German bishoprics by St. Boniface , so that no new diocese could be erected without the consent of the occupant of that see. The bishop of Würzburg raised no objection to parting with some of his territory, especially as the king promised to have Würzburg raised to an archbishopric and to give him an equivalent in Meiningen . The consent of Pope John XVII was obtained for this arrangement, but

220-849: The artist was appointed professor at the Städelschule , Frankfurt am Main . From 1955 to 1959 he hold a professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , and from 1960 to 1976 he was a professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe . Among his students at the Düsseldorf Academy were Gotthard Graubner , Raimund Girke and HA Schult . Among his students at the Karlsruhe Academy were Gerold Bursian , Wolfgang Glöckler , Otto Mindhoff , K.J. Overkott and Hans-Günther van Look . Meistermann participated at

242-719: The colour to floating, to detect meditative spaces and to conquer a depth of the painting directed towards transcendence has been his artistic programme." One example, installed in 1957, is to be found in Berlin's Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche . In 1976, he designed four windows for the Collegio Teutonico , Rome. Another important work is his new design for St. Gereon's Basilica, Cologne (1979-1986), which he called "my religious testament and climax of my lifework". The Stained Glass Association of America considers Meistermann "the most versatile German stained glass designer". In 1953

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264-716: The cross were created in 2005 by a youth group. 49°47′08″N 11°09′45″E  /  49.78556°N 11.16250°E  / 49.78556; 11.16250 Archdiocese of Bamberg The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Bamberg (lat. Archidioecesis Metropolitae Bambergensis ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in Bavaria , one of 27 in Germany. In 2015, 32.9% of the population identified as Catholic, and 15.6% of those reported that they attend Mass on Sunday—a relatively high number in Germany. The archdiocese comprises

286-421: The elevation of Würzburg to an archbishopric proved impracticable, and its bishop withdrew his consent. At the synod, Henry obtained permission for the foundation of the diocese of Bamberg from parts of the dioceses of Würzburg and Eichstätt . Bamberg was made directly subordinate to Rome. It was also decided that Eberhard, the king's chancellor, would be ordained by the archbishop of Mainz , Willigis , to be

308-511: The emperors, after which free canonical election was the rule. Eberhard's immediate successor, Suidger of Morsleben, became pope in 1046 as Clement II . He was the only pope to be interred north of the Alps in the Bamberg Cathedral . In the thirteenth century, the diocese gradually became a territorial principality, and its bishops took secular precedence next after the archbishops; Bishop Henry I

330-561: The hands of cryptographer-historian, Norbert Ryska , from the American special unit, Ticom ( Target Intelligence Committee ), which described the work of Vierling at Feuerstein Castle in more detail. According to this, Vierling worked for the Nazis on speech encoding methods, acoustic torpedo control, acoustic detonation of mines, anti-detection technology for U-boats and in the fields of radio and electrotechnology. A relict of its construction period

352-478: The head of the new border area diocese. The new diocese had expensive gifts at the synod confirmed by documents, in order to place it on a solid foundation. Henry wanted the celebrated monkish rigour and studiousness of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter – Henry himself was educated there – linked together with the churches under his control, including his favourite diocese of Bamberg. The next seven bishops were named by

374-481: The majority of the administrative regions of Upper Franconia and Middle Franconia , as well as a small part of Lower Franconia and the Upper Palatinate . Its seat is Bamberg . The dioceses of Speyer , Eichstätt , and Würzburg are subordinate to it. The diocese was founded in 1007 out of parts of the dioceses of Eichstätt and Würzburg. In 1817, the diocese was raised to an archdiocese. On 1 November 1007,

396-522: The sides of the tabernacle are twelve candlesticks which represent the twelve apostles . The lower church is dedicated to Mary , the "Mother of Wisdom". It has an altar , behind which is a mural portraying the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary . The glass windows are kept dark and portray on one side the head of a beast of prey, fire, broken ears of corn and the reaper, and on the other side, people,

418-461: The valley. In this way the tower built by Vierling to test the first radio relay link continues to fulfil its original purpose. In 1961 the Church of the Transfiguration of Jesus was opened. It consists of three spaces: the crypt , the lower church and the upper church. The crypt is accessed by steps from the lower church and only dimly lit. It houses the eternal flame and the tabernacle . On

440-844: Was a German painter and draftsman who was also famous for his stained glass windows in the whole of Europe. From 1930, Meistermann studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Werner Heuser , Heinrich Nauen and Ewald Mataré , but in 1933 the Nazis condemned this sort of art, and he could not continue his studies. Therefore, he worked as an independent painter and art teacher in Solingen for some years. Influenced by late Cubism and Alfred Manessier , he created abstract paintings, but he also produced portraits and wall paintings. Beginning in 1937 he made stained glass windows, immersing private, public and church rooms in colored light in an innovative manner, based on an interaction of color, form and line, for which he would become famous. "To bring

462-561: Was consecrated in 1961 and constructionally anticipated the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council a year later: the altar is positioned in the nave so that the priest can celebrate mass with the congregation. The large glass wall portrays on its right-hand side, the Burning Bush ( Ex 3 ) and on the left the sacrifice of Elijah ( 1 Kings 18 ). The glass wall is a work by glass artist, Georg Meistermann . The stations of

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484-567: Was the first prince-bishop. The fortieth bishop, George III of Limburg (1505–22), was inclined toward the Reformation , which caused a violent social outbreak under his successor Weigand (1522–56), and the city suffered severely in the Second Margrave War (1552–55), as well as in the Thirty Years' War , when it was placed under the jurisdiction of Bernard, the new Duke of Franconia . At

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