St. Martin Cathedral (Eisenstadt)

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Aerial view of St. Martin's Cathedral
The cathedral from the cathedral square
West facade of the cathedral

The St. Martin Cathedral in Eisenstadt ( Austria ) is the cathedral of the Burgenland diocese of Eisenstadt .

history

The first documentary mention of a chapel consecrated to St. Martin took place in 1264. It was then that today's Eisenstadt received its first name "minor Martin", Kleinmartinsdorf (Hungarian: Kismarton ). From this chapel a Romanesque foundation has been preserved in the area of ​​today's presbytery . In the 13th century a choir in the early Gothic style was added, and in the 14th century a family chapel was built. In 1460 the church was rebuilt under city governor Johann Siebenhirter as a fortified church , as an invasion of the Turks was expected after the fall of Constantinople in 1453 . The Gothic building was completed in 1522. After the great fire of 1589, almost 30 years passed before the heavily damaged church was rebuilt from 1610 to 1629.

In 1777/78 Stephan Dorfmeister installed a large altarpiece showing "The Transfiguration of St. Martin". The following year, the Viennese organ builder Malleck built his church organ according to instructions from Joseph Haydn .

After the creation of the Diocese of Eisenstadt, the Church of St. Martin was elevated to the Domkirche (cathedral) in 1960. Saint Martin of Tours became the diocesan and national patron saint . In 1960, under Bishop Stephan László , the interior and the windows were redesigned. In 2003 the cathedral was redesigned under Bishop Iby , for which the architects Lichtblau-Wagner drew. With the celebration of the blessing of the cathedral on April 12, 2003 and the consecration of the altar, the renovation was completed after a year of construction.

In 2013 the cathedral received a new bell in the D2 pitch to complement the previously incomplete musical motif “ Salve Regina ”. It was donated by Erwin Tinhof, the chairman of the Raiffeisen Landesbank.

Works of art

The architecture of the interior was changed in 1960 according to plans by Jakob Adelhart . The windows of the presbytery reflect the theme of Christ the King and are by Franz Deéd . The stained glass windows of the nave show motifs from the Revelation of John and are the work of Margret Bilger . In 1980 Thomas Resetarits created a protective mantle Madonna that was attached to the portal of the cathedral. Gilbert Bretterbauer designed the carpet in 2003, which corresponds to the colors of the glass windows. The design of the chancel was designed by Brigitte Kowanz in 2003 and is characterized by glass .

Church music

St. Martin's Cathedral is famous for its church music. Concerts from the Haydn Festival also take place in the cathedral.

organ

The organ was built in 1778 by the organ builder Johann Gottfried Malleck from Vienna on the basis of a donation from the widow Theresia Frigl. The new building was necessary because the previous organ was badly damaged during renovation work. Major renovations to the organ were carried out in 1944 by the Karl Schuke Organ Builders (Berlin). At that time the range of the pedals and the range of the first manual were expanded and a register was added. The last restoration by Schuke took place in 1973, when all additions from the 1940s were removed and reconstructed together with the pedal wind charger (12 tones), the wooden pedal register and the prospectus . A characteristic of the instrument is that the Eisenstadt cathedral organ still has baroque elements on the one hand , but many things already point to a sound aesthetic that finally prevailed in the early 19th century .

The Malleck organ (1778)
I main work C – f 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Copl 8th'
3. Quintadena 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Flute 4 ′
6th Fugara 4 ′
7th Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Positive C-c 3
10. Copl 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Flute 4 ′
13. Octav 2 ′
14th Mixture II 1'
Pedal C – f 1
15th Sub bass 16 ′
16. Principal bass 8th'
17th Bourdon Bass 8th'
18th Octavbass 4 ′
19th Trombone bass 16 ′

Bells

Bell 1 (bishop's bell)

Seven bronze bells have been hanging on the top floor, the bell chamber of the tower of St. Martin's Cathedral, since 2013. Bells 2-6 form the Sunday chimes. Bell 1 is the holiday bell. The bishop's bell is the largest church bell in Burgenland and the second largest bell in the state. The little bell is the death bell.

Bell jar Surname volume Weight foundry Casting year
1 Bishop bell b ° 3183 kg Pfundner , Vienna 1960
2 Trinity Bell d´ 1557 kg Pfundner, Vienna 1956
3 Our Lady Bell f´ 923 kg Pfundner, Vienna 1956
4th Michael's Bell G 568 kg Pfundner, Vienna 1956
5 Joseph Bell b´ 355 kg Pfundner, Vienna 1956
6th Martin's bell d´´ 185 kg Grassmayr , Innsbruck 2013
7th John Nepomuck Bell f´´ 105 kg Pfundner, Vienna 1957

Historical bells

The oldest dated bell of the parish church at that time came from 1590. Other bells of the pre-war peal came from the years 1691, 1713, 1757 and 1868.

The bells of the interwar chimes came from the Upper Austrian bell foundry in St. Florian . The bells were cast in 1925. They had the tones e´, gis´, h´, cis´´. All bells were melted down for war material during World War II .

Persons connected with the cathedral

Web links

Commons : Dom St. Martin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Reinhard Weidl, Hans Peter Zelfel: St. Martin's Cathedral in Eisenstadt . Christian art sites in Austria, No. 507, 2010 by Verlag St. Peter, Erzabtei St. Peter, A-5010 Salzburg. 1st edition 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New bell for St. Martin's Cathedral from April 1, 2013, accessed on April 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ More information about the organ
  3. ^ Jörg Wernisch: Bell customer of Austria . Journalverlag, Lienz 2006.

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 42.7 "  N , 16 ° 31 ′ 30.1"  E