Franciscan Church (Solothurn)
The Franziskanerkirche is the former monastery church of a Franciscan monastery and today's Christian Catholic church in the city of Solothurn , Switzerland .
The Franciscans settled in Solothurn in 1280, and their first church was consecrated in 1299. After a fire in 1426, it was rebuilt as a late Gothic mendicant church by 1436 . At the time of the Reformation the monastery was uninhabited and the Bern reformer Berchtold Haller preached in the church .
From 1546 there were in the convent again monks, and when Solothurn thereafter until the end of the Ancien Regime was foreign ambassadors seat, the Franciscan Church of "Court Church" of was French ambassador . At that time the high altar received an altarpiece depicting the Assumption of Mary , donated by the French King Louis XIV .
The current appearance of the church is characterized by a reconstruction in the classical style that was carried out between 1823 and 1825 . During the Kulturkampf the monastery was closed and after the first Christian Catholic service was celebrated in Solothurn in 1876 under the direction of Joseph Meier, it was acquired by the Christian Catholic parish in 1896 after long negotiations .
literature
- Samuel Rutishauser, Stefan Blank: Christian Catholic Church to Franciscans, Solothurn. (Swiss Art Guide, Volume 630). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1998, ISBN 3-85782-630-4 .
Web links
- Information about the Franciscan Church on the website of the Christian Catholic parish in Solothurn
Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ′ 33 " N , 7 ° 32 ′ 15" E ; CH1903: six hundred and seven thousand four hundred ninety-one / 228697