Holy Spirit (Basel)

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Exterior view of the Heiliggeistkirche in Basel
inside view

The Heiliggeist Church is a Roman Catholic church built in 1912 in the Swiss city ​​of Basel . It is located in the Gundeldingen district and is consecrated to the Holy Spirit .

Together with the outbuildings, the church forms a building block corner in the street grid of the quarter . You enter a larger inner courtyard through a vaulted columned hall between the church and the rectory .

Building history

In 1897 the Roman Catholic Church acquired a plot of land on today's Thiersteinerallee. In 1907 the architect Gustav Doppler was commissioned to build the church. The original plans were slightly modified in the following years by the Freiburg diocesan builder Max Meckel before the foundation stone was laid in 1911 . On October 26, 1912, the Holy Spirit Church was inaugurated by Bishop Jakob Stammler , and 600 young people received confirmation .

Architecture and equipment

The church is designed in the late Neo-Gothic style of southern German origin as a three-aisled basilica with a lateral front tower .

Inside the church has a neo-Gothic features with three from Freiburg Joseph Dettlinger carved winged altars , floral stained glass , murals with the Stations of the Cross , pews and confessionals .

The cell vault is typical of pre-Reformation urban parish churches in southern Germany. The drafts for the building sculpture came from the two Freiburg sculptors Ludwig Kubanek and his colleague Hans Weißburger. The painting was done by Franz Schilling , who also came from Freiburg im Breisgau.

organ

View of the organ

The organ was built in 1921 by the Späth Orgelbau company ( Rapperswil ). The instrument was arranged in the romantic style. From 1982 to 1984 the instrument was extensively renovated and the changes made in the meantime were reversed. Today the instrument again has 41 stops on three manuals and pedal.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Flauto amabile 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Dolce 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
Cornett mixture III – V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
Reed flute 16 ′
Horn principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Flûte harmonique 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Dulciana 8th'
Flûte d'amour 4 ′
Vogara 4 ′
Echo Mixture III – IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Pointed fifth (in advance) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octavin (in advance) 2 ′
Third flute (in advance) 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Clarinet 8th'
tremolo
III Swell C–
Big dump 16 ′
Violin principal 8th'
Darling Dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Concert flute 8th'
Viole d'amour 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Transverse flute 4 ′
Harmonica aetheria II-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Fifth (in advance) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Piccolo (in advance) 2 ′
Trompette harmonique 8th'
oboe 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Salicetbass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
Echobass (from III.) 16 ′
Aeolsbass (from III.) 8th'
Flute bass 8th'
cello 8th'
Principal flute 4 ′
Bombard 16 ′
  • Couple
    • Normal coupling: II / I III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II

literature

  • Alfred Wyss: Heiliggeistkirche Basel. (Swiss Art Guide, Volume 659). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1999, ISBN 3-85782-659-2 .
  • Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel. Architekturmuseum Basel 1993; ISBN 3-905065-22-3 .
  • Werner Wolf-Holzäpfel: The architect Max Meckel 1847-1910. Studies on the architecture and church building of historicism in Germany . Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2000, ISBN 3-933784-62-X , p. 368 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '30 "  N , 7 ° 35' 53"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred twelve thousand and four  /  two hundred sixty-five thousand six hundred seventy-two