St. Michaelis (courtyard)
St. Michaelis in Hof is an Evangelical Lutheran town church. It is the seat of the dean . The Evangelical Dean's Office Hof and the parish office are located next to the church on Maxplatz .
Building history
The history of the St. Michaelis Church goes back to a chapel building around 1230. At the end of the 14th century a three-aisled hall church was built , which was expanded and expanded again and again in the following years.
The first Protestant preacher in Hof was Kaspar Löner , an important Protestant pastor during the Reformation . Supported by Nikolaus Medler , he began his Reformation activities at the St. Michaelis Church. Löner introduced the Protestant church service in Hof on September 5, 1529 , drafted a church service order and wrote a catechism .
In 1581 an octagonal structure was added to the double tower facade . This process lasted until the following year.
During the great city fire of 1823, which destroyed most of the medieval city of Hof, the church burned down to the surrounding walls and towers and was rebuilt in the following years. The altar from 1884 was created by Anselm Sickinger , the original Hofer altar from 1465 was commissioned by Hertnid von Stein and came from Hans Pleydenwurff . It has been exhibited in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich since 1811 .
organ
The first organ of the Michaeliskirche was built around 1450 by a traveling monk. The second organ was built around 1516 and was financed by the Hof city council. The builder was probably Leonhard Lilgenweiß from Bamberg . The instrument was repaired in 1543 and a Rückpositiv was added. In 1553 this organ was damaged by the Markgräfler War , so that in 1566 it was repaired and a breastwork was added. With the three- manual instrument, the Michaeliskirche had a unique standard in southern Germany at that time.
At the beginning of the 17th century, Timotheus Compenius built a new organ with 21 stops into the case of the previous organ . The instrument had two manuals (Hauptwerk and Rückpositiv ) and a pedal mechanism . In addition to the usual voices, this organ also had fashion registers of the time such as whistle , bird song and Zimbelstern . During the Thirty Years' War Hof was subject to looting. The diary of the organist at the time, Rüthner , reports on the devastation left in the city by the Wallenstein army with 30,000 men . The Compenius organ was also damaged and Bartholomäus Leube was entrusted with repair work in 1642. Further repairs were carried out by Severin Holbeck in 1680, Johann Peter Pönicke in 1714 and Tobias Dressel in 1727. In 1819 the Hof-based organ builder Friedrich Heidenreich submitted a report on the condition of the organ, commissioned by the Hof magistrate for the purpose of revision. The organ was completely destroyed by the great fire in Hof in 1823.
Today's organ in Michaeliskirche was built by the Heidenreich brothers from Hof in the years 1828–1834. The instrument had 34 registers on two manuals and a pedal with mechanical action . In the course of time this instrument has been changed several times. a. under the impression of the organ movement , whereby quite a lot of historical pipe material was lost. The Heidenreich organ was reconstructed in 1967 by Orgelbau Schmid and expanded to include a new swell and an additional small pedal drawer . Between 2006 and 2007, the organ building company Karl Schuke ( Berlin ) extensively restored the instrument and created a new swell. Today the instrument has 63 registers on three manuals and a pedal .
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 4000-fold setting system
City Cantors
The organists and city cantors of the Michaeliskirche have been fully occupied since 1520. Since 1906 the city cantor has also been the organist at Hof's Hospital Church . The officials below are:
- Leonhard Heinel, 1906 to 1938
- Otto Meyer, 1938 to 1949
- Hans Gebhard, 1949 to 1959
- Helmut Scheller, 1959 to 1969
- Reinhard Wachinger, 1969 to 2000
- Georg Stanek, since 2001
literature
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Hof . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , Brief Inventories , Volume VII . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1960, pp. 7-10.
- Ludger Stühlmeyer : The old inner city churches and their organs. In: The music history of the city of Hof . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 2010, pp. 181-224, ISBN 978-3-89889-155-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the dean's office in Hof
- ↑ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Infotafel_Michaeliskirche_Hof_20200214_cropped_RAW.png
- ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer: The old inner city churches and their organs. The town church of St. Michaelis. In: The music history of the city of Hof . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 2010, pp. 189–196.
- ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer: The old inner city churches and their organs. The town church of St. Michaelis. In: The music history of the city of Hof . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 2010, pp. 197-210.
- ↑ Comprehensive information on the history and restoration of the Heidenreich organ ( Memento from February 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Ludger Stühlmeyer: The music history of the city of Hof. Pp. 363-367.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 18.8 " N , 11 ° 55 ′ 11.8" E