Benedictine Church (Villingen)
The Villingen Benedictine Church in Villingen-Schwenningen is the former monastery church of the Villingen Benedictine monastery in Villingen. The monastery and the church were built after the monks were resettled by the Reformation from the monastery of St. Georgen in the Black Forest on the site of the former care yard . The construction of the entire complex began under Abbot Georg III. Gaißer 1688, consulting architect was Michael Thumb . The church is dedicated to St. George .
Building history
As early as 1685 with the beginning of his term of office, Georg III. active as client. First of all, he had the convent building renovated and for this purpose summoned the talented lay brother Kilian Stauffer from the Wittichen monastery, who presented a first drawing. In 1686 he decided to undertake more extensive construction work which included a new overall complex with a church. In response to the request to send the master builder Columban Summerberger to the Zwiefalten monastery , the latter probably referred to the architect Michael Thumb, who then stayed in the monastery as a guest in June 1687. The foundations began on May 5, 1688, and the foundation stone was laid by the Abbot Romanus Vogler on May 16 . In the Amtenhausen monastery he met the sculptor Johann Pöllandt who worked there, who brought the architect Petrus Heim with him, whom he apparently hired as a site manager. Franciscus Demer, who was recommended from St. Peter's Monastery in the Black Forest , also acted as an adviser . In 1690 the master carpenter Conrad Handtmann received the order for the roof structure.
Hindered by the effects of the war, the further completion and interior work dragged on until 1719. On October 24, 1725, the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Johann Anton von Syrgenstein.
Initially, the tower was only extended to the church roof, but it was completed between 1755 and 1756. The design for it came from Martin Hermann. Master bricklayer Ludwig Oswald raised the tower and master carpenter Gabriel Schleicher built the dome (as an onion helmet ) with a lantern and a helmet pole. The tower knob was made by the Augsburg goldsmith Franz Thadäus Lang. The bells were supplied by the Grüninger bell foundry in 1767 , the organ by Johann Andreas Silbermann and Johann Daniel Silbermann in 1752 .
After the abolition of the monastery, the church was mostly used as a warehouse and almost all fixtures and bells were removed. The church has been used again since 1902. In 1958 the church received a new bell (5 bells) from Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling . The Silbermann organ was reconstructed in the modern era.
organ
The organ was built in 2002 by the organ builder Gaston Kern (Manufacture d'Orgues Alsacienne) from Hattmatt / Alsace, as a reconstruction of an organ that was built in 1752 by the organ builders Johann Andreas Silbermann and Johann Daniel Silbermann . The slider chests -instrument has 35 registers on three manual stations and pedal . The registers of the third manual (echo) are divided into bass and treble sides (C – h 0 / c 1 –d 3 ). The playing and stop action is mechanical, the instrument is tuned equally (a1 = 415 Hz). The wind is supplied via three wedge bellows (sevenfold each).
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- Coupling: I / II ( sliding coupler ), II / P
- Remarks
- (B) = bass side (C – h 0 )
- (D) = treble side (c 1 -d 3 )
literature
- Paul Revellio , Contributions to the History of the City of Villingen , Villingen 1964
Individual evidence
- ↑ Company website
- ↑ Information on the organ
Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '40.2 " N , 8 ° 27' 23.1" E