Trinity Church (Schwarzenfeld)
The Dreifaltigkeitskirche ( colloquial: Miesbergkirche ) is a Catholic pilgrimage church on the Miesberg in Schwarzenfeld , a market in the Upper Palatinate district of Schwandorf ( Bavaria ). It was completed in 1694 and has since been expanded and restored several times. In the 20th century, a Passionist monastery and a Stations of the Cross were built around this church .
history
After the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War , the people of Schwarzenfeld wanted to build a pilgrimage chapel on the Miesberg, a 40 meter high hill in the northeast of the town, and to consecrate it to the Holy Trinity . Construction began in 1691 and it was completed in 1694 and consecrated by the local pastor Auberger. In the 18th century, however, it appeared too small due to its great popularity as a place of pilgrimage and from 1721 to 1722 the nave was built as a western extension of the chapel . From the middle of the 18th century the church finally developed into an important national pilgrimage destination, to which many people made pilgrimages and thanked the Holy Trinity with votive tablets , including for protecting Schwarzenfeld in the coalition wars of 1796, during which 75,000 soldiers were in Schwarzenfeld the French and Austrians faced, but a battle was prevented. The frescoes in the Miesberg Church are in the choir: Christ and Saints of the Passionist Order and in the nave: Mount of Olives (partly covered by the organ), flagellation, crowning of thorns and carrying the cross, painted in 1938 by the Munich painter Josef Wittmann , a painter of neo-baroque.
Pilgrimage activity subsided in the later period and the church was completely neglected for decades. The church was used almost exclusively on the feast of the Holy Trinity, on various days of prayer and to celebrate First Communion . At the end of the 19th century, pastor Franz Xaver Kobler considered restoring and building a church tower, for which he collected around 10,000 gold marks in donations and acquired many volunteers for tension services . After a year of construction, the 37 meter high tower of the Miesberg Church was completed in 1888.
Since the Church is consecrated to the Holy Trinity, the patronage is on Trinity , i.e. the first Sunday after Pentecost . On this Sunday, the Miesbergkirchweih takes place every year on the road to Miesberg.
Passionist monastery
The Passionists , a Catholic order dedicated to the suffering of Jesus , expanded in southern Germany and Austria at the beginning of the 20th century, so that the monasteries in Maria Schutz and Munich-Pasing were no longer sufficient to accommodate the Fathers. In 1932, Father Viktor Koch asked the diocese of Regensburg to what extent places in the diocese were suitable for another monastery location. The choice finally fell on the Miesberg in Schwarzenfeld after the intervention of the then Landtag member Josef Krempl.
In 1934 the foundation stone was laid and the first two monks moved into a hermitage , which was built around 1700, near the church. The monastery was consecrated in 1935 for the 47th anniversary of the tower. During the period of National Socialism and the associated Gleichschaltung , the monastery was used as quarters for Hamburg children from 1941, which forced the monks to work in an adjoining room of the sacristy under the simplest living conditions. From 1943 until shortly before the end of the Second World War, the electron and ion research institute of the Technical University of Berlin and an office of Alfred Rosenberg were housed in the monastery.
After the capitulation, the monastery was handed back to the priests on May 27, 1945.
Way of the Cross
Schwarzenfeld was saved from destruction by the Americans during the Second World War , primarily through the intervention of Father Viktor Koch. In thanksgiving a way of the cross was built between 1945 and 1950 around the monastery with twelve stations of the Passion of Jesus and several altars. On every Good Friday since 1963 there has been a public devotion on this Way of the Cross.
organ
In 2006, the company Orgelbau Schädler from Donaustauf built a new work into the baroque organ case . This comprises a total of 24 registers on two manuals and pedal . The historic choir organ , which comprises a total of 13 registers on two manuals and a pedal, can also be played via the console of the Schädler organ . The corresponding couplings are electrical. The disposition of both instruments is as follows:
Main organ
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- Coupling : II / I, Sub II, Sub II / I (not expanded), I / P, II / P, I CO / II, I CO / I, II CO / II, II CO / I, I CO / P , II CO / P, P CO a
- Playing aids : 4000 composer combinations , sequential switching forwards and backwards, swell kicks for swell (mechanical) and II. Manual of the choir organ (electric)
Choir organ (CO)
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literature
- Oswald Wilhelm: Chronicle Schwarzenfeld 1015 - 1990 . Schwarzenfeld market.
- Chronicle of the Passionists . Schwarzenfeld branch.
- Xaver Luderböck, novel by Götz (illustrator): Miesberg Church and Passionist Monastery Schwarzenfeld . 2nd edition, Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2004, ISBN 3-7954-5260-0 .
Web links
- http://www.passionisten.de/kloster/schwarz.htm , Homepage of the Passionists (Schwarzenfeld Monastery)
Individual evidence
- ^ Oswald Wilhelm, Chronik Schwarzenfeld, p. 75.
- ^ Oswald Wilhelm, Chronik Schwarzenfeld, p. 76.
- ^ Oswald Wilhelm, Chronik Schwarzenfeld, p. 123.
- ↑ New organs in the diocese of Regensburg - the Schädler organ in the monastery church on the Miesberg, Schwarzenfeld . Online at www.kirchenmusik-regensburg.de; accessed on January 12, 2017.
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 37.7 " N , 12 ° 8 ′ 34.5" E