Archbishop's Ordinariate Freiburg

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Archbishop's Ordinary Building

The Archbishop's Ordinariate in Freiburg is the administrative seat of the Archdiocese of Freiburg and houses the ecclesiastical authority of the same name in Schoferstraße, opposite the Archbishop's Seminary Collegium Borromaeum near the Freiburg Cathedral . The architect of the building was the archbishop's building officer Raimund Jeblinger (1853–1937).

history

prehistory

Main entrance

The Augustinian Canons ' Monastery of All Saints in Pfaffengasse (today's Herrenstrasse), which fell victim to secularization , had stood on the premises of the building since 1700 . The monastery buildings were handed over to the Protestant community by the Grand Duke of Baden. On July 26, 1807, the first Protestant church service was held there in the city of Freiburg, after some had already taken place in the 17th century under Swedish-Weimar occupation. After the establishment of the Ludwigskirche by 1839, the rooms were almost completely empty for a long time. In 1851 they were converted into a military hospital and used as barracks from 1871 onwards. With the completion of the Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Barracks in 1895, the building, now known as the Burgkaserne , became the property of the city.

Construction planning until today

In January 1900, planning began for a new office building. After the Catholic Church acquired the site in 1902, the monastery buildings were demolished. In February 1902, the new head of the Archbishop's Building Office, Raimund Jeblinger , presented a first set of plans with a cost estimate. In June 1903, construction work began with the foundation. In December 1904 the roof structure was installed, in July 1905 the facade cladding with Landstuhl sandstone was completed. In November 1906 the building was inaugurated by the client Archbishop Thomas Nörber . Previously, the Ordinariate was located where the Freiburg City Archives are located today.

After a bomb hit in February 1945, the building had to be renovated. The facade and roof were partially redesigned. At the beginning of the 1960s, the roof was removed, which changed the overall impression again. The entrance to the building was on Herrenstrasse from 1933 to 2005, but the particularly richly designed main staircase was withheld from visitors. Since January 2006 the building has been re-entered through the original main entrance on Schoferstrasse.

Architectural style

Cross in the boardroom

The building was created in the style of late historicism , in which elements of late Romanesque were combined with Byzantine elements. Art Nouveau motifs were also used in the area of ornamentation . Jeblinger planned colored and gilded ornaments, which, however, were restricted to the interior due to objections from the cathedral chapter . The interior was painted by the Freiburg artist Franz Schilling .

literature

Web links

Commons : Erzbischöfliches Ordinariat Freiburg  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Hartung: Military Buildings . In: Baden Architects and Engineers Association, Upper Rhine District (Ed.): Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings . HM Poppen & Sohn, Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, p. 588 ( Scan - Wikisource ).
  2. ^ Adolf Poinsignon : Historical description of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1978, ISBN 3-7930-0105-9 , p. 234 f.
  3. ↑ Old Freiburg. Retrieved August 27, 2010 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 41.8 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 15.7 ″  E