Evangelical town church Ravensburg

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Evangelical town church in Ravensburg
View through the church

The Stadtkirche is a Protestant church building on Marienplatz in Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

history

The church building was the 14th century center as a monastery church of the Carmelites built and completed in 1349 and consecrated.

In the course of the Reformation , which reached Ravensburg from 1544, the church building was divided into both denominations around 1555: The nave became the Protestant church, the choir remained the Catholic Carmelite church building. With the exception of a short time during the Thirty Years' War when the church building came back into Catholic hands, the separation of the church rooms remained until the beginning of the 19th century. In the course of the dissolution of the monastery in 1810, the entire building was handed over to the Protestant community. The adjacent former Carmelite monastery now houses the Ravensburg Regional Court .

In the 19th century the church was given a neo-Gothic interior, which was removed again in the 1960s, except for the reformers' windows in the side chapels. At that time, medieval frescoes that had previously been painted over were uncovered, and the church received a new organ and windows by the glass painter Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen . The city church was extensively renovated in 2016–2020.

For the history of the parish see also the article Church District Ravensburg .

Reformers window

Furnishing

organ

The organ of the town church was built in 1967 by the organ building company Friedrich Weigle (Echterdingen) as op. 1144 based on a design by Walter Supper and Paul Horn . The organ work is distributed over two organ casings that flank the large west window. The instrument has 51 stops on three manual works (left tower) and pedal (right tower). The breastwork is swellable. The console stands free in front of the instrument. The key actions and couplings are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.

Cantors and organists at the town church included Paul Horn and Johanna Irmscher . Michael Bender has been organist and cantor since 1989 .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintatön 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Reed flute 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Hollow flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Flat flute 2 ′
9. Larigot II 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ +1 ′
10. Mixture IV-VI 2 ′
11. bassoon 16 ′
12. Light trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
13. Stillbourdon 16 ′
14th Wooden dacked 8th'
15th Willow pipe 8th'
16. Prefix 4 ′
17th Hovering harp 4 ′
18th Reed flute 4 ′
19th Nasal fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Octave flute 2 ′
21st Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
22nd Seventh flute 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
23. recorder 1'
24. Sharp V 1'
25th Hautbois 8th'
26th Schalmey 4 ′
Tremulant
III Kronwerk C – g 3
27. Pointed 8th'
28. Quintviola 8th'
29 Principal 4 ′
30th Coupling flute 4 ′
31. Minor principal 2 ′
32. Forest flute 2 ′
33. Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
34. Whistle 8 ⁄ 9 ′
35. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
36. Sounding cymbal IV 1 ⁄ 2 ′
37. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
38. Pedestal 32 ′
39. Principal bass 16 ′
40. Sub bass 16 ′
41. Subtle bass 16 ′
42. Octave bass 8th'
43. Pointed Gamba 8th'
44. Cane-covered 4 ′ *
45. Choral Bass II 4 ′ + 2 ′ *
46. Basszink III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ *
47. Back set III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ *
48. trombone 16 ′
49. Trumpet bass 8th' *
50. Clarine 4 ′ *
51. Singing cornet 2 ′ *
Tremulant *
  • Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids: 4 free combinations, 2 free pedal combinations, fixed combinations (tutti, organo pleno, tongue plenum), storage
* = Registers are on a separate drawer with their own tremulant

literature

  • Moritz Ernst Eggel: The Protestant Church in Ravensburg (former Carmelite Church) . Maier, Ravensburg 1871 ( digitized version )
  • Tobias Hafner : The Evangelical Church in Ravensburg along with some notes about the school system, the library and the humanist Hummelberger. A contribution to local history . Self-published, Ravensburg 1884 ( digitized version )
  • Peter Eitel : The Protestant city church Ravensburg . (Art Guide; No. 1467). Schnell + Steiner, Munich 1984
  • Jürgen Michler: Gothic wall painting on Lake Constance . Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1992, ISBN 3-922137-80-6
  • Festschrift for the tower renovation of the Evangelical City Church in Ravensburg. April to July 1998 . Ravensburg 1998
  • Andreas Schmauder (text), Jochen Tolk (editor): Evangelical city church Ravensburg. Church leaders . Evang. Stadtkirchengemeinde, Ravensburg 2003, ISBN 3-934678-32-9
  • “Painted and melted into the glass”. The reformers window of the Evangelical City Church in Ravensburg. Report on research into glass painting by Ludwig Mittermaier . (= Workbooks - State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council, Volume 37). Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-7995-1304-3 (also beyond the window on the history of the town church and its conversions)

For decades of conflict between denominations about the use of the church, see the literature listed under Ravensburg: Religion and Church History at Wikisource.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the history of the city church on the website of the city of Ravensburg
  2. ↑ Information on the organ
  3. ^ Wolfgang Manecke, Johannes Mayr, Mark Vogl: Historical organs in Oberschwaben. The district of Ravensburg . Fink, Lindenberg 2006, ISBN 3-89870-250-2 , pp. 227-229.

Web links

Commons : Evangelische Stadtkirche Ravensburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 49.3 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 48"  E