Holy Cross Church (Offenburg)

Holy Cross Church

The Holy Cross Church is a Catholic parish church in Offenburg . At 68.44 meters, it is the tallest building in the city.

history

The current church was built at the end of the 17th century. It stands on the foundation walls of the first Holy Cross Church, which was built in the 13th century and destroyed in the town fire of 1689. Today's church building was significantly influenced by the Vorarlberg building school .

The three-story tower is a striking feature. The nave consists of a central nave and aisles, which are separated from the central nave by rows of pillars. The remains of the walls of the first church are still visible in the Gothic choir.

Furnishing

View into the church

The high altar was created by Franz Lichtenauer in 1740. The left side choir ( Josefs-Chörlein ) houses a Renaissance crucifix from 1521 and a Pietà by Franz Joseph Simmler .

Probably the most valuable art monument in the city of Offenburg is the Mount of Olives . It is a niche building in the form of a Gothic chapel, which was built around 1524. There the disciples Peter, John and James are shown, behind them the praying Savior. In front of this niche building there is a crucifix on the church square, which reminds us that the old cemetery was once there. The crucifix was created by Peter Valentin the Elder. It is a copy of the crucifix created by Andreas von Urach in 1521.

On an outer wall is the grave monument of the knight Georg von Bach († 1538), the last member of the von Bach family .

organ

Organ of the Holy Cross Church

The organ of the Holy Cross Church was renewed in 2001 by Claudius Winterhalter . The instrument has 36 registers . The playing and stop actions are mechanical, the mood unevenly floating according to Bernhard Billeter . The organ case was made by Johann Ignaz Seuffert (1762, main case) and Johann Ferdinand Balthasar Stieffell (1784, Rückpositiv ).

I Rückpositiv C – g 3 1. Bourdon 8th' 2. Principal 4 ′ 3. Reed flute 4 ′ 4th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 5. Duplicate 2 ′ 6th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 7th Cymbel II-III 1' 8th. Cromorne 8th' Tremulant

II Hauptwerk C – g 3 9. Bourdon 16 ′ 10. Principal 8th' 11. Gamba 8th' 12. Reed flute 8th' 13. octave 4 ′ 14th Pointed flute 4 ′ 15th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 16. Super octave 2 ′ 17th Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 18th Cornet V (from g) 8th' 19th Trumpet 8th'

III Swell C – g 3 20th Quintaton 16 ′ 21st Principal 8th' 22nd Salizional 8th' 23. Bifara (from c 0 ) 8th' 24. Covered 8th' 25th Transverse flute 4 ′ 26th Flageolet 2 ′ 27. Mixture III-IV 2 ′ 28. Trumpet harm. 8th' 29 Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 30th Principal bass 16 ′ 31. Sub bass 16 ′ 32. Octave bass 8th' 33. violoncello 8th' 34. Bass octave 4 ′ 35. Bombard 16 ′ 36. trombone 8th'

• Normal coupling
• Playing aids : mechanical setter 4-fold and prolongation (device for decoupling the stop action)

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Offenburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ OT summer quiz, first place: the parish church of the Holy Cross . In: News of the Ortenau - Offenburger Tageblatt . ( [1] [accessed August 28, 2017]).
2. ↑ Information about the church on the ward website.
3. ↑ Simmler, Franz Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 47 .
4. ↑ Website on the von Bach aristocratic family, with a photo of the grave monument ( memento of the original from May 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Church music communications from the Archdiocese of Freiburg. Issue 47 May 2002, pp. 66-67.
6. ↑ Karin Stober in Georg Dehio : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Baden-Württemberg II. P. 518.

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 15.6 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 29.5 ″  E