Holy Cross Church (Zweibrücken)

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Holy Cross Church

Holy Cross Church, Zweibrücken

Basic data
Denomination Catholic
place Zweibrücken, Germany
diocese Diocese of Speyer
Building history
architect Franz Jakob Schmitt
construction time 1869-1879
Building description
Architectural style New early Gothic
Furnishing style Crucifix, painting, altar, ambo
Construction type Hall church
Coordinates 49 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 50 ″  E Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 50 ″  E
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View inside the church

The Holy Cross Church is a Catholic parish church in Zweibrücken . In addition to the Alexander Church (built 1493–1510) and the Karlskirche (1708–1711), it is the third oldest church building in the city center of Zweibrücken. The church is listed in the register of cultural monuments of the independent city of Zweibrücken.

building

The building was built between 1869 and 1879 according to plans by Franz Jakob Schmitt from Mainz as a cross-shaped hall church with a crossing tower in the neo-Gothic style. Towards the end of the Second World War , the church was destroyed in a bomb attack on March 14, 1945. Only parts of the outer walls remained. The church was rebuilt on the old foundations in 1949/50 as a flat-roofed wall pillar hall and extended 16 meters to the west. Albert Boßlet was responsible for the design of the reconstruction . The new church was consecrated on September 17, 1950. A striking feature is the free-standing bell tower with a pyramid roof from 1959.

The liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , which subsequently also affected the interior design of the churches, led to a comprehensive redesign of the interior in 1987/88. The sanctuary , in the middle of which the altar was placed, was expanded to include the congregation. Side altars, communion bench and pulpit were completely removed from the church. As a further remodeling measure, the still-preserved ambulatory of the church, which was destroyed in the war, was opened to the chancel and thus included in the church interior.

Interior

The equipment of the church includes u. a. a crucifix from the middle of the 18th century and a painting of Mary enthroned on the clouds , created in 1821 by Johann Christian von Mannlich .

Further items of equipment are the altar and ambo , cast by the metal foundry Becker ( Pirmasens ) , designed by the Dominican Burghildis Roth ( Landstuhl ), and represent her last major works. The tabernacle and the baptismal font in the baptistery to the right of the choir were made by Helmut Schollenberger ( Speyer ). The Way of the Cross on the right side wall was designed by Dr. Christoph Legner (Zweibrücken) created. A sandstone relief with King David and three statues in the back of the left side aisle come from the church, which was destroyed in the war .

The three middle choir windows are works by the Münchner Glaskunst company from 1950 and show the birth of Jesus , the crucifixion of Jesus with Mary and John and the resurrection of Jesus . Joachim Dorn ( Nuremberg ) designed the remaining windows in the choir, as well as those in the ambulatory and nave. Glaskunst Herbold ( Karlsruhe ) was responsible for the execution.

organ

The Rieger organ from 1995
The Voit organ from 1879

It is not known whether the Catholic parish in Zweibrücken had an organ before its own church was built in 1879 . After the new church was completed in 1879, the company L. Voit & Söhne submitted an offer to build an organ with 24 registers on two manuals on January 14th of the same year . The seven-part prospectus was designed in the neo-Gothic style. On July 17, 1911, the royal government gave its consent to the extension of the instrument to 43 registers to three manuals. Along with the church, this organ was also destroyed in the air raid on March 14, 1945.

After the church was rebuilt and consecrated in 1950, the new church did not initially have an organ. Thanks to a generous donation from a businessman in Zweibrücken, planning for an organ could soon be started and in August 1951 an offer from Gebr. Späth Orgelbau was available. The first construction phase with 13 registers was finished in 1952 as opus 574. In 1955 the second construction phase followed, whereby the organ was enlarged to 47 registers with three manuals; it contained, among other things, a so-called Rückpositiv and a swell for romantic organ music. It was consecrated on January 30, 1957. The organ approval in January 1957 was carried out by Ludwig Doerr . However, the construction on electropneumatic cone chests proved to be extremely prone to failure and technical defects were already evident at the beginning of the 1980s.

In 1991, the municipality decided to entrust the Austrian company Rieger Orgelbau with the construction of a new organ at a price of 900,000 DM. In 1994, on the day of the church patronage, the Späth organ sounded one last time; part of the pipework was recycled in a Catholic and a Protestant church in Coswig near Dresden . The Rieger organ was consecrated on March 26, 1995. It has 44 registers (3,003 pipes) on three manuals:

I main work C – a 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Octav 4 ′
5. Night horn 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Super octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Cornet V (from g) 8th'
10. Trumpet 8th'
II threshold positive C-a 3
11. Reed flute 8th'
12. Salicional 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Octav 2 ′
17th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Trumpet 8th'
19th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
20th Principal 8th'
21st Metal dacked 8th'
22nd Gamba 8th'
23. Vox Coelestis 8th'
24. Octav 4 ′
25th Transverse flute 4 ′
26th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Octavine 2 ′
28. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
29 Sifflet 1'
30th Plein Jeu 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
31. bassoon 16 ′
32. Trumpet Harmonique 8th'
33. Hautbois 8th'
34. Clairon 4 ′
35. Voix Humaine 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
36. Principal 16 ′
37. Sub-bass 16 ′
38. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
39. Octav 8th'
40. Gemshorn 8th'
41. Chorale bass 4 ′
42. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P.
  • Playing aids : 12 general combinations on 16 levels, 4 crecendi (1 standard, 3 free), ab.

Bells

Six bells hang in the free-standing tower. They were all cast in 1959 by the bell founder Hermann Hamm in Frankenthal. The bells were not installed until a year later. The largest bell can only be heard on public holidays, along with the other bells. A special feature of this chime is that it was Hermann Hamm's last chime before he ended his Palatinate bell-casting tradition.

No. Surname Nominal
(16th note) 		Casting year Foundry, casting location Weight
(kg) 		Diameter
(cm)
1 Holy cross c 1 ± 0 1959 Hermann Hamm, Frankenthal 1690 149.3
2 St. Pirmin it 1 +2 1000 124.6
3 St. George f 1 +2 898 111.5
4th Holy Maria g 1 +4 615 102.5
5 Saint Magdalena b 1 +4 414 80.8
6th St. Joseph c 2 +4 302 79.9

Sound recordings

  • Gerhard Jentschke at the new Rieger organ from Hl. Kreuz zu Zweibrücken. Organ works by Reger, Karg-Elert, Peeters, Widor. 1998, IFO DD 00148 (CD)
  • Rendezvous with France: Symphonic organ music from France. Digital live recordings from the concert events of the International Organ Festival (IOF) 1996 to 1998 as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate cultural summer. IFO CD 00 1999. “Free improvisation for organ and percussion” with Philippe Lefebvre , Frank Thomé and Jörg Fabig .

literature

  • Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 1195.
  • Herbert Dellwing et al. a .: The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate on behalf of the Ministry for Culture, Youth, Family and Women. tape 7 , part 1. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1981, p. 162 .
  • Parish Hl. Kreuz (Ed.): Festschrift and program for the consecration of the new Rieger organ of the Heilig Kreuz Church in Zweibrücken, Sunday, March 26, 1995 . Zweibrücken 1995.
  • Parish of Heilig Kreuz Zweibrücken (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Heilig Kreuz parish in Zweibrücken: Sunday, January 11, 1976 . Zweibrücken 1976.
  • Ernst Starck: The church building work in Heilig Kreuz Zweibrücken . In: Pfälzischer Merkur (Supplement 198): Ten years of new work . No. 150 , July 1, 1960.
  • Parish Hl. Kreuz Zweibrücken: Festschrift for the church consecration Zweibrücken - Holy Cross, on September 17, 1950 . Zweibrücken printing and publishing company, Zweibrücken 1950.

Web links

Commons : Holy Cross Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District-free city of Zweibrücken. Mainz 2020, p. 3 (PDF; 4.3 MB).
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Parish Church of the Holy Cross On: heilig-kreuz-zweibruecken.jimdo.com, accessed on June 22, 2014
  3. ^ Parish Church Heilig Kreuz | Rieger Orgel On: www.rieger-orgelbau.com, accessed on August 22, 2012
  4. ↑ ZEIT Online 03/1998: Presentation of the CD