Holy Cross Cathedral (Rottweil)

Exterior view

inner space

The Heilig-Kreuz-Münster has been the main Catholic church in the city of Rottweil since the early 15th century , before that it was a branch of the mother church in the old town, the basilica of St. Pelagius .

The Monument Foundation Baden-Württemberg named the church Monument of the Month in March 2018 .

history

First built as a late Romanesque church in the 13th century, a new high Gothic choir with a 5/8 end was added around 1400 . The nave , a late Gothic stepped hall with buttresses drawn in typical Swabian style, was not completed until the 16th century; only the lower tower floors, two early Gothic arches in the central nave on the tower and the Romanesque west portal remain from the original building.

After the Thirty Years' War, the church was furnished in a baroque style in keeping with the spirit of the times , but structural baroque changes were never carried out. During the restoration work by Carl Alexander Heideloff around 1840 , the cathedral was radically regotified. The entire baroque furnishings, especially the huge high altar, were lost. However, the new furnishings were largely acquired from the art trade, so that there are still many art-historical high-quality works such as the altar cross, the apostle altar, the St. Mary's altar with the legend of St. Francis and various side altars.

Furnishing

The four-storey tower from the transition period between Romanesque and early Gothic comes from the original building. The long, late Gothic spire has been crooked since a fire in 1696. In addition, it has not tapered completely since a lightning strike in the 19th century. Back then, carpenters kicked the copper helmet, climbed to the burning spire, and sawed it off together with the tower cross. The main portal under a stone canopy is a free copy of the original from the early Renaissance in neo-Gothic style. The west portal under the porch from the 19th century is Romanesque.

The altar cross is attributed to Veit Stoss , the apostle altar on the choir arch between the high and south choir is from Cord Bogentrik . The late Gothic net rib vault in the south nave dates from the time of the first phase of the nave construction from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century, the pulpit is a work of the early 17th century in a typical southern German, post-Gothic style. In addition, the so-called Rottweiler Madonna is located in the church , a late Gothic work from the Rhineland. She was transferred as Madonna from the turn of the eyes, formerly the goal of many pilgrimages to the Rottweiler Predigerkirche, after the secularization from the Dominican monastery to the minster. The neo-Gothic windows in the choir are partly personal gifts from the Württemberg royal family to the city. Most of the cheeks of the stalls date from the 18th century and are related to the carnival . There are also guild lanterns in the church, which are still used for the monthly procession and on Corpus Christi.

The floor of the ship slopes down to the choir.

In a side chapel of the south aisle is the oldest demonstrable representation of a fool in Rottweil.

The church's Christmas crib is the work of the Horber carver Klink from 1950. As Bethlehem, the old Rottweiler town silhouette towers over the crib in front of the starry sky.

organ

The organ of the cathedral was built in 1967 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company with 52 registers and around 3850 pipes on 4 manuals and a pedal (slider drawer). The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.

The instrument replaced an organ built in 1931 by Gebr. Späth Orgelbau with 69 registers on an electropneumatic action, which in turn was last used in 1885 by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker # works by EF Walcker & Cie. technically largely replaced by a newly built instrument.

I Positive C – a 3 1. Wooden dacked 8th' 2. Quintad 8th' 3. Principal 4 ′ 4th Reed flute 4 ′ 5. Octav 2 ′ 6th Forest flute 2 ′ 7th Sesquialtera II-III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 8th. Scharff IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 9. Dulcian 16 ′ 10. Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

II main work C – a 3 11. Pommer 16 ′ 12. Principal 8th' 13. Pointed flute 8th' 14th Octav 4 ′ 15th Wooden truss 4 ′ 16. Super octave 2 ′ 17th Cornett V 8th' 18th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 19th Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′ 20th Trumpet 16 ′ 21st Trumpet 8th' 22nd Clairon 4 ′

III Swell C – a 3 23. Wooden principal 8th' 24. Tube bare 8th' 25th Octav 4 ′ 26th recorder 4 ′ 27. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 28. Flat flute 2 ′ 29 third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ 30th Super octave 1' 31. Acuta V 2 ′ 32. bassoon 16 ′ 33. Hautbois 8th' Tremulant

IV breastwork C – a 3 34. Smalled up 8th' 35. Capstan whistle 4 ′ 36. Principal 2 ′ 37. Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 38. None 8 ⁄ 9 ′ 39. Quintcymbel II 1 ⁄ 4 ′ 40. Bear whistle 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 41. Principal 16 ′ 42. Sub bass 16 ′ 43. Octav 8th' 44. Gemshorn 8th' 45. Super octave 4 ′ 46. Funnel-shaped 4 ′ 47. Night horn 2 ′ 48. Rauschbass III 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ 49. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 50. bassoon 32 ′ 51. trombone 16 ′ 52. prong 8th'

• Coupling: I / II, III / II, IV / II, III / I, IV / I, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
• Playing aids : 5-fold setting system

Individual evidence

1. ^ W. Mezger, Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht. Cultural heritage and living tradition. Darmstadt 2015. p. 27.
2. ↑ More information about the Klais organ
3. ↑ Site Title. Retrieved September 9, 2019 . 
4. ^ Völkl, Helmut .: Organs in Württemberg . Hänssler-Verlag, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7751-1090-9 .

Web links

Commons : Heilig-Kreuz-Münster (Rottweil)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Building history on hl-kreuz-rottweil.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 5.8 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 29.8"  E