Holy Spirit (Interlaken)

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The Holy Spirit Church of Interlaken

The Heiliggeist Church is the Roman Catholic parish church of Interlaken . The church, along with the rectory and the Beatushaus, is classified in the cantonal building inventory as a "protected object".

history

From the 12th century until the Reformation, Interlaken had an Augustinian monastery and a women's monastery , which was closed in 1484. The monastery was founded in 1330 by Baron Seliger von Oberhofen and, according to the promise made in Basel on November 8, 1133, was under the patronage of the German Emperor Lothar III . In 1224 the monastery came under the protection of the city of Bern. After 1528, the monastery buildings known today as “Interlaken Castle” became a Bailiff of Bern. The church was profaned and used as a storage room. The Reformed parish acquired the former monastery church in 1909 and had a new nave added to the existing choir . Since then, the castle church has served the reformed parish of Interlaken-Matten as a parish church.

On July 24, 1842, a Catholic church service took place in the former monastery chapel, today's castle chapel, for the first time since the Reformation. During the summer months, masses were read there in the following years . From 1864 there was room for the Roman Catholic church service in the former nave of the castle church. The English Church Society used the choir, which was separated by a wall.

The priestly services were carried out by a pastor sent by Bern, since Interlaken and the entire Oberland were under canon law under the Bern parish. In 1895, the newly established parish received Karl Peter (1869–1944), who was professor at the Schwyz College, as its first pastor. The parish was recognized by a decision of the Grand Council of Bern on March 5, 1939.

Pastor Peter immediately began planning a rectory and his own church. The Kultusverein acquired the site of the former prison next to the castle church; In 1901 the pastor moved into the new rectory built there. The architect Wilhelm Hector was commissioned to build the church . The church in neo-Gothic style was on August 23, 1908 Bishop Jakob Stammler ordained . The shape of the building with the hexagonal nave and the central column supporting the vault was criticized from the start. The heavy building debt allowed neither the purchase of the planned tower clock, nor the purchase of a bell, as well as an organ. With a donation, three bells could be purchased in 1925 and an organ was also built in 1934.

According to the rules of the Second Vatican Council , the choir had to be redesigned in 1965 and another radical renovation followed in 1977–1978. According to the prevailing opinion at the time, the neo-Gothic style was wrong and no longer desired. The interior was completely changed according to the plans of the architect André Ernst Bosshard from Zurich. The central pillar and the ribbed vault were removed after a cantilevered ceiling had been installed and a wooden ceiling was installed instead. The gallery resting on four columns with neo-Gothic design elements was replaced by a self-supporting reinforced concrete structure. Among other things, the pulpit was torn down without replacement and the carved larch pews were replaced by simpler ones, windows were bricked up and a clay slab floor was laid. Bishop Anton Hänggi consecrated the altar of the converted church on November 10, 1968.

After the warm air heating system installed in 1967 became unusable, it was redesigned again in 1990. After installing the floor heating, the organ damaged by the damp room climate was replaced by a new instrument. The artist Thomas Birve (* 1951) from Wilen redesigned the choir room with new sacred furniture. The walled-up windows were exposed again and new stained glass windows were created by Walter Loosli .

The Roman Catholic Kirchgemeinde Heiliggeist Interlaken comprising the population communities Beatenberg , Bönigen , Därligen , Grindelwald , Gsteigwiler , Guendlischwand , Habkern , Interlaken, Iseltwald , Lauterbrunnen , Leissigen , Lütschental , Interlaken , Niederried , Ringgenberg , Saxeten , lower lakes and Wilderswil .

Building description

The basic orientation of the exposed quarry stone masonry is neo-Gothic, but this is limited to only a few components. The west gable has a wide window with pointed arches above the subsequently added canopy and above it a round ox eye . The window frames on the tower and on the walls of the nave are also in Gothic forms. The stone gargoyles on the bell tower attached to the northwest emphasize the historical reference to Gothic. On the hexagonal main building, the choir is added as an octagonal apse to the west gable with the same ridge height. The south and north sides of the ship are designed as gable walls analogous to the west side. The rectory, which was built in 1901, is attached to the south of the choir with an intermediate building. The adjacent «Beatushaus» was built in 1956 to complement the rectory.

Interior and artistic equipment

Interior of the church

After the termination of the bearing center column with the rib vaults a cantilevered beams has been drawn in and with a with elms - veneer clad coated Holztäferdecke. The star-shaped folding ceiling with the center above the hexagonal nave also covers the newly designed choir. The re-opened choir windows contain symbols of the Easter faith in the middle and symbols of the Eucharist in the side windows . The side windows in the nave contain the symbols of the evangelists and the window behind de organ, the coming of the heavenly Jerusalem . In the designed also by Birve Lady Chapel in the tower foot windows contain Marie symbols and as a reference to the patron saint of the church is in the small slices over the Depicted entrance a pigeon. The carved wooden figures were taken from the original furnishings. The statuette of Saint Anthony was made by the Brienz carver Emil Thomann (1908–2009). The Way of the Cross with 14 bas-reliefs cast from tin , which was created by Ernst von Wyl (1930–2011) from Hergiswil, is new .

organ

organ

The church received its first organ in 1934. It was replaced in 1990 by the instrument built by Orgelbau Geneva AG, Geneva , and has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . A major revision followed in 2006.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Wooden flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Coupling flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Super octave 2 ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 8th'
II positive swell C – g 3
Reed flute 8th'
Viola da gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
recorder 4 ′
Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Night horn 2 ′
third 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Plein-jeu IV 2 ′
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Principal bass 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 8th'
Capstan flute 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Intoxicating fifth II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'
shawm 4 ′

Chimes

A fourth was added to the three bells installed since 1925 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary in 2008.

  • Mood: ges 1 - b 1 - of the two - it 2
  • Motif: Salve Regina
  • Giesser: H. Rüetschi , Aarau
  • Casting years:
    • 1. 2008
    • 2nd 1926
    • 3rd 1926
    • 4th 1926.

See also

literature

  • Ole Wäny among others: 100 years of the Roman Catholic Church Heiliggeist Interlaken . Roman Catholic Parish Interlaken, Interlaken 2008.
  • Rudolf Gallati: From the monastery to the tourist resort . 2nd Edition. Schläfli & Maurer, Interlaken 1986, p. 178 .
  • Emil Josef Nünlist: The Catholic Church in the Bern area . Self-published, Bern 1941.

Web links

Commons : Heilggeist (Interlaken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FB: Obituary. In: Swiss church newspaper. Räber, Lucerne, September 28, 1944, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Note on the inauguration. In: Swiss church newspaper. Verlag Räber, Lucerne, September 3, 1908, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ History on the parish website. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Grand Council resolution on the delimitation of the parishes. In: Website of the Government Council of the Canton of Bern, April 4, 2012 (PDF; 111 kB).
  5. ↑ Ole Wäny et al .: 100 years of the Roman Catholic Church Heiliggeist Interlaken . Roman Catholic Parish Interlaken, Interlaken 2008.
  6. ↑ Ole Wäny et al .: 100 years of the Roman Catholic Church Heiliggeist Interlaken . Roman Catholic Parish Interlaken, Interlaken 2008.
  7. ^ Organ profile on organ directory Switzerland and Lichtenstein
  8. ^ Resurrection bell : ringing of the Church of the Holy Spirit plenary. youtube , 2011, accessed on July 23, 2020 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '16.7 "  N , 7 ° 51' 51.1"  E ; CH1903:  632 555  /  170838