Parish Church of Bregenz-Herz Jesu

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Catholic parish church Bregenz-Herz Jesu, double tower facade
Choir side with transept

The Roman Catholic parish church of Bregenz-Herz Jesu stands on a small plateau (height of the square in front of the main portal 413 m above sea level = about 17 m above the mean level of Lake Constance ) above the city center on Kolpingplatz in the city of Bregenz in Vorarlberg . The parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is part of the Bregenz deanery of the Feldkirch diocese . The patronage of the church is celebrated on the Sacred Heart Festival - on the third Sunday after Pentecost. The church is a listed building .

history

Layout

On June 16, 1896, the 100th anniversary of the Tyrolean state consecration to the heart of Jesus - all communities in the state of Vorarlberg were solemnly consecrated to the divine heart of Jesus. For this anniversary, the citizens of Bregenz decided to set up a fund to build a Sacred Heart Church. Thus, on July 13, 1896, the Herz-Jesu Church Building Fund Committee was founded with Karl Bernhard Schwärzler (1844–1912) as a board member. An unknown benefactor made the construction of this church possible in 1900, as the building site could be bought with his donation of 28,000 crowns. In 1901 the Herz-Jesu-Kirchenbau-Verein was founded in Bregenz with Karl Bernhard Schwärzler as chairman. The building of the church and the interior furnishings were financed almost entirely from donations from citizens of Bregenz. In 1902, the Stuttgart architect Joseph Cades (1855–1943) presented the blueprints. The construction of the church began on May 1, 1905, and the foundation work was completed in less than a year, so that construction could then begin immediately. The foundation stone on the left pillar of the transept to the altar house was consecrated on May 24, 1906 by Abbot Eugen Notz (1857–1917), 6th abbot of the private Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey (Cistercian monastery). The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 21, 1906 . The benediction was made on November 21, 1908 by the Bregenz city pastor and dean Georg Prutscher (1835-1916). The consecration was made in 1912.

In 1940 the parish vicariate of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was established and in 1958, on the 50th anniversary of the church, after extensive renovation, the church was elevated to the status of an independent parish.

After almost 50 years, on October 11, 1958, the church was consecrated again by Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop Bruno Wechner (1908–1999), first bishop of the Feldkirch diocese . On October 13th the bells were consecrated with the Salve Regina carillon .

In 1969 the church forecourt and the stairs were renovated, and in 1994 the organ restoration was completed. In addition, the church received underfloor heating in the early 1990s.

In 2008 the 100th anniversary of the church, or the 50th anniversary as a parish church, was celebrated, on November 23, 2008 the 100th anniversary festival service was held.

architecture

A three-aisled basilica with two 62 m high towers in neo-Gothic style made of brick was built on a cruciform floor plan . The twin tower facade facing northwest is reminiscent of Norman architecture . The main distinguishing feature of the basilica is the upper aisle , which is almost twice as high as the aisles. With three-part windows through the upper cladding, the church is illuminated on both sides from the central nave.

  • Central nave high altar

  • Central nave gallery

  • Aisle on the left

  • Aisle on the right

  • inner space

Furnishing

At the beginning of the First World War , the altars , which were also built in the neo-Gothic style, were completed. On the high altar , various sculptures and reliefs show, among other things, the birth of Christ , the Lord's Supper , Christ as a sacrificial priest , the sacrificial lamb , Christ on the Mount of Olives and Christ's Ascension . The four winged altars venerate the Good Shepherd and Saints Mary, Joseph and Aloisius.

The pulpit was erected between 1939 and 1941. The font in the left transept was made from Treuchtlingen marble using modern architecture. The stations of the cross , beginning in the aisle on the right in front with the Judas kiss and opposite ending with the angel who proclaims the resurrection , are modern architecture. In the vestibule of the basilica there is a statue of St. Anthony of Padua with the baby Jesus, carved in stone by the sculptor Emil Gehrer (1913/14? –1992) from Bregenz .

organ

Prospectus of the Behmann organ
The console of the Behmann organ

The organ was built from 1928 to 1931 by the Schwarzach organ builder Josef Behmann (son of Anton Behmann ). As op. 148 of a total of 151 new organs, it is one of his late works. It was overhauled in 1953 and restored by Orgelbau Kuhn (Männedorf / CH) from 1992–1994 . The cone store instrument today has 61 stops (54 real stops, six extracts, one transmission) on 3 manuals and pedal . It is a listed building and is classified as a “high-level sound monument” and a “Vorarlberg cultural property of the first order”. More than 25 years after the work by Kuhn, the organ is to be thoroughly repaired in 2020 and, as a modern addition, supplemented with a setting system.

Due to the super octave couplings in all manual works, the pipework is expanded up to a 4 , which is why the total number of 4,650 pipes is high for an organ with 54 real registers . The action actions are electro-pneumatic, the stop actions are pneumatic. The console stands free on the north side of the gallery, with the organist facing south. So that organ accompaniment is possible even in the event of a power failure, Behmann installed the "pneumatic reserve keyboard", an additional manual with which only the main work can be played, near the large console in the base of the organ. The wind supply is done in this case by a Kalkanten .

I main work C – a 3
1. Principal major 16 ′
2. Flauto amabile 16 ′
3. Principal primo 8th'
4th Large covered 8th'
5. Viola di gamba 8th'
6th Flute harmonique 8th'
7th Gemshorn 8th'
8th. Dolce 8th'
9. Fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. octave 4 ′
11. Hollow flute 4 ′
12. Fifth (from no.16) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. Super octave 2 ′
14th Seventh (from No. 16) 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
15th Cornet IV-V 8th'
16. Prim Mixture VI 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Trumpet 8th'
18th Clairon 4 ′
II swell positive C – a 3
19th Drone 16 ′
20th Principal secundo 8th'
21st Tibia 8th'
22nd Viola baritona 8th'
23. Covered 8th'
24. Quintatön 8th'
25th Salicional 8th'
26th Aeoline 8th'
27. Vox cölestis 8th'
28. Violin principal 4 ′
29 Transverse flute 4 ′
30th Viola d'amour 4 ′
31. Piccolo (from No. 32) 2 ′
32. Secund mixture IV-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Trumpet harmonique 8th'
34. clarinet 8th'
III Swell C – a 3
35. Quintatön 16 ′
36. Violin principal 8th'
37. Drone 8th'
38. Viola alta 8th'
39. Concert flute 8th'
40. Unda maris 8th'
41. Dulciana 8th'
42. Fugara 4 ′
43. Reed flute 4 ′
44. Flageolet (from No. 46) 2 ′
45. Third flute (from No. 46) 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
46. Cornet III-IV 4 ′
47. oboe 8th'
48. Vox humana 8th' (2001)
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
49. Pedestal 32 ′
50. Principal bass 16 ′
51. Sub bass 16 ′
52. Violon bass 16 ′
53. Accordion bass 16 ′
54. Subtle bass (= No. 19) 16 ′
55. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
56. Octave bass 8th'
57. cello 8th'
58. Choral bass (from No. 59) 4 ′
59. Mixturbass IV 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
60. trombone 16 ′
61. Trumpet bass 8th'
  • Couple
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I, II / II, III / II, III / III
    • Super octave coupling: I / I, II / I, III / I, II / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Melody coupler: I / II
  • Playing aids: fixed combinations (pp, p, mf, f ff, pleno, tutti), triggers, three free combinations, general tutti, register crescendo, various shelves

The long-standing Herz-Jesu organist Helmut Binder played the CD: " Sigfrid Karg-Elert Symphonic Organ Music" (Edition Lade / EL CD 018), as well as a CD with works by Franz Schmidt , Max Reger , Karg-Elert and Anton Heiller (EL CD 011) on the Behmann organ.

Peal

In the middle of the First World War, in 1916, the copper for the tower roof and the smaller of the two bells had to be delivered for material procurement. With the “Spoonbill Bell” and the “Heidenglocke” donated by the St. Gallus parish church in Bregenz, a harmonious chime, the Salve-Regina glockenspiel, could be produced in 1950 . The bells were cast by the Pfundner bell foundry (Vienna). Since two more bells had cracked, the entire ringing was replaced in 1963 by five new bells cast by the Oberascher bell foundry (Salzburg); Only the smallest bell of the Pfundner chimes from 1950 (bell 6, "death bell") remained. All bells from 1963 were cast in "middle rib." The chimes have the chimes g 0 , h 0 , d 1 , e 1 , g 1 and g 2 .

literature

  • Wolfgang Rusch, K. Spahr: Herz-Jesu Bregenz. (= Small Art Guide; 1157). Schnell & Steiner, Munich / Zurich 1981.
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 . Bregenz, parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pp. 60-64.
  • Austrian Yearbook 1984. Based on official sources. (Vol. 56). Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1985.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Vorarlberg Atlas 4. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ orgelbau.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .
  3. ^ Organ renovation 2020 - Catholic Church in Bregenz. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Information on the organ at organindex.de
  5. ↑ Text booklet for the CD: "Sigfrid Karg-Elert Symphonic Organ Music" - Helmut Binder (Edition Lade / EL CD 018)
  6. ↑ See also the video recording of the bell on YouTube

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ 8 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 1 ″  E