Jesuit Church (Innsbruck)

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Exterior view
Jesuit Church Innsbruck inside
View of the organ

The Roman Catholic Jesuit Church in Innsbruck is a Trinity Church near the Old University , east of the old town .

history

The church was built from 1627 to 1646 by Karl Fontaner and Christoph Gumpp the Younger in place of previous buildings. Friedrich Schachner's facade towers were donated by Johann von Sieberer in 1901 . The church is considered an early baroque work in Innsbruck. The models for the cross-domed church were Il Gesù in Rome and the new construction of the cathedral in Salzburg . The strict structure of the front is typical.

Place of worship of St. Pirminius

The body of St. Pirminius , who also became the city's patron, has been located here since 1575 . His original burial place was in the Palatinate monastery of Hornbach , whose last abbot, Anton von Salm , saved the relics in 1558 because the monastery had been abolished in Speyer . From there, the former president of the Imperial Court of Speyer and now governor of Tyrol - Count Schweikhard von Helfenstein - took them to Innsbruck in 1575 , where they are today in a  shrine created in 1954 by Rudolf Millonig in the Jesuit church.

organ

The organ of the Jesuit Church was built in 1959 by the organ building company EF Walcker & Cie. built. The planning comes from Anton Heiller . The slider chest instrument has 34 registers on three manuals and a pedal . In the course of a general renovation in 2004 and in the years 2007-2008 the disposition was changed slightly.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Covered 8th'
2. Quintatön 8th'
3. Prefix 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Gemshorn 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Scharff IV 1'
8th. Dulcian 16 ′
9. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Quintatön 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. octave 4 ′
14th Pointed flute 4 ′
15th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. octave 2 ′
17th Mixture V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Cornett III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Breastwork C – g 3
20th Copula 8th'
21st Small set 4 ′
22nd Principal 2 ′
23. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
25th Wooden crumhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
26th Principal bass 16 ′
27. Sub bass 16 ′
28. Octave bass 8th'
29 Covered bass 8th'
30th Choral bass 4 ′
31. Night horn 2 ′
32. Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. trombone 16 ′
34. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Remarks
  1. ↑ a b new register (2008).
  2. ↑ 2008; formerly a VI-VIII course.
  3. ↑ 2008; previously in the Rückpositiv; existing shelf 8 'at this point was stored.
  4. ↑ 2004; formerly trumpet 4 ′.

Bells

By 1901 there were four bells from 1579 and 1640. The largest of them, called the Silver Bell , cast in 1597 by Hans Christof Löffler with a weight of 1.3 tons and a diameter of 1.30 meters in the tone dis 1 , was the only one of the four bells that was preserved and was converted into a monumental one in 1901 Integrated seven bells weighing over 21 tons. After it had survived the two world wars, it was the only bell in the church to ring for many years. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Tyrolean struggle for freedom in 1959, the Tyrolean rifle companies donated a big bell. It was cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck, consecrated on July 19 of the same year and hung in the north tower. The so-called Schützenglocke , consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus , with a weight of over 9 tons, a diameter of 2.48 meters and a tone e 0 , corresponds to the dimensions of the former large bell from 1901. It is the fourth largest bell in Austria. It is rung every Friday at 3 p.m. at the hour of Jesus' death and on the most important religious holidays . The Silver Bell rang on all other occasions until 2019 . In order to relieve the much-used old bell, two bells were cast by the Grassmayr bell foundry in Innsbruck on July 12, 2019 and consecrated on October 13: The martyr's bell in clay ice 1 , designed by the East Tyrolean artist Peter Raneburger, is the martyrs of the University of Innsbruck dedicated to the 350th anniversary of the university in 2019. The Maria-Magdalena-Glock e in g sharp 1 , designed by the Innsbruck artist Nora Schöpfer, is dedicated to the first witness to the resurrection of Jesus and apostle of the apostles. The bells were hung in the west tower, together with the silver bell ; the old bell yokes that were still in place were restored and reused. These three bells have since formed the new Sunday chimes.

Burial places

Eleven members of the Habsburg family

underneath

Jesuits who worked in Innsbruck

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website with information on the Pirminius relics in Innsbruck
  2. ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the parish
  3. ↑ Two new bells for the Jesutienkirche Innsbruck. October 14, 2019, accessed March 7, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Jesuit Church Innsbruck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 53 ″  E