Church of Wangen an der Aare

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Church of Wangen an der Aare.

The church Wangen an der Aare is the Reformed church of the communities Walliswil , Wangen an der Aare , and Wangenried in the canton of Bern , Switzerland .

history

Wangen was a branch monastery of the Benedictine Abbey of Trub , consecrated to St. Mary and the Holy Cross . The first mention naming the Priors Cherro fall into the year 1257. The priory cheeks, first under zähringischer , then kyburgischer Kastvogtei which owned patronage of cheeks, at least in the 16th century and the patronage of the St. Ulrich Chapel Thörigen in Herzogenbuchsee, the manorial rule in the entire parish of Wangen, except in the city itself, until 1501 also half of the lower court of Deitingen and Subingen . In the parish, the provost, together with Twing and Bann, owned the tithe , the high forests, various houses in the city and numerous interest-bearing goods. In addition, she owned other interest goods in Oberaargau . The city ​​of Bern took over the Kastvogtei in 1406, placed the provost's office under its supervision and in February 1500 issued a church order in 30 articles, which regulated jurisdiction, use and production of the goods. Johann Dietrich, the last provost of Wangen, was resigned with his wife from Bern in 1528 with a personal property in Bern.

construction

Baptismal font and communion table of the church in Wangen (2011).

The archaeological findings of the current parish church showed that the provost of Wangen was an important priory in the 13th and 14th centuries . After 1200, a monastery church was built here based on the model of the mother monastery and Rüegsau , which with a total length of almost 40 meters and a width of 14.5 meters exceeded that of the mother monastery Trub. The dimensions of the altar house with side chapels and monks' choir suggest a respectable convent. The priory building adjoining the church to the south has only been partially explored archaeologically. In Guglerkrieg (1375) or in burgdorferkrieg (1383), the priory was destroyed. The church was then rebuilt without a monk choir and the convent was relocated as a provost in the north-western defense tower of the city wall. The provost's office served as a rectory after the Reformation . On the basis of a petition from the pastor Anton Herport in 1684, Governor Beat Fischer had the rectory renovated. Herport wrote: The rooms lack paneling piece by piece, not for decoration, but only to prevent the volatility of the masonry, so that I don't have to forfeit my health by sampling.

The Bernese municipal works foreman Johann Daniel Osterrieth expanded the church in 1825 to include the western steeple and lengthened the nave. The church was last renovated in 2011.

Furnishing

Several frescoes from the 13th to 15th centuries, depicting Christophorus , Georg , Ulrich and the Annunciation , adorn the chancel. The Last Supper table from 1660 made of Bernese sandstone, probably after a crack by Abraham Dünz , also serves as the table grave for Margaretha Huber, wife of Samuel Jenner , bailiff of Wangen from 1656 to 1662. The font from 1667, also designed by Dünz, is connected to the grave slab Anna Katharina Wild (1633–1667), donated by her husband, Governor Samuel Bondeli . An epitaph for Hans Jakob Wild (1638–1700), Landschreiber zu Wangen, is attached to the south wall . The epitaph created after 1783 by the sculptor Johann Friedrich Funk for the bailiff Rudolf Albrecht Zehender (1730–1783), who died before his elevator, decorates the north wall of the chancel. The stand disk from 1825 was created after a tear by the Bernese draftsman Johann Emanuel Wyss . The artist Jean Prahin (1918–2008) created a cycle of nine glass paintings with scenes from the life of Jesus on behalf of the parish council in 1982 .

List of provosts and pastors (from 1257)

  • Cherro, 1257
  • Anthony, 1258
  • Ulrich, 1275
  • Conrad von Deitingen, 1326
  • Johann Eggarp, 1342
  • Heinrich von Simisheim, 1346
  • Heinrich von Messen, 1350
  • Burkard Mettler, 1366/67
  • Aymo von Mörigen, 1389-1418
  • Conrad Brandöst, 1418–1435
  • Rudolf Messer, 1449–1458; Abbot of Trub
  • Hans Willisauer, 1461
  • Johannes Schürpf, 1461–1492
  • Rudolf Wasser, 1474
  • Anthoni von Buch, 1494
  • Johann Dietrich, 1495-1496 / 98, 1518-1528
  • Benedict Tavernier, 1496 / 98-1504

From 1528 pastor in Wangen

  • Johann Dietrich, 1528–1534
  • Ulrich Mor
  • Hans Haechler
  • Georg Stäheli , 1542 (did not take office)
  • Heinrich Kraft, 1542
  • Joachim Gachlinger, 1544
  • Beat Wilhelm Schmid, 1546
  • Johann Bossard
  • Christoph Trägenmacher, 1555
  • Markus Custor, 1565
  • Bendicht Taffenier, 1566
  • Hans Offner, 1571
  • Jakob Gelthuser, 1573
  • Hans Bullinger, 1578
  • Mathias Zimmerli, 1583
  • Hans Ulrich Bäggli, 1587
  • Jakob Brönner, 1591
  • Jakob Brunner, 1593
  • Sebastian Müller, 1597
  • Beat Krieg, 1611 (did not take office)
  • Urs Wirz, 1611
  • Jacob Anton Vulpius , 1623
  • Conrad Stanz, 1626
  • Jakob Stephani, 1631
  • Hans Räber, 1631
  • Johann Bischoff, 1639
  • Johann Jakob Vogel, 1650
  • Johann Georg Lutz, 1664
  • Anton Herport (1646–1688), 1672
  • Johann König, 1687
  • Johann Rudolf Nöthiger, 1704
  • Rudolf Spengler, 1726
  • Samuel Wyss, 1746
  • Johann Schorr, 1756
  • Johann Ulrich Ganting (1733–1808), 1765–1780
  • Rudolf Roseng, 1780–1789
  • Gabriel Rohr , 1789–1802
  • Karl Ludwig Dachs, 1802
  • Johann Walther, 1844
  • Otto Paul Flückiger (1890–1966), 1920–1956
  • Wilfried Amstutz
  • Fritz Heinz Tschanz, 1977–1986
  • Georg Wyssenbach, 1986-2004
  • Andrea Fabretti, 2005–2010
  • Bernard Kaufmann, Parish Administrator 2010–2011
  • Evelyne Zwirtes-Kehrli , 2011–2018

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With the monastery property, the provost's archive was transferred to the city of Bern during the Reformation (today the State Archives of the Canton of Bern ).

Post-Reformation:

literature

  • Urban Fink: The church cheeks before the Reformation . In: Neujahrsblatt Wangen an der Aare (2003), pp. 4–11.
  • Karl H. Flatt: The Benediktiner-Propstei Wangen aA and their provosts , in: Yearbook of Oberaargaus, Vol. 43 (2000). PDF
  • Peter Eggenberger : Cheeks on the Aare. Reformed parish church. Former Benedictine priory. Results of building research from 1980/81 , Bern 1991.
  • Karl H. Flatt: The Benedictines in Switzerland. Wangen on the Aare BE . In: Helvetia Sacra III / 1 (1986), pp. 1631-1639.
  • Susi Ulrich-Bochsler: Anthropological observations on the graves in the former altar house of the parish church of Wangen aA In: Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus, Vol. 26 (1983), pp. 115–127. PDF
  • Fritz Heinz Tschanz: On the recent history of the church of Wangen an der Aare In: Yearbook of Oberaargaus, Vol. 25 (1982), pp. 121–158. PDF
  • Peter Eggenberger, Werner Stöckli: Archaeological investigations in the parish church of Wangen an der Aare . In: Jahrbuch des Oberaargaus, Vol. 24 (1981), pp. 169–196. PDF
  • Eduard von Rodt : Bernese churches. A contribution to their history , Bern 1912.
  • Franz Thormann and Wolfgang Friedrich von Mülinen: The glass paintings of the Bernese churches , Bern 1896, p. 94.

Web links

Commons : Church Wangen an der Aare  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Braun: Kerren. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 14, 2008 , accessed June 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Bern , AI 320 , pp. 229–244; State Archives of the Canton of Bern, AI 374 , pp. 123-133.
  3. ↑ JBOAG (1959), p. 158 online (PDF; 455 kB).
  4. ^ State Archives of the Canton of Bern, CI a F. Erlach 1407.10.10 .
  5. ↑ Kathrin Utz Tremp: Benedikt Tavernier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 14, 2012 , accessed June 23, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Article Georg Stäheli ( memento from January 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the BBKL.

Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '9.3 "  N , 7 ° 39' 22.4"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred sixteen thousand four hundred seventy-seven  /  231689