List of sacred buildings in the city of St. Gallen
This is a list of the churches, chapels, and places of worship in the city of St. Gallen . The sorting is roughly based on the importance of the church for the city's history and on the age.
Surname | Location | Denomination | First mention, first construction | Today's construction | history | Architecture of today's church |
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Collegiate Church of St. Gallus and St. Otmar |
Monastery district | Catholic | at 612 | 1772 | First chapel built by Gallus around 612 , later new buildings a. a. by Otmar (after 719) and Gozbert around 837. Until the new building in 1766, the Otmar Church from 867, the Gallus Minster from 837 and the Michael Chapel from 867 existed on the site | Baroque building built 1755–1772 by Gabriel Loser and Johann Caspar Bagnato. Among them still today the Otmar crypt (10th century), today the burial place of the bishops of St. Gallen , and the Gallus crypt (from the time of Gozbert). |
Sacred Heart Chapel | Klosterviertel, at the end of the cloister | Catholic | 1770 | Formerly the chapter house , the chapel received its current form between 1764 and 1770. | Equipped with statues of the apostles by Franz Anton Dirr from the former church in Bruggen and perspective views of Swiss Benedictine monasteries | |
Gallus Chapel | Monastery district, outer monastery courtyard | Catholic | at the latest 971 | 1671 | A chapel had existed here since 971 at the latest, and a new chapel was built in its place during renovations in 1671. Entrance flanked by larger-than-life statues of Saints Mauritius and Desiderius of Vienne | Almost square interior, walls and ceiling filled with paintings from the life of St. Gall, presumably by Johann Sebastian Hersche |
Court chapel (bishop's chapel ) | Monastery district, bishop's apartment | Catholic | 1671 | The chapel was consecrated in 1671. | Lush coffered ceiling depicting various saints who were important in St. Gallen | |
Children's Chapel ( Guardian Angel Chapel ) |
Northern boundary of the Stiftsviertel | Catholic | 1843-46 | Built by Felix Wilhelm Kubly for the Catholic administration. | Cubic, two-storey building with a hipped roof, all in white | |
City Church of St. Laurenzen |
Old town, near the abbey district | Center of the Reformation in the city since Vadian | presumably 9th century | around 1850 | First building, probably in the 9th century, with parish rights as early as 1170. New building in 1413 in the Gothic style , rebuilt and expanded several times during the Middle Ages. Center and meeting room for the reformed citizens of the city | Renewed and rebuilt on a large scale after 1850 according to plans by Johann Georg Müller, Ferdinand Stadler and Johann Christoph Kunkler. Among other things, the tower was completely rebuilt. Striking, neo-Gothic gallery with a monumental organ front on the choir side of the interior. The St. Laurence Church is still the meeting place for local residents of the city of St. Gallen. |
St. Mangen Church |
St. Mangen (Irer Vorstadt) | Reformed since Vadian | 898 | around 1100 | 898 first church by Abbot Solomon, in honor of the monk Magnus († around 759). Saint Wiborada was martyred here during the Hungarian invasion in 926. The church was rebuilt around 1100 | Several, in part far-reaching renovations, most recently 1979–82; Early Romanesque style , Gothic tower , several peepholes that formerly led into the attached Klausen, in which ascetics, like the Wiborada, were walled in. |
St. Wiborada Chapel | St. Mangen (Irer Vorstadt) | before 1456 | 1946 | Built on the site of the Wiborada hermitage. At the Church of St. Mangen grown | 1567 conversion to library 1774 demolition 1946 reconstruction |
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Kapuzinerinnenkloster Notkersegg | Notkersegg | Catholic | 1381 | 1671/1718 | First community attested in 1381 "on the Tann" (southeast of the current location), first altar in 1410, first chapel in 1453 | Church consecrated in a new location in 1671, destroyed by fire in 1718, then rebuilt. |
Former Dominican convent of St. Catherine | North of the market square | reformed since 1528 | 1228 | 1884 | First monastery founded in 1228, since 1268 under the rule of Dominic . The monastery dissolved in 1528 with the Reformation, the sisters moved to Wil in 1607. Later the city's schoolhouse for a long time and the location of the Vadian library. | Former monastery church still exists, several major renovations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Today exhibition room on the ground floor, open access library on the first floor. |
St. Leonhard's Church | West of the train station | reformed | 17th century | 1887 | There is evidence of an older church from the 17th century | Built 1885–1887 by Ferdinand Wachter in neo-Gothic style . The church was last used for cultural purposes, in 2007 the attic burned down. |
St. Fiden Church | St. Fiden | Catholic | 1225 | 1778 | First mentioned in 1225, thus originally Catholic, deprived of images during the Reformation, today Catholic again. The church was probably donated around 1100 in honor of the martyr Fides . | Today's church built by Johann Ferdinand Beer in 1777/78 , the tower was raised in 1874, the nave was extended in 1954/1955. Undivided baroque building with hipped roof, rich Rococo furnishings. |
Chapel of St. Peter and Paul | Rotmonten | 10th century? | Built in the 10th or 11th century, devastated by the iconoclasm during the Reformation, later restored, demolished in 1770 due to dilapidation | |||
Heiligkreuz pilgrimage church | Heiligkreuz, Sonnenhaldenstrasse 2 | Catholic | 18th century | 1773 | A first cross may have been here since the 17th century. Protected with a roof since 1747, along with kneeling benches for the pilgrims. Since 1930 the parish church of Heiligkreuz-Rotmonten, replaced in 1950 by the Trinity Church, has been preserved as a pilgrimage church. | 1771–1773 Construction of today's church, with an extension in 1776. |
synagogue |
Western suburb | Jewish community of St. Gallen | 1880 | Built 1880–81 by Chiodera & Tschudi in the Moorish-Byzantine architectural style on a square floor plan with a central dome and four corner domes. Inside completely decorated with paintings | ||
Brother Klaus Church angles |
Winkeln, Herisauerstrasse | Catholic | 1959 | Built in 1958/59 by Ernst Brantschen and Alfons Weisser | Modern building with prestressed concrete ceiling and free-standing tower | |
Trinity Church | Iddastrasse 31 | Catholic | 1950 | Built 1949–1950 by Johannes Scheier, interior paintings by Walter Burger, glass paintings by Albert Schenker and August Wanner. | Inconspicuous, but bulky-looking church building with a wide tower. | |
Church of St. Peter and Paul Rotmonten | On the Rosenberg | Catholic | 1969 | Built 1967–69 by Oskar Müller & Mario Facincani | Modern, whitewashed exposed concrete, round interior. Window by Ferdinand Gehr. | |
Ref. Rotmonten Church | Berghaldenplatz | reformed | 1966 | Built 1965–66 by Heinrich Danzeisen & Hans Voser | ||
Ref. Church Tablat | Heiligkreuz, Lettenstrasse 18 | reformed | 1913 | Tablat's most important reformed church , built 1911–13 by Curjel & Moser. | Monumental rectangular building with hipped roof and tower with onion dome, vestibule in Doric style with four columns | |
Herz-Jesu-Kirche St. Georgen |
St. Georgen | Catholic | 9th century | 1932 | First chapel dedicated to Saint George from the 9th century, replaced in the 15th century by the so-called Wiborada parish church, today's church from 1932 | |
St. Georgen | Demutstrasse 20 | reformed | ||||
St. Martin Bruggen | Bruggen, Zürcherstrasse 253 | Catholic | 1600 | 1936 | First chapel consecrated in 1600, first village church from 1672. Baroque new building in 1784 by Johann Ferdinand Beer , fitted with a new tower in 1808. Today's church built by Erwin Schenker in 1935/36, then the one from 1784 demolished. | Transversely positioned entrance hall, north-west tower and nave reminiscent of the Romanesque style, interior fittings by August Wanner, Johannes Hugentobler, Josef Büsser, Albert Schenker and Ferdinand Gehr |
Linsebühl Church |
Linsebühl, south of Rorschacherstrasse | reformed | 1897 | Built 1895–1897 by Armin Stöcklin on the site of an older church | German Renaissance style | |
St. Maria Neudorf |
Neudorf | Catholic | 1917 | Built by Adolf Gaudy 1914-17, its most glamorous church complex. | Built based on Art Nouveau . Rich interior with paintings by Fritz Kunz and art glazing by Richard A. Nüscheler. Rosette in the west facade taken from the village church of the Swiss National Exhibition of 1914 . | |
Ref. Church of Bruggen | Bruggen, Zürcherstrasse 223 | reformed | 1906 | Built 1903–1906 by Curjel & Moser | German Renaissance style | |
Ref. Parish Hall Grossacker | Grossacker, Claudiusstrasse 11 | reformed | 1954/1959 | Built in 1954 and 1959 by Eric A. Steiger & Paul Trüdinger | Parish hall with a free-standing tower made of exposed concrete. | |
Chapel of St. Wolfgang | Haggen | Catholic | 15th century | 1647 | Chapel from the 15th century, new building 1644–47, renovated in 1947. | Early baroque chapel with figures of Saints Wolfgang and Ulrich from 1647 |
Bildkapelle |
Picture angles, Zürcherstrasse 436 | Catholic | around 1204 | 1666 | by 1209 the first shrine in memory of a battle on the wide field of 1208, 1666 by Prince Abbot Gallus Alt to today's Barbara chapel built in Baroque style | Baroque style chapel divided by Tuscan pilasters. Striking arcade vestibule, small turret with a single bell. |
Maria Einsiedeln chapel | Nice way | Catholic | 1680 | 1770 | Field cross of unknown age replaced by a stone wayside shrine in 1680, replaced by today's chapel in 1770 | Baroque chapel |
Parish Church of St. Otmar |
Vonwil | Catholic | 1908 | Built by August Hardegger 1905–1908 | Three-aisled basilica with a transept and a striking tower on the west side, choir with three cones . The style is very reminiscent of a Gothic church. | |
Ref. Stephanshorn Church | Stephanshornstrasse 25 | reformed | ||||
Halden Parity Church | Oberhaldenstrasse 25 | ecumenical | November 1, 1986 | The city's only officially ecumenical church was designed with this in mind. | ||
Abdication hall in the east cemetery | East cemetery | catholic / reformed | 1908 | Built in 1908 by Alfred Cuttat, remodeled in 1967 | Building with portico and round tower, glass windows by Ferdinand Gehr . | |
El Hidaje Mosque |
Herisauerstrasse 52 | Islamic | Inconspicuous building that received public attention when a man was shot dead during a Friday prayer in 2014. | Artistically designed prayer and community rooms in a former residential building | ||
Jewish burial chapel | East cemetery | Jewish community | 1912 | Created in 1912 by Moll & Eberhard as a result of the abandonment of the older Jewish cemetery in Hagenbuch. Neo-Romanesque dome building | ||
Abdication hall Feldli | Feldli cemetery | catholic / reformed | 1876 | shared prayer chapel at the abdication halls | ||
New Apostolic Church | Dufourstrasse | New Apostolic | 1957 | Built in 1957 by Heinrich Graf | White plastered cube on a black base | |
Christ Church | Dufourstrasse 77 | christ catholic | 1890 | built in 1890, sold to the Christian Catholic community in 1895. | Facing brick building with a central projectile and striking corner towers, reminiscent of Italian Renaissance villas. | |
Greek Orthodox Church of St. Constantine and St. Helena | Feldli cemetery | Greek Orthodox | The church is dedicated to Saints Constantine and Helena | |||
Ref. Rectory Lachen | Laugh | reformed | 1922 | Built in 1921–22 by Ziegler & Balmer | Neoclassical style, supplemented in 1962 with a free-standing exposed concrete church tower | |
Ref. Rectory Winkeln | Kreuzbühlstrasse | reformed | 1962 | Built in 1962 | Parish hall with a free-standing tower | |
Riethüsli-Hofstetten Church | Gerhardtstrasse 11 | reformed | ||||
Riethüsli | Gerhardtstrasse | Catholic | October 31, 1987 | |||
First Church of Christ Scientist | Böcklinstrasse 2 | Christian Science | 1925 | Built 1924–1925 by Ernst Kuhn | Neoclassical building with a gabled entrance hall | |
Missione Cattolica | Heimatstrasse 13 | Catholic | Church of the Missione Cattolica for Italian-speaking Christians | The church patron is Anthony of Padua |
Remarks
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, the denomination refers to the current state
- ↑ year of completion
- ↑ Rebuilt, essentially unchanged since the 13th century.
- ↑ St. Gallen mosque murder . St. Galler Tagblatt. October 31, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Layout of the cemetery
See also
- History of the city of St. Gallen as opposed to the contrast between the Catholic and Reformed parishes in the city
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- Karl Wegelin: The parish church of St. Laurenzen from its origins to our time - a documented contribution to illuminating the church and Reformation history of the city of St. Gallen , St. Gallen 1832, 128 pages, online.
- Ernst Ehrenzeller: History of the City of St. Gallen . VGS Verlagsgemeinschaft, St. Gallen 1988, ISBN 3-7291-1047-0
- Daniel Studer (Ed.): Art and Culture Guide Canton St. Gallen . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-0153-3