Assumption of Mary (Burgdorf)

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The church Maria Himmelfahrt is the Roman Catholic parish church in Burgdorf BE , the parish Maria Himmelfahrt Burgdorf. It stands on the Gsteig hill next to the Burgdorf technical center and is registered as a cultural asset of regional importance.

History and parish structure

In the 19th century, the Roman Catholic parish in Bern was rebuilt after 400 years. Also in the mission station in Burgdorf, in the hall of the restaurant “Metzgern”, the first church service began on March 9, 1884, which Pastor Jakob Stammler from Bern celebrated with 32 Catholics on behalf of Bishop Eugène Lachat . Every 14 days, priests from Bern or Thun organized the Sunday services for the next 18 years. On August 15, 1897, the Burgdorf region received its own pastor, Pastor Louis Rippstein. According to the chronicle, he looked after 96 Catholic families with 34 school children, as well as the Italian "foreign workers" and the inmates of the women's prison in Hindelbank , the educational institution in Trachselwald and the reformatory on the Thorberg . The scope of the parish covered a large area with 90 political parishes between Zollikofen and Aarwangen and between Biberist and Trub . Without a church, without an apartment, without money and without a car, the pastor built up the parish.

The Catholic Kultusverein Burgdorf was founded in 1899 and in the same year a site for a church building was acquired west of the technical center. The teacher Armin Stöcklin, who worked at the technical center from 1893 to 1907, was commissioned as the architect and the building application was submitted in March 1901. The church could be completed in May 1902. At the end of 1903 the tower bells and at Easter 1905, Jakobus Stammler, who had meanwhile become bishop, consecrated the church in the name of the Assumption of Mary. -The rectory that was built at the same time was built in 1902.

In the sprawling parish, parish rectorates were gradually formed in Langnau , Utzenstorf , Konolfingen and Münsingen . Langenthal became its own parish in 1925. At the beginning of 1970 the parish split up, the new parishes Resurrection Konolfingen , Heilig Kreuz Langnau , St. Johannes Münsingen and St. Peter and Paul Utzenstorf were separated .

On March 1st, 2015, Bishop Felix Gmür established the pastoral area Emmental with Burgdorf, Langnau and Utzenstorf and the Missione Cattolica. According to the resolution of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , the parish of Burgdorf currently comprises :

A new building was planned for the 1960s. In 1966, the parish assembly approved a development plan for the plot, which provided for the demolition of the rectory and church. From 1967 to 1972 a parish hall and a new rectory were built. However, the planned new church building according to plans by the Burgdorf architect Adrian Keckeis was rejected by the parish assembly on May 5, 1981. In contrast, on June 3, 1985, the same authority approved the restoration project for the old building.

Building description

Assumption of Mary with parish hall

The location of the Marienkirche on the "Gsteig" in the vicinity of the castle, church, rectory and technical center complements the series of monumental buildings on the hillside of the city. Contrary to tradition, the building was oriented with the entrance facade on the east side facing the street. The architect Stöcklin planned a rectangular hall with a floor plan of around 23.5 × 11 m, to which he added a recessed, square choir with a semicircular apse . The master builder work was done by Gribi & Cie . Burgdorf executed. The simple hall construction is covered with a gable roof. Outside and inside, pilaster strips formed in the plaster divide four yokes , each with a large arched window. The main facade is divided by four pilaster strips into three sections, in the middle the neo-Romanesque, ciborium-like porch made of stone is presented. A figure of Mary stands in a niche in the gable field, above which the open gable rider with pointed helmet is built. The broom-thrown plaster and the corresponding yellowish tinted plaster pilaster strips as well as the Jurassic stone of the borders and parts of the house give the building a harmonious, uniform appearance.

Interior and artistic equipment

Assumption of Mary inside

The double-leaf portal made of oak is processed with forged fittings made from curved leaf tendrils. As on the outside, the interior walls are divided into yokes. The pilasters form large, the eave-reaching blind arches and with the five curved trusses of the open roof structure, they emphasize the jochweise zoning. The trusses resting on long stitch beams , with curved lugs, run out in the fighting zone of the windows. The retracted choir has a groin vault and an apse with a closing dome .

The room structure between the arched trusses emphasized by the decorative painting was painted over during the redesign in the 1960s. In 1987 the church was renovated inside and out and then placed under monument protection. During the most recent renovations, a thin layer of insulation was attached to the outside walls on the inside, and the original decorative paintings were restored largely true to the original by the restorer Walter Ochsner. In addition to the three marble altars that were supplied by Schmidt & Schmidweber Dietikon (called Marmori ) when the church was built, the neo-Romanesque stucco pulpit from the same workshop has been preserved. The baptismal font in the form of a cube capital is also preserved . The choir room was redesigned by the St. Gallen artist Hans Thomann . He put a new cube-shaped altar made of matted Plexiglas on a polished chrome steel plate at the choir steps. With the ambo, also made of chrome steel, and the Easter candle, the new liturgical area is integrated into the existing furnishings. The old high altar was moved back into the apse, creating a church service room for smaller groups with variable seating in the choir.

The vestibule in the entrance area and the adjacent room of silence were also designed by Hans Thomann. With the ornamentally painted windows, the old pews and the gallery parapets decorated with blind arcades, the general style of the turn of the century around 1900 was retained.

Tower and bells

The bell tower is placed on the gable facade as a roof turret. On New Year's Day 1904, the three bells that were cast by H. Rüetschi in Aarau in 1865 and purchased as an second hand from the parish of Fulenbach rang for the first time . The large bell bears the inscription “VIVOS VOCO” (“I call the living”), the middle bell is marked “MORTUOS PLANGO” (“I weep the dead”) and the small bell with “ORA PRO NOBIS” (“Please for us").

organ

Maria Himmelfahrt gallery and organ

In 1924, an enlarged organ purchased from Ballwil was installed on the gallery . In 1988 Jean-Daniel Ayer Sàrl, Orgelbau Vauderens, built a new organ with 2 manuals and a pedal . In 2011 the instrument was revised after the church was renovated. It has 28 registers with mechanical action and stop action as well as slider drawers .

I Hauptwerk (Grand Orgue) C–
Bourdon 16 ′
Montre 8th'
Viol 8th'
Flûte à cheminée 8th'
Prestant 4 ′
Flûte ouverte 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Fittings 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Grand Cornet 8th'
Trumpets 8th'
II positive (bell mechanism) C–
Flute 8th'
Suavial 8th'
Viole d'amour 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Flûte traversière 8th'
Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Plein-jeu 2 ′
Basson 16 ′
Trompette harmonique 8th'
Tremblant
Pedal C–
Soubasse 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Violonchello 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Bombard 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Electronic Combinator

literature

  • Jürg Schweizer: The Art Monuments of the Canton of Bern Landband 1, The City of Burgdorf . Ed .: Society for Swiss Art History . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1985, ISBN 3-7643-1712-4 , p. 476-478 .
  • Markus Buenzli-Buob, Roland Spring (photos): Church of the Assumption of Mary Burgdorf . Ed .: Parish Council Burgdorf. Burgdorf 2016, p. 36 . on-line

See also

Web links

Commons : Maria Himmelfahrt (Burgdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KGS no .: 842.
  2. ↑ Pastoral area Emmental on kathbern.ch
  3. ↑ 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).
  4. ↑ Welcome. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
  5. ^ Organ directory of Switzerland and Lichtenstein accessed on January 4, 2020
  6. ↑ Description of the organ with pictures, accessed in French on January 5, 2020

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '29.2 "  N , 7 ° 37' 9.2"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-one  /  211914