Reformed church Hasle near Burgdorf

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The Reformed Church of Hasle b. Burgdorf

The Reformed Church Hasle bei Burgdorf is the Reformed village church of Hasle bei Burgdorf , in the ecclesiastical district of Lower Emmental of the Reformed Church of Bern-Jura-Solothurn . With its frescos it is registered as a cultural asset of regional importance.

history

Presumably, a chapel already existed in Hasle at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. There is a first documentary evidence from the middle of the 13th century. In 1254 it is mentioned that the "folk priest of Hasela, Heinrich von Ried, who came from Uettligen near Wohlen , renounced the parental property that had been sold". In the 12th century the area belonged to the rule of the Zähringer (builders of the town of Burgdorf ), from 1218 to that of the Kyburger , in whose inventory the name Hasle appears.

The church of Hasle was probably founded by a knightly landlord who owned the church law and the rights and obligations for it. Until 1427 these were Petermann von Buchsee, Landvogt zu Aarberg and his brother Hermann, noblemen of the Counts of Kyburg and citizens of Burgdorf, who ceded the church rate in exchange for two goods in Schangnau to the Convent of Trub . As a result, monks from the Trub monastery in Hasle worked as folk priests for a hundred years. Namely: Johann Mahler (1447 to 1458), Jakob Grässlin (1459 to 1470), Berthold Vischer (1470 to 1485), Beat Sulzer (after 1494), Anton Dietrich (1501 to 1510), Johann Merk (1519 to 1520) and Ludwig Mahler (until 1528). After the Reformation in 1528, the Trub Monastery was abolished and the church authority fell to Bern. As visible evidence of the presence of the von Trub monks, frescoes on the life of St. Benedict have been preserved in the Hasle church .

Building history and architecture

Including the medieval chapel , the church was decisively rebuilt and enlarged by the Bern cathedral builder Abraham Dünz from 1678 to 1680, when the Junker Andreas von Bonstetten was mayor of Burgdorf . A sermon room was created according to a new concept, in which the preaching of the word should be the focus. The font and the pulpit made of the greenish sandstone of the area were placed in the center of the choir. The choir arch was torn off: so that one could see the Cantzel from all places and no longer sleep there .

High arched windows in the side walls and in the choir now lit the room. Smaller arched windows were installed over the gallery and ox-eye windows over the side doors . On the outside, the side gates were covered with pent roofs and a prewar was added to the western main entrance , which was removed when the tower was later built. The ridge roof ended in the west as a crooked hip roof and carried a copper rooster above the octagonal choir at the ridge end as a symbol of vigilance. Because of the recurring floods caused by the high Emme , the original floor of the church was raised in several stages by 1.80 meters, as investigations during the renovation in 1937 showed. For this reason, the cemetery was moved in 1846 to the level of the «Preisegg». Because of the urgent need to renovate the interior of the church, around 1905 the question was asked whether it might not make more sense to rebuild the church at a higher location. Because of the excessive effort, it was then dispensed with and the church was rebuilt and renovated several times in the following years. The tower that still exists today was built in 1956.

tower

Until the new tower was built in 1956, the bells of the church hung in a roof turret above the western ridge. At the same time the sacristy was built in front of the west facade. From the open basement of the tower you can enter the church through the main entrance. The tower is based on the Romanesque style and has a pointed helmet and a tower cross. The tower clock with four dials was built by Baer AG Sumiswald. Above the clock, behind a wooden wreath, is the bell cage with sound holes open on all sides.

Frescoes

Murals about the life of St. Benedict
Murals about the life of St. Benedict

Between 1430 and 1440 seven pictures with scenes from the life of St. Benedict were painted on the north wall of the choir .

  1. Benedict leaves Rome
  2. Benedict reading in the cave, a monk lets him down a basket of food on a rope, the tempter in the form of a bird
  3. Benedict thinking
  4. The tempter in the form of a virgin
  5. Christ appears to a priest and instructs Benedict to bring Easter supper
  6. Benedict praying
  7. Benedict, supported by a monk, breathes his soul in front of an altar

Later, an 18-part series of pictures with the Passion of Christ and the Last Judgment was added in the nave . Two of the pictures were lost when a window was installed and the others were painted over after the Reformation. During an interior renovation in 1881, the wall paintings were discovered and added to the register of cantonal cultural monuments in 1902. They were restored in 1937.

Stained glass

The high windows on the south and north walls as well as the three in the choir come from the construction phase by Abraham Dünz. From this time, some coats of arms by glass painter Hans Jakob Güder have been preserved and inserted into the windows of the 1912 renovation. There are coats of arms of the city of Bern and the donors Samuel Fischer , Christian Willading , Johann Leonhart Engel, Johann Anthoni Tillier and Johann Rudolff Wurstemberger . Above the Tillier and Wurstemberger disks is a donation disk, donated by Bern on the occasion of the 1957 renovation, with the Archangel Michael slaying the dragon. A donor disk for the city of Burgdorf from Samuel Schwartzwald and the coat of arms disks from Samuel Frisching , Andreas von Bonstetten and Landvogt Samuel Fischer bought the Bern government in 1843, they are in the Bern Historical Museum .

The choir windows were created in the war year 1915 based on designs by Burkhard Mangold and were made by Emil Gerster, Basel. They show works of mercy as a central theme. In the middle window, two paramedics carry an injured soldier on a stretcher while a nurse hands him a mug. Above it is shown the parable of the good Samaritan ( Luke 10.25–37  EU ). In the left window above the local coat of arms is the passion scene : Jesus falls under the cross and Simon of Cyrene comes to the rescue ( Lk 23.26  EU ), in the right window the Bible scene is shown above the donor's coat of arms: The risen Christ with two disciples in Emmaus. ( Lk 24.13–35  EU ) Coats of arms of Bern, Burgdorf and Hasle as well as the Geiser family with a saying complete the sequence of images. The original colors have already faded a lot. One of the double panes in the south window of the nave, donated by the Synodal Council in 1957, depicts a sower. The second one donated by the neighboring communities of Lützelflüh, Oberburg and Rüegsau bears the motif of the Good Shepherd .

  • Choir window left: coats of arms of Bern and Hasle, passion scene Christ falls under the cross

  • Choir window in the middle: The parable of the good Samaritan, including the interpretation by Burkhard Mangold that was current in the war year 1915

  • Choir window on the right: coat of arms of Burgdorf and the founder coat of arms Geiser, biblical scene with Jesus and two disciples in Emmaus.

Gallery

In 1780 the existing gallery was expanded to accommodate an organ. The new gallery from 1956 rests on two braided carved supports that were taken over from the previous one. The new, curved parapet has the old baroque-style fence spokes that are modeled on the old one. She carries the new organ.

Bells

Bell from 1402 in front of the church
Bell from 1402 in front of the church

The oldest bell in the Burgdorf office from 1402 has been preserved from the old bell. It was in use until 1956 and now stands next to the main entrance to the church. The four new bells were cast by H. Rüetschi in Aarau and raised on the new tower on September 22, 1956. They are tuned to the notes b ', a', g ', and e'.

  • The St. Mark's bell, tone g ', weight 630 kg, with the lion as the evangelist's sign bears the saying: Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures ( Mt 29.19  EU )
  • The Matthew bell, tone e ', weight 1100 kg, with the angel as a sign and the saying: Your name be sanctified. Your kingdom come ( Mt 6.10  EU )
  • The Luke bell, tone a ', weight 460 kg, with the bull as a sign and the saying: Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth ( Lk 2.14  EU )
  • The Johannesglocke, tone h ', weight 330 kg, with the eagle as a sign and the saying: I am the way, the truth and the life ( Joh 14,6  EU )

The bell is operated electrically and the striking mechanism is controlled by the mechanical tower clock.

organ

The first organ was probably built around 1782 . According to traditional invoices, an organist is said to have already been paid in 1794. Using photos taken before 1956, Hans Gugger determined with certainty that this organ was built by Peter Schärer. It cannot be proven whether the earliest evidence of the small Schärer type, as in Würzbrunnen, also had a pedal or just a manual. Shortly before 1900 some improvements (new registers, replacement of the keyboard) were made. In 1918, Goll converted the organ to tube pneumatics and a free-standing console. For this purpose, the side pipe fields were added with two pipes each. There is nothing left of the old Schärer organ, the gate on the parapet and the carvings on the prospectus have also disappeared.

Gallery with organ from 1957

The new organ was built by Kuhn AG Männedorf , voiced by Max Mühlemann and inaugurated on May 5, 1957. The movement is equipped with a mechanical action , pneumatic registration and sliding drawer. The new organ has 15 registers, two manuals and a pedal with playing aids and two pre-prints and two extensions .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Reed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Pointed flute 4 ′
Super octave (excerpt) 2 ′
5. Mixture III-IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th shawm 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
7th Suavial 8th'
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Reed flute 4 ′
11. Sesquialter 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ + 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Fifth (excerpt) 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Flageolet 2 ′
13. Scharff IV – V 1'
Pedals C – f 1
14th Sub bass 16 ′
15th Principal 8th'
Drone (extension) 8th'
Octave (extension) 4 ′

literature

  • Residential community Hasle near Burgdorf (Hrsg.): Hasle near Burgdorf - local history. 1995.

See also

Web links

Commons : Reformierte Kirche Hasle bei Burgdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annemarie Beer: Frescos from the Hasle Church. Page 58 (PDF 3.4 MB)
  2. ^ [1] Burgdorfer Jahrbuch 1951 : Samuel Schwartzwald. Pp. 156-162. (PDF, 48.2 MB)
  3. ^ [2] Bells of the Hasle Church near Burgdorf in the plenum, on YouTube
  4. ↑ Hans Gugger: The Bernese organs. The reintroduction of the organ in the Reformed churches of the canton of Bern by 1900. Stämpfli, Bern 1978, ISBN 3-7272-9265-2 , p. 293.
  5. ^ Orgelbau Kuhn AG, CH-8708 Männedorf: orgelbau.ch. In: Organ from Hasle near Burgdorf. Accessed April 2, 2017 (German, French, English).
  6. ↑ Hasle b. Burgdorf Ref. Kirche, Profile Bern, Part 2. Retrieved on April 2, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 0  '59.4 " N , 7 ° 38' 48.4"  E ; CH1903:  615 825  /  207292