Reformed Church Moosseedorf
The Reformed Church Moosseedorf is the village church of Moosseedorf in the canton of Bern with an ancient history .
history
A church was first mentioned in 1242 because of a dispute between the knight Ullrich von Seedorf (= Moosseedorf) and the Cluniaszenser priory on St. Petersinsel over the church of Moosseedorf, whereby the Kiburg Count Hartmann the Elder and his nephew Hartmann the Younger acted as feudal lords . The Seedorfer's moated castle, which has now disappeared, was located directly north of the church and their property also included the church as a private chapel. With the confirmation of the Bishop of Konstanz, the church fee fell to the knight Ullrich and in return he ceded possessions in Galmiz (FR) to the priory.
In 1256/1257 the brothers Ullrich and Berchtold von Seedorf donated their property and rights, including the church, to the Johanniterkomturei von Münchenbuchsee in return for a kind of generous old-age pension . Since then, Moosseedorf has been part of the church in Münchenbuchsee and the priests of St. John subsequently celebrated masses on a regular basis.
With the Reformation in Bern in 1528 and the secularization of the monasteries, the church statute and the goods fell to the city of Bern. The last commander of the Johanniterhaus Münchenbuchsee, Peter von Englisberg, had to cede the indebted property to the authorities in 1529 and received Bremgarten Castle in return.The church itself was divided, the nave remained in the possession of the community, the choir, as the seat of the authorities, was subject to maintenance obligations to the state of Bern. In 1559 the church lost its independence and was subordinated to the parish Münchenbuchsee as a branch. The order of the divine service provided for two sermons per week and on Sundays the Seedorf residents were required to go to sermons in Buchsee. Up until 1740, services were still held in the Moosseedorf church on two Sundays, after which only once a month.
In 1721, Bern ceded the possessions and jurisdiction of Moosseedorf to the Bernese patrician Hieronymus von Erlach . The rule of the Bernese aristocratic families only came to an end with the invasion of Napoleon's troops and the battle of the Grauholz .
Building history
According to tradition, in the 9th / 10th In the 19th century there was a chapel in place of the current church. In fact, the archaeological excavations of 1965 show a first church in the 12th and 13th centuries. Century. There is evidence of a Romanesque building with a semicircular apse with small arched windows. It is assumed that this was the mother church of the region and thus also of Münchenbuchsee.
Today's church was built in the style of the period 1520–1528, on the initiative of Commander Peter von Englisberg , whose coat of arms is attached to the south facade of the church. The late Gothic style of the newly built choir was used for the reconstruction of the old, Romanesque nave. The resulting hall church with polygonal choir looked like it was cast from a single source. Presumably the continuous gable roof over the choir carried a roof turret for the bell. A new sacristy was added on the north side and an ornate flat ceiling was drawn inside.
With the historicizing renovation from 1873 to 1874, the church underwent major changes. The western entrance was walled up and replaced by two doors on the south side. The roof got a weaker slope and the roof turret got two new bells. The harmonium donated by the local community found its place in the choir.
1915–1916 the original state was restored. The builder O. Kästli from Münchenbuchsee reopened the entrance from the west and provided it with a simple vestibule with a pent roof. To do this, he increased the roof structure to the original size and replaced the roof turret with four dials and a third bell, based on the model of the bell gate of the neighboring church in Jegenstorf . The harmonium was moved to the newly created gallery and the walls were decorated with paintings in the local style.
Under the architects Ernst and Ullrich Indermühle, an extensive renovation and reconstruction of the late Gothic state took place from 1965 to 1966. During the archaeological excavations carried out at the same time, the old foundation walls were exposed and the original sacristy was then rebuilt. The floors were lowered to the original level and the gallery was enlarged for a new organ. With the redesign, the paintings disappeared. Today the walls are kept in plain white.
Furnishing
In the choir, which is separated by a round arch with exposed brickwork and fighters made of sandstone, there is the unadorned baptismal font from the 13th century. On the north choir wall is the sacrament house from 1520, decorated with Gothic ornaments and turrets. The middle choir window is equipped with two cabinet windows, probably donated by the State of Bern, the left one depicts the Madonna in a halo and the right one depicts St. Vincent, the patron of the city Bern. Above it is a coat of arms, donated by Albrecht von Nünegg. The modern glass paintings in the windows of the nave with the symbols of the four evangelists come from the glass painter Robert Schär from Steffisburg . The pulpit around 1620–1640 bears the inscription from 1920: What is Christ's Kilch? - Who hears my word. Zwingli.
organ
In 1967 the Wälti company from Gümligen built an organ with eleven registers and 714 pipes on the gallery .
Church tower and bells
The roof turret is equipped with a tower clock from the JGBaer company from Sumiswald from 1915. The ringing in A major (A / Cis / E) with bells from 1874 and 1975 was supplied by the Rüetschi company in Aarau
literature
- Andrea Zellweger: Moosseedorf Church. (Swiss Art Guide, Volume 768, Series 77). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2005, ISBN 3-85782-768-8 .
Web links
- Cultural archive Moosseedorf
- Parish Münchenbuchsee-Moosseedorf
- Felix Müller, Anne-Marie Dubler : Moosseedorf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '3.3 " N , 7 ° 28' 56.2" E ; CH1903: 603318 / 207394