Salvatorkirche (Aalen)

Salvator Church in Aalen

Salvatorkirche from Braunsberg from

The Salvatorkirche is a Catholic parish church in Aalen .

history

The original parishes in the Aalen area are Unterkochen with the Marienkirche, Schwabsberg with the Martinskirche and Hüttlingen with the Michaelskirche. Aalen probably got its first church, as it did again later in the 19th century, from Unterkochen under the influence of Ellwang . Around 1150 the people of Aalen got their first church, the Nikolauskirche, the predecessor of today's Protestant town church .

Aalen was purely Protestant until the 19th century , while the (Ellwangian) surrounding area remained Catholic . In 1803 there are said to have been three Catholics in Aalen. In the 19th century, the number of Catholics rose to 3,112 (status: 1900) due to immigration from the surrounding area due to increasing industrialization and the creation of a railway junction. Dean Kollmann von Unterkochen made it his concern to promote the construction of a church in Aalen. On October 1st, 1868, a Catholic church in Aalen was consecrated again by Bishop Josef von Lipp . The neo-Gothic church building was “consecrated under the title of the Most Holy Redeemer (SS. Salvatoris) and under the protection of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and Mother of God and St. Apostle Peter posed ”.

Around 1905 the number of Catholics in Aalen was around 4,000. The Marienkirche had long since become too small. Pastor Hetzler, who was now assisted by two vicars , saw the construction of a new and large church as one of his most important tasks. In 1906 a building site was acquired on the Bohl and in 1913 Bishop Keppler consecrated the new church on the Bohl.

The Stuttgart architect Hugo Schlösser designed and created a successful “modern” building, no longer in the neo-Romanesque or neo-Gothic style, as had been the case for half a century , but based on elements from Renaissance to Classicism . At the request of the bishop, the new church should be consecrated to the Savior ( Salvator ), the previous parish church should from now on be called Marienkirche.

Salvator Community

Today's Salvator community includes around 5250 members in the inner city of Aalen from the following districts: Hüttfeld, Stuttgarter Straße, right through the city center to the train station, Greut, Bohl-Hofstätt, Tännich, Lederhosen, Rötenberg to Auf der Heide.

organ

The first organ in the Salvator Church was installed in 1917 and played until 1974. In 1975 the organ building company Winfried Albiez from Lindau built the new organ. The instrument has 43 registers (3,333 pipes) on slider drawers . The key actions and couplings are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.

Recordings (selection)

• Tromba aalensis . Johann Konnerth (trumpet) plays works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Antonio Vivaldi and Gottfried August Homilius ; Thomas Haller plays the organs of the three large churches in Aalen (in the Salvatorkirche, in the Evangelical City Church and in the Marienkirche), recording 2006.
• Tromba aalensis 2 - Wake up, the voice calls us. Festive music for two trumpets and organ , with works by Bach (BWV 76, 77, 78, 79 and 140), Petronio Franceschini and Antonio Vivaldi, with Thomas Haller (organ), Johann Konnerth and Jörg Günter (trumpets, piccolo trumpet and flugelhorn ) , Recording from July 2007 in the Salvatorkirche Aalen, Tonstudio Resonanz, LC 00378

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information on the Albiez organ , as seen on April 30, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Salvatorkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Salvatorkirche and -gemeinde in Aalen

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 23 "  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 15"  E