Schäßburg monastery church
The monastery church of Sighisoara in Transylvania , Romania , is part of the historic center ( "Castle") of the city, since 1999 as a UNESCO - World Heritage listed. The former church of the Dominican monastery and today's Protestant parish church was built in the Gothic style between 1492 and 1515 in place of a previous building from the 13th century .
Building history
The Dominican monastery was first mentioned in 1298 in a letter of indulgence from Pope Boniface VIII ; At that time there was already a church dedicated to Mary . From 1492 to 1515 this was converted into a three-aisled hall church. In 1556 the monastery was dissolved and the property secularized. In 1676 a fire destroyed the church, from 1678–1679 it was rebuilt in the baroque style and received side galleries. In 1723 the monastery was handed over to the Franciscan order by order of the Habsburg administration . In 1886 the monastery was demolished and today's prefecture building was built in its place. 1928–1929 the church was renovated.
Building description
The choir faces northeast; the axis of the nave deviates by 4 ° from that of the choir. Originally the cloister of the monastery bordered the church in the southeast. The building is 44.5 m long, the ships are 12.6 and 13.2 m wide. The original late Gothic vaults have been preserved in the choir and sacristy.
Interior
The interior was redesigned after the fire of 1676. The baroque altar (erected in 1681) is the work of the Hermannstadt painter Jeremias Stranovius, as is the parapet and the sound cover of the baroque pulpit. The choir stalls have inlaid jewelry from the Biertan workshop. A bronze baptismal font in the shape of a chalice dates from 1411. The church houses a collection of Transylvanian carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries.
organ
The baroque organ front is the work of the Schäßburg master Johannes Fest and has largely been preserved in its original form. Behind it is a late romantic organ by the Rieger brothers from 1905. The cone- store instrument has 35 stops on three manuals and a pedal with a pneumatic stop and action mechanism . After a thorough restoration, especially with the help of the Swiss Foundation for Organs in Romania (SSOR), the instrument was consecrated and handed over to the community on June 2, 2019 by Bishop Reinhart Guib and pastor Hans-Bruno Fröhlich as part of the Schäßburg Culture Days .
The disposition is as follows:
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- Pairing : II / I, III / I, Super II / I, Sub III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : free combination, fixed combinations: p, mf, f, ff, tutti, crescendo
literature
- Hermann Fabini : Schäßburg . In: Sacred architecture in Transylvanian-Saxon cities . monuMenta Verlag & Working Group for Transylvanian Cultural Studies, Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-973-7969-15-6 , p. 259-264 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Machat: The mountain church in Schäßburg and the medieval architecture in Transylvania . Verlag des Südostdeutschen Kulturwerk, Munich 1977, ISBN 978-3-88356-023-6 , p. 83 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ^ A b c Hermann Fabini: Schäßburg . In: Sacred architecture in Transylvanian-Saxon cities . monuMenta Verlag & Working Group for Transylvanian Cultural Studies, Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-973-7969-15-6 , p. 259-264 .
- ↑ Hermann Binder: Organs in Transylvania. A contribution to the Transylvanian organ history from the beginning to the middle of the 19th century . Gehann Musikverlag, Kludenbach 2000, ISBN 978-3-927293-20-5 , p. 144 .
- ^ Entry: Schäßburg monastery church in the organ file of the Ev. Church AB in Romania, accessed August 3, 2017
Coordinates: 46 ° 13 ′ 10.9 ″ N , 24 ° 47 ′ 36.2 ″ E