Castle Church (Niedergösgen)

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The castle church - view from the church forecourt

The Castle Church of St. Anton is today's Roman Catholic parish church of Niedergösgen in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland . It is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national and regional importance in the 2009 edition as an A-object.

history

inside view

At the place of today's parish church of Niedergösgen there has been a castle since the Middle Ages, which was destroyed in 1444 by Solothurn and Bernese troops. After Solothurn acquired the rule of Gösgen in 1458, this castle was repaired. From 1501 the Solothurn bailiffs resided here for almost three centuries. After 1798, the palace complex was used in different ways, some of it fell apart. The castle chapel, on the other hand, continued to exist and served as the parish church of the Niedergösgen community from 1838. At the end of the 1870s, the community began to split into a Roman Catholic and a Christian Catholic community as part of the Kulturkampf . When the Christian Catholics succeeded in enforcing the right to shared use of the parish church in the 1890s, tensions increased. The community loyal to Rome then acquired the old castle ruins in order to have their own parish church built here. The St. Gallen architect August Hardegger was entrusted with the planning of the church . He took over the keep of the castle and designed it around the monumental church tower. Construction began in 1903. The neo-baroque church was consecrated on August 28, 1904 . An extensive overall restoration took place in the 1990s, during which the church was restored to its original colors.

description

organ

The castle church rises in a dominant position above the village of Niedergösgen. The castle tower, which has been converted into a church tower, has monumental dimensions; the raw masonry reveals its medieval origins. The neo-baroque central building , which is also not plastered on the outside, leans against it.

The interior of the cross-shaped central building is kept in light pastel tones, from which the stucco stands out in festive white. Refracted light streams into the room through the stained glass windows. Almost all of the furnishings come from the construction period. Today's organ is the third instrument here. It was built in 1997 by Armin Hauser (Kleindöttingen) and comprises 25 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

Bells

The bell hangs in the church tower (former castle tower). In the past, much smaller bells from the Causard foundry in Colmar, cast in 1904, hung here. There has been a new bell since the early 1960s. It contains six bells from the H. Rüetschi bell foundry and was cast in Aarau in 1962 as the largest bell in the canton of Solothurn. The motif is an extended Salve Regina motif, which was also chosen for the bells of the Zofingen city church , Aarau (Catholic) and Pfäffikon SZ parish church , but has a different effect on all four bells. The bell chamber is half open.

  1. Bell: Christ the King bell, weight: 7,020 kg, strike sound: Ges °
  2. Bell: Mother of God bell, weight: 3'415 kg, striking sound: b °
  3. Bell: brother claw bell, weight: 2,000 kg, striking sound: des'
  4. Bell: Antonius bell, weight: 1'480 kg, strike tone: es'
  5. Bell: Josefs bell, weight: 845 kg, strike tone: ges'
  6. Bell: Guardian Angel, Weight: 660 kg, Strike: as'

Web links

Commons : Schlosskirche (Niedergösgen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swiss inventory of cultural goods of national importance, SO. In: admin.ch . Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ See: Beat Hodler. Niedergösgen. A journey through history, 2008.
  3. ↑ Roman Cath. Church, Schlosskirche Niedergösgen SO in: Organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein , accessed on October 15, 2018.

Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '22.1 "  N , 7 ° 59' 30.1"  E ; CH1903:  641 772  /  247032