St. Aegidius (Schmidmühlen)

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St. Aegidius

The parish church of St. Agidius is the Roman Catholic church of the market town of Schmidmühlen in the Upper Palatinate district of Amberg-Sulzbach . It is in the center of Schmidmühlen.

Building history

Built in 1486 (year next to the main portal), the original church was a four-bay hall building with Gothic star vaults. 1807, on May 28, Corpus Christi Day, the tower crowned with a baroque onion dome collapsed and the choir was also destroyed. The tower was rebuilt on the west side in 1832–1834 and was given its current shape with a flat roof reminiscent of Italian campaniles , probably under the influence of the architecture committee at the time (chaired by Leo von Klenze ) . The choir was not restored until 1846. Heinrich Hauberrisser's plans to build a new neo-baroque building, begun in 1913 , were ended by the First World War and the subsequent inflation . In 1933 (architect: Hans Döllgast ) and 1972, partial demolitions and extensions were made using old components and the interior.

Furnishing

St. Aegidius, interior

The side altars, consecrated to Saint Sebastian and Saint Mary, date from the Rococo period. The main altar is a mighty column structure from 1846.

Organs

The first organ in the parish church was built in 1695 by the organ builder Johann Conrad Vogel from Amberg. This instrument must have been rebuilt around the middle of the 18th century. This is evidenced by the gilded veil boards on the organ case with their rocailles , which were probably created at the same time as the side altars of the church. The five-part organ case , the prospectus division of which is kept in the Franconian manner, was built around 1750 and in the 18th century according to two sources.

In 1846 the organ was repaired by Friedrich Specht from Amberg for 175 fl . Towards the end of the 19th century, the work was again in need of repair, as shown by several cost estimates. In the cost estimate by organ builder Ludwig Edenhofer from Regen, the arrangement of the organ as it was in 1893 is mentioned.

Disposition of the organ as it was in 1893
manual
1. Copel 8 ′ (wood)
2. Gamba 8 ′ (tin)
3. Principal 4 ′ (tin)
4th flute 4 ′ (wood)
5. Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (tin)
6th Octave 2 ′ (tin)
7th mixture 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′ (tin)
pedal
8th. Sub bass 16 ′ (wood)
9. Octavbass 8 ′ (wood)
  • Slider chests, short octave

In 1894, Ludwig Edenhofer rebuilt the organ and expanded the range from the short octave to 54 tones. The organ received a cone store and a free-standing console . Following the taste of the times, the disposition became more basic, but Edenhofer used a large part of the existing pipework.

Disposition of the Edenhofer organ 1894
manual
1. Principal 8 ′ (new)
2. Gamba 8 ′ (old)
3. Covered 8 ′ (old = Coppel 8 ′)
4th Salicional 8 ′ (new)
5. octave 4 ′ (old = principal 4 ′)
6th flute 4 ′ (old)
7th Mixture III (old = fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ and octave 2 ′)
pedal
8th. Sub bass 16 ′ (old)
9. Octavbass 8 ′ (old)
  • Cone shop, free-standing gaming table
St. Aegidius, organ

For the parish church, which was newly built in 1933, the one-manual work no longer met the tonal requirements, but it was not until 1939 that it was possible to finance a new organ. The organ building company Willibald Siemann & Co from Munich created a two-manual work with a pneumatic action mechanism, opus number 496. The baroque organ case was now only a functionless dummy, the organ itself was hidden behind a wooden crate. Siemann also took over some stops from the previous organ, but probably used poor materials (zinc, copper alloys) for the new pipes due to the war, which has an impact on the sound.

I Manual C-g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
(old = subbass 16 ′)
2. Wide principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Viola da gamba 8 ′ (old)
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Super octave 2 ′
7th Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Manual (swellable) C – g 3
9. Horn principal 8th'
10. Covered while singing 8th'
11. Salicional 8th' (old)
12. Vox Coelestis 8th'
13. Prefix 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Open fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Night horn 2 ′
17th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Sesquialter II
(= Open fifth and third flute)
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub bass 16 ′
Echo bass 16 ′
(= Wind reduction sub-bass)
20th Octavbass 8th'
21st Bass flute 4 ′
22nd trombone 16 ′

When the church was expanded in 1972, Orgelbau Hirnschrodt from Regensburg transferred the organ to the new gallery, but did not adapt the intonation to the larger room volume. This shortcoming and the susceptibility to repair of the sluggish pneumatic action led to efforts in 1990 to build a new organ. Despite a financial foundation, the construction of a new organ appropriate to the church has not been pursued to this day.

Bells

Except for the death bell, the historic bells of the parish church survived the tower collapse of 1807:

  • Fire bell or large bell (tone a 1 ), cast by Gawerhiel Kirder in Nuremberg in 1563, weighing approx. 19 quintals, 1 meter in diameter. Chime.
  • 12-bell or angelus bell (tone c 2 ), cast by Martin Neumeier in Stadtamhof in 1733, 400 kg, diameter 75 cm. The lower quarter of an hour and prayer chimes.
  • 11er or midday bell (tone d 2 ), cast by Johann Erhard Kößner in Stadtamhof in 1772, diameter 64 cm. Upper quarter-hour strike.
  • Hussite bell (tone a 2 ), 1.2 quintals. According to the English inscription, it was cast by G. Bergholtz in Stockholm in 1944, replacement for the death bell by Joseph Philippi, Stadtamhof, 1834 (not returned after delivery in WW2). It was handed over by the American military government in 1945. Death bell until 1972, today Hussitenglöckerl (8 p.m.).
  • Death bell (tone g 2 ), cast in 1475, minuscule inscription: Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum, diameter 55 cm. Until 1972 eight o'clock or Hussite bell, today death bell. It is never rung with the other bells (protection of the historical bell, dissonant tone g 2 within a 1 , c 2 , d 2 , a 2 ).

The historical bells from Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque are among the most interesting bells in the Vilstal. On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the market, the bells were presented in a bell concert on November 14, 2010.

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Giles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The church history of Schmidmühlen is described in: Franz Xaver Eichenseer: The market Schmidmühlen in the Upper Palatinate. Schmidmühlen 1990, pp. 92-97.
  2. ^ SAA, Amberg City Fasc. 12 No. 146, 1. See articles on the history of organ building in the Upper Palatinate. In: VHVO 105, 1965, p. 83
  3. ↑ Bavarian organ database
  4. ^ Eberhard Kraus: Historical organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 , p. 361.
  5. ^ SAA BA, Burglengenfeld 1271
  6. ↑ organ builder from Linder Rodenzenreuth audited by FB March in Munich on February 29, 1888, Ludwig Edenhofer of rain on May 20, 1893 audited by the cathedral organist Josef Renner on March 14, 1894
  7. ^ Certificate of organ expert Norbert Düchtel, December 17, 1990; Offer Orgelbau Rieger February 15, 1991; Offer Orgelbau Sandtner, March 1, 1991; Offer organ building Jann, February 12, 1991
  8. ↑ Donation from the choir regent Hans Simon and collections for a new organ
  9. ↑ On the history of bells cf. Paul Böhm: Bells escaped destruction. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Vilstal edition and southern district of Amberg-Sulzbach, May 27, 2010, p. 27.

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '2.2 "  N , 11 ° 55' 20.1"  E