St. Bartholomew (violinist)

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St. Bartholomäus Geigant, exterior view from the main street

St. Bartholomäus Geigant is the parish church of the Catholic parish of the same name in Geigant . The modern church building at Hauptstraße 23 marks the structural center of the village and has a significant impact on the townscape.

history

The previous building of the church was located elsewhere, for example in the area of ​​today's playground of the Geigant elementary school, and as the castle chapel was originally part of the old castle complex . This castle chapel and later parish church has been structurally changed several times over the centuries. A new tower was built at the end of the 19th century. After the new parish church was built at Hauptstrasse 23, the old parish church was completely demolished in 1970. One of the few preserved pieces of equipment in the old church is a Way of the Cross in the Nazarene style created in 1886 .

The first evidence of a pastor's office is the documentary mention of Friedrich der Pschorner, at the time pastor of Geigant on July 5, 1409 as a witness of a deed of Hillprant des Geyganters. There were close ties between the Geiganter estate and the neighboring Schönthal monastery (Upper Palatinate) . In the 16th century, Geigant was sometimes referred to as a separate parish and sometimes as a branch of Grafenkirchen. In 1682, the entries for Geigant in the parish register of Gleißenberg begin . From 1737 the entries for Geigant were kept separately, baptisms were no longer carried out in Gleißenberg, but in Geigant. Geigant remained a branch of Gleißenberg until April 1, 1948 , after which it became an independent parish curate . In the early 2000s, the parish was surveyed.

The initiative to build a new church and parish center came from Pastor Josef Fenzl. The Geigant Church Foundation acquired a plot of land of around 6000 m² in the center of the village and built the new church building with the support of the Regensburg Bishop's Finance Chamber. Construction began on July 20, 1966, the foundation stone was laid on November 20, 1966. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on May 5, 1967. The benediction took place on December 23, 1968, the consecration on May 31, 1970. The architect was Josef A. Frank, Albert Burkart was primarily responsible for the artistic furnishings .

architecture

Interior of St. Bartholomew's violinist, with north gable (left), altar island and Vleugels organ (right)

The tent roof church with free-standing tower, weekday chapel and parish center is built in the characteristic style of post-war modernism . The slender tower and the four-gabled central building of the church function as the structural height dominant of the place. The entire system is set back from the street and raised above the level of the surrounding area. There is a baptistery on the first floor of the tower . The central church space is almost square, the four large gables give the building several sides. The flat building of the weekday chapel forms the transition to the parish center with sacristy, parish office, library, parish hall, group rooms and parish apartment. The exterior design was done using the local materials concrete, painted brick masonry, steel and black Eternit slate.

Furnishing

Ambo depicting the seven seals

The theme of the end of times and the apocalypse is the leitmotif of the artistic equipment . A judgment angel blowing trumpets acts as a weather vane on the church tower . The ambo , designed as a word shrine, has a bronze grille with a representation of the seven apocalyptic seals , including the four apocalyptic horsemen . The three large gable fields made of glass are structured by irregularly placed concrete pillars. The theme of the north gable is the disaster expected in the apocalypse , represented as a mushroom cloud with spreading pressure waves. A colored, fiery spiral is depicted on the west pediment, which can be interpreted as the heavenly Jerusalem breaking in. A life-giving, fruit-hung paradise tree is depicted in the south gable. On the other hand, on the windowless east wall behind the altar area, there is a glass and stone mosaic depicting the risen Christ at the lake of Tiberias. The narrow surrounding glass frieze of the weekday chapel represents the articles of the creed.

organ

Vleugels organ in the parish church of St. Bartholomew Geigant

The organ was built in 2002 as Opus 360 by the Vleugels organ manufacture . The instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal with mechanical playing and stop action . It is positioned at ground level on the east wall. The organ case is colored, above the music stand the chorale "Who only lets God rule" is shown color-coded. The organ prospect is designed on three sides, with tin pipes in the front and wooden pipes in the sides.

I main work C – a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola da gamba 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th recorder 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
Larigot (from No. 9) 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – a 3
11. flute 8th'
12. Salicional 8th'
13. Vox coelestis 8th'
14th Fugara 4 ′
15th Transverse flute 4 ′
16. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Flageolet 2 ′
Violin (from No. 19) 2 ′
18th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Harmonia aetherea III 2 ′
20th oboe 8th'
21st Trumpet harm. 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Principal bass 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Octavbass 8th'
25th Flute bass 8th'
26th Choral bass 4 ′
27. trombone 16 ′

Web links

Commons : St. Bartholomäus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Siebenhörl: Geigant, a district of Waldmünchen . In: Waldmünchner Heimatbote . Issue 36. Leopold, Waldmünchen 2002, p. 67-68 .
  2. ↑ Josef Ederer: Stations of the Cross in the Geigant churches . In: Waldmünchner Heimatbote . Issue 46. Leopold, Waldmünchen 2012, p. 93-99 .
  3. ^ Heinrich Siebenhörl: Geigant, a district of Waldmünchen . In: Waldmünchner Heimatbote . Issue 36. Leopold, Waldmünchen 2002, p. 58 .
  4. ^ Heinrich Siebenhörl: Geigant, a district of Waldmünchen . In: Waldmünchner Heimatbote . Issue 36. Leopold, Waldmünchen 2002, p. 52-61 .
  5. ↑ Parish Curatia St. Bartholomäus Geigant (ed.): The new building of the Church of St. Bartholomäus in Geigant . Fuß, Waldmünchen 1970, p. 4-5 .
  6. ↑ Parish Curatia St. Bartholomäus Geigant (ed.): The new building of the Church of St. Bartholomäus in Geigant . Fuß, Waldmünchen 1970, p. 29 .
  7. ↑ Parish Curatia St. Bartholomäus Geigant (ed.): The new building of the Church of St. Bartholomäus in Geigant . Fuß, Waldmünchen 1970, p. 31-34 .
  8. ↑ Geigant Organ Building Association (ed.): The new Vleugels organ in the Geigant parish church . Perlinger Druck, Furth in Wald 2003.
  9. ↑ Geigant Organ Building Association (ed.): The new Vleugels organ in the Geigant parish church . Perlinger Druck, Furth in Wald 2003, p. 18 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 35.2 "  N , 12 ° 40 ′ 58.2"  E