St. Bernhard (Mainz)
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St. Bernhard is a Catholic church consecrated to Bernhard von Clairvaux in the Mainz-Bretzenheim district of Mainz . Together with the parishes of St. Achatius , St. Georg and St. Stephan (Mainz-Marienborn) , it is one of four churches in the Zaybachtal parish group .
history
The history of the young community begins with the establishment of a community center in 1973. Due to the further increase in the number of Catholics in the rapidly growing Bretzenheim district, the Mainz architects' office Grüneberg und Partner was commissioned to design a parish church for the community center built in the 1970s. Previously they had been content with a small chapel there, which was provided with an expansion reserve.
The reinforced concrete and glass church is cleverly structured. The single-nave hall church with a facade that is offset downwards integrates a roof turret instead of a church tower . Church towers were no longer funded by the diocese of Mainz at this time . The architects also cleverly used the baptistery in combination with the pillars in the vestibule as an element of the facade structure. The inner walls are made of exposed concrete , the outside of the church is brightly clinkered. Churches in Romanesque style were the model for the chosen architecture.
On October 10, 1992, the modern church was inaugurated by Bishop Karl Lehmann .
Naming
The patronage of the church refers to Bernhard's stay in Mainz in 1146, where he took the Cistercian position against Radulf's call for the murder of the Jews as "enemies of the Christian religion" . The parish maintains a partnership with the parish of St. Bernard (consecrated 1959) in the Mainz twin city of Dijon .
organ
In the first few years after the church was built, an electronic organ was played . Since this instrument was not very convincing musically, the search for a high-quality pipe organ began.
Today's organ is a new building by the organ builder Aristide Cavaillé-Coll for the church of Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes et Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus in the 17th arrondissement of Paris from 1876/77. The late baroque case made of solid oak was reused by Cavaillé-Coll. The five-part prospectus is characterized by three round towers that are connected by two flat fields. In 1912 the instrument passed into private ownership, and in 1951 it was transferred to the Evangelical Lutheran church Oratoire de Louvre in Paris. From 1971 to 1997 the organ was in the ev.-luth. Church of Suresnes near Paris and was sold to the parish of St. Bernhard in 1998. The organ builders Berger and Swiderski restored the instrument, which was inaugurated on December 17, 1999 by Vicar General Werner Guballa . The slider chests -instrument has eleven register , spread over two manuals, the pedal has four transmissions , the key action is mechanical.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P, II / I Sub
- Playing aids : Appel kicks for nos. 10 and 11
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Organ ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the OrganArt Library
- ^ Organ on the website of the Institute for Church Music Mainz
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 48 ″ E