St. Bernhard (Schopfheim)

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Parish Church of St. Bernhard

The Church of St. Bernhard is the Catholic parish church of Schopfheim in the Lörrach district and was built in the late 1870s. The church patron Bernhard von Baden is also the patron of the Archdiocese of Freiburg . The church building, which can be assigned to historicism, is reminiscent of the Romanesque in some details and, with its suggested, diagonal buttresses, cites Gothic forms. Thanks to its dimensions and architectural design, it nevertheless reflects a classicist attitude.

history

After the Catholic faith was pushed back during the Reformation in Markgräflerland in 1556, a Catholic community grew again in Schopfheim and the surrounding area in the following centuries, initially cared for by the parish in Stetten and later by Höllstein. Due to the comparatively long route, the Protestant church in neighboring Eichen was declared a simultaneous church in 1848 .

In 1860 the steadily growing city already had 670 Catholics, and in 1876 the Catholic Foundation Commission wanted to buy the Old Town Church , as it had become too small for the Protestant parish. After no agreement was reached, the Catholics founded a church and rectory fund in 1872 and bought the property a year later. The builder Lukas Engesser from Freiburg made the plans ; the local architect Johann Siegle took over the building supervision. Disagreements as to whether the church should have a flat ceiling or a vaulted ceiling were resolved and the flat ceiling was chosen. Services could be held just one year after the foundation stone was laid in 1878. On June 20, 1880, the church was consecrated by Archbishop Lothar von Kübel and in 1899 elevated to parish church .

The choir was painted in 1910 by the Karlsruhe painter Christian Schilling. The redesign of the chancel with new fittings took place in the years 1955 to 1958. Another renovation took place from 1975 to 1976 in order to meet the requirements of the Second Vatican Council . In addition, the Rheinfeld sculptor Leonhard Eder redesigned the candlestick, altar, tabernacle, ambo and baptismal font. In addition to new stalls, the church also received new glass windows.

description

Church building

The church is halfway between the train station and the old town. The rectangular nave is a pitched roof covered round-arched and has at its longitudinal sides in each case five, high window. There are circular windows above. Between the windows, projections indicated as buttresses subdivide the side facades. To the east is an almost square choir , which is covered by the gable roof at the same height as the nave. The choir is closed off by a slightly lower arched apse . A four-story bell tower with a square floor plan, partially integrated into the nave, rises to the west . On the third floor of the tower there is a statue of the Madonna with a child in a niche. On the fourth floor, arched, two-part acoustic arcades point to all sides . A clock face of the tower clock is attached below each of the four gables. Above that, a slender, octagonal pyramid roof with a tower ball and cross closes the church tower roof . The main portal through the tower hall and the two side entrances provide access to the church.

Interior and equipment

Interior with a view of the choir

The high hall building is drawn in with a flat wooden ceiling. There are two triumphal arches between the apse and choir and between the choir and nave . On both sides of the choir there are larger-than-life wooden statues on stone blocks. The figures were created by the artist Siegfried Fricker in the 1950s. The left statue shows Mary with baby Jesus, the right the church patron Bernhard von Baden with shield and sword. Fricker also made a large wooden crucifix in the apse. The windows were created in 1976 by the Düsseldorf glass artist Jochem Poensgen . They show tendrils and foliage and other non-objective forms.

Bells and organs

Bell tower

The four-part bronze bell is composed as follows:

number Surname Casting year foundry Chime
1 Christ-King 1953 FW Schilling , Heidelberg f 1
2 St. Mary 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg g 1
3 St. Joseph 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg b 1
4th St. Michael 1953 FW Schilling, Heidelberg c 2

The first organ was built in 1879 by Mathias Burkhard from Heidelberg. It had two manuals , a pedal and 18 stops and worked with a mechanical keyboard and stop mechanism . The instrument was converted to 26 registers. In 1979 the parish church received a completely new organ that was placed on the west gallery. It was built by Franz Winterhalter and has three manuals (Rückpositiv, Hauptwerk and Oberwerk), a pedal and 34 stops. The instrument works with a sliding box and a mechanical play and electrical stop action.

literature

  • 100 years of the parish church of St. Bernhard Schopfheim . Schopfheim 1980.
  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 323-324.
  • Martin Winkler, Bernhard Bischoff : Schopfheim. Churches and historical organs. , Verlag Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1981, 2nd edition 2000, ISBN 3-7954-4973-1 , pp. 12-16.

Web links

Commons : St. Bernhard (Schopfheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winkler, Bischoff: Schopfheim. Churches and historical organs. , P. 16.
  2. ^ O. Kopp: From the history of our parish Schopfheim . In: 100 Years of the Parish Church of St. Bernhard Schopfheim , 1980, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Winkler, Bischoff: Schopfheim. Churches and historical organs. , P. 13.
  4. ↑ Winkler, Bischoff: Schopfheim. Churches and historical organs. , P. 14.
  5. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 323 (04.2).
  6. ^ O. Kopp: From the history of our parish Schopfheim . In: 100 Years of the Parish Church of St. Bernhard Schopfheim , 1980, p. 100.
  7. ↑ Winkler, Bischoff: Schopfheim. Churches and historical organs. , P. 15.
  8. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 324.

Coordinates: 47 ° 38 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 14.4 ″  E