St. Blasius (Freiburg)

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St. Blasius Church in Freiburg-Zähringen
View inside the church

The St. Blasius Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Zähringen district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

The church was built from 1822 to 1824 according to plans by Christoph Arnold in Weinbrenner style by master mason Alois Meißburger from Kenzingen in the then still independent village of Zähringen. It replaced a previous church on the site of today's Zähringen cemetery, the patron of which was also St. Blaise . The church was consecrated on March 21, 1824 - but only provisionally by the Freiburg dean and pastor of St. Martin, Joseph Biechele; because the new Archdiocese of Freiburg did not yet have a bishop. It was not until June 23, 1991 that the church, which had been renovated several times, was officially consecrated as an episcopal after another thorough renovation by Archbishop Oskar Saier .

description

The geostete five-axis hall church is plain and with a gable roof covered. A rectangular choir adjoins the nave in the east and is separated from the church hall by a simple triumphal arch . The church interior is illuminated by large arched windows with antique glazing. The tower is almost completely cut into the western facade and divides it symmetrically. The vertical is emphasized by the sequence portal - window - arched window. A little above the ridge of the church roof, a passage separates the tower shaft from the spire, in which the bells hang and which is covered by a buckled tent roof.

Furnishing

Bader organ from 1937
Winterhalter organ

inner space

The interior of the church is kept simple. The baroque altars - a main altar and two side altars - come from abolished Freiburg monasteries. The statue of the church patron from the 18th century was taken over from the previous church. The ceiling painting, which extends over the entire ceiling surface, is striking. It depicts the heavenly Jerusalem in illusion painting, which opens to heaven. It is supposed to remove the squat impression of the room height of only nine meters and was made by the Zähringen painter Paul Meyerspeer in 1924. His brother Walther Meyerspeer created the pictures of the Way of the Cross .

organ

The organ from 2013 comes from the workshop of Claudius Winterhalter from Oberharmersbach . It is - unusually - built in the area of ​​the parapet of the gallery. In this way, the problem of the low room height could be defused and the sound development optimized. The organ has 17 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

The previous organ came from Wilhelm Bader junior from Hardheim . The compact instrument on the back wall of the gallery was installed in 1937 as the successor to an older instrument.

Bells

A five-part bronze bell hangs in the tower, cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling from Heidelberg in 1954. The previous bells mostly shared the fate of many chimes during the two world wars and were confiscated and melted down. The information on the individual bells is given in the following table.

Bells of St. Blasius, Freiburg
No. Surname Ø (mm) kg Chime
1 Christ 1195 1137 e '+ 2
2 St. Blaise 1059 785 f sharp '+ 2
3 St. Mary 939 526 g sharp '+ 1
4th St. Joseph 811 351 h '+ 2
5 St. Bernard 721 250 cis "+2

See also

Web links

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

proof

  1. ↑ Detailed description of the organ and its disposition on Claudius Winterhalter's website
  2. ↑ Bell inspection of the Archdiocese of Freiburg - Catholic Parish Church of St. Blasius in Freiburg-Zähringen , accessed on May 27, 2019

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '24.98 "  N , 7 ° 51' 55.04"  E