St. Bonifaz (Mainz)

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Parish Church of St. Boniface

The parish church of St. Bonifaz in Mainz Neustadt at the foot of the Bonifazius towers named after it is the center of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Bonifaz.

history

St. Bonifaz 1892, Mainz main station in the background

The parish was founded at the end of the 19th century with the development of the Mainz Neustadt. The original neo-Gothic basilica that on Easter Monday, 1894 by Bishop Paul Leopold Haffner ordained was, while the air strikes against Mainz was completely destroyed on February 27 1945th The current building was completed in 1954 and redesigned inside in 1988.

At Pentecost 1957 the partial construction of the new Oberlinger organ was consecrated, in 1971 the organ was completed by the same organ building workshop in Windesheim. The organ then had 39 registers, divided into 3 manuals and pedal. The planning concept was in the hands of Prof. Dr. Franz Bösken and Ernst Oberlinger. In 1989 the instrument, which was erected on two consoles in the gallery around the central window, was given a new setter system combined with a new console that was set up exactly between the two sub-works. On this occasion, three organ registers from Oberlinger, which were provided for in the planning but were still postponed, were installed so that the organ then had 42 registers.

The pastoral care of St. Boniface was entrusted to the Capuchin Order from 1969 to 1993 . Since then it has been noticed by Dominicans .

architecture

St. Boniface is a three-aisled, yellowish plastered church on a rectangular floor plan with a straight chancel. The front of the portal is dominated by the 43 m high square bell tower with historicizing buttresses . On both sides the first yoke of the side aisles is raised to the height of the central nave.

Furnishing

The organ was built and expanded by the Oberlinger organ building company from 1957. The organ building company Freiburg Orgelbau is currently cleaning and revising the instrument. The gaming table will be renewed and equipped with a modern setting system. The instrument is re-voiced or re-voiced, the positive is converted into a swell , and the disposition is changed slightly. In addition, another gaming table will be set up in the chancel. Today the instrument has 43 stops on three manual works and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 '
2. Principal (P) 08th'
3. Hollow pipe 08th'
4th Octave 04 '
5. Flute 04 '
6th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
7th Super octave 0 02 '
8th. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ' (n)
9. Mixture V 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
10. bassoon 16 '
11. Trumpet 08th'
II threshold positive C-g 3
12. Wooden dacked 00 08th'
13. Salicional 08th'
14th Principal 04 '
15th Coupling flute 04 '
16. Forest flute 02 '
17th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
18th Sif flute 01'
19th Scharff IV 01'
20th Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – g 3
21st Wooden flute 08th'
22nd Reed flute 08th'
23. Viola da gamba 08th'
24. Vox coelestis 08th'
25th Principal 04 '
26th Gemshorn 04 '
27. Octave 02 '
28. Sesquialter II 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
29 Mixture V 02 '
30th Dulcian 16 '
31. Trompette harmonique 08th' (n)
32. oboe 08th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
33. Pedestal 32 '
34. Principal Bass (P) 0 16 '
35. Sub bass 16 '
36. Octavbass (P) 08th'
37. Pommer 08th'
38. Octave 04 '
39. Pipe whistle 02 '
40. Mixture IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  '
41. trombone 016 '
42. Trumpet 08th'
43. Clarine 04 '
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Effect register: Cymbelstern
  • Remarks:
(P) = visible in the brochure
(n) = new register 2019
  1. ↑ from former Pommer 16 '.
  2. ↑ formerly in the swell.
  3. ↑ previously in positive.
  4. ↑ acoustic.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kläger: Mainz on the way to the big city (1866-1914) . In: Mainz: The history of the city . Verlag von Zabern, Mainz 1998, p. 467
  2. ↑ Parish Church of St. Boniface
  3. ↑ Information about the organ (as of July 25, 2018)

Web links

Commons : St. Bonifaz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 12.6 "  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 38.4"  E