St. Egidien (Nuremberg)

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Egidienkirche in the old town of Sebald in Nuremberg
Egidienkirche in the ensemble

The Evangelical Lutheran St. Egidien Church on Egidienplatz is a church in the old town of Sebald in Nuremberg . It is the oldest church site and the only baroque church in Nuremberg.

Building history

Egidienkirche and former monastery building in the 16th century, reconstruction by Gottlieb Bäumler in 1846

The predecessor of today's baroque church was a medieval monastery church, which was rebuilt at the beginning of the 12th century. The monastery church went back to the Schottenkloster St. Egidien founded in Regensburg , which was dissolved in 1525 under the abbot Friedrich Pistorius. This church was a three-aisled Romanesque basilica and can be found in parts of the present-day Eucharistic Chapel, which was vaulted only after 1200.

In the 15th century the monastery and the church were built considerably; Among other things, the central nave of the church has been vaulted and a Gothic long choir pushed forward to the east.

Egidienkirche, around 1711
Eucharist chapel from the 13th century inside, around 1860

From July 6th to 7th, 1696, a fire almost completely destroyed the monastery and the church building, which has served as a preaching church since the Reformation . The Eucharist Chapel from the 13th, the Tetzel Chapel from the 14th and the Wolfgang Chapel from the 15th century have been preserved from the time before the fire. The Landau tomb of Adam Kraft and the death shields typical of Nuremberg patrician churches are worth seeing , here in memory of deceased members of the Tetzel von Kirchensittenbach patrician family .

Tetzel's death shields

Baroque building

In the years 1711 (the foundation stone was laid on October 14th) to 1718 (rededication on September 4th, 1718), a baroque church was rebuilt on the remains of the previous building. The builders were Johann and Gottlieb Trost . It was the largest urban building project in Nuremberg in the 18th century. The stucco work was made by Donato Polli, who was born in southern Switzerland and trained in Milan . The frescoes, which differ in quality, were painted by Daniel Preisler and Johann Martin Schuster . The furnishings were classical and Corinthian. Numerous coats of arms of families of the Nuremberg patriciate are framed by the stucco . The main financier of the reconstruction was Christoph Wilhelm II. Tucher von Simmelsdorf (1683–1752).

In 1810 the Egidienkirche parish church was thoroughly renovated inside and out in 1928–34 and 1937/38. During the Second World War, the main aisle, crossing, transepts and the choir burned down completely during the great air raid on January 2, 1945, the mansard roofs collapsed and the outer walls were damaged.

  • The Romanesque Church, 1709

  • 1891

  • April 1945

  • 1961

reconstruction

View through the church to the choir
View through the church from the choir

As the only church baroque building in Nuremberg, there was no question in terms of monument conservation that the destroyed church had to be rebuilt, a concern that the parish of St. Egidien, which gradually grew again after 1945, vigorously pursued. In the first construction phase, the Eucharius and Tetzel chapel was restored from 1946 to 1952 and the precious glass windows that had been removed for safety during the war were reinstated. The St. Wolfgang Chapel, threatened by decay, was given a roof. The architect Rudolf Göschel was commissioned to restore the nave, where the Polli stucco had been preserved on the walls; Planning began in 1947, reconstruction work in 1955, and the topping-out ceremony was held on March 7, 1957. The old stucco decor was retained, the former pointed stucco vault of the central nave with its central fresco was replaced by a new lancet vault with a second vault above it. The heavily damaged towers - the south tower threatened to collapse in 1951 - had to be renewed over several years with their shot-up tower buttons.

On March 8, 1959, the church was returned to its intended use.

Furnishing

The new facility was designed simply and not in a historicizing manner; the altar was moved from the end of the choir to the crossing.

  • Choir room

  • Stucco ceiling in the choir

  • Large altar cross

organ

View of the main organ

The history of the organs of St. Egidien can be traced back to the year 1460. Today's main organ was built in 1963 by the organ building company Rieger Orgelbau . The instrument has 43  stops on three manual works and a pedal .

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Quintad 8th'
2. Wooden dacked 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Coupling flute 4 ′
5. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Gemshorn 2 ′
7th Quintan 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Scharff IV 1'
9. shawm 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Pommer 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Pointed flute 8th'
13. octave 4 ′
14th Night horn 4 ′
15th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Super octave 2 ′
17th Rauschwerk IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th bassoon 16 ′
20th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
21st Principal 8th'
22nd Black viola 8th'
23. Lead-covered 8th'
24. Principal 4 ′
25th Reed flute 4 ′
26th recorder 2 ′
27. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
28. Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
29 Plein jeu VII 2 ′
30th Cimbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
31. Trumpet 8th'
32. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
33. Principal 16 ′
34. Sub-bass 16 ′
35. Octave 8th'
36. Sub-bass 8th'
37. Choral bass III 4 ′
38. Pommer 4 ′
39. Hollow flute 2 ′
40. Mixture V 2 ′
41. trombone 16 ′
42. prong 8th'
43. Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

Six bells hang on both towers .

No. Nominal
(16th note) 		Casting year Foundry, casting location Diameter
(mm) 		Weight
(kg) 		Belfry
1 d 1 +1 1965 Bachert bell foundry , Karlsruhe 1387 1534 South tower
2 e 1 −1 1965 Bachert bell foundry, Karlsruhe 1240 1066 North tower
3 g 1 +1 1959 Bachert bell foundry, Karlsruhe 1070 766 South tower
4th h 1 −1 1959 Bachert bell foundry, Karlsruhe 825 340 North tower
5 d 2 +1 1959 Bachert bell foundry, Karlsruhe 702 235 North tower
6th e 2 ± 0 1959 Bachert bell foundry, Karlsruhe 640 185 North tower

Cultural church

As a “cultural church”, St. Egidien offers various forms of worship that take up the themes of culture and the church. Exhibitions of contemporary art and special stagings of baroque and modern music take place regularly. In 2015, sculptures by Dietrich Klinge were shown as a “Et and, also” double exhibition in St. Egidien and St. Sebald in cooperation with Bode Galerie & Edition . Against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, the two Nuremberg clubs Die Rakete and Haus 33 streamed live performances from the Eucharius Chapel under the motto Church goes Clubbing: Dance into Life during Easter Vigil 2020. According to the pastor, the parish wanted to show solidarity with the cultural scene by means of a virtual bell bag .

List of the rulers and preachers of St. Egidien

literature

  • Georg Stolz: Egidien Church . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
  • Evangelical Luth. Parish Office St. Egidien (Ed.): St. Egidien 1718-1959. Festschrift for the rededication of St. Egidienkirche in Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1959, 56 pages
  • Helmut Flachenecker : Schottenklöster. Irish Benedictine convents in high medieval Germany (sources and research from the field of history NS 18), Paderborn et al. 1995.
  • Stefan Weber : Irish on the continent. The life of Marianus Scottus of Regensburg and the beginnings of the Irish “Schottenklöster” , Heidelberg 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Egidien 1718–1959, p. 9
  2. ^ Nestmeyer, R. (2006). Nuremberg-Fürth-Erlangen. Erlangen: Michael Müller Verlag
  3. ↑ St. Egidien 1718–1959, p. 16
  4. ^ Tucher , by Matthias Kirchhoff in: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns
  5. ↑ St. Egidien 1718-1959, p. 33
  6. ↑ a b This section is based on: St. Egidien 1718–1959, pp. 29–37
  7. ↑ Information on the organ .
  8. ↑ Actually an April Fool's joke on donaukurier.de, April 10, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020
  9. ^ Nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: Franke forged aria verses for Bach . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on February 26, 2018]).

See also

Web links

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '23.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 53.4"  E