St. Gallus (Kaiseraugst)

St. Gallus Church

The St. Gallus Church is a Christian Catholic church building named after St. Gallus in Kaiseraugst in the canton of Aargau ( Switzerland ).

description

It stands on the foundations of a church that is one of the oldest Christian places of worship in Switzerland. A baptistery from the 4th or 5th century is built into the bank of the Rhine below the church . The church tower dates back to the 14th century, the baroque interior was completely redesigned between 1736 and 1750. Around 1776 the painter Döbelin from Rheinfelden created today's high altar and the two side altars.

During the Kulturkampf , the majority of the population of Kaiseraugst changed to the Christian Catholic denomination, which is why the Catholics loyal to Rome built their own church in 1900/01.

organ

The organ was built in 1990 by the organ builder Roman Steiner (Fehren). The slider chest instrument has 10 registers , seven of which are manual registers , some of which are divided into bass and treble sides. The playing and register actions are mechanical. The disposition is:

Manual C – g 3 1. Principal 8th' B / D 2. Bordon 8th' B / D 3. Octave 4 ′ B / D 4th Reed flute 4 ′ B / D 5. Sesquialtera II from c 1 6th Octave 2 ′ 7th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′

Pedal C – f 1 8th. Sub-bass 16 ′ 9. Octavbass 8th' 10. Trumpet 8th'

• Coupling : Man / P

Web links

• Christian Catholic parish Kaiseraugst
• St. Gallus (Kaiseraugst) in the inventory of historical monuments of the Canton of Aargau
• The village church of St.Gallus in Kaiseraugst - the structural development from the Roman secular building to today's Christian Catholic parish church (PDF 17MB, 282 pages)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the organ at Organindex
2. ↑ Christkath. Church Kaiseraugst AG in the organ directory Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '28.2 "  N , 7 ° 43' 27.8"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred fifteen  /  265645