St. Gebhard (Constance)
St. Gebhard is a Catholic church in Konstanz on Lake Constance. Since 2002 the parish has belonged to the pastoral care unit Konstanz- Petershausen , in the dean's office in Konstanz ( Archbishopric Freiburg ).
history
At the end of the 19th century, planning began for a new church as an independent parish church in the Petershausen district . In 1905 a building fund was set up. The new church should be completed as early as 1913. A neo-baroque church building with a tower was planned. However, given the outbreak of World War I , the project was postponed. In 1915–1916 a wooden church was built as an emergency church.
The construction of today's Gebhardskirche did not begin until 1929, after the rectory had already been completed in 1926. Unlike this, the church was no longer built according to the original plans. Cost reasons forced a renunciation of the originally intended stylistic accessories, such as the intended ambulatory and the onion dome on the tower. On the other hand, in the new planning, which was worked out by the chief building officer Hermann Graf and the architect Luger, the church building was made larger than originally planned. A church building with clear, simple forms was realized.
The foundation stone was laid in 1929. In 1930 the shell was completed and was consecrated on November 9th by Archbishop Karl Fritz to Saint Gebhard von Konstanz . In 1961 the church was renovated under the parish priest Hubert Ganner.
description
The church is a three-aisled basilica with an attached semicircular apse in the east and a curved west facade. The high and prominent church tower is located on the south-west corner of the church.
Furnishing
The interior of the church was painted with scenic representations by the painter Franz Schilling (Karlsruhe), which were largely whitewashed in the course of the interior renovation in the years 1960–1961.
On the stairs to the chancel next to the main altar is an unmounted crucifix from the 17th century , which was acquired from the art trade in 1989.
The windows in the left side chapel (sacrament chapel) designed in 1930 by the painter Franz Schilling show scenes from the life of Christ.
The pulpit , the wooden sculptures and wooden reliefs in the church were designed by the artist Paul Diesch (Constance).
The large colored mosaic on the choir wall was created by Peter Recker from Donauwörth in 1961. It characterizes the entire interior of the church and depicts the risen Christ in front of Mount Sinai .
organ
The first organ was built in 1930 by the organ building company X. Mönch (Überlingen) and expanded in 1961.
On July 13th, 2014, for the anniversary "600 years of the Konstanz Council", a new organ, the so-called "Council organ" was inaugurated. The instrument was built by the organ building company Claudius Winterhalter (Oberharmersbach). It has 69 registers (including 5 transmissions and an extended register) on three manuals and a pedal . The manual works are arranged almost equally in their cast ; Manuals I and II each fulfill a double function in that, depending on the style, they can be used both as a major work and as a positive. The disposition is:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / II I / P, II / P (mechanical), III / I, III / II, III / P (electrical)
- Super octave coupling: III / III, III / II, III / I, III / P (electrical)
- Sub-octave coupling: III / III, III / II, III / I (electrical)
- Playing aids : balance step for swell with piano progression, crescendo rollerwith four freely programmable crescendos.
Bells
From the once four-part chime , cast in 1930 by the Benjamin Grüninger & Söhne bell foundry, only the small guardian angel bell survived the Second World War . The Heidelberg bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling first cast two bells in 1951, and in 1954 the Christ the King bell as the largest bell to ring. With the casting of the small Josefs bell by Rudolf Perner from Passau in 2005, the ringing has been extended to five bells.
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
Diameter (mm) |
Weight (kg) |
Nominal (16th note) |
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| 1 | Christ the King | 1954 | Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling | 1915 | 4,300 | as 0 +1 |
| 2 | Gebhard | 1951 | Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling | 1485 | 2,100 | c 1 +4 |
| 3 | Marien | 1951 | Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling | 1235 | 1,200 | it 1 +3 |
| 4th | Guardian Angel | 1930 | Benjamin Grüninger & Sons | 1080 | 772 | total 1 -3.4 |
| 5 | Joseph | 2005 | Rudolf Perner | 972 | 607 | as 1 +3 |
literature
- Markus Zimmermann: Just really weird - the council organ of St. Gebhard in Konstanz. In: Ars Organi , vol. 62, issue 3, September 2014, ISSN 0004-2919 . Pp. 172-176.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Building history of the church on www.petershausen.net
- ↑ More information on interior design on the municipality's website
- ↑ cf. Community website
- ↑ More information on the new council organ
- ↑ For disposition ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the organ builder
- ↑ Resurrection Bell : KONSTANZ-PETERSHAUSEN (D - BW): Catholic Church of St. Gebhard: full bells. April 1, 2013, accessed October 27, 2017 .
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 15 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ E