St. Georg (Bleibach)

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St. Georg with Gothic choir (left in the picture)

The church of St. Georg in Gutach-Bleibach is the parish church of Bleibach. It combines modern church architecture with historical buildings.

St. George with ossuary (right in the picture)

history

The first church was built before 1350 as a branch of the St. Peter monastery in Waldkirch. In 1444 it was added to the Waldkirch Canons' Monastery. In 1512 the late Gothic choir room, which still exists today, was added. In 1631 the dilapidated nave had to be demolished and replaced by a larger nave. The ossuary, which was not originally connected to the church, dates from around 1720, when the cemetery surrounding the church building had become too small. In 1792 Bleibach established its own parish with the parish church of St. Georg. In 1857 the choir room was renovated; In 1876 the nave was enlarged again. In 1905 the church received a new sacristy; the old sacristy was converted into a chapel. Since the church building was again too small in the 1970s, it was rebuilt in its current form from 1976 to 1978.

Architecture and equipment

St. Georg in Bleibach, Inneres
Windows by Hans Baldung Grien

The St. Georg , which was consecrated to St. George , combines architectural elements from the Gothic to the modern in architecture and interior design after the last renovation in 1978 .

The church building can be divided into three parts. The modern nave has a triangular outline and connects the Gothic choir with the ossuary from 1720. The building, which looks unspectacular from the outside, is characterized by the red-colored aluminum roof of the nave that extends to the ground and has no church tower .

Choir

The choir has a net vault and four windows. A window from 1514, allegedly designed by Hans Baldung Grien , is particularly important. The floor of the choir is lined with the sandstone of the old nave. The modern sandstone altar consists of parts of the former altar of 1878, the baptismal font of the same material is from 1997. From the choir through a door separated is located in the former sacristy of St. George's Chapel with an equestrian statue of the saint of the 1699th

Nave

The nave, which enlarges the former nave floor plan into a triangle by widening the side of the choir as a leg of an approximately equilateral triangle with truncated angles, is characterized by the change in the wooden ceiling paneling with the large, modern windows. The floor is designed with exposed aggregate concrete , the pews are arranged in three rows in a semicircle towards the choir. The Way of the Cross dates from 1697.

Parish halls are located below the nave.

Ossuary

In the originally free-standing ossuary on the south side of the church is the Bleibacher dance of death , painted in 1723 by Johann Jakob Winter from Waldkirch in the barrel vault , which is obviously based on the models in Basel and Kientzheim / Haut Rhin as well as the "Images of Death" by Hans Holbein the Elder J. was designed. In the middle of the ossuary is a tree of life from 1976 with four statues from 1697.

organ

Housed by the choir from the right corner organ is an instrument workshop monk organ building from Ueberlingen purchased new and was the 1,981th It is equipped with 23 sounding registers with a total of 1400 pipes on two manuals and pedal .

Bells

Since this church does not have a tower, the four bells cast in 1950 by the Grüninger bell foundry in Neu-Ulm are housed above the choir.

No. Weight diameter Chime
1 583 kg 980 mm as′-2
2 400 kg 850 mm b′-2
3 297 kg 750 mm c ″ -2
4th 175 kg 650 mm it ″ ± 0

literature

  • Hermann Trenkle: St. Georg Bleibach. 3rd edition, Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3795454344

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . P. 234ff.
  2. ↑ Mönch Orgelbau - Bleibach (Gutach-), Catholic parish church St. Georg, disposition
  3. ↑ Bell inspection of the Archdiocese of Freiburg Catholic parish church St. Georg in Gutach-Bleibach

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  E