St. Georg (Wyhlen)

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St. George's Church in Wyhlen

St. Georg in Grenzach-Wyhlen in southern Baden is a Catholic parish church whose origins can be traced back to the 13th century. At the beginning of the 20th century the church was rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style.

history

prehistory

The first clergyman in Wyhlen ("plebanus in Wilon") is mentioned in 1275, the first parish church ("parrochia ecclesie de Wilon") in 1283. The location at that time on the edge of the village was deliberately chosen so that Wyhlen and two other settlements built the church could use together.

Presumably, a Gothic church replaced the previous building in the 15th century . The single-nave structure closed with a straight choir and had a two and a half cross vault. The windows without tracery were pointed arches; there was an oculus on the north side . The choir was built in 1416, after the place was destroyed in the Basel War in 1409. To the south of the choir stood a four- story bell tower covered with a gable roof . A coat of arms on the west portal bears the year 1628.

Today's church

After the church had to undergo renovations between 1878 and 1879, it was decided in 1906 to renovate it in the neo-Gothic style, partially re-using the old structure. The sacrament house was integrated into the new building of the choir from 1415. Until the 1960s, the church still had a roof turret at the crossing at the transept of the main portal, which housed the small baptismal bell. However, this had to be canceled for security reasons.

In the years 1970 to 1971 the church received new windows in the nave, a celebration altar and an ambo as part of renovation work . A baptismal font was placed in place of the right side altar . There was also a redesign to do justice to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council . The decorative ornaments on the pillars and the ceiling, which were created in 1920 and 1925 by the Waldshut artist Carl Bertsche (1885–1942), were painted over. The demolition of the high altar and other interior fittings also fell victim to the intervention .

In the 2000s, the facade of the bell tower was restored. The exterior renovation of the nave began in summer 2015 and was completed in spring 2018. The church was also given barrier-free access on the east side.

description

Church building

Transept with entrance portal

The nave of the three-aisled Georgskirche in Wyhlen is crossed at both ends by a transverse building. The main portal is located on the smaller one, while the choir and sacristy are located in the larger and higher ones . The building has a gable roof that is crossed by the gable roofs of the transverse structures. The outer walls of the choir and nave are divided by buttresses and two side portals. The church is 38.8 meters long, 17.2 meters wide and 12 meters high.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the 48.7 meter high bell tower with a square floor plan was increased by one floor compared to the previous building, so that it now has four floors; the old tower measured only 24.7 meters up to the ridge height. On the top floor there is a round arched sound arcade on each side . Above the arcades, the tower has a clock face with a 1.64 meter diameter on each side. The golden hands point to a black band with golden Roman numerals in front of a turquoise square background. The roof is formed by a tall and slender pyramid.

Interior and equipment

View into the nave towards the altar

The central nave is separated from the two side aisles by four hexagonal columns and one round column. The naves as well as the choir are spanned with richly structured, pointed arched vaults. The glazing of the nave windows has the theme "The New Heaven and the New Earth" and was designed by the Karlsruhe artist Emil Wachter .

The winged altar, which was closed during the Passion

The stained glass windows in the choir with tracery show the figures of saints Katharina, Georg, Elisabeth as well as Maria, Josef and Anna. On the east wall of the choir there is an epitaph, which reminds of Gervasius Prothasius von Baden († April 27, 1677). To the right of the epitaph, a Gothic sacrament house from 1436 is built into a pillar, closed with an iron grille . In the choir there is a celebration altar made of Jurassic lime and an ambo.

The main altar is a neo-Gothic winged altar in the form of a triptych . The tabernacle in the middle part is decorated with the figures of Saint Fridolin, Mauritius, Beatus, Bernhardus and Conradus. The adoration of Jesus by the Magi can be seen on the left wing , the Resurrection on the right. The winged altar was designed by the Offenburg artist Franz Joseph Simmler around 1900.

In the side aisles there is a fourteen-station Stations of the Cross as a relief work. The baroque cross with a plastic representation of the crucified Jesus comes from the previous church.

organ

View of the organ

The organ by Fischer and Krämer from Schlatt near Freiburg from 1972 is located on a gallery above the main portal. The instrument with mechanical performance and electric stop action has 27 stops on two manuals and pedal .

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Quintatön 8th'
3. Principal 4 '
4th Reed flute 4 '
5. Flageolet 2 '
6th Octavlein 1'
7th Quintan II
8th. Sharp Cymbal IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
9. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Drone 16 '
11. Principal 8th'
12. Wooden flute 8th'
13. Octave 4 '
14th recorder 4 '
15th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Octave 2 '
17th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Cornett V 8th'
19th Mixture V-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
21st Pedestal 16 '
22nd Principal bass 8th'
23. Covered bass 8th'
24. Wood octave 4 '
25th Piffaro II 2 '+ 1'
26th Rauschbass III 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
27. trombone 16 '
  • Coupling : III (coupling manual) I / P, II / P

Bells

Bell tower

The previous church must have had bells as early as 1632, as evidenced by an inscription in the belfry of that time. The first bell that could be proven beyond doubt dates back to 1690 and bears the inscription "Hans Friedrich Weitenauer poured me in Basel for a lonely common will in 1690". Both in the Franco-German War of 1870/1871 and in the two world wars, the largest bells had to be handed in due to the war. Today's bell was brought in a solemn procession from the pilgrimage chapel Himmelpforte to St. George's Church on October 26, 1963 and consecrated one day later.

The five-part bronze bell of St. Georg was cast in 1963 by FW Schilling from Heidelberg and is composed as follows:

No.
  		Surname
  		Weight
(kg) 		Chime
  		inscription
 
1. Christ the King bell 1600 d 1 Jesus King of all time - Praised forever
2. St. Anna Bell 900 f 1 St. Anna mother great - O help us be saved
3. George Bell 1700 g 1 St. George, help us fight in our war of life,
and lead us to victory
4th Marienbell 420 b 1 We greet you, O Queen of Heaven and Earth,
and lay down at your feet everything that is dear to you
5. Guardian angel bell 280 c 2 Holy Guardian Angel my, let me be recommended to you

literature

  • Helmut Bauckner, Ewald Kaiser, Benno Westermann: Catholic Church St. Georg Wyhlen. Grenzach-Wyhlen 2006.
  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland. Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 110-112.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Haid: Liber decimationis cleri Constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275. In: FDA 1 , 1865, p. 198.
  2. ^ R. Wackernagel: Urkundenbuch der Stadt Basel , Volume 2, 1890 ff, p. 242.
  3. ^ Gerspach: The history of the Himmelpforte monastery in Wyhlen. In: Das Markgräflerland , year 4/35, 1973, p. 12
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland. P. 110 (06.2).
  5. ^ A. Heimann-Schwarzweber: Topography of the historical sights. In: W. Bechtold (Ed.): The district of Lörrach. 1971, p. 109.
  6. ↑ Bauckner, et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 18.
  7. ↑ a b Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland. P. 112 (06.4).
  8. ↑ Bauckner et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 20.
  9. ↑ Bauckner et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 16.
  10. ↑ Bauckner et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 18.
  11. ↑ Bauckner et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 19.
  12. ↑ Emil Wachter. In: Community of Christian Artists (Ed.): From our creation. Archdiocese of Freiburg 1973, Issue 8, pp. 52–54.
  13. ↑ Bauckner et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 54.
  14. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland. P. 110.
  15. ↑ Information about the organ (as of September 26, 2018)
  16. ↑ Bauckner, et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. Pp. 31-32.
  17. ↑ Bauckner, et al .: The Catholic Church of St. George Wyhlen. P. 34.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '56.4 "  N , 7 ° 41' 8.9"  E