St. Heinrich (Fürth)

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Exterior view of the parish church of St. Heinrich from the south

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Heinrich (originally St. Heinrich and Kunigunde ) is a town church in Fürth . The parish area covers the entire southern part of Fürth . On 23 October 1910, she was from Bamberg Archbishop Friedrich Philipp von Abert St. Henry , founder of the diocese of Bamberg , and his wife, the future Empress Cunegonde , consecrated . Today, however, the naming of the second patronage is largely dispensed with, so church and parish compactly with “St. Heinrich "titled.

history

High altar painting by Paul Thalheimer

In April 1906 a decision was made to build a second Catholic church in Fürth, after the Church of Our Lady on Königstrasse, the first post-Reformation Catholic church, had been consecrated in 1829 . Between 1840 and 1900 the number of Catholics in Fürth rose rapidly from 750 to around 11,000 due to the immigration of workers from the Upper Palatinate and Catholic regions of Franconia , and by the time the Heinrichskirche was inaugurated in 1910, it had already increased to over 16,000.

It was built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by the Munich architect Hans Schurr as a neo-baroque wall pillar church with a short transept . Since Schurr completed the parish church of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Bayerisch Eisenstein at about the same time , the two churches show astonishing parallels. The neo-baroque style was intended to reflect the revival of the Roman Catholic faith in the predominantly Protestant Fürth and to convey a sense of home to the Catholics who had moved from old Bavaria .

In 1919 the green area was laid out around the church. In 1922 the Heinrichskirche in Fürth was elevated to a parish church; previously it was a branch church of the already existing Fürth parish of Our Lady. In 1926 the rectory was built on the opposite side of the street (Kaiserstraße 113) ; it was also executed in the neo-baroque style. The high altar picture St. Heinrich is the work of the painter Paul Thalheimer .

Furnishing

organ

The first organ in Heinrichskirche was built in 1911 by the Johannes Strebel company from Nuremberg . With only seven registers, however, it was much too small for the church and was therefore acquired in 1931 by an instrument by Georg Friedrich Steinmeyer from Oettingen with 32 registers on two manuals and pedal . The first seven-register organ in the Heinrichskirche found its way into the Herz-Jesu-Kirche, newly built in 1932, in the Mannhof district of Fürth .

The present organ - a new, larger instrument the company Orgelbau Eisenbarth from Passau - was on September 11, 1965 inaugurated be. In 1993/94 the organ was completely refurbished and partially rebuilt: It received a new console and an electronic setting system with a floppy disk drive . In addition, wood abstracts were used and the wind pressure increased. In 2019 new paddocks and two additional registers were installed. The organ now has 46 sounding stops on three manuals and a pedal . The number of pipes is around 3000. The slider chest instrument with mechanical play and electrical stop action has the following disposition :

pedal
1. Principal bass 16 ′
2. Sub bass 16 ′
3. Echo bass 16 ′
4th Octave bass 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Dolkan (Piffaro) 4 ′ + 2 ′
7th Pommer 4 ′
8th. Night horn 2 ′
9. 5-way rear set 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. trombone 16 ′
11. Clairon 4 ′
I main work
12. Quintad 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Wooden flute 8th'
15th Gemshorn 8th'
16. octave 4 ′
17th Reed flute 4 ′
18th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th octave 2 ′
20th Mixture 6 times 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Trumpet 8th'
II positive
22nd Dumped 8th'
23. Quintad 8th'
24. recorder 4 ′
25th Principal 2 ′
26th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Scharff 4-fold 1'
28. Krummhorn 8th'
29 Trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
III swell
30th Lovely covered 16 ′
31. Singing principal 8th'
32. Flûte traversière 8th'
33. Tube bare 8th'
34. Willow pipe 8th'
35. Vox caelestis 8th'
36. Principal 4 ′
37. Coupling flute 4 ′
38. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
39. Forest flute 2 ′
40. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
41. Schwiegel 1'
42. Mixture 5 times 2 ′
43. Cymbal triple 1 ⁄ 4 ′
44. Dulcian 16 ′
45. Trompette harmonique 8th'
46. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
  • Coupling : I / P, II / P, III / P, III / P super, II / I, III / I mechanical, III / I electrical, III / II, III-I sub, III-II sub, III-III sub, III-I super, III-II super, III-III super
  • Playing aids : 4 free manual combinations, 6 free pedal combinations, individual tongue storage, individual storage for quintade 16 ′ and Lieblich covered 16 ′, hand register off, tongues from roller, tongues off, trigger, organo pleno, generaltutti, crescendo, roller off
  • Effect register : Zimbelstern

Bells

The Heinrichskirche has a four-part bell with the tone sequence c 1 –es 1 –f 1 –as 1 . The smallest bell dates from 1910, the time the church was built. At that time, the Oberascher brothers from Munich had made four bells for St. Heinrich, of which the three larger (2900, 1450 and 850 kilograms) were conscripted for war purposes in 1942. These were replaced in 1953 by three new bells from the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry from Gescher in Westphalia . Today's bell in detail:

No. Surname Casting year Caster Weight [kg] Chime inscription
1. Emperor Bell 1953 Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock, Gescher 2700 c 1 Difficult war time made me pass
by. Faithfulness to the congregation I rose again
from gifts of love I flowed.
Petit and Gebr. Edelbrock watered me
2. Marienbell 1600 it 1 I greet you, Maria in,
let St. Heinrich be recommended to you
3. Bell of the cross 1100 f 1 I mournfully think of those who
have given their lives for peace,
but to all who are down,
give, O Jesus, your peace
4th Peter Bell 1910 Gebr. Oberascher, Munich 650 as 1 Relief representation of Saint Peter with key and inverted cross

literature

  • Barbara Ohm: “A compelling need” - on the construction of the Catholic St. Heinrichs Church 100 years ago . Fürther Geschichtsblätter 4/2010 ( Download )

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catholic parish office of St. Heinrich Fürth: Church building . Online at www.st-heinrich-fuerth.de ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Catholic parish office of St. Heinrich Fürth: Development of the Catholics in Fürth . Online at www.st-heinrich-fuerth.de ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  3. ↑ Catholic parish office of St. Heinrich Fürth: Organ of St. Heinrich . Online at www.st-heinrich-fuerth.de ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ Program of the Fürth Church Music Days 2019 [1] , p. 9f .; accessed on December 27, 2019.
  5. ^ Catholic parish office of St. Heinrich Fürth: Bells of St. Heinrich . Online at www.st-heinrich-fuerth.de ; accessed on May 24, 2018.
  6. ↑ FÜRTH (FÜ), parish church St. Heinrich - full bells . Online at www.youtube.com ; accessed on May 24, 2018.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 48.2 ″  E