St. Ignaz (Mainz)

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Front facade St. Ignaz
Facade of the Ignazkirche
inner space

The Mainz parish church of St. Ignaz in Kapuzinerstraße is a classical hall church . It was built from 1763 to 1774/75 under the Electoral Mainz building officer and court plasterer Johann Peter Jäger . It is dedicated to the martyr and bishop of Antioch , Ignatius of Antioch, who died in 107 AD .

history

The church was built in the same epoch as the Augustinian Church and the Church of St. Peter . In contrast to these, however, it is not a baroque church , but, as the sandstone facade shows, a church in a classical style.

The Ignazkirche stands on the ground of the medieval predecessor building, which was the parish church of the former town and later Mainz district of Selenhofen . There is evidence of a Romanesque, later Gothic extended church, which fell into disrepair in the course of the 18th century. The first written reference to this medieval predecessor building dates back to 1259, but possibly dates back to the 12th century.

architecture

facade

The sandstone facade is modeled on a French model from the early 17th century, the Paris parish church of Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais . In particular, the composition of Doric , Ionic and Corinthian columns ("superposition") and the matching design of the pilaster capitals corresponds to the French model.

Church building

The plan of the church is cruciform. Originally a tower was planned above the choir, but it was never built. The vaulted ceiling above the cross-shaped floor plan is a work by Johann Valentin Thoman . The clear design of the interior is evidence of the transition to classicism .

Vaulted ceiling

The interior has a magnificent ceiling painting. The original ceiling paintings from the years 1773 to 1776, created by Johann Baptist Enderle , show scenes from the life of St. Ignatius . From 1902 to 1906 the drawings by Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder were repainted or repainted and fundamentally restored in the 1950s. In the 1980s, St. Ignaz was renovated the penultimate time, again in 2017.

crypt

There is a crypt under the choir . 198 of the former 261 oven graves are still preserved. Among the graves are those of the craftsmen who expanded the church.

Outdoor area

Next to the church is a former cemetery with a copy of a crucifixion group from 1519, a donation by the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen and his wife from the 16th century. The multi-figure crucifixion group has been in the Episcopal Cathedral and Diocesan Museum (Mainz) since 1995 .

organ

View of the organ

The classicist organ case on the gallery above the main entrance is also worth seeing. It comes from an organ that was built in the years 1779–1781 by the organ builder Joseph Anton Onimus , who had a fatal accident during construction. The new organ was donated by the widow Anna Clara Manera . Bernhard Dreymann created a new organ behind the representative prospectus in 1838. In 1903 the instrument was rebuilt by the organ builder Balthasar Schlimbach, and was last restored in 2019. The slider chests -instrument has 37 registers on two manual works and pedal mechanism . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Dolce 8th'
6th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Salicional 4 ′
9. Reed flute 4 ′
10. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Octave 2 ′
12. Cornet IV 4 ′
13. Mixture V-VI 2 ′
14th Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
15th Principal 8th'
16. Flute traverse 8th'
17th Pointed flute 8th'
18th Covered 8th'
19th Dolce 4 ′
20th Smalled up 4 ′
21st Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Pointed flute 2 ′
23. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Sif flute 1'
26th Mixture III 1'
27. Krummhorn 8th'
28. Vox Humana 8th'
Pedals C – c 1
29 Principal bass 16 ′
30th Violon bass 16 ′
31. Sub bass 16 ′
32. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Octavbass 8th'
34. Octave bass 4 ′
35. Back set III 2 ′
36. Trombone bass 16 ′
37. Clairon 4 ′

photos

  • The crucifixion group

  • crypt

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Volume 55 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08176-4 , pp. 142 .
  2. ↑ Ludwig Falck : The free city in its heyday 1244-1328. S. 153 In: Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz (eds.): Mainz - The history of the city. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1999 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-805-32000-0
  3. ↑ Anja Weiffen: Workplace in the church sky In: Glaube und Leben, diocese newspaper Mainz, from April 5, 2017
  4. ^ Franz Bösken : Sources and research on the organ history of the Middle Rhine. Vol. 1: Mainz and suburbs - Rheinhessen - Worms and suburbs . Schott, Mainz 1967, ISBN 978-3-7957-1306-5 , p. 124–135 (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 6).
  5. ↑ See the information on the organ

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 41 ″  E