St. Johann Baptist (Neu-Ulm)

Tower of St. Johann-Baptist in Neu-Ulm

St. Johann-Baptist in Neu-Ulm

The church of St. Johann Baptist in Neu-Ulm was built as a garrison church in 1857. Today it is the Catholic parish church of the parish of St. Johann Baptist in the city center and the Schwaighofen district.

architecture

Changes

The church, also known as the War Memorial Church in the 1930s , was expanded by Dominikus Böhm from 1922 to 1926 and after the Second World War , and its architecture was redesigned to its present form. The last extensive restoration from 1980 to 1985 gave the interior of the church its current appearance. According to experts, St. Johann Baptist is one of the most important church buildings of the 20th century in an Expressionist style.

Building description

The outer walls and the tower are made of material from the demolished Ulm fortifications (Jurassic limestone, bricks and remains of beaver tail). Inside, the contrast between the hollow brick floor and the white walls bathed in light and idiosyncratic vaults create a striking spatial creation, especially in the baptistery. The formless reinforced concrete used in the vault construction is of technical interest. The vaults were, so to speak, mapped out by the construction iron; A wide-meshed iron mesh was attached to the underside of these, and a brick fabric ( Rabitz ) was used as a plaster base. Finally, the concrete was introduced and distributed from above. The plaster was applied from the interior.

Furnishing

Church interior, view to the altar

Altar, main and transept, chapels, jewelry

The furnishings (bronze and stone sculptures, design of the windows) come from the sculptor Reinhold Grübl .

organ

Interior view with organ

The organ was built in 1968 by the organ builder Hubert Sandtner (Dillingen) and in 2000 it was re- voiced and two stops were added. Today the instrument has 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.

I main work C– Bourdun 16 ′ Principal 8th' Reed flute 8th' Octave 4 ′ Pointed flute 4 ′ Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Octave 2 ′ Mixture IV-V 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Trumpet 8th'

II Rückpositiv C– Black viola 8th' Dumped 8th' Principal 4 ′ Wooden flute 4 ′ Duplicate 2 ′ Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Scharff III 1' Dulcian 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C– Principal 16 ′ Sub bass 16 '' Octave 8th' Covered 8th' Choral bass 4 ′ Basszink V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ trombone 16 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
• Playing aids : two free combinations , tutti, tongue holder

See also

• Evangelical garrison church in Ulm
• Catholic garrison church in Ulm

literature

• Jakob Eberle, Edigna Schreml: The Catholic parish church of St. Johann Baptist , Kleine Kunstführer series No. 1561, Schnell & Steiner, ISBN 3-7954-5268-6 .
• Manuela Klauser: The praying room. Dominikus Böhm's Church of St. Johann Baptist in Neu-Ulm. A key building in modern sacred architecture . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-644-5 .

Web links

Commons : St. Johann Baptist (Neu-Ulm)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• St. Johann Baptist Neu-Ulm on the website of the Catholic parish of St. Johann Baptist Neu-Ulm
• St. Johann Baptist (Neu-Ulm). In: arch INFORM .
• Interior view of the Catholic Votive and War Memorial Church, around 1930 (?)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
2. ↑ Histor. Postcard Neu-Ulm, Warrior Memorial Church ; accessed on September 17, 2019.
3. ↑ Information on the organ of St. Johann Baptist ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 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. 

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 10 ° 0 ′ 1.4 ″  E