St. John (Vimbuch)
St. Johannes is the neo-Gothic , Catholic parish church in Vimbuch , a district of the city of Bühl in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the dean's office of Baden-Baden in the Roman Catholic diocese of Freiburg . The sacred building is dedicated to John the Baptist .
location
Vimbucher Straße runs through the district in a north-south direction, parallel to Sandbach to the east. From the west, Seimelstrasse leads to the building, which is on a slight hill to the east of this intersection. The building is not fenced in .
history
The time at which the parish Vimbuch was established is not documented. A chapel was mentioned in the Speyer document from 1154 . Another reference can be found in a document from the Schwarzach Minster , in which a pastor Johannes de Vintbuch was mentioned in the town in 1259. The church therefore assumes that the parish must have originated in the mid-13th century. According to tradition, the first parish church was built between 1460 and 1470.
It is certain that construction began in 1888 under the direction of the architect Karl Hörth , after the pastor Karl Bunkofer was able to convince the other parishes of a new sacred building. The church consecration took place on May 14, 1891 in the presence of Archbishop Johann Christian Roos. The previous building in Karl-Bunkofer-Straße was then torn down and the inventory and the property were sold. In December 1920 the church received electrical lighting for 12,735 paper marks . In World War II the church in 1944 should have a chandelier made of brass in the wake of a metal donation of the German people give. However, it was preserved after it was subsequently reported as gold-plated . In 1964 the community put a church heating system into operation. The building was extensively renovated in 1970, as well as in 2001 and 2002. Among other things, angels that had been painted over in the meantime were exposed again above the choir arch . In September 2006, the auxiliary bishop Rainer Klug inaugurated a new altar and a new ambo .
Building description
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The entire structure was built from red sandstone . The choir has moved in and has a five-eighth closing . It is stabilized on each side by triple-stepped buttresses . In between there is a brickwork in the lower area, above on the north and south side are two, on the other sides a coupled lancet window with a triple pass above . The reveals were also made of sandstone. There is a surrounding frieze at the transition to the roof . A sacristy with a rectangular floor plan is built on the south side of the choir . It can be entered from the east through an ogival gate. There are three rectangular windows on the south facade, as well as in the gable .
The north and south walls of the nave are symmetrical. The two side aisles are each stabilized by double-stepped buttresses. In between there is an ogival window. Between the fourth and fifth yoke there is also an ogival gate, which is decorated in the upper area with a four-stepped panel . The upper aisle of the main nave consists of two coupled windows; the wall is structured with pilaster strips . As on the choir, there is a surrounding frieze above it. The side aisles can be entered through a further gate on the west side. Above it is a quatrefoil .
The west tower is rectangular and drawn in. There is a staircase at its connection to the nave. The mighty, ogival west portal is stepped three times and can be reached via a staircase. This is followed by the middle tower floor above a cornice . On its west facade there are also two coupled lancet windows, each with a triple pass above and a five pass above it . The pointed arch leads the viewer to a tower clock above it, which finally divides the middle floor. This is followed by the upper floor of the tower consisting of two coupled sound arcades , pinnacles and a pointed helmet that ends with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
Franz Joseph Simmler created the altar , the pulpit , the confessionals, the communion bench and the fifth in 1891; the ambo is modern. In the south side altar there has been a late Gothic altarpiece since 1962 , which originally belonged to the main altar of the Dionysius Church in Baden-Baden . It comes from the Alsatian sculptor Niklaus von Hagenau and thus probably from the previous building. It was created in 1508.
The shrine was dedicated to Simon Peter , the Apostle Andrew and Dionysius of Paris . It was brought to the Oos ossuary in the 18th century ; the furnishings remained in the church. At the end of the 1950s, the shrine made of fir wood , after a partial restoration, was first moved to the cemetery chapel with three other figures, then to the parish church in Vimbuch. It consists of three arched niches, each decorated with a round arch and acanthus and tracery . In the middle, significantly higher niche is Dionysius. He holds his severed, mitered head in both hands in front of his chest; in the crook of the right arm a crook as an insignia of his power. Some of the inscriptions are no longer decipherable. The following can be recognized: "NICLAVS · VON · / HAGNOW · J (M) XV · / C · VI · IOR ·" and "O DV · HEILLICHER · HER · SANT · DIONISIVS · PIT · GOT · FVR · VNS · ARM".
Other features include a brass chandelier and a crucifix that hangs on the southwest side of the nave. The interior of the nave is white. The columns made of Black Forest granite, which support the individual profiled yokes of the nave, stand out from this . The triumphal arch is pointed arch-shaped and decorated with angels. The structure has a flat wooden beam ceiling inside.
organ
The organ comes from the English organ builder Bevington & Sons and was built in 1884. The purely mechanical instrument stands on the west gallery and originally had 22 registers and two manuals . It was imported from Ramsgate by a service provider and restored by the organ builder Krawinkel between 2005 and 2006. Another work was built in and a third manual was added.
The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Octave coupling: III / III
Bells
A total of five bells hang in the tower . Two come from the Edel bell foundry and were created in 1798 under the direction of Matthäus Edel. They originally hung in the old parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Bühl and after a new building came to Vimbuch at the end of the 19th century. They are also supposed to be melted down as part of a metal donation, but could be brought back from the bell cemetery in Hamburg . In 1929 another bell was added, which Benjamin Grüniger cast. It was removed in 1980 and replaced by three bells from the Heidelberg bell foundry .
The largest of them is dedicated to Jesus Christ and has a diameter of 1,263 mm and a mass of 1,323 kg. It is your strike tone '. The second bell for Maria from 1798 has a diameter of 1,110 mm, weighs 800 kg and has the strike tone f '. The inscription reads: “MATTHAEUS EDEL ZU STRASBURG GOS MICH ANNO 1798. / DONATED BY NICLAUS SCHUH / AND BARBARA HIS WIFE / BURGER ZU BÜHL ESTABLISHED UNDER / AUGUST BARON V. HARRANT OBERVOGT / FIDELIS KERNLER I STABHALTER. ADAM WEIBER BURGERMEISTER / ZU BÜHL. “It is supplemented by a smaller model by Edel for Peter and Paul with a diameter of 930 mm, a mass of 520 kg and the strike sound as'. It says: “MATTHAEUS EDEL ZU STRASBURG GOS MICH ANNO 1798. / ERECTED UNDER / AUGUST BARON V. HARRANT OBERVOGT / FIDELIS KERNLER STABHALTER / IOH. ADAM WEIBER BURGERMEISTER / ZU BÜHL. ". The last two bells come from Heidelberg and have a diameter of 867 mm and 762 mm with a mass of 454 kg and 310 kg. Their strikes are b 'and c' '. They are dedicated to St. John or are used as peace bells.
Web links
- Parish church Vimbuch , website of the parishes parish Vimbuch - Weitenung - Moos, accessed on June 18, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Church of St. John the Baptist , website of the city of Bühl, accessed on June 18, 2017.
- ↑ Vimbuch Altgemeinde , website of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on June 18, 2017.
- ^ Vimbuch (city of Bühl), cath. Parish Church of St. Johannes d. Baptist Baden-Baden-Oos, cath. Parish Church of St. Dionys , website of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, accessed on June 18, 2017.
- ↑ Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist , website Orgelbau Krawinkel, accessed on June 18, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 '6.9 " N , 8 ° 7' 0.7" E