St. Joseph (Basel)

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Josephskirche (exterior view)

The Church of St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic church in the Swiss city ​​of Basel . It is located in Matthew - Quartier close to the Reformed Matthew Church and the Old Testament Joseph ordained.

The church was designed in the historicist neo -baroque style; Baroque is unique for the traditionally reformed city ​​of Basel. The Josephskirche was built between 1900 and 1902 by the St. Gallen architect August Hardegger as a parish church for the rapidly growing Catholic population in the workers' quarters in Kleinbasel . With originally 1400 seats, it is the largest Catholic church in Basel. Hardegger had also planned a variant with a dome , but the version with a wide three-aisled hall was implemented.

The glass paintings are by Friedrich Berbig . The choir altar by the painter August Wanner was created in 1926 and shows two murals by Joseph in Egypt. The altarpieces are by Rudolf Blätter and Fritz Kunz (1868–1947). The organ was made in 1904 by the organ builder Theodor Kuhn in Männedorf.

In 1988 the interior of the church was renovated; the renovation of the facade took place in 1997. In 1996 the building was added to the city's list of monuments after consultation with the owner and based on a municipal law of December 1994.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorothee Huber: Architecture Guide Basel - The Building History of the City and its Surroundings. Architekturmuseum Basel, Basel 1993, p. 229.
  2. ↑ Othmar Birkner and Hanspeter Rebsamen: Basel. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA 1850–1920, Volume 2 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5 , p. 124.
  3. ↑ St. Joseph  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on basel-virtuell.ch@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.basel-virtuell.ch  
  4. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Basel (PDF)

Coordinates: 47 ° 34  '11.3 " N , 7 ° 35' 26.3"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eleven thousand four hundred thirty-eight  /  268798