St. Kastor (Koblenz)

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The double tower facade in the west
The south side of the Basilica of St. Castor with the Paradise Garden
inner space
View over the flower courtyard to the Basilica of St. Kastor during the Federal Garden Show 2011 , on the left the Deutschherrenhaus

The St. Kastor Basilica , also called Kastorkirche , is a Catholic church in the old town of Koblenz . The basilica , the first construction of which was completed in the first half of the 9th century and whose current appearance was created in the 12th and 19th centuries, is the oldest preserved church building in the city and stands behind the Deutsches Eck on the headland between the Rhine and Moselle . The church is a prominent Romanesque building on the Middle Rhine and is of great historical importance due to its extensively preserved building stock and the largely traditional furnishings. Together with the other two Romanesque churches, the Liebfrauenkirche and the Florinskirche , it shapes the silhouette of the old town. On the forecourt of the basilica is the so-called Kastorbrunnen , a curious testimony to the Napoleonic Wars . On July 30, 1991, Pope John Paul II elevated the Kastor Church to a minor basilica . It bears the patronage of St. Castor von Karden .

history

At the site of today's Kastor Church, which is built in a flood-free area, remains of settlement can be traced back to prehistoric times . The Romans built a first fort in this area at the time of Emperor Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD) , which was first verified in November 2008 when an ancient moat was discovered during construction work for the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show . The four meter wide and still 2.5 meter deep moat of the 100 by 100 meter large fort is proof of the early Roman settlement of Koblenz, which had previously been searched in vain in the area of ​​the old town for 150 years. After the fort was abandoned , a Gallo-Roman temple was built in the area of ​​today's choir of the church , which existed from the late 1st to the 4th century. In Franconian times, around 600, a cemetery that was used until the middle of the 12th century was laid out on the area of ​​the temple.

The first building of the Kastor Church was built from 817 to 836 under the Archbishop of Trier Hetti with the support of Emperor Ludwig the Pious at the gates of the city of Confluentes and consecrated on November 12, 836. Since there was a Franconian royal court in Koblenz , Ludwig was considered the builder and the church was a Carolingian own church . However, Ludwig only came to Koblenz after the church was consecrated. This increases the importance of the archbishop for the church building, especially since the church was outside the city of Koblenz until the 13th century. The relics of St. Castor were transferred from the collegiate church of St. Castor in Karden on the Moselle to Koblenz for consecration . Ludwig's alleged daughter Rizza was venerated as the saint of the city of Koblenz in the church, whose reliquary is still in the church.

The first castor church of the 9th century was a Carolingian hall building with the width of today's central nave . In the west there was a vestibule, a transept and a directly closing semicircular apse in the east. A ring corridor led around them from the outside. At its apex was an intermediate building that reached as far as a rotunda in the east . This outer crypt was probably related to the imperial foundation. The church building belonged to the so-called Kastorstift ( Kollegiatstift St. Kastor), in which priests lived in a monastery-like community.

In the 9th century, the St. Kastor monastery was closely linked to the history of the empire. In 842, the provisions on the division of the Franconian Empire were negotiated here by 110 authorized representatives of the sons of the then governor Ludwig the Pious, Lothar I , Charles II the Bald and Ludwig the German , which were then signed in the Treaty of Verdun in 843. The result of this treaty was that the Frankish Empire was divided into three parts ( West Franconia , Lotharingia and East Franconia ).

The St. Castor monastery became an important meeting place for emperors and kings as well as their descendants and a place of arbitration, where disputes between the ruling emperors and kings were negotiated and settled. In June 860, for example, the Carolingian rulers of the three partial kingdoms met to settle their disputes and negotiated the peace of Koblenz .

With the invasion of the Normans in 882 the Kastor church was destroyed, but immediately rebuilt. In a further construction phase in the middle of the 11th century, the three-part western vestibule was expanded into a double tower facade. The reconstruction of the church to its present shape and size began around 1160 under Provost Buvo. The entire older structure east of the transept was demolished. A three-part choir with a richly structured central apse, which is flanked by two slender towers as counterparts to the west towers, was built at the same location . The single-storey treasury was built between the transept and the choir. The west towers were raised by a sixth floor in 1180.

Layout

During the fight between Otto IV and Philipp von Schwaben in the dry Moselle bed near Koblenz in October 1198, the Kastor Church was also damaged. A knight named Walter was killed defending the castor monastery. After that, at the beginning of the 13th century, the Carolingian hall nave was replaced by a basilic nave with arched side aisles. Archbishop Johann I consecrated the renewed church and its altars on July 27th, 1208. The central nave from 1208 had a flat ceiling, but the old transept and the side aisles were given a groin vault during this renovation phase . When the city ​​fortifications of Koblenz were expanded in the middle to the end of the 13th century, the Kastor Church was also protected by the new city wall.

The Archbishop of Trier, Bruno von Lauffen , founded the Nikolaus Hospital in Koblenz, which belongs to the Florins Church in Koblenz, in addition to the Castor Church . Archbishop Theoderich von Wied called the knights of the Teutonic Order to Koblenz in 1216 and gave them part of the grounds of the Castor Church including the Nikolaus Hospital located there. A motivation for the settlement of the order was its activity in the nursing. Immediately on the corner where the Moselle flows into the Rhine, the German Order Coming to the administration of the order province (Ballei) Koblenz was established soon afterwards . The ball was directly subordinate to the Grand Master of the entire order. Since this establishment of the Teutonic Order, the site was first called Deutscher Ordt and then the name Deutsches Eck .

In 1338 the last important meeting took place in the Kastor Church. At a court day in Koblenz, Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian and the English King Edward III sealed the seal . Covenant and friendship. From 1496 to 1499 the flat ceiling of the central nave was replaced by a master Matthias with a Gothic ribbed vault . The crossing vault was also renewed during that time. In this way, the church building in the form of architecture achieved the appearance it still has today.

View from Kastorstraße to Kastor Church 1900, on the right the headquarters of the General Command of the VIII Army Corps

St. Kastor remained a collegiate monastery until 1802. The monastery buildings stood in front of the west facade of the Kastor Church and on its south side, in front of which there was also the cloister . At the choir of the church there was a churchyard for the members of the parish of St. Kastor. During the secularization of the French period, the castor monastery was abolished and the monastery building including the cloister was demolished. The Kastor church remained a parish church . At the beginning of the 19th century, some particles of the relics of St. Castors from Koblenz returned to Karden and were again deposited in the historic Castor shrine.

According to plans by the Prussian building inspector Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , a complete restoration began in 1848–1850 ; the interior was painted with frescoes by Joseph Settegast . The baroque furnishings were removed. A classicistic west portal built in 1805 was also demolished and replaced in 1859 by a "stylish" one in Romanesque forms, which was created by the first foreman at Cologne Cathedral, Franz Schmitz. In the years 1890–1895, under the direction of the city architect Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler, an exterior restoration and a renewal of all portals were carried out. The interior was restored again from 1928 onwards.

Reconstruction of the Kastorkirche (around 1946) in the middle of a destroyed Koblenz

During the heaviest air raid on Koblenz on November 6, 1944, the Kastor Church was severely damaged. Artillery hits when the American troops marched in in March 1945 also damaged the building. The stone substance including the vault, however, remained largely intact, as did the furnishings; only the baroque organ and its gallery burned, and the 19th century stained glass windows were also destroyed. Reconstruction began in 1945. A new interior was painted in 1955. A new organ was installed in the transept in 1962. The west towers were secured in 1980–1983 by replacing large parts of the tufa facing. The interior was last restored in 1985–1990. Archaeological excavations and construction investigations were carried out by the State Office for Monument Preservation .

Pope John Paul II elevated the Castor Church to a papal minor basilica on July 30, 1991 . Since 1999 the Catholic parishes Liebfrauen and Herz-Jesu have formed a parish community and have a common pastor . In 2005 the parish of St. Kastor was added to this community. In 2011, the area around the Kastorkirche was part of the event space for the Federal Garden Show in Koblenz. To this end, the green spaces around the church were redesigned. A religious paradise garden was created on the south side. Inside, a new large main organ was installed on the west wall in 2014 in addition to a smaller choir organ.

Construction and equipment

Outside

The St. Kastor Basilica with the Kastorbrunnen in Koblenz
Main portal with a figure of St. Castor

The Basilica of St. Castor is a three-aisled vaulted basilica with a double tower facade , transept , choir and an apse , which is flanked by two smaller towers. The free-standing church building made of light tuff stone is located in the middle of a green area. The towers, structured with pilasters, have steep gables and diamond roofs . The west portal was created by Matthias Schmitz in 1859 and the figural tympanum above it by Joseph Fuchs in 1866. Above the portal in a niche stands a figure of the holy Castor by Gottfried Götting . The nave and transept are simply structured, while the choir, which faces east towards the Rhine, is particularly richly structured based on the model of the Bonn Minster . It has a five-story choir flank tower on both sides of the round, three-story apse. The third floor of the apse consists of a dwarf gallery with 21 arcades . In the window zone, lions carry some of the pillars as symbols of Christ. All roofs are covered with slate .

Numerous grave slabs from the church are on the wall of the flower courtyard to the north. This former cemetery ends on its west side with a pilaster-framed portal from the 18th century. The church is 58.25 m long including the vestibule, the total width is 25.30 m. The towers are 44.00 m high, 6.00 m wide and 6.80 m deep.

Inside

Star vault
Sandstone pulpit, on the left the tomb of the dean Maternus Gillenfelt
West wall before the new main organ was installed in 2014

The interior of the Basilica of St. Castor is very uneven because of the different construction phases. The nave is characterized by pillars with half-column templates, which are connected by stepped round arches. The groin-vaulted aisles are equipped with flat-arched niches, which is characteristic of the Romanesque style on the Middle Rhine. Above the biforic windows of the false galleries, the change in the building plan is visible, because the upper clad windows above differ significantly. The changes to the plan in the 13th century were the result of the extraordinary width of the central nave, which made it difficult for the builders of the time to vault. The central nave and the crossing have a star rib vault , the choir a groin vault. In 1990 Clemens Hillebrand painted a heavenly Jerusalem on the triumphal arch above the apse using the fresco-secco technique . The wide but low apse is divided in the lower area by blind arches that do not match the windows above. A fresco in the dome above, created by Josef Settegast in 1849, depicts the Holy Trinity . Below is a majestas domini from the 13th century. The wall paintings that are now above the late Gothic vaults date from the same period. Since they have been hidden in the attic since the vaulting, they were never painted over or restored and are therefore one of the few murals from this period that have remained unchanged.

A miraculous image on the inner facade wall, which has been restored several times, dates from the 15th century. From the late Middle Ages around 1480, 16 panel paintings with half-figures of the twelve apostles, Jesus Christ, Mary, St. Castor and the blessed Rizza in a late Romanesque stone frame have been preserved. On a pillar in the central nave hangs a sandstone pulpit richly decorated with figurative decorations , which was created in 1625 by Peter Kern from Koblenz. On the high altar , which was built in 1848 according to plans by the master builder Johann Claudius von Lassaulx and the painter Heinrich Knauth, there is a baroque bronze crucifix from 1685, which Georg Schweigger created. In the north aisle is the neo-Gothic reliquary of St. Castor and the blessed Rizza (city saint of Koblenz), which was made by the Koblenz artisan Meyer in 1894 according to plans by Vinzenz Statz and painted in Maria Laach in 1906 . There are also figural tombs from the 15th to 18th centuries of particular historical and art historical importance in the Kastor Church . On the north wall of the choir, there is a lavishly designed wall grave for Archbishop Kuno II. Von Falkenstein († 1388) and the opposite, artistically important high grave, Archbishop Werner von Falkenstein († 1418), both late Gothic. In the south aisle you can find the double grave of the Koblenz bailiff Friedrich von Sachsenhausen († 1411) and his wife Sophie Schenk von Liebenstein, both made of sandstone. Here also the three-part late Gothic epitaph for knight Johann von Schönborn and his wife from the Waldbott-Gassenheim family (15th century). In the north aisle is the epitaph of the dean Maternus Gillenfelt († 1607).

The epitaph of the canon Jacob Zieglein, which was created at the end of the 16th century and had previously been kept in the rectory since the 19th century, has been located in the south transept (and thus back in the church interior) since 2017. The original painting could be exposed again through an extensive restoration.

Brigitten Madonna

Image of the Virgin Brigitten Madonna

In the second yoke of the southern nave hangs the image of the Virgin Mary, Brigitten Madonna . In a paper behind the picture you can read about the (wrong) story:

This is the image to which Saint Brigitta gave with particularly pious devotion and which was miraculously famous in the Cistercian monastery of Alvastra near Lincoping (Sweden); from there it was acquired in 1519 by the Most Serene Queen Eleonora, the Emperor Charles V's sister and Christian III. , King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway brought wife to Denmark.

According to an art-critical examination, the panel painting could not have been created until between 1350 and 1410, in Bohemia or by a Bohemian artist. The picture has been traceable since 1672. At that time it was owned by the auxiliary bishop Otto Reinhold von Andrimot , who brought it there when he was elected dean of the Liebfrauenstift Wetzlar . The Brigitten Madonna stayed there until the secularization of 1802/1803. Then it fell - like many church goods - into secular hands. According to a document in the parish archive, it came into the possession of the Secret Medical Councilor Joseph Settegast in 1822 . But he did not keep it for long, because on February 26, 1836, the sisters from the Congregation of St. Borromeo received the panel painting , who cared for the sick and old in the Koblenz Citizens' Hospital . This hospital, together with the attached former Franciscan church, belonged to the parish of St. Castor, where the Brigitten Madonna made her last trip in 1849.

Organs

As early as 1422 an organ could be found in St. Kastor . Further instruments were built in 1489 by brother Leonhard Mertz and organ builder Boos. In 1769 a two-manual organ was built by the organ builders, the Stumm brothers, on the wooden west gallery. This organ was rebuilt and expanded several times, the last time in 1929 by the addition of two side panels by the organ builder Stahlhuth from Aachen . On November 6, 1944, the west gallery was hit by an incendiary bomb and burned down along with the organ.

In 1962, the Späth company from Mengen-Ennetach built a three-manual organ (38 stops ) with an electropneumatic action . Because of the danger of flooding, this organ was hung high on the north wall of the north transept. After the interior renovation of the church, it was not put back into operation and dismantled in 2013. The Italian organ builder Tamburini has re-installed the organ with slight changes in the new church of San Gabriele dell'Addolorata in Italy, where it was re-inaugurated on March 24, 2013.

The choir organ under the former Späth organ in the north transept

Choir organ

The choir organ was built in 1990 by the organ builder Hugo Mayer (Heusweiler). The instrument has 11 stops on two manuals and pedal and mechanical action. It was placed on a mobile pedestal under the Späth organ, which was dismantled in 2013, and has been in service since then.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Praestant 4 ′
3. Forest flute 2 ′
4th Mixture III-IV 2 ′
II subsidiary work C – g 3
5. Wooden dacked 8th'
6th recorder 4 ′
7th Duplicate 2 ′
8th. Pointed fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – f 1
9. Sub bass 16 ′
10. Pipe pommer 8th'
11. Gemshorn 4 ′

Main organ

The main organ on the west wall

The main organ in front of the west wall was built in 2014 by the organ builder Hugo Mayer (Heusweiler) and put into operation on November 2, 2014 with an organ consecration. The organ case was designed by the architect Ulrich Hahn (Aachen) in collaboration with the organ builder.

The instrument has 52 registers (3,679 pipes ) on four manual works and a pedal, including 7 register extracts (extended registers) and a pedal transmission . The organ is arranged in the style of a symphonic organ. The positive and swell registers are extended to a 4 (for super octave coupling). The Solowerk is a high pressure plant (280 mm WS) and has double swell blinds (front and side). The 12 largest pipes of the saucer 32 'were housed in a separate chamber under the attic of the northern upper aisle; the sound enters the church through two openings in the north wall of the nave. The stop action and coupling are electrical, the game actions mechanical and electrical (double action). The instrument is equipped with a 5 × 10,000 setting system that is operated via a touchscreen; The instrument also has a MIDI controller with integrated recording and playback functions.

The instrument weighs a total of approx. 15 tons; the organ prospect is 9 m wide, approx. 8 m high and 2.6 m deep and made of oak. The organ cost 1.1 million euros, of which 400,000 euros were financed by donations. The organ is also documented on several sound carriers and DVDs.

I main work C – a 3
1. Prefix 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viola da gamba 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Hollow flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Cornett V 8th'
11. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Positive C – a 3
12. Ital. Principal 8th'
13. Salicional 8th'
14th Bourdon 8th'
15th Wide octave 4 ′
16. Reed flute 4 ′
17th Flageolet 2 ′
18th Cymbel III 1'
19th bassoon 16 ′
20th Clarinet 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
21st Bourdon 16 ′
22nd Violin principal 8th'
23. Concert flute 8th'
24. Gamba 8th'
25th Vox coelestis 8th'
26th Lovely Gedackt 8th'
27. Fugara 4 ′
28. Funnel flute 4 ′
29 Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Piccolo 2 ′
31. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
32. Progressio III-V 2 ′
33. Trumpet 16 ′
34. Trumpet harm. 8th'
35. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
IV Solo C – a 3
36. Viola pomposa 8th'
37. Double flute 8th'
38. Unda maris 8th'
39. Transverse flute 4 ′
40. Harmonia aetheria III-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
41. tuba 16 ′
42. Fanfare (Ext. No. 41) 8th'
Pedal C – g 1
43. Stand (Ext. No. 46) 32 ′
44. Principal bass 16 ′
45. Prefix (= No. 1) 16 ′
46. Sub bass 16 ′
47. Octavbass (Ext. No. 45) 8th'
48. Wide-open (Ext. No. 46) 8th'
49. Tenor octave (Ext. No. 47) 4 ′
50. trombone 16 ′
51. Trumpet (ext. No.50) 8th'
52. Clarine (Ext. No. 51) 4 ′
  • Coupling (electrical)
    • Normal coupling: II / I (also mechanical), III / I, IV / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P,
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, II / II, III / I, III / III,
    • Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II, III / I, III / III, II / P, III / P
  • Effect register: Luscinia Henrici Antonii
  • Annotation:
  1. ↑ Penetrating tongues

Bells

The first church bells in the Kastorkirche are documented as early as 1200. The certificates for the year 1286 appoint a hunchback named Heinrich, called Kuninc. In the 15th century there were five bells in the bell towers , which were confiscated by the Swedish occupation during the Thirty Years' War and intended for the construction of cannons. However, these could be bought back by the canons of St. Kastor before they were melted down. The traveling bell founder Raul Gaulard the Younger from Aachen received the order to cast four old bells after he had won the relevant tender. He was able to complete his work on site in 1848. In 1891 a new bell was added to the ringing. It was possible to prevent the bells from being confiscated during the First World War . During the Second World War , the bells had to be handed in in the summer of 1942. They were then taken to a collection point in Hamburg . But they were not melted down there and so the complete bells returned to the Kastor Church after the war. The bell is therefore one of the few in the region still completely preserved from the 19th century.

Today the Basilica of St. Castor has the following five bells:

Surname volume Weight diameter year Bell caster place
Kastor bell h 0 2580 kg 162.7 cm 1848 Raul Gaulard the Younger South tower (5th floor)
Marienbell cis 1 1640 kg 139.9 cm 1848 Raul Gaulard the Younger North tower
Goar bell d 1 1170 kg 126.6 cm 1848 Raul Gaulard the Younger North tower
Antonius Bell e 1 900 kg 119.8 cm 1891 Andreas Hamm from Frankenthal South tower
St. John's Bell f sharp 1 642 kg 102.4 cm 1848 Raul Gaulard the Younger North tower

Surroundings of the church

The paradise garden created for the 2011 Federal Garden Show, in the background the valley station of the Rhine cable car
The Kastorbrunnen on the square in front of the church

The St. Castor Basilica is located in the middle of a green area behind the Deutsches Eck . Between the church and today's point of land at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle is the former German Order Coming of the Teutonic Order . The entire area was part of the event area for the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show and was redesigned for this purpose. Located on the east side behind the choir in the Rheinanlagen the valley station of Rheinseilbahn .

garden

To the north of the church in the direction of the Deutschherrenhaus is the flower courtyard, a garden with rich flowers. On the south side is the churchyard of St. Kastor. This was converted into a religious paradise garden for the 2011 Federal Horticultural Show. During construction work in 2008, the remains of an early Roman fort from the 1st century were discovered in front of the choir. In the following year, the paradise garden was completed. It represents the interpretation of a Hortus Conclusus as a symbol for the Holy Virgin Mary . In the middle of the quiet place surrounded by hedges , a water basin was created, which is supposed to symbolize purity and the source of joy of life.

In the area of ​​the churchyard there was previously a rod sundial donated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Koblenz , which shows the time and the date if you know the season. The shadow of the stick shows the time on the flat, semicircular dial. The displayed time can be read off a corresponding positive or negative value on the figure-of-eight (height of the light point). Since the sundial is calibrated to CET , one hour must be deducted during summer time (CEST). The point of light is aligned in such a way that the sun's rays fall vertically through the screen. Its height must be shifted so far to the left on the dial during spring , or so far to the right during autumn , until it meets the ecliptic curve. From this point you have to think of a vertical line that shows the date in the month on the upper scale. At the same time you can read off the area of ​​the respective constellation . The sundial was removed during the construction work on the Paradise Garden.

Forecourt

Archaeological studies from 1990 have clearly shown that the forecourt of St. Castor has been around since the 1st century BC. Was used for cultic purposes. In the La Tène period , there were sunken huts with fireplaces here. In Roman times, the route along the Rhine Valley Road ran here , which crossed the mouth of the Moselle at a shallow point a few meters north.

The square in front of the Basilica of St. Kastor has been shaped by the Kastorbrunnen since 1812 , which in a humorous way testifies to the dealings of the warring parties with their opponents during the Napoleonic Wars , which also hit Koblenz. The fountain originally stood a few meters to the south before it was moved to its current location in the 1950s.

Parish of St. Kastor

The rectory of St. Kastor

South of the church in the street Kastorhof 8 ( 50 ° 21 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 14.3 ″  E ) is the rectory of St. Kastor. This parsonage was built from 1827–1829 according to plans by Johann Claudius von Lassaulx and was his first and largest parsonage building in the Koblenz area. The construction costs amounted to 7,378 thalers . The building was the residence of the pastor of St. Kastor, but was also used as travel quarters for the Trier bishop . The so-called Kastorhof has been privately owned since 2011 and has been extensively renovated and modernized under the supervision of the monument protection authority.

The almost square two-storey building originally had a stone-faced facade that was subsequently plastered. In the middle of the ground floor there is a two-flight floating staircase with a wrought iron grille. The windows here are upright rectangular with sills . On the upper floor it has round windows with blind arches . These windows are connected with a continuous cornice . The slate-covered gable roof with five dormers ends with a bulging eaves cornice .

Parish community

The St. Kastor basilica is part of the " parish community Koblenz-Innenstadt Dreifaltigkeit", which also includes the Herz-Jesu-Kirche and the Liebfrauenkirche in the old town as well as St. Josef in the southern suburb and St. Menas in Stolzenfels .

Monument protection

The St. Kastor Basilica is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and is entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz's old town at the Kastorhof .

The St. Kastor Basilica has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 . Furthermore, it is a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention and marked with the blue and white trademark.

See also

literature

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    • Volume 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
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  • Aloys Schmidt, Martina Knichel (Hrsg.): The memory book of St. Kastor in Koblenz. (= Sources and treatises on the Middle Rhine church history. Volume 94). Edition and explanation. Society for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-929135-26-4 .
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  • Transformed Koblenz: The official book for the BUGA 2011. Schelfbuch, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941689-10-7 .
  • Karlheinz Erben: The bells of St. Kastor. Koblenz 2012, ISBN 978-3-86972-021-0 .
  • Karlheinz Erben, Catholic parish of St. Kastor, Koblenz: Altar consecration in Koblenz St. Kastor, at the end of the interior renovation 1985–1990 . Koblenz, 1990.
  • Anton Joseph Richter: Sanct Castor zu Coblenz, as a minster, monastery and parish church . Coblenz, Volume 1 (1868) online edition dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate and Volume 2 (1881) online edition dilibri Rhineland-Palatinate
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  • Karlheinz Erben: Koblenz Basilica St. Kastor , publisher: Catholic parish St. Kastor, Görres-Druckerei GmbH. Koblenz, 23 pages, 3rd extended edition, 2006.

Web links

Commons : St. Kastor (Koblenz)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ An early Roman fort discovered - the city's history turned upside down - the ancient moat at the St. Castor basilica points to the time of the Emperor Augustus. In: Rhein-Zeitung . November 19, 2008.
  2. ↑ Koblenz on the Rhine founded: BUGA makes history in: spd-koblenz.de, November 20 of 2008.
  3. ↑ To the reliquary of St. Castor in Karden
  4. ^ Fritz Michel: The ecclesiastical monuments of the city of Koblenz . Pedagogical Publishing House, Düsseldorf 1937, reprint 1981, ISBN 3-590-32141-5 , p. 84 u. 86.
  5. ↑ http://www.sankt-kastor-koblenz.de/zieglein-epitaph-2/
  6. ^ Santuario San Gabriele
  7. ↑ new disposition of the Späth organ
  8. ↑ The choir organ on OrganIndex
  9. ↑ Information on the organ
  10. ^ Organ project for St. Kastor ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ The new Hugo Mayer organ for St. Kastor in Koblenz
  12. ↑ Intonation of the organ in St. Kastor, Koblenz
  13. ^ Karl-Heinz Erben, Michael Hört: Basilica of St. Kastor - The new Mayer organ. Fuck, Koblenz am Rhein 2014, ISBN 978-3-9815018-2-7 .
  14. ↑ The main organ on OrganIndex
  15. ↑ See the information on the organ on the data sheet of the parish
  16. ↑ New organ in the St. Kastor Basilica in Koblenz gets the right sound. In: Rhein-Zeitung . July 10, 2014.
  17. ^ Christopher Tambling: Organ Works. 2015, Classicophon, CL-2015-020 (Jörg Abbing plays works by Christopher Tambling).
  18. ↑ Wolfgang Seifen: Organ improvisations. 2015, CD (Wolfgang Seifen improvises on the new Hugo Mayer organ, concert recording from July 11, 2015).
  19. ^ Wayne Marshall plays the new Hugo Mayer organ of the Basilica of St. Kastor Koblenz. 2016, Fugue State Records CD FSRCD011.
  20. ^ Heinz Anton Höhnen on his 85th birthday, Friends & Patrons of the St. Kastor Basilica, Koblenz, CD, 2018.
  21. ^ Music on the Rhine. Diane Bish, 2016, Joy of Music # 1604
  22. ^ Christmas on the Rhine. Diane Bish, 2016, Joy of Music # 1605
  23. ↑ The fate of the bells of St. Castor. In: Rhein-Zeitung. January 15, 2013.
  24. ↑ Bells of the Basilica of St. Castor
  25. ↑ http://www.dreifaltigkeit-koblenz.de/
  26. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013.

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