St. Margaretha (Gibstorf)
St. Margaretha was the village church of Gibstorf in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It was used equally from around 1531 until its demolition in 1889 .
history
From the origins to the Reformation
The origins of the Margaret Church in Ghent probably go back to the 12th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1247. The church patronage was originally with the Habsburgs , who handed it over to the Königsfelden monastery in 1330 . With the introduction of the Reformation in Bern in 1528 and the subsequent abolition of the Königsfelden monastery, the patronage rights to the church passed to the Königsfeld court master. He represented the interests of Bern and promoted the introduction of the Reformation in the county of Baden , to which Gibstorf belonged. Abraham von Immer, then pastor of Gibstorf, joined the Reformation along with most of the community. The pictures were torn from the church, and worship was presumably celebrated in the years from 1528 to 1531 according to the Reformed liturgy. With the defeat of the Reformed side in the Second Kappel War , the Reformed towns in the county of Baden had to accept Catholic minorities. They were also entitled to a share in the church property. Soon after 1531 a Catholic minority emerged in Gibstorf. Since the Königsfeld court master also held the patronage rights for Birmenstorf , who had remained mostly Catholic, the following compromise was found for the care of the faithful: Gibstorf received a Reformed pastor who also looked after the Reformed in Birmenstorf, Birmenstorf a Catholic pastor who took care of the Catholics supervised in Gibstorf. The churches were used equally, so that both Reformed and Catholic services took place in the Margarethenkirche.
In the field of tension of parity
This coexistence and coexistence of the two denominations, especially in the area of tension between the mostly Catholic bailiff in Baden and the reformed court master in Königsfelden, was a source of conflict. A modus vivendi had to be found, how altars, pictures and holidays should be dealt with and which denomination was allowed to worship when. It became even more difficult when the Gregorian calendar was introduced in the Catholic towns in 1583 , which the Reformed rejected. The Diet decided that the common holidays would be celebrated according to the new calendar, but the purely Reformed holidays according to the old one.
Church renovation
Church renovations also repeatedly led to disputes. A dispute about the interior renovation of the church in 1707 is well documented. The reformed pastor Johannes Altmann, with the support of the court master of Königsfelden, had the choir room painted white. The frescoes were painted over, and in their place came the slogan Ex jure patronatus domus Küngsfeldensis (through the patronage right of the House of Königsfelden), supplemented with the Bernese and Königsfeld coats of arms. On October 3, 1707, the newly renovated choir was inaugurated by the pastor. The Catholic side complained to the governor, who had the coats of arms of the eight places painted on the archway. The Bernese coat of arms was whitewashed by strangers and later restored. The Diet had to deal with the dispute several times, and the dispute does not seem to have been settled until 1710.
Industrialization and demolition
Due to the population increase in the period of industrialization, St. Margaretha Church became too small in the 19th century. As early as 1828, the local people from Gibstorf made the first application to the Aargau government council - who was responsible for the maintenance of the church choir as the legal successor to the Hofmeister von Königsfelden - for an expansion of the church. A second request from 1829 already contained the demand for a Catholic church of its own. Mainly for financial reasons, however, the government council refused to accept the request, and over the years the condition of the church deteriorated noticeably. Finally, the Catholics from Gibstorf and Turgi, which had become independent in the meantime, decided to build their own church , which was built between 1887 and 1889. On June 17, 1889, the demolition of the Margaretha Church began, in the place of which the Reformed Church Gibstorf was built and consecrated in 1891.
literature
- Dominik Sauerländer, Andreas Steigmeier : Prosperity is only shared by a few - From the history of the community of Gibstorf . Ed .: Residential community Gibstorf. Gibstorf 1997.