St. Maria (Schramberg)

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St. Mary
The baroque church tower, remnant of the old parish church of St. Nicholas

The parish church of St. Maria in Schramberg is a late classical church. It has had a modern interior design since 1997. It is one of two churches in the Catholic parish of St. Maria – Heilig Geist, Schramberg.

History and design

Interior of the church designed by Erich Hauser

The parish church of St. Nicholas and St. John the Baptist , surrounded by a cemetery , has been located below the Schramberger Schlossberg since the Middle Ages . It was redesigned in the early 18th century, but at the beginning of the 19th century was no longer sufficient for the growing community.

The new, large, but towerless St. Maria Church was built between 1838 and 1844 in the immediate vicinity of St. Nicholas Church according to the plans of building inspector Carl Christian Nieffer , a student of the Stuttgart architect and court builder Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret . Nieffer based himself on the late antique basilicas . The interior was designed by him to be strictly axially symmetrical; its main dimensions are designed in a ratio of 2: 1. The Ionic style elements of the church, such as capitals, rosettes , cornice and architraves were only preserved in the choir .

The St. Nicholas Church was demolished in 1972. Only its tower with onion helmet built in 1716 directly on the Schiltach remained and is connected to the new church via the churchyard.

During the renovation at the end of the 1990s, the community decided in favor of a modern design for the chancel by the Rottweiler steel sculptor Erich Hauser (1930-2004). This means that the interior also has an “aesthetic uniformity” that did not exist in the church's 150-year history. The walled up choir windows were opened again. The church interior is considerably brighter thanks to the two arched windows and the semicircular window made of white industrial glass above.

organ

The three manual organ with 36 registers was built in 1844 by Eberhard Friedrich Walcker as Opus 46. As a special feature it has a physharmonica that is played via the third manual . While the wind chests of the first and second manuals were already built with cone chests , the pedal mechanism still has slider chests .

The Walcker organ in St. Maria
I Manual C – f 3
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Bourdon 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th flute 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Gedekt 8th'
7th Viola da gamba 8th'
8th. Salicional 8th'
9. Fifth flute 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Octave 4 ′
11. Klein Gedekt 4 ′
12. Flûte Travers 4 ′
13. Quint 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Forest flute 2 ′
15th Mixture V 2 ′
16. Scharff III 1'
17th Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C – f 3
18th Gedekt 16 ′
19th Principal 8th'
20th Gedekt 8th'
21st Dolce 8th'
22nd Harmonica 8th'
23. Reed flute 4 ′
24. Gemshorn 3 ′
25th Octave 2 ′
26th Cornett III-V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Clarinet 8th'
III Manual C – f 3
28. Physharmonica 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
29 Principal bass 16 ′
30th Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
31. Violonbass 16 ′
32. Sub-bass 16 ′
33. Octave bass 8th'
34. violoncello 8th'
35. flute 4 ′
36. Trombone bass 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / II, I / P, II / P

local community

The parish existed until 1998 as one of two Catholic parishes in Schramberg and was then merged with the Schramberg Heilig-Geist parish.

The church choir of the community celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ schramberg.de
  2. ↑ St. Maria Church. (No longer available online.) In: www.schramberg.de. Archived from the original on May 30, 2016 ; accessed on May 30, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schramberg.de
  3. ↑ Home. In: www.st-maria-schramberg.de. Retrieved May 30, 2016 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '38.2 "  N , 8 ° 23' 2.5"  E