St. Martin Bruggen
The Catholic Church of St. Martin Bruggen is located in the St. Gallen district of Bruggen , in the area of the formerly independent municipality of Straubenzell . As a third church, it was between
Built in 1935 and 1936 next to its predecessor church. The first chapel was consecrated in 1600 and converted into a real church in 1639. The second church was built on the site of the first between 1783 and 1785, and received a new tower in 1808. After the new building and the consecration of today's church, the old church in the southwest was demolished.
The church is named after St. Martin of Tours . In front of the church there is a life-size equestrian statue of him, together with the beggar.
history
First church
The first church in Bruggen was built on the orders of Abbot Bernhart. Ordained that was Chapel on 20 November 1600. It was a chapel without a tower with a roof turret , two small bells "Glöggli" were installed in the March 29, 1,601th Master mason Hans Horber, together with stonemasons Fridli Gruber from Rorschach and Ulrich Mittelholzer from St. Gallen, were responsible for the construction. The altar was created by Caspar Ritz, and the paneling was also made by him. The altar sheet comes from Dietrich Meuss from Feldkirch. Since the bill also appears a covered with shingles transition, it is believed that the chapel with the 1567 build infirmary was associated. In 1637 a new cemetery was created. Since 1639 there was a permanent coadjutor in the chapel.
On the occasion of the visitation of April 13, 1671 by Abbot Gallus it was ordered by him that the chapel should be converted into a real church. To do this, it should be “lengthened by half and raised by five shoes” and given a real tower. The foundation stone for this renovation was laid on April 27, 1672. The mason for the renovation was Daniel Glattbrugger from Rotmonten . After the conversion, the ship had an internal length of 48 shoes and a width of 24 shoes. The base of the tower measured 16 shoes in a square, in height up to the belfry 33 shoes to the helmet 48 shoes. The benediction was carried out on September 3, 1672, the consecration of the three altars on May 21, 1680. The high altar was consecrated in honor of St. Martin and Leonard. The right side altar in honor of Our Lady and the left side altar in honor of St. John Baptist and Evangelist. The two side altars were donated by private sponsors in 1673. A new processional cross was also purchased, made by the St. Gallen goldsmith Heinrich Studer. On July 31, 1669, lightning struck the church and damaged the tower and the Marien Altar. When the abbot was granted the right to baptize on December 28, 1773, it also became a baptismal church.
Part of the foundation of this church was found during the demolition of the second church in 1936.
Second church
The new building of the second church was initiated by the official P. Iso Walser. On January 26, 1783, he concluded a chord with Johann Ferdinand Beer from the Bregenzerwald on the construction of this church. In August 1783, the excavation of the foundations began, as the new church was partially above the first church, it must have been demolished during the construction work. The north flight of the ship had been shifted 1 meter to the south, the new south front ran around 4.5 meters from the old front of the nave . The dimensions of the inner ship's length of 82 shoes and width of 40 shoes, as stated in the chord, were adhered to, but with six instead of five side nave windows. A canopy was erected that took up the entire front and the connecting passage to the infirmary was also rebuilt. Plaster of paris in the form of a cross vault adorned the ceiling. The interior had a double gallery and niches. The statues of Franz Anton Dürr, which he had made between 1784 and 1848, were placed in it. The versions of the sculptures were created by Carl Bobleter. The ceiling paintings were created by Anton Dick within three weeks in the late summer of 1784.
The three altars have been kept but reworked. This was done by Dürr, for which they were brought to Überlingen . On August 13th they arrived back in Bruggen from Überlingen. The version was not made until the summer of 1786. The high altar and the Marien Altar were made by Carl Bobleter and the St. Antonius altar by the painter Michal Bärle from Unterstaufen. Two new altar leaves were created by a “Hedener Mahler am Bach”.
The first service was held on August 15, 1784. The two side altars were consecrated on October 10, 1784.
On April 25, 1808, the church tower was laid down and erected again on July 26, 1808 by the master mason Joh. Tagmann from Altstätten. The crack for it, it is assumed, comes from Joh. Ulr. Haltingen from Altstätten, who at that time was busy building the new Kränzer bridge. The area of the new tower was square 22 Schuh. The height to the roof was 80 Schuh. The roof was shaped like a dome with a lantern. Five bells were placed in the tower, two of which came from Salem Monastery and another two from St. Otmar St. Gallen .
The church was extensively renovated in 1884 and rededicated on November 6th.
Demolition of the second church in 1936.
Third Church
Today's third church was built northeast of the baroque church from 1784 in the monumental-modernist style and has 650 seats. The architect was Josef Erwin Schenker (1892–1964, St.Gallen). Construction began in 1935, the inauguration in 1936. The construction of the church - including the technical and artistic equipment - cost CHF 716,000.00.
literature
- Erwin Poeschel: The city of St. Gallen: first part , volume 2 of the series Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons St. Gallen . Birkhäuser 1957,
ISBN, pp. 159–167 - INSA Inventory of Newer Swiss Architecture 1850-1921, Volume 8 , St. Gallen, Sarnen, Schwyz, Schaffhausen, Orell Füssli 1996, ISBN 3-280-02410-2 , p. 173
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See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stiftsarchiv St. Gallen, Volume 396, Page 397
Remarks
- ↑ within three weeks before the birth of Mary
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '35.4 " N , 9 ° 19' 54.1" E ; CH1903: 742 866 / 252,726