St. Michael (Göttingen)

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St. Michael

St. Michael is a Catholic church in the historic center of Göttingen .

history

With the Reformation in Göttingen in 1529, all Catholic services were banned. Since after the founding of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen more and more Catholics came to live in the city, the strict religious restrictions were also relaxed. From 1747, public Catholic services were again permitted.

Initially, the services took place in private homes. In 1787 a church began to be built. The builder was Georg Heinrich Borheck. However, the church should not be recognizable as such and therefore had to fit into the row of houses on Kurzen Straße with a simple, two-storey house facade made of plastered quarry stone masonry in ashlar structure and with a hipped roof . The side façades of the church, which faces west with a strong southern deviation, also looked more like a two-story residential building. A priest's apartment was initially set up above the eastern entrance on the first floor. Behind it the hall church opened, which could be consecrated in 1789.

In 1815 a wooden, octagonal roof turret was erected on the eastern end of the hipped roof to accommodate a small bell, which was crowned with a flat Welschen hood .

By 1873 the community had grown to over 1200 members. In order to provide more space for the faithful, based on plans by Johann Eduard Friese, work began on expanding the church interior to the west with a choir with a polygonal closure and sacristy . Since the space gained was soon no longer sufficient due to the rapidly growing congregation, in 1893 consideration was given to expanding the church interior to the east. So the priestly apartment was removed and the space created was integrated into the church. In addition, the exterior of the church was changed, also based on plans by Friese. So the roof turret was removed and today's square, neo-baroque tower, which reaches a height of 27 meters, was placed on the east facade . Today it houses three bells.

The interior was also changed several times. Until the expansion of the choir, the church was adorned with a classical altar with a tabernacle , which was “roofed” by a canopy-like structure.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the church was furnished in the neo-Romanesque style . An altar with a tabernacle (1901), an elaborate interior decoration (1907) and a crucifixion group (1909) came into the church.

During the century, the church was redesigned several times. The crucifixion group, which was once intended as a triumphal cross , was placed at the head of the choir, where it had its place until 2014.

In the 1950s, the masonry between the upper and lower windows of the nave was broken out in order to preserve today's elongated windows.

In 1986 a bronze sculpture designed by Josef Baron was attached to the right corner of the east facade. It shows the patron saint of the church, St. Archangel Michael .

The current interior is characterized by the latest interior renovation, led by the architectural office soan architects (Bochum), which was completed in 2015. Since then, the room has been designed simply and is dominated by a cold white. In addition to a modern altar cross and a crucifix from the 16th century, the church has also been home to a figure of St. Edith Stein , which was created by the artist Peter Marggraf .

“[Marggraf] sees in [the sculpture]“ a female figure for a place where Edith Steins can be thought of ”- not an“ Edith Stein bust ”. As with the saint, the focus of his work is on people: "The suffering of all people should find a place in it," says Marggraf. "

- Johannes Broermann : Kirchen Zeitung - The week in the Diocese of Hildesheim

Today St. Michael is the center of the Catholic city pastoral in Göttingen.

  • Figure of St. Edith Stein by Peter Marggraf

  • Bronze writing plate, embedded in a marble block next to the figure of Edith Stein

organ

The organ of St. Michael was built in 1989 by the organ building company Eisenbarth (Passau). The instrument has 34 registers on slider drawers . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions mechanical and electrical. Pipe material from the previous organ (s) was partially reused.

The organ before 2015
I main work C – c 4
1. Pipe pommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Black viola 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
II Swell C – c 4
11. Principal 8th'
12. Flûte traversière 8th'
13. Wooden dacked 8th'
14th Salizional 8th'
15th Vox coelestis 8th'
16. Viol principal 4 ′
17th Transverse flute 4 ′
18th Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Flageolet 2 ′
20th Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
21st Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Plein jeu IV-V 2 ′
23. Basson-Hautbois 8th'
III Trumpet work C – g 4
24. Bombard 16 ′
25th Trompette harmonique 8th'
26th Clairon 4 ′
27. Cornet V 8th'
Pedal C – g 1
25th Violon 16 ′
26th Sub-bass 16 ′
28. Principal bass 8th'
29 Drone 8th'
30th Fugara 4 ′
31. Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
32. trombone 16 ′

literature

  • Sabine Wehking: St. Michael - Göttingen 1789–1989. Telly-Druck, Göttingen 1989.

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Göttingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Röttgerodt-Riechmann: City of Göttingen . In: Christiane Segers-Glocke (Hrsg.): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . tape 5.1 . Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1982, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 49 .
  2. ^ Church leader Saint Michael. samiki.de, accessed on October 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Johannes Broermann in "Kirchen Zeitung - The Week in the Diocese of Hildesheim" November 13, 2015
  4. ↑ More about the Eisenbarth organ

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 8 ″  E