St. Michael (Siegen)

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South view of St. Michaels Church
View from the west
St. Michaels Church, in the center right

The St. Michaels Church , St. Michaelskirche or St. Michaels Church is a Catholic church in Siegen that was built at the beginning of the 20th century .

The Michaelskirche, built on a hillside as the second Catholic church in Siegen (after the Marienkirche ) is located north of the old town, on the lower western slope of the Giersberg , opposite the Marienkrankenhaus . The church is built in the style of historicism , has two slender steeples, each 57 meters high, and the shape of a three-aisled Romanesque basilica . In the baptistery there is a war memorial created by the sculptor Karl Baur from Munich , which was inaugurated in autumn 1922. The interior of the church was designed according to a design by the church painter A. W. Ballin . There is a picture of Christ by the painter Bernd Terhorst on the choir wall.

history

St. Michael under construction, autumn / winter 1904

The foundation stone of the work of the Dortmund architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp took place on October 11, 1903. The construction work on the church lasted until 1906. The consecration of the church on January 7, 1906, carried out with episcopal authorization by Pastor Wiese, was followed on August 7, 1906 by the altar consecration by the Paderborn Bishop Wilhelm Schneider . The first church bells in St. Michael were melted down during the First World War in 1917 and later replaced by new ones consecrated on September 21, 1921. Like many other historical buildings in the city of Siegen, St. Michael was badly damaged by the bombing of December 16, 1944 during the Second World War . After the end of the war, however, repairs took place in stages. In the 1990s, renovation measures were carried out on the facade, in the course of which the originally exposed quarry stone masonry was plastered.

Organs

The organ of St. Michael was built in 1912 by the organ building company Anton Feith (Paderborn), tested and approved on April 6, 1922 and rebuilt in 1971. The instrument was last technically overhauled in 2000 by the organ builder Siegfried Sauer (Höxter). In 2002 the disposition was expanded. Today the instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and a pedal (cone chest). The actions are electric-pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal * 16 ′
2. Principal 08th'
3. Gamba 08th'
4th octave 04 ′
5. Covered flute0 04 ′
6th octave 02 ′
7th Mixture V 02 ′
8th. Trumpet 08th'
II breastwork C – g 3
09. Quintad 16 ′
10. Violin. Principal 08th'
11. Hollow flute 08th'
12. Delicate violin ( schweb. )0 08th'
13. Gemshorn 08th'
14th Fugara 04 ′
15th Solo flute 04 ′
16. Nasat * 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Forest flute 02 ′
18th Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Third * 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
20th Mixture IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st oboe 08th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Subbass (No. 1)0 16 ′
23. Octave bass 08th'
24. Pommer 08th'
25th Choral bass 04 ′
26th Mixture IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. trombone 16 ′

The registers marked with * were added in 2002

The church has a second organ in the crypt, which was renovated from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. This instrument, made by the organ building company Mebold in Siegen / Breitenbach, in the vaulted vault that is now once again “fit for worship”, is not only suitable for accompanying church singing but also for playing literature (to a certain extent) and was inaugurated in autumn 1983. The cornett, which is only built in treble, complements the mixture with a fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′ and a third 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′ to a 16 ′ sound. The disposition of the mechanical slider shutter organ is:

Manual C – d 4
1. Drone (B / D) 08th'
2. Salizional 08th'
3. Principal 04 ′
4th Reed flute (B / D) 04 ′
Octave (out of 5) 02 ′
5. Mixture 2-3f 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Flute (out of 6) 16 ′
6th Treble cornett 3f0 16 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
7th Sub bass 16 ′

literature

  • Siegens St. Michaels Church . In: Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1991, p. 40 f., 66th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegens St. Michaels Church . In: Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1991, p. 40 f., 66th edition, published by Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein e. V., publishing house for local literature.
  2. ↑ Bauwerk on www.sankt-michael-siegen.de, accessed on September 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Hans-Günter Scheuer: Consoling preaching in the hospital: Instructions and examples, p. 155 ( limited preview in the Google book search), accessed on September 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Yearbook for Westphalian Church History, Volume 87, p. 286 ( limited preview in Google book search), accessed on September 5, 2014.
  5. ↑ sankt-michael-siegen.de: building.
  6. ↑ sankt-michael-siegen.de: history.
  7. ↑ sankt-michael-siegen.de: Feith organ.

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '48.1 "  N , 8 ° 1' 51.9"  E