St. Michael (Grenzach)

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St. Michael in Grenzach

St. Michael in Grenzach-Wyhlen in southern Baden is a Catholic parish church from the 1950s.

history

The predecessor of today's church was a Kuratie church built in 1905 in neo-Romanesque style. Already her patronage was the holy Michael ; it had two altars.

The current church was built between 1953 and 1957 according to plans by the Basel architect Hermann Baur .

Church building

The church located in the Grenzach district on the thoroughfare is a single-nave rectangular building with a retracted choir and a gently sloping gable roof . A square bell tower stands apart from the main building on the northwest side . The brightly plastered tower is also covered by a flat gable roof in the direction of the nave and has rectangular sound arcades to the north and south . A small cross is attached to the top of the roof.

Furnishing

Sanctuary
View into the nave towards the organ gallery

The ceiling of the interior is adapted to the roof pitch. The colored window glazing in the choir and north gable comes from the Heidelberg artist Willy Oeser, who also created the altarpiece on the south wall. The tabernacle is also on the south wall . It was made of bronze by Leonhard Eder in 1969 . There is a wide gallery on the north side of the nave .

Bells

The four-part chime of St. Michael is composed as follows:

Surname Chime Casting year Caster
Christ bell f ′ 1957 FW Schilling, Heidelberg
Marienbell G' 1957 FW Schilling, Heidelberg
Michael's Bell a ′ 1957 FW Schilling, Heidelberg
Dr. Claus Bell c ′ ′ 1957 FW Schilling, Heidelberg

organ

The original organ by O. Mönch from Überlingen from 1942 was already used in the previous building and sold to Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1990. The old instrument with membrane drawer , electric performance and stop action could be played with two manuals , a pedal and 23 stops . In 1991 the new organ was handed over to its intended purpose by the organ builder Kubak in Augsburg. The Kubak organ can be played with two manuals, a pedal and 26 registers.

The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
Octav 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Octav 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Suavial 8th'
Copel 8th'
Amarosa 8th'
Bifaria 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Fluet 4 ′
Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Schwiegel 2 ′
Sharp IV 2 ′
bassoon 16 ′
oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Dacked bass 8th'
Quintbass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Choral bass 4 ′
Rauschbass IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Bombard 16 ′
trombone 8th'

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 109 (05.1)
  2. ↑ Leonhard Eder . In: Community of Christian Artists (ed.): From our work , Archdiocese of Freiburg, Issue 8, 1973, p. 32
  3. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 109 (05.2)
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 110
  5. ↑ Peter Faster: Organ profile Catholic Church St. Michael Grenzach-Wyhlen. In: Organ Directory Germany. 2016, accessed November 14, 2019 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 11.4 "  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 20.6"  E