St. Michael (Istein)

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Western front of the Isteiner Michaelskirche

St. Michael is the Catholic parish church of the Efringen-Kirchen district of Istein . The church, which was built in the 1820s south of the Isteiner Klotz, has its origins documented at the beginning of the 14th century.

history

prehistory

The first cleric in Istein ("plebanus in Istein") is mentioned in a document in 1275, a church ("canonicus sancti Ursincinj ac rector ecclesie de Ystein") in 1303. According to a report from 1759, the church in Istein has been enlarged twice been. The structural condition in the year under review is said to have been poor but “not ruinous” while in 1806 it was described as deplorable. Negotiations about a new building were started at the beginning of the 19th century. The bell tower - which after Joseph Sauer could still have belonged to the Romanesque era - threatened to collapse and had to be demolished. Since the nave was also structurally damaged, the whole church had to be closed. In 1812 the Freiburg architect Friedrich Arnold was commissioned to draw up plans for a new church.

Today's church

Under the construction management of Johann Ludwig Weinbrenner , a nephew of Friedrich Weinbrenner , the foundation stone for the new building was laid on May 2, 1820. The place of the old church was moved to the north side a little up the slope. Although work on the inside dragged on until 1827, the work on the outside was completed in 1822; the first service took place this year. In 1829 the apse was changed and in 1840 Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm renovated the altars.

Since the interior was felt to be cantilevered, in 1880 the painting was replaced by an ornament rich in ornament. In 1895 the church was given colored glazing in the choir and above the side portals and in 1900 the remaining nave windows were replaced by colored glass.

In 1936 the ornament painting from 1880 was whitewashed with a simple coat of white and yellow paint. In the same year the painter Gerstner made the pictures in the apse vault, on the nave ceiling and on the nave back wall. The latter shows Mary with baby Jesus floating above the Istein block.

Since the Isteiner Klotz was part of the southern foothills of the Western Wall and thus inevitably also part of the war incident during the Second World War , the Isteiner Church suffered severe damage in 1944/45.

With the introduction of the parish reform between 1974 and 1975, the parish in Istein looks after the Catholics in the entire parish of Efringen-Kirchen and is also superordinate to the branch church in Huttingen .

description

Church building

The church is slightly elevated on a slope in the center of the old village center of Istein. A four-story bell tower rises to the west from the rectangular nave , which is covered with a gable roof . There are five arched windows on each of the long sides of the nave; in the east there is also a side portal.

The top floor of the tower with arched sound arcades on each side jumps back a little and has an altar-like approach. Underneath there is a clock face of the tower clock on each side. The tower is closed by a four-sided pyramid roof, which is crowned at its top by a tower ball and a cross.

Interior and outfit

View into the nave to the choir and the pulpit

The interior of the church is entered via an entrance hall under the tower, the ceiling of which has a groin vault. The single nave nave itself has a flat ceiling and is closed off from the choir by a double semicircular triumphal arch .

The three classical altars and the pulpit were made by the plasterer Johann Anton Feuerstein from Arlesheim according to plans by Johann Ludwig Weinbrenner.

The organ is set up on a gallery in the west of the nave. The rows of benches are divided by two central aisles at right angles to each other. There is a modern baptismal font at the intersection of the two corridors .

In the north wall of the tower hall there is a group of figures above the door to the bell chamber.

  • Location of the church in town

  • organ

  • Figures in the tower hall

Bells and organ

The four-part bronze bell of St. Michael was cast in 1955 by FW Schilling in Heidelberg and is composed as follows:

Surname Chime liturgical function
St. Michael e ′ Death and penance bells
St. Mary G' Prayer bell
St. Fridolin a ′ Prelude and gospel bell
Guardian angel bell c ′ ′ Baptismal bell

The organ by Blasius Schaxel from 1822 was replaced in 1930 by one made by the organ builder FW Schwarz from Überlingen. The instrument with pneumatic action has two manuals , a pedal and 23 registers .

literature

  • Gerhard Everke: Istein . In: Christoph and Friedrich Arnold - Two architects of classicism in Baden. Volume 2: Catalog of works. Phil. Diss. University of Freiburg 1991, pp. 627–628.
  • Johannes Helm : Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , Müllheim / Baden 1989, ISBN 3-921709-16-4 , pp. 81–83.

Web links

Commons : St. Michael  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Haid: Liber decimationis clei Constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275 . In: FDA 1, 1865, pp. 198, 200
  2. ↑ ZGO 29, 1877, p. 191
  3. ↑ Joseph Sauer: The Church Art of the First Half of the 19th Century in Baden , 1933, pp. 198-207
  4. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 81 (13.2)
  5. ↑ a b Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 82 (13.3)
  6. ↑ J. Wilhelm : Der Stukkator Jodok Friedrich Wilhelm (1793-1843). A sketch of his activity . In: FDA 35 (NF 8), 1907, p. 237 ff.
  7. ^ O. Selz: From the history of the parish church and parish Istein . In: F. Schülin, H. Schäfer: Istein und der Isteiner Klotz , 1961, p. 371
  8. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 82 (13.5)
  9. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 82 (13.6)
  10. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , p. 83

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 7 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  E