St. Nikolaus (Friedrichshafen)
The Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus is a cultural monument and is located in Schanzstrasse and Adenauerplatz in the city of Friedrichshafen . Due to its proximity to Lake Constance , its bell tower is a symbol of the city.
history
In 1293 and in a document dated May 26, 1325, a St. Nikolaus von Myra chapel in what was then the town of Buchhorn in the sovereignty of the Hofen monastery . The citizens of Buchhorn expanded the chapel into a Gothic church in 1437 and built the tower that is still recognizable today. After the Hofener monastery was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , the citizens made the Nikolauskirche their parish church.
In 1689 it was expanded and changed. In line with contemporary tastes, the Gothic vaults had to give way to a flat ceiling. In the 18th century the tower of the church got its present shape. On August 16, 1770, the church was rededicated by Nepomuk von Hornstein. In the 19th century the church was redesigned in the neo-renaissance style.
The church was modernized from 1940. During this phase it fell victim to almost the entire old town in a bombing raid in World War II on April 28, 1944. Only the tabernacle erected in 1942 by Fritz Möhler with the inscription “See, I am doing everything new” and the undamaged Christ corpus could be recovered from the smoking ruins. In August 1946, the reconstruction of the church began, whereby the salvaged furnishings were used again. It was rededicated on October 11, 1949. In 1955 a larger sacristy was added on the north side, which today also forms the room of silence. In 1960 the chancel was redesigned. The baroque choir arch was removed. In 1974 the church was changed due to the council renewal . After an exterior renovation in 1986, the design was modified again in 1987 and the sanctuary was redesigned in 2013.
Church building
Today the church is a single-nave hall building with a retracted choir and a saddle tower attached to the north.
Furnishing
Due to the lost equipment during the war, today's design is kept very simple. The late Gothic Madonna and a Baroque St. Nicholas figure of private origin are well worth seeing.
The stained glass windows created by Wilhelm Geyer are reminiscent of traditionally made historical stained glass windows. The altar, the ambo and the font are from Hubert Kaltenmark. The Way of the Cross comes from Hubert Elsässer .
organ
In 1750 Joseph Gabler built an organ . It was changed a lot until in 1930 only the prospectus was left. This went under with the war destruction.
The current three-manual organ with 47 stops on a purely mechanical action dates from 1989 and was manufactured by Gerald Woehl . The Rückpositiv and the Hauptwerk are in the classic French style, while the Schwellwerk is based on the Cavaillé-Coll instruments in terms of register selection and intonation . Due to the high quality of the instrument, the church is also used as a concert church. The disposition is:
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Couple
- Normal coupling: I / II, III / II, III / I, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: III / II, II / II
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Wunibald Reiner: St. Nikolaus, Friedrichshafen. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2004, ISBN 3-7954-5548-0 .
- ↑ a b Friedrichshafen City Archives (ed.): Geschichtspfad Friedrichshafen. City of Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen 2001, ISBN 3-89549-301-5 .
- ↑ Georg Wieland in: Churches in Friedrichshafen, history and art. Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1989, ISBN 3-922137-55-5 , p. 264.
- ^ The organ on the parish website, accessed on September 19, 2017
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 9 ° 28 ′ 47.7 ″ E