St. Peter and Paul (Bern)

St. Peter and Paul in Bern

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Christian Catholic church building at Rathausgasse 2 in Bern .

It was built from 1858 to 1864 as the first Catholic church in the city of Bern in the immediate vicinity of the Bern City Hall . The church is the result of international competition; the plans came from France (including by Pierre Joseph Edouard Deperthes, the architect of the town hall of Paris ) and the historicizing style imitates the formal language of the Romanesque and early Gothic .

The first service took place on November 13, 1864. In 1875 the church became a Christian Catholic in the course of the Kulturkampf . The ceiling paintings and colored windows date from the Art Nouveau period; the choir was redesigned in 1998. The ringing consists of three bells from the Rüetschi bell foundry with the chimes d ¹ , f ¹ and a ¹ .

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is the parish church of the Christian Catholic parish of Bern and also serves as the cathedral church for the Christian Catholic bishop of Switzerland . For the names of the previous bishops see the list of Swiss Christian Catholic bishops .

organ

The organ was built in 1885 by the organ builder Friedrich Goll (Lucerne). In 1948 the instrument was rebuilt, and the disposition was also changed. In 2011 the instrument was refurbished and returned to its original condition. The cone chest instrument has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f ³
Bourdon	16 ′
Principal	8th'
flute	8th'
Bourdon	8th'
Gamba	8th'
Dolce	8th'
Octav	4 ′
flute	4 ′
Octav	2 ′
Mixture V	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
Trumpet	8th'

II Swell C – f ³
Darling Covered	16 ′
Violin principal	8th'
Viennese flute	8th'
Darling Covered	8th'
viola	8th'
Aeoline	8th'
Voix céleste	8th'
Gemshorn	4 ′
Transverse flute	4 ′
Flautino	2 ′
oboe	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
Principal bass	16 ′
Sub bass	16 ′
Harmonic bass	16 ′
Flute bass	8th'
violoncello	8th'
Bombard	16 ′

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

Jan Straub: The Christian Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bern. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 904, Series 91). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-03797-045-4 .