St. Peter and Paul (Salmünster)

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St. Peter and Paul (Salmünster)
St. Peter and Paul (Salmünster) .jpg
St. Peter and Paul ; on the right the former monastery building
place Salmunster
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Fulda
Patronage St. Peter and Paul
Construction year 1735
Construction type former Franciscan monastery church, hall church
function Parish church
Tower facade

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Salmünster in the diocese of Fulda was built from 1737 to 1745 according to plans by the Fulda court architect Andrea Gallasini as the church of the Franciscan monastery of Salmünster and the parish. It replaced a much older parish and collegiate church .

history

Salmünster, whose name Münster indicates an early monastic settlement, was one of the original parishes founded by the Fulda monastery in the 9th century , originally with the patronage of the Apostle Peter alone . With the growth of the place on the Via Regia , the importance of the parish also grew. In 1319, at the same time as the city ​​rights were granted , a collegiate foundation was founded near the church . It lasted until the Reformation . After that, the buildings fell into disrepair until the end of the Thirty Years War . From the old collegiate church only a defensive tower remained , which collapsed in 1895.

In 1650 the complex was settled by the Franciscans of the Thuringian Franciscan Province ( Thuringia ) through the Reichsstift Fulda , who had been expelled from their convent in Gelnhausen. They took over the pastoral care and built a new large monastery building in the 1690s. The construction of the new church, now with the second patronage of the Apostle Paul , coincided in 1737 with the inauguration of Prince Abbot Amand von Buseck , who took a strong part in the construction.

The Franciscan monastery existed - with an interruption as a result of the Kulturkampf from 1875 to 1894 - until 2004. At the end of the 19th century there was a religious study in Salmünster to train the next generation of the order, from 1918 to 1968 the novitiate of Thuringia existed there . The convent buildings were redesigned from 1990 to 1992 into an education and retreat house for the diocese of Fulda ; the last three Franciscans left Salmünster at the end of 2004.

architecture

Salmünster, Church of St. Peter and Paul, interior view.jpg

St. Peter and Paul is a hall church with set marble pillars. The chancel in the west, which is just closing, is faced in the east with a portal facade with a risalit-like projecting central tower. It is adorned with lively statues of Our Lady and Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua .

tower

The tower is crowned by a Welsche dome .

Furnishing

The rich baroque interior contrasts with the rather austere exterior . The pulpit and five altars were made by the Fulda court painters Johann Andreas Herrlein and Emanuel Wohlhaupter and the Franciscan sculptors Hyazinth Wiegand and Melchior Egenolf .

organ

The organ was built in 1995 by the organ builder Thomas Jann (Allkofen). The slider chest instrument has 33 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The Echowerk is swellable . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – a 3
1. Copula 8th'
2. Praestant 4 ′
3. Flauto 4 ′
4th Principal 2 ′
5. Small set 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – a 3
10. Bourdun 16 ′
11. Praestant 8th'
12. Reed flute 8th'
13. Octave 4 ′
14th recorder 4 ′
15th Duplicate 2 ′
16. Cornet V (from g 0 ) 8th'
17th Mixture Vi 2 ′
18th Sharp III 1'
19th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
III Echowerk C – a 3
20th Salicional 8th'
21st flute 8th'
22nd Unda maris 8th'
23. viola 4 ′
24. Transverse flute 2 ′
25th Vox humana 8th'
Tremblant douce
Pedals C – f 1
26th Principal bass 16 ′
27. Octavbass 8th'
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 Covered bass 8th'
30th Pedal flute 4 ′
31. Back set III 4 ′
32. Bombard 16 ′
33. trombone 8th'
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

The Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen has repeatedly cast bronze bells for Salmünster in the years 1902, 1927, 1950 and 1959. The bells before 1945 fell victim to the destruction of bells in the two world wars of the last century and were melted down. After the Second World War, Otto cast two bells in 1950 and a third bell in 1959. These sound with the notes: c sharp '- e' - f sharp '. The bells have the following diameters: 1501 mm, 1291 mm, 1150 mm.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bildungshaus-salmuenster.de: History of the house.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the parish website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.katholische-kirche-salmuenster.de
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 512, 530, 548, 557 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 478, 491, 505, 511 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 33.4 "  N , 9 ° 21 ′ 58.5"  E