St. Salvator (Nördlingen)

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St. Salvator Church in Nördlingen
Choir
inner space
portal

St. Salvator is a Catholic parish church in Nördlingen ( Swabia ).

history

The church was built on the southwestern edge of the city center. The reason for the construction was the " Host Miracle " in 1381, when a piece of a consecrated host could not be found after a ceiling collapse in the house of a terminally ill patient. The rubble was burned and the missing host is said to have been found intact from the ashes. The former Herrgottskloster has served as a Catholic parish church since 1825.

Since 2001 the church has been completely renovated. The work was completed in 2012; the total costs were estimated at € 2.43 million. Three of the nine choir windows to be renewed were commissioned by Professor Johannes Schreiter for an artistic design ; the costs were raised through a fundraising campaign. These windows were inaugurated on December 10, 2006.

Furnishing

High altar

The Gothic winged altar in the choir was made in the years 1505 to 1507 for the Church of St. Michael in Fürth. In 1815 it was sold to an art dealer and acquired for the Salvatorkirche in 1827, as a replacement for the high altar by Sebastian Taig from 1518, which had been largely destroyed in the course of the Napoleonic Wars. The altar was restored and partially redesigned and enlarged, with figures from the previous altar also being built in. The altar shrine has four movable wings, each painted on both sides, and two fixed wings. If the inner wings are closed, a representation of the Most Holy Trinity appears in the middle, enthroned on clouds and surrounded (in the background) by flocks of praising angels. The paintings were probably created at the end of the 15th century and probably come from the environment of the Nuremberg painter family Traut.

Side altars

The two side altars, the Marien Altar and the Joseph Altar, were created in 1955 by Joseph Steinacker from Wemding to replace the two neo-Gothic side altars that were removed in the course of a comprehensive redesign of the church in 1879 and 1884. The statue of the Virgin Mary on the Altarpiece was acquired in the art trade in 1954. When the figure was created is unclear. Some sources point to the year 1650, others to the year 1520.

organ

The organ of St. Salvator was built in 1889 by the organ builder Sieber. The instrument has 21 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical. At the end of 2012, the expansion of the historical instrument was completed in order to now have an instrument that corresponds to the spatial conditions.

I main work C – f 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. flute 8th'
4th Covered 8th'
5. Viola di gamba 8th'
6th Salicional 8th'
7th Octav 4 ′
8th. Octav 2 ′
9. mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – f 3
11. Violin principal 8th'
12. Lovely covered 8th'
13. Dolce 8th'
14th Aeoline 8th'
15th Vox Coelestis 8th'
16. Fugara 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Violonbass 16 ′
19th Octave bass 8th'
20th cello 8th'
21st trombone 16 ′

Web links

Commons : St. Salvator (Nördlingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Augsburg
  2. ↑ Further information on the high altar on the website of the community
  3. ↑ Information on the side altars on the municipality's website ( Memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information about the organ and the disposition

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 52.8 "  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 15.1"  E