St. Sebastian (Wettingen)
The parish church of St. Sebastian is the Roman Catholic church of the parish of St. Sebastian in Wettingen , Aargau. It is located in the old part of the village and is the successor to the oldest church in Wettinger, built in 1895.
The predecessor
The first mention of the Wettinger village church is from the year 1259. The exact location of this church can only be guessed. The location of the church has only been documented since 1504. It was north of the old school house by the cemetery and was demolished in 1894. Little is known about the construction and furnishings of this church, which must have been preceded by an older one. It was a good 30 meters long, almost 10 meters wide, over 6½ meters high and had about 300 seats. The associated church tower had a square floor plan of 5½ × 5½ meters and was 25½ meters high. It was equipped with three bells. One of these bells was probably taken from the even older church. The other two were cast in 1522 and 1589. This church was renovated in 1765 and received an externally accessible gallery and new seating. The entire renovation cost 2,200 guilders. An estimate of the church from 1852, when the church tower and church together came to 5400 francs, shows that the building was in poor structural condition. The demolition took place in 1894.
Today's church
The construction phase
There was so much controversy about the construction of the house of God that a stone breaker is quoted with the following sigh: “They wanted to build a church, now they are making a squabble out of it.” One point of contention was the question of whether the sacristy and the high altar belong to the church belong. The level of state subsidies was dependent on this, as these were only granted for church building. Only when a simplified project was presented did the Aargau government agree. There was also a dispute about the quality of the stones, with which the architect was not always satisfied. The new St. Sebastian Church was consecrated on October 29, 1895.
The church building
The current building is from 1895 and was built northwest of the previous church as a three-aisled column basilica. The choir is designed as a polygonal choir. The parish church was built according to plans by the architect Karl Moser .
The Isis tablet
In Roman times there was an Isis temple in the Aquae Helveticae settlement . The exact location of this temple is unknown. Aegidius Tschudi , who was bailiff for the first time in Baden between 1533 and 1535 , reported on the discovery of a stone tablet that indicated the foundation of an Isis temple. This stone tablet was already walled into the tower facade of the predecessor building of today's St. Sebastian Church and can now be found in the anteroom of the church.
Transcription and translation of the board:
"DEAE ISIDI TEMPLVM A SOLO / L [VCIVS] ANNVSIVS MAGIANVS / DE SVO POSVIT VIK [ANIS] AQVENSIB [VS] / AD CVIVS TEMPLI ORNAMENTA / ALPINIA ALPINVLA CONNIVNX ET PEREGRINA FIL [LA] XC DEDVE [LA] XC DEDVE [ ] D [ATVS] D [ECRETO] VICANORVM "
(Lucius Annusius Magianus used his fortune to build a temple from the ground up for the villagers of Baden to the goddess Isis. His wife, Alpinia Alpinula, and his daughter, Peregrine, donated 100 denarii to furnish this temple Villagers made available.)
The bells
Five bells hang in the church tower. They are tuned to the notes c sharp '(Trinity bell), e' (Mother of God bell), f sharp '(Joseph bell), a' (guardian angel bell) and h '(Bernhard bell) and were cast in 1895 by the Rüetschi bell foundry in Aarau.
literature
- Ortsbürgergemeinde Wettingen (Hrsg.): History of the community Wettingen. Baden, 1978.
- Return, Ruth: One parish, two parishes. Catholic Church History Wettingen. Wettingen 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the community of Wettingen, p. 104
- ^ History of the community of Wettingen, p. 320
- ^ History of the community of Wettingen, p. 452
- ^ History of the community of Wettingen, p. 453
- ↑ Schartenstrasse, Isis inscription, anteroom of Sebastian's Church. January 1, 2000, accessed April 22, 2016 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '3.9 " N , 8 ° 19' 48.8" E ; CH1903: six hundred and sixty-seven thousand two hundred nineteen / 257823