St. Stephan (Bamberg)
The St. Stephen's Church in Bamberg 's Old Town is the only Protestant church now that of a pope ( Benedict VIII. Was dedicated). The monastery was founded in 1007/09 by Bishop Eberhard I of Bamberg , possibly on the instructions of Empress Kunigunde ; it was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The collegiate church, which was consecrated to Saint Stephen , became a Protestant church in 1807. A preparatory school was later housed in the monastery building .
Building history
The current construction comprises three construction periods. The oldest component is the tower, with the roof from 1698. The choir from 1628 was built by the builder Giovanni Bonalino , the church in Greek cross shape with the three other cross beams by Antonio Petrini 1678–1681. Petrini retained the original floor plan from the 11th century.
In 1808 the church was handed over by the state to the Evangelical Lutheran parish. Due to the marriage of the Bavarian Crown Prince Maximilian to Princess Marie Friederike of Prussia and her longer stay in Bamberg, the church received a royal box in the western cross beam.
Legends
There is a legend about the penny miracle about the construction of St. Stephen's Church , which is depicted on the imperial grave in Bamberg Cathedral :
- “The grave of the holy couple Heinrich and Kunigunde is located in Bamberg Cathedral. A picture of this tomb shows the Empress paying the builders of St. Stephen's Church. For it was a vicious, dissatisfied man among the workers who stole the money from the conductor of the building so that the certain sum never wanted to be paid. It took a long time to track down the thief. One day St. Kunigundis went herself to the workmen and held up a bowl from which each took his penny. The thief also reached into the bowl, but, as before, unnoticed took several pfennigs. No sooner had he seized it than his hands burned terribly, so that he ran away crying, and when he got home he had only one penny in his hand. "
organ
The organ of St. Stephan was built between 2003 and 2008 by Mühleisen (Leonberg) in the existing historical organ prospectus, which was made for an instrument from 1710. Today's organ replaces an instrument that GF Steinmeyer built in 1892 . This predecessor instrument was expanded, rebuilt and changed several times during the 20th century. Due to the damage findings in 2003, an overhaul of the Steinmeyer organ did not make sense. Today's instrument has 54 registers on slider drawers. The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions mechanical and electrical.
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Super octave coupling: III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: III / III
- Secondary register: Zimbelstern
- Playing aids : 9000-fold setting system , crescendo roller with two freely programmable combinations
literature
- Helmut Glück : St. Stephan 1808-2008. 200 years of the Protestant parish of St. Stephan Bamberg . Published on behalf of the St. Stephan Church Council. Private printing. St. Stephan parish, Bamberg 2008.
- Margit Fuchs: Innovation and Pragmatism. Sankt Stephan in Bamberg as the initial building of baroque architecture in Franconia (= publications by the Society for Franconian History. Series VIII, sources and representations on Franconian art history 18). Stegaurach: Wissenschaftlicher Kommissionsverlag 2017 ISBN 978-3-86652-818-5 (not evaluated)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Schöppner : Bayrische Sagen, Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande , Volume 1, Munich 1852. Quoted from http://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/deutschland/bayern/bamberg/schale_kunigund.html
- ↑ More information on the history of the organs in St. Stephan , as seen on May 21, 2012.
Web links
- Evangelical parish of St. Stephan
- Further information from monasteries in Bavaria
- Deed of indulgence of Gregory IX. for St. Stephan (1235)
Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 17.9 " N , 10 ° 53 ′ 10.3" E