St. Stephan (Mindelheim)

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St. Stephan in Mindelheim

St. Stephan is a Catholic parish church in the Upper Swabian district town of Mindelheim in the Unterallgäu district . It is the main church of the Mindelheim deanery . Their patronage is the feast of St. Stephen on December 26th.

location

The church at Pfarrstraße 1 is located within Mindelheim's old town in close proximity to the city ​​wall . To the south the church is bordered by the spacious church square, to the east the city moat adjoins it. To the west is the Holy Cross Monastery , which is directly connected to the parish church via a connecting passage.

Building history and description

In 1409 Duke Ulrich von Teck and his wife Anna of Poland had a Gothic basilica built within the city wall and transferred the parish rights to the new St. Stephen's Church. In 1462 an organist is mentioned in a tax list in the city chronicle. A teacher from the "Latin School" may have performed the service.

From 1712 a new baroque nave and choir was built under master builder Valerian Brenner . From 1862 to 1867, after a de-Baroque renovation, Matthias Berger re- vaulted the room and re-designed the room, which was removed again in the 20th century and older pieces of equipment (silver work on the side altars, sculptures and paintings) were brought back to the church.

1851 built on a square bell tower got a spire . In the years 1958–1963 the church was redesigned and renovated both inside and outside. An exterior renovation of the church took place in 2007. Between 2012 and 2013, the interior was renovated and the chancel was redesigned.

The church is a pilaster-structured hall with a retracted choir and a northern bell tower with a pointed helmet.

The church, the Heilig Kreuz monastery with the connecting passage to the church and the two-storey crypt chapel surround the spacious church square of St. Stephen.

The double chapel Maria Schnee and St. Michael is located on the church square . This is a two-story double system with a three-sided end and roof turret with onion hood . The northern chapel extension has a volute gable . At its core it is a late Gothic cemetery chapel that was redesigned at the beginning of the 18th century and around 1726.

Furnishing

Mindelheim, St. Stephan, Altar Erwin Holzbaur

The high altar retable by Erwin Holzbaur has dominated the center of the choir since 1962 . In the middle part it shows the stoning of the holy deacon Stephen in dark colors, above it the Holy Trinity with the spirit in the form of a dove, which hovers over the frame of the painting and thus symbolically expressed over the whole world. The western church fathers and the apostles Peter and Paul are shown on the small panels .

In the nave there is a Way of the Cross by Johann Michael Ziegler from 1777 with the finding of the Holy Cross and the view of the city of Mindelheim with Saint Sebastian. On the left side altar you can see a group of Annunciation and figures with bases made of silver by Ignaz Caspar Berthold, which were created in Augsburg in 1769/1770. Directly above is a mural by Gebhard Fugel from 1934.

Below the altar steps on the right side is the font from the beginning of the 16th century. On the north wall, directly opposite the south portal, there is a life-size Pieta , which the sculptor Georg Schenk created around 1650.

Epitaph Ulrich von Teck and Ursula von Baden

The tower chapel and the northern choir chapel house significant epitaphs . The red marble tomb of Duke Ulrich von Teck with his second wife Ursula von Baden and the sandstone grave plate of Anna of Poland (around 1432) are among the most important testimonies to Swabian sculptures of that time. The double tomb for Duke Ulrich von Teck and Ursula von Baden made of red marble by Master Ulrich from Augsburg stands in the cross-rib vaulted tower chapel. At the entrance to the tower chapel there is the coat of arms of Georg von Frundsberg , which probably dates from 1538. The church also houses the grave slab of Anna of Poland (1366–1425), the first wife of Duke Ulrich von Teck.

The foundation plaque of the parish church by Duke Ulrich von Teck and Anna von Polen hangs above the entrance of the south portal.

Organs

Predecessor instruments

In 1620 a new large organ was built on the second west gallery of the church , which was replaced in 1713/1714 by an instrument made by Johann Georg Hofer (Ottobeuren). In 1767/1768 Johann Georg Hörtich built a new organ with 30 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

View from the people's altar to the organ gallery (2008)

The largest movement to date was built in 1867 by GF Steinmeyer (Oettingen) as Opus 65: a mechanical cone- chopping instrument with 33 stops, which were divided between the main movement, swell movement and pedal. In the years 1952 and 1958 this organ was rebuilt, expanded and modernized by Josef Zeilhuber & Sohn (Altstätten) . From then on it had 47 registers on 3 manuals and pedal. In 1994 a general overhaul was carried out by the organ building workshop Kubak (Augsburg) .

Choir organs can be traced back very far for the parish church. Before 1462, the earliest organ probably had its place on the left wall in the choir by the main altar in the Gothic church. Until 1819 there was a so-called "lying organ" in the choir of the baroque church behind the so-called choir altar. In 1819 a choir organ was built on the left side wall by the choir stalls using the pipes of the "lying organ". This was carried out by Peter Paul Hörmüller (Landsberg / Lech). The organ had six registers. In 1868 Otmar Sauter (Mindelheim) delivered a new choir organ for the redesigned and baroque church. This is still listed in the inventory of the church choir in 1902, but no longer in the inventory of 1911.

Main organ

View from the people's altar to the organ gallery with the large Stephanus organ from 2015

The organ was built by the Siegfried Schmid organ building workshop and consecrated on Whit Monday 2015. When creating the disposition , it was important to use the useful registers of the previous instruments by Steinmeyer and Zeilhuber to develop a sound concept that ties in with the tradition of the German-Romantic organ, but also meets the requirements of an instrument at the beginning of the 21st century.

The action mechanism was created mechanically. The register is controlled electrically by means of particularly low-noise loop pull magnets. In addition to the various storage options, a modern typesetting system has other functions (e.g. voice system, recording or playback function, etc.). The couplers are also electrical, including the numerous octave couplers. Another game help, the Crescendo is four Crescendoprogrammen. The design of the table is based in contemporary design, on models of Cavaillé-Coll .

The slider chest instrument has 52 registers (48 sounding voices, 4 transmissions ), which are distributed over three manuals and pedal. The brochures from the main housing and the Rückpositiv are divided into three parts and thus represent a design counterpart to the high altar.

I Rückpositiv C – c 4
01. Principal 8th'
02. Metal covered 0 8th'
03. Willow pipe 8th' (S)
04th octave 4 ′
05. Night horn 4 ′
06th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
07th Forest flute 2 ′
08th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
09. Cymbel 1'
10. Trumpet 8th'
11. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – c 4
12. Principal 16 ′ (S)
13. Principal 08th'
14th Tibia 08th' (S)
15th Dumped 08th'
16. Gamba 08th'
17th octave 04 ′ (S)
18th Gemshorn 04 ′ (S)
19th Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Super octave 02 ′ (S)
21st third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
22nd Mixture major 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. mixture 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Cornett 08th'
25th Trumpet 16 ′
26th Trumpet 08th'
III Swell C – c 4
27. Bourdon 16 ′ (S)
28. Wooden principal 08th'
29 Lovely Gedackt 08th' (S)
30th Aeolines 08th'
31. Vox coelestis 08th'
32. Praestant 04 ′
33. Transverse flute 04 ′ (S)
34. Corenttino 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Flautino 02 ′
36. Harmonia aetherea 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
37. bassoon 16 ′
38. Trompette harmonique 08th'
39. oboe 08th'
40. Clairon 04 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
41. Pedestal 32 ′
42. Principal bass 16 ′
43. Violon bass 16 ′ (S)
44. Sub bass 16 ′
45. Subtle bass (= No. 27) 16 ′
46. Octave bass (Ext. No. 42) 08th'
47. Cellobass (Ext. No. 43) 08th'
48. Choral bass (= No. 32) 04 ′
49. Bombarede 32 ′
50. trombone 16 ′
51. Bassoon bass (= No. 37) 16 ′
52. Trumpet 08th'
  • Couple
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub- and super-octave coupling: respectively: I / I, I / II, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III; additionally III / P (super octave coupling)
  • Playing aids : setter system , crescendo roller
  • Remarks
(S) = Steinmeyer historical register (1867)
  1. ↑ Collective train for No. 19-21
  2. ↑ Collective train for No. 15 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21
  3. ↑ C – H acoustically

Chest organ

The parish church also houses a chest organ by Gunnar Schmid (Westendorf) from 2018. The instrument is made of elm, has a key range of C – f 3 , split loops and a transposition device (440/415 Hz). The disposition is:

Manual C – f 3
Covered 8th'
Wooden flute 4 ′
Principal 4 ′
Gemshorn 2 ′
  • annotation
  1. ↑ from c 0

local community

The parish of St. Stephan with the Curate of the Annunciation (Jesuit Church) consisted of the entire city area until August 2018. In September 2018 the parish of St. Stephan became a member of the Mindelheim parish community. This consists of eight individual parishes and includes around 10,700 Catholics. It includes the parish of Mindelheim, the parish of St. Bartholomäus Apfeltrach , and the parish of St. Jakobus maj. Mindelau with St. Franziskus and St. Georg Altensteig , the parish St. Vitus Nassenbeuren , the parish St. Mauritius Oberauerbach with St. Michael Unterauerbach , the parish Maria-Himmelfahrt Oberkammlach , the parish Maria-Königin des St. Rosenkranzes Unterkammlach - and the parish of St. Andreas Westernach .

Web links

Commons : St. Stephan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.allgaeu.de/a-die-pfarrkirche-st-stephan (last accessed on May 4, 2020)
  2. ↑ https://www.kurierverlag.de/mindelheim/stephan-wird-renoviert-modernisiert-2615381.html (last accessed on May 4, 2020)
  3. ^ Richard Paletta: The organ in the parish church of St. Stephan in Mindelheim. Short monograph. Mindelheim 1994.
  4. ↑ Festschrift for the organ consecration of the new Stephanus organ, Whit Monday, May 25, 2015 Mindelheim parish church. 2015.
  5. ^ Richard Paletta: The organ in the parish church of St. Stephan in Mindelheim. Short monograph. Mindelheim 1994.
  6. ↑ https://stephanuskonzerte.de/orgel (last accessed on April 28, 2020)
  7. ↑ https://bistum-augsburg.de/Pfarrei/St.-Stephan_Mindelheim2/Kirchenmusik/Orgel (last accessed on April 28, 2020)
  8. ↑ https://www.kurierverlag.de/mindelheim/mindelheimer-pfarierendengemeinschaft-klingt-erstmals-z together-10409729.html (last accessed on May 4, 2020)

Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 51.7 ″  N , 10 ° 29 ′ 24 ″  E