St. Urban (Rheinfelden-Herten)

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St. Urban

The Church of St. Urban in the Rheinfeld district of Herten is under the patronage of St. Urban . Together with the Degerfelden district, the Roman Catholic parish of the same name forms a pastoral care unit . The church is the parish church for around 3000 members. The Louis-Seize- style church was built at the end of the 18th century according to plans by Franz Anton Bagnato ; a native of the Middle Ages church tower got a new spire .

history

A deed of donation from 807 suggests that a church already existed in Herten at that time, but it is only documented from 1275. The oldest part of the church is the medieval church tower. Its cross vault with profiled ribs bears the coat of arms of the Teutonic Lords of Beuggen as a keystone .

The increasing dilapidation led to the planning of a new building in the last quarter of the 18th century. Parish Vicar Moismann initiated the drafts in 1781. In the same year Franz Anton Bagnato visited the church. His plans, which were only slightly changed, were implemented between 1789 and 1791 by the Bregenz master builder Ballier Xaver Rüsch.

Renovations took place in 1900 as well as in 1975 and 1976, during which the church received a new celebration altar, a support cross, an ambo , sediles and candlesticks by the Rheinfeld artist Leonhard Eder . The then Auxiliary Bishop Karl Gnädinger consecrated the altar on May 23, 1976.

description

Church building

West facade

The Urbankirche in the center of the village of Hertens stands north of a triangular square formed by Kirchstrasse and Rabenfelsstrasse. The nave is of a gabled roof covered while on the east-facing Choir is hipped. The mighty Gothic bell tower to the north of the nave was given a pyramid roof that was slightly bent at the bottom as a result of the new building and renovation at the end of the 18th century . On each side of the upper floor of the tower there are two pointed arched, narrow acoustic arcades and above them a clock face of the tower clock. In the basement of the tower is the sacristy .

The main entrance is in the west facade and is complemented by two side entrances in the south and north.

Interior and equipment

The nave has ten arched, long windows and the choir has three. The eye of God watches over a semicircular triumphal arch between the two parts of the building . The ceilings are decorated with garlands, flowers and stucco suns .

The Rococo style pulpit with sound cover was created in 1765 by Matthias Faller and painted in color by the painter Franz Joseph Rösch from Freiburg. It was acquired by the community in 1795 and was previously in the Dominican monastery in Freiburg im Breisgau . At the pulpit, the then only four known continents are shown, including the symbol of the Dominicans : the Lord's dog with a torch. The lid is crowned by the four evangelists , a trombone-blowing angel with tablets of the law and the seven-armed candlestick .

Choir and high altar

The font from 1792 is signed with the initials IB. Fourteen stations of the cross lead along the nave. On both sides of the triumphal arch there are classicist side altars - on the left the St. Mary's and on the right the Joseph's altar - which were created in 1820 by Johann Anton Feuerstein from Arlesheim .

In the years 1825/26 it was decided to replace the old high altar from the previous church with a new one, which was also made of flint. Below the canopy are the two saints, on the left the main patron of the church Pope Urban, on the right Bishop Valerius of Saragossa as a secondary patron. The representation of God the Father in a medallion concludes. The formerly baroque tabernacle was replaced by a classical one . The panel painting on the altar comes from the Bamberg painter Karl Mattenheimer and depicts the Ascension of Christ . In 1884 the painting was changed by Dominik Weber , who also re-created the paintings on the side altars.

The celebration altar created by Eder, the support cross, the ambo, the sediles and the candlestick were made of bronze and Jura limestone .

The first documented organ in the church was purchased in 1795. The present one was built by the Freiburg organ building workshop Späth in 1978 on the west gallery . The instrument with mechanical performance and stop action has two manuals , a pedal and fourteen stops .

Bells

No. Surname Nominal
1 Christ bell e ′
2 Mary Bell f sharp ′
3 St. Urban Bell g sharp ′
4th St. Ubald Bell H'
5 St. Joseph's Bell cis ′ ′
Bell tower

Until 1876, four bells were rung in the Urbank Church in Herten. The oldest from 1666 was cast by the brothers Hans Ulrich and Jakob Roth from Basel . A second was probably cast in 1790 and a third came in 1793 and a fourth in 1797 from the Johann Friedrich Weitenauer foundry, also from Basel. According to written records, the bells are said to have been too quiet and not audible as far as the rectory, which led to a new acquisition.

Benjamin Muchenberger from Wehr cast the new four bells . The large Christ bell was tuned to the nominal es, the Marien bell to g, the Urban bell to b; the smallest was called Agatha. During the First World War , all but the Marien-Bell were confiscated. The Grüninger bell foundry created a replacement for this . This bell also had to be handed in in 1941 as a result of the Second World War .

The new five-part bronze bell ensemble was cast by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling from Heidelberg in 1956 .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Urban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 269
  2. ↑ H. Vocke (Ed.): Die Chronik des Landkreis Lörrach , 1966, p. 127
  3. ^ W. Haid: Liber decimationis cleri Constanciensis per Papa de anno 1275. in: FDA 1 , 1865, p. 199
  4. ↑ Katholisches Pfarramt St. Urban (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the altar consecration on May 23, 1976 , Rheinfelden-Herten, 1976, p. 3
  5. ↑ Heimann-Schwarzweber: Topography of the historical sights in: Bechtold (Hrsg.): Der Kreis Lörrach . 1971, p. 98
  6. ^ Joseph Sauer : The Church Art of the First Half of the 19th Century in Baden , 1933, pp. 165–169.
  7. ↑ a b c d Helm: Churches and chapels in Markgräflerland , p. 270
  8. ↑ Katholisches Pfarramt St. Urban (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the altar consecration on May 23, 1976 , Rheinfelden-Herten, 1976, p. 11

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '27.3 "  N , 7 ° 44' 1.8"  E