City Church St. Martin (Olten)
The town church of St. Martin is the church of the Christian Catholic parish in Olten .
history
The St. Martin's Church was the Roman Catholic city church of Olten until the First Vatican Council in 1870 and the subsequent Swiss Kulturkampf . The classicistic monument in the city center was built between 1806 and 1813 according to plans by the architect Blasius Balteschwiler and replaced the old St. Martin's Church, of which only the current city tower has been preserved. The site of the Holy Cross Chapel from 1603 was chosen as the building site, which had to give way due to lack of space.
On June 14, 1875, the constituent national synod of the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland was held here. The remaining Roman Catholic community built an emergency church in 1876 and the neo-Romanesque parish church of St. Martin from 1908 to 1910 .
The church services of the Christian Catholic community take place today in alternation with the Christ Church in Hägendorf , the village church of St. Peter and Paul Starrkirch and the Kreuzkirche Trimbach .
In June 2013 the parish decided in principle to renovate the town church between 2016 and 2018. Around six million francs are to be invested in the renovation by summer 2018 .
Wooden structures of the towers
The two towers, which were once planned by Blasius Baltenschwiler (he died while the church was being built), look slimmer than the towers designed by Niklaus Purtschert in 1809, which were only made as a wooden structure with sheet metal and combined with the processing of the material and the paint Masonry have been modeled. As the former city archivist Martin Eduard Fischer remarks, they hide the actual construction method.
The Oltner Tagblatt reported on September 9, 1899 that the authorities had suggested that after the question of ownership of the church had been clarified, the two towers, which were only provisionally built at the time, should be expanded, thereby also extending the church as a whole Image of the city would undergo a valuable embellishment.
organ
Inside there is an organ from the year 1879 by the company Kuhn in Männedorf , which later also supplied the large organ for the Friedenskirche in 1929 .
From the beginning to the last church renovation, the slogan: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DFO was written in golden capital letters in the upper part of the city church organ. The spelling mistake, DFO instead of DEO, was corrected during the last organ restoration.
Bells
When the then too small dilapidated old town church was demolished in the heart of the old town, the tower was left standing in 1844 as a time and bell tower for cost reasons. Also because of the still working clock and the existing ringing of five bells. It was thought that one could also ring the bell for services in the new church from the old tower. The two bells of the former Holy Cross Chapel were raised again in one of the two towers in the new city church. Today the church has a bell in the left tower with one old and three new bells. For its size, the church has a smaller bell. The "ideal motif" on f 1 was chosen as the basis for casting the bells.
- Bell strikes: f 1 , 1,000 kg, Rüetschi AG Aarau 1964
- Bell strike note: as 1 , 600 kg, Rüetschi AG Aarau 1964
- Bell strikes: b 1 , 450 kg, Rüetschi AG Aarau 1964
- Bell strikes: 2nd , unknown, Rüetschi Aarau 1857
literature
- Martin Eduard Fischer: The Olten town church . In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter , 60/2002 ( online )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Eduard Fischer: The Olten Holy Cross Chapels ( online )
- ↑ a b c d e History of the Church ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 27, 2017
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '1.5 " N , 7 ° 54' 8" E ; CH1903: 635.03 thousand / 244500