Parish Church of St. Oswald (Traunstein)
The parish church of St. Oswald is a baroque church in Traunstein in Upper Bavaria .
It is the primary church of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
history
The church, consecrated to Saint Oswald , was probably built as a medium-sized late Romanesque church in the 12th century and was later rebuilt in the Gothic style. It is mentioned for the first time in 1342 as a branch church of the parish in Haslach . The church was affected by the city fires in 1371, 1704 and 1851. In essence, however, it still corresponds to the pillared church with galleries built between 1675 and 1690 , the plans of which come from Kaspar Zuccalli . The builders were Antonio Riva and Lorenzo Sciascawho, like Zuccalli, came from the Grisons School. The reconstruction of the church, damaged by the fire in 1704, followed Sciasca's plans. The high altar, completed in 1732, was made by the Munich sculptor Joseph Poschenrieder according to the design of the electoral court clerk Wenzel Mirowsky. It replaced an altar built by Johann Wolfgang Dersch in 1715, which was dismantled and sold to Halfing , where it can still be seen today in the Church of the Assumption of Mary ; Dersch built a reduced version of this altar for St. Vitus and Anna in Ettendorf .
Only after many unsuccessful attempts did the city of Traunstein manage to move the parish seat from Haslach to the city of St. Oswald by a ministerial resolution of December 20, 1850. The town fire of 1851 destroyed the roof structure of the tower and the choir vault. The interior of the church was restored in 1855. In 1885 the western part of the church with the main portal and the tower in its present form was built according to plans by the royal district architect Moritz von Horstig . The Traunstein church painter and local history researcher Max Fürst produced new frescoes in the late Nazarene style from 1904 to 1909 . Parts of the furnishings and the neo-baroque stucco are largely more recent . During the renovation in 1967, the four canopies at the corners of the porch were removed and, following the renewed liturgy of the Second Vatican Council, the choir stalls, the pulpit and the dining grill were removed.
On July 8, 1951 celebrated Joseph Ratzinger and his brother Georg Ratzinger his first Mass in St. Oswald.
The parish church of St. Oswald has been extensively renovated since August 2018.
Church building
The church with its onion-shaped tower and long gable roof is located at the western end of the town square. In terms of shape, it is a long, late Baroque, pillared room from the 17th century with seven bays and large side chapels. The vaults are decorated with rich neo-baroque stucco. The facility includes nine altars, seven of which are from the first half of the 18th century. Most of the rest of the furnishings date from 1852/55. The mighty high altar, restored in 1855, with the base, four-column main floor and side figures of St. Rupert and the Virgin Mary essentially corresponds to the altar made in 1732.
Organ system
In 1856 an organ was installed in the church , which had been built by the organ builder Johann Ehrlich . The mechanism has been renewed several times. In view of the deficits or defects in recent years, it was decided to build a new organ system, consisting of a main organ and a choir organ . The system is named in honor of Joseph Ratzinger's "Pope Benedict Organ".
Choir organ
The new choir organ was built in 2011 by the Austrian organ building company Pirchner (Steinach). The purely mechanical instrument in the Italian style has 9 sounding stops on one manual , one of which is a preliminary print. All registers are divided into bass and treble. The pedal is generated via transmissions from the manual.
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- Coupling : manual to pedal
Main organ
The 24 stops of the Ehrlich organ with mechanical cone chests were distributed over two manuals and a pedal . With his Opus 458 , Willibald Siemann built a new pneumatic mechanism with 35 registers on two manuals and a pedal into the existing, listed, classicist case of Ehrlich's organ . This instrument was one of the largest in the company's history and also contained reed voices . In 1977 Günter Ismayr from Bernried again built a new organ with three manuals and 33 registers in the historical case. In view of the technical problems, the work is given up and replaced by a new one, which is being built by the organ builder Klais (Bonn).
literature
- Max Fürst: History of the St. Oswald Church in Traunstein. 1884.
- Anton Kasenbacher: Traunstein. Chronicle of a city in words and pictures. Grabenstätt 1986.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter von Bromhard and Georg Brenninger: St. Oswald / Traunstein , 5th edition, Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-7954-4323-8 , p. 8
- ^ Changes in St. Oswald
- ↑ To the new organ system ( Memento from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the builder company
- ↑ Georg Brenninger : Organs in Old Bavaria. GeraNova Bruckmann, 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 , p. 132.
- ↑ Imprint in the original list of works
- ↑ Georg Brenninger : Organs in Old Bavaria. GeraNova Bruckmann, 1982, ISBN 3-7654-1859-5 , p. 173.
- ↑ Information on berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 10.8 " N , 12 ° 38 ′ 52.2" E