Waldsassen Collegiate Basilica

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Waldsassen Collegiate Basilica
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The Waldsassen monastery basilica in the Bavarian town of Waldsassen was built from 1685 to 1704 as a monastery church for the Cistercian Sisters of the Waldsassen Abbey . The monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The church is now also a parish church, under the patronage of the Assumption of Mary and St. John the Evangelist.

Building history

Important church builders like Georg Dientzenhofer and Abraham Leuthner created one of the most remarkable baroque churches in Bavaria with this pillar basilica . Artists from all over Europe were involved in the equipment. The building was completed under Abbot Albert Hausner . The church was consecrated in 1704 by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Ferdinand von Rummel . During the secularization in 1803, the monastery church was given to the Catholic community as a parish church. On December 18, 1863, the monastery was re-established as the priory of the Cistercian women by Bishop Ignatius von Senestrey in Regensburg and repopulated by Cistercian women from the Seligenthal Abbey in Landshut. In 1969 Pope Paul VI raised the collegiate church to the Basilica minor .

architecture

The church interior has a total length of 82 meters. The main nave is equipped with chapels and galleries . In the nuns choir there is a richly designed choir stalls . Precious stucco decorate the entire interior. The ceiling frescoes in the choir show scenes from the traditional founding history of the Waldsassen monastery. There is a crypt under the nave .

The basilica is in possession of twelve richly decorated relics of so-called catacomb saints , ten of which are full-body relics that are located in the main nave of the basilica. They come from the catacombs of Rome and were decorated between 1707 and 1765 by Adalbert Eder, a lay brother of the Cistercian convent. This collection of relics is the largest of its kind.

  • inner space

  • inner space

  • Relic of a catacomb saint in the nave

Organs

Main organ of the collegiate basilica

A new organ was built as early as 1540 . Christoph Egedacher created a new organ in 1698. Konrad Brandenstein created today's prospectus during renovation work. In 1914, Martin Binder built a three-manual organ in the Regensburg workshop , which was replaced in 1976 by a work by Eugen Pfaff ( Überlingen ) based on a layout by Rudolf Walter .

The organ with 7720 pipes was rebuilt and expanded several times. In 1989 it received its current form under Georg Jann . From 1999 to 2016 Orgelbau Hörl looked after the organ. In 2017/2018 Orgelbau Mühleisen carried out a general cleaning and careful re-intonation as part of the interior renovation of the church. The instrument is the second largest organ in the Diocese of Regensburg .

Main organ (Marien organ)

I Rückpositiv C – c 4
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Gemshorn 8th'
3. Prefix 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Duplicate 2 ′
7th Sifflet 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. None 8 ⁄ 9 ′
9. Scharff IV 1'
10. Wooden shelf 16 ′
11. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C – c 4
12. Principal 16 ′
13. Prefix 8th'
14th Wooden flute 8th'
15th Flûte harmonique 8th'
16. Salicional 8th'
17th octave 4 ′
18th recorder 4 ′
19th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th octave 2 ′
21st Cornet v 8th'
22nd Rauschpfeife III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
23. Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Trumpet 16 ′
25th Trumpet 8th'
26th Clairon 4 ′
III Swell C – c 4
27. Bourdon 16 ′
28. Principal 8th'
29 Copula 8th'
30th Viol 8th'
31. Beat 8th'
32. octave 4 ′
33. Transverse flute 4 ′
34. Gambetta 4 ′
35. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Forest flute 2 ′
37. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
38. flute 1'
39. Mixture IV-V 2 ′
40. Zimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
41. bassoon 16 ′
42. Trompette harmonique 8th'
43. oboe 8th'
44. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Cymbelstern
Pedal C – g 1
45. Principal 32 ′
46. Prefix 16 ′
47. Sub-bass 16 ′
48. Violon 16 ′
49. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
50. Octave bass 8th'
51. Thought bass 8th'
52. octave 4 ′
53. Night horn 4 ′
54. Peasant pipe 2 ′
55. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
56. Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
57. Bombard 32 ′
58. trombone 16 ′
59. prong 8th'
60. Clarine 4 ′

Choir organ

IV main work

(Epistle side) C – c 4

61. Principal 8th'
62. Wooden flute 8th'
63. Reed flute 8th'
64. octave 4 ′
65. Night horn 4 ′
66. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
67. Super octave 2 ′
68. Field whistle 2 ′
69. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
70. Mixture VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
71. Dulcian 16 ′
Tremulant


IV Swell

(Gospel page) C – c 4

72. Dumped 8th'
73. viola 4 ′
74. Coupling flute 4 ′
75. Principal 2 ′
76. Scharff IV 1'
77. Bassoon shelf 16 ′
78. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Carillon
V Fernwerk C – c 4
79. Delicately packed 16 ′
80. Double clad 8th'
81. Viol 8th'
82. Violin I. 8th'
83. Violin II 8th'
84. viola 4 ′
85. Flute Octaviante 4 ′
86. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
87. Octavine 2 ′
88 Harmonia aetherea III – IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
89. Voix humaine 8th'
Tremulant
Carillon
VI Chamadewerk C – c 4
90. Trompeta magna 16 ′
91. Trompeta real 8th'
92. Trompeta quinta 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
93. Clairon 4 ′
94. Cornet III-V
Pedal C – g 1
95. Revelation 16 ′
96. Sub-bass 16 ′
97. Octave bass 8th'
98 Bass flute 4 ′
99 Hollow flute 4 ′
100. trombone 16 ′
101. Trumpet 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, IV HW / I, IV SW / I, IV HW / II, IV SW / II, IV HW / III, IV SW / III, V / I, V / III, V / IV, VI / I, VI / II, VI / IV, VI / V, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV HW / P, IV SW / P, V / P, VI / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III
    • Super octave couplings: V / I, V / II, V / III, V / IV, V / V
  • Playing aids : 3200 electronic typesetting combinations , 10 programmable crescendos , IV ab

  • Choir Organ (Epistle Page)

  • Choir organ (Gospel page)

Organ positive

According to an inscription on the inside, the organ positive was built on March 16, 1802 by the Bohemian organ builder Joseph Gartner from Tachau for the Steinberg Church. In 1975 it was just a ruin with no pipes or windmill . The Rieger company restored it reconstructively.

Organ positive

Traditional disposition

Manual C–
1. Copula major 8th'
2. Copula minor 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Octave 1'

Today's disposition

Manual C–
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Wooden pipe flute 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Oktavlein 1'

Bells

Six bells hang in the two towers of the monastery church. The older bell comes from Johann Joseph Perner from Pilsen / Czech Republic, the founder of the Perner family of bell- makers . The other bells were cast by the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. The big bell hangs in the north tower, all others are in the south tower.

No.
  		Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Dimensions
  		Chime
 
1 Trinity Bell 1948 Bell foundry Otto , Bremen-Hemelingen 1743 3300 b 0
2 Reliquary Bell 1948 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1473 1990 of the 1st
3 St. Bernard bell 1718 Johann Josef Perner, Pilsen 1442 1900 it 1
4th Marienbell 1948 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 1156 980 f 1
5 Joseph Bell 1948 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 974 575 as 1
6th Michael's Bell 1948 Bell foundry Otto, Bremen-Hemelingen 869 415 b 1

There is also another bell in the ridge above the library room:

Surname
  		Casting year
  		Foundry, casting location
  		Diameter
(mm) 		Mass
(kg, approx.) 		Chime
 
Prayer bell 2005 Bell foundry Rudolf Perner , Passau f 2

panorama

Panorama of the interior

literature

  • Association for Regensburg Diocese History (Ed.): Waldsassen: 300 Years of the Baroque Church . Regensburg 2004
  • Bärbel Köpplin: Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen . New edition. Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2004, ISBN 3-89643-564-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Koudounaris: Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs , Verlag Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2013. pp. 64ff., 174
  2. ↑ Lyra Kilston: Rest in Style: Medieval Blinged-Out Skeletons Used as German Tourist Attractions In: wired.com , September 26, 2013, accessed on March 29, 2018.
  3. ^ Eberhard Kraus: Historical organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 , p. 228.
  4. ↑ https://orgelbau-muehleisen.de/de/projekt/stiftsbasilika-waldsassen/
  5. ^ Eberhard Kraus: Historical organs in the Upper Palatinate. Schnell & Steiner 1990, ISBN 3-7954-0387-1 , p. 330.
  6. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially pages 340, 341, 464, 545 .
  7. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 300–302, 456, 502 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Web links

Commons : Interiors of Stiftsbasilika Waldsassen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 12 ° 18 ′ 33.3 ″  E