Collegiate Church (Landau in the Palatinate)

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Protestant parish church

Evangelical collegiate church

Basic data
place Landau in the Palatinate, Germany
Building history
construction time around 1309 - 1333
Building description
Architectural style Gothic
Construction type basilica
Coordinates 49 ° 11 '46.6 "  N , 8 ° 6' 45"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 11 '46.6 "  N , 8 ° 6' 45"  E
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Evangelical collegiate church, side view

The Protestant collegiate church is a landmark of Landau in the Palatinate and at 675 years also the oldest church in the city.

history

In order to guarantee church and pastoral care for the city, which was officially founded by Count Emich IV von Leiningen in 1274 , the city lord appointed Augustinian canons from the Alsatian Zabern (today: Saverne ), so-called Steigerherren , to Landau. They build a convent and a hospital and start building a parish church in 1281, but this soon no longer suffices for the rapidly growing city ( imperial city ​​since 1291 ).

The collegiate church was built in 1333 south of the Queich . The oldest part of the church, the early Gothic choir , was completed around 1335. By 1340 the collegiate church was completed except for the west tower, the construction of which lasted from 1349 to the middle of the 15th century and which was built at the request of the city and at the expense of the city council. In 1483 the monastery is converted into a secular collegiate monastery, the parish rights remain with the canons. In 1490 a second aisle was added to the north. The collegiate church is the largest Gothic church of its kind in the Palatinate. The nave and tower are 70 m long, inside 15 m high and 20 m wide. The tower is 55 m high and dominates the cityscape with the 60 m high twin towers of the Marienkirche on the Südring. In the 18th century the tower received its tower house with a dome.

From 1522 Johannes Bader preached in the collegiate church in the spirit of the Reformation , whereby in the following years the city council and the majority of the citizens went over to the evangelical confession. A Simultaneum was established in the early 1530s , whereby the remaining canons were awarded the choir and the Protestants the nave. This lasted until 1893, when the Catholics started building the Marienkirche and the collegiate church finally became Protestant.

Worth seeing

Frescoes

In the former chapter house (today the baptistery) whitewashed Gothic frescos were exposed in 1897/98, but in 1958 and 1962 they were heavily revised or partially falsified. Nevertheless they are valuable examples of pre-Reformation, Palatine church painting.

  • Fresco in the chapter house

  • Fresco in the chapter house

  • Fresco in the chapter house

Epitaphs

Organ prospectus

organ

The baroque organ front on the west gallery was built in 1772 by Johann Ignaz Seuffert as a replacement for a work by Johann Friedrich Macrander and since 2006 has housed an instrument from the Austrian organ building company Rieger with 47 registers (3,100 pipes) on three manuals and pedal . It is roughly the same size as the previous instrument that was sold to Poland .

I main work C – a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dumped 8th'
4th Flûte harmonique 8th'
5. Gamba 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th recorder 4 ′
8th. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
11. Mixture IV-V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
13. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II Oberwerk C – a 3
14th Dumped 8th'
15th Salicional 8th'
16. Flauttravers (from a) 8th'
17th Principal 4 ′
18th Reed flute 4 ′
19th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Duplicate 2 ′
21st Mixture IV 1'
22nd Cornet V (from a 1 )
23. Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
III Swell C – a 3
24. Quintatön 16 ′
25th Principal 8th'
26th Bourdon à cheminée 8th'
27. Gamba 8th'
28. Voix céleste (from c 0 ) 8th'
29 Prestant 4 ′
30th Flûte octaviante 4 ′
31. Nazard harmonique 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
32. Flageolet 2 ′
33. Tierce harmonique 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
34. Plein Jeu V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
35. Basson 16 ′
36. Trompette harmonique 8th'
37. Hautbois 8th'
38. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
39. Principal 16 ′
40. Sub bass 16 ′
41. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
42. Principal 8th'
43. Gemshorn 8th'
44. Choral bass 4 ′
45. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
46. trombone 16 ′
47. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kirchen-panoramen.de, building history, Catholic parish church Assumption of Mary in heaven - (Marienkirche) Landau idPfalz
  2. ↑ stiftskirche-landau.de, Prot. Stiftskirchengemeinde Landau, The history of the collegiate church
  3. ↑ Epitaph grave sculpture, half-relief in sandstone, 235 × 148 cm
  4. ↑ More information about the Rieger organ. Retrieved November 19, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Collegiate Church  - collection of images, videos and audio files