Schönenwerd Collegiate Church

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Schönenwerd Collegiate Church, seen from the Bühl
Altar with statue of the Virgin Mary in the Lady Chapel
Pen 1758

The Schönenwerd Collegiate Church is a medieval church in Schönenwerd in the canton of Solothurn (Switzerland), which belonged to the monastery of the former St. Leodegar Abbey . It is a three-aisled Romanesque pillar basilica without transept , which features in 17/18. Century was baroque .

history

The Schönenwerder collegiate church is located in Niederamt east of Olten and is the oldest significant and more or less unchanged medieval building in the canton of Solothurn (which, with the exception of a few castles such as Alt-Falkenstein and the crooked tower in the capital, has almost only fragments of medieval buildings ). For the most part it was built between 1025 and 1050, i.e. in the historical epoch of the High Middle Ages . The Canon Monastery of St. Leodegar, for its part, was founded in the 8th century and dissolved as a result of the Kulturkampf in 1874.

The oldest parts of the collegiate church still come from the original building from the 11th century. In 1388 the church burned down, after the reconstruction it was consecrated again in 1491. A cloister has been built on the south wall of the church since 1610, for which grave slabs were partially reused as building material. Due to the steeply sloping Bühlfelsen, the cloister is not square, but rectangular. The original two late Gothic towers had to be demolished in the 17th century; instead, the front tower that exists today was built in 1676–1679. Today it has six bells from H. Rüetschi from Aarau inside. The big bell rings in C1. Provost Leonz Gugger donated the high altar with Our Lady in a halo in 1759 and began to build the church in the Rococo style. The Marien altar on the gallery and two other altars also date from this period.

Since 1876 the Christian Catholic parish of Schönenwerd has held its services in the collegiate church with the approval of the Solothurn government. Today it belongs to the Christian Catholic parish. The evangelical-reformed parish has a right of joint use and regularly conducts its services in the collegiate church.

organ

The organ was built in 1980 by Orgelbau Kuhn . The slider chest instrument has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Suavial 8th'
4th Coupling flute 8th'
5. Viola di gamba 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th flute 4 ′
8th. Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Super octave 2 ′
10. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Trumpet 8th'
II breastwork C – g 3
12. Dumped 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Reed flute 4 ′
15th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Flageolet 2 ′
17th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Cymbel IV 1'
19th shelf 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
20th Sub bass 16 ′
21st Principal bass 8th'
22nd Pointed flute 8th'
23. Octave 4 ′
24. Mixture IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Trumpet 8th'

swell

  • G. Loertscher / H. Sigrist: Art Guide Canton Solothurn .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museumsgesellschaft Thal-Gäu ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Hellmut Gutzwiller: Schönenwerd (pen). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Hellmut Gutzwiller: Schönenwerd (pen). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ^ Website of the community of Schönenwerd
  5. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community Schönenwerd-Eppenberg / Wöschnau
  6. ↑ More information on the organ portrait on the website of the builder company, accessed on June 18, 2018.

literature

  • Gottlieb Loertscher: Collegiate Church Schönenwerd SO. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 434). Ed. Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 1988, ISBN 978-3-85782-434-0 .

Web links

Commons : Stiftskirche Schönenwerd  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 22  '18.6 " N , 8 ° 0' 15.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred forty-two thousand seven hundred twenty-seven  /  246931