Herrenberg Collegiate Church

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Evangelical collegiate church Sankt Marien
View from the northwest

View from the northwest

Data
place Herrenberg , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Architectural style Gothic , baroque
Construction year 1276-1293, 1471-1493, 1749, 1971-1982
height 57.1 m
Coordinates 48 ° 35 '49 "  N , 8 ° 52' 16"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '49 "  N , 8 ° 52' 16"  E
particularities
Bell Museum, Herrenberg Collegiate Church

The collegiate church is the landmark of the city of Herrenberg and dominates the valley for a long time due to its location on the hillside of the Schlossberg . Due to this situation, it is jokingly inspired a monitored over her brood hen " mother hen called".

history

Choir of the collegiate church

The collegiate church was built in two phases (1276–1293 and 1471–1493). It is the first late Gothic hall church that was completed in Württemberg .

The original church had a Gothic double tower facade . In 1749 the two spiers were removed, the two early Gothic tower rooms were combined into one tower room and crowned with a baroque onion dome.

In the 19th century the church was equipped with galleries.

Between 1971 and 1982 the church was extensively restored and renovated to save the church. Damage was caused in particular by the fact that the building is on a mountain that is not stable and moves about 1 mm towards the old town every year. The church was stabilized in itself. In the course of the renovation, the 19th century galleries were removed.

  • Merian engraving, taken before the town fire in 1635. Herrenberg Castle on the left , the collegiate church in the middle

  • Herrenberg Collegiate Church, view from Schlossberg

  • View from the south

  • Collegiate church

  • tower

  • Tower clock

Furnishing

Choir stalls

For the collegiate church, the stone-carved pulpit by Master Hanselmann was created in 1504 , on which the Latin church fathers Gregory the Great , Hieronymus , Augustine of Hippo and Ambrosius of Milan and Maria in the center field are depicted, and in 1513 a richly pictorial choir stalls (by Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder ) .

The Herrenberg Altar with eight panel paintings by Jerg Ratgeb was built as a high altar between 1518 and 1521 on behalf of the Brothers of Living Together . The surviving parts of the retable were sold in 1891 and have been in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart since 1924 . A copy of the altarpiece can be viewed in the collegiate church.

organ

Organ of the collegiate church

The organ of the collegiate church was built in 1985 by the organ builder Richard Rensch , whereby the pipe material and the housing of the main organ from 1890, which had been built by the organ building company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker , were reused . The swellable return positive has also been added . The slider chests -instrument has 36  registers on three manuals and pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture V 2 ′
9. Zimbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
10. Cornet v 8th'
11. Trumpet 8th'
Zimbelstern
II upper structure C – g 3
12. Salicional 8th'
13. Covered 8th'
14th Violin principal 8th'
15th Beat 8th'
16. Flauto Dolce 4 ′
17th Fugara 4 ′
18th Forest flute 2 ′
19th Sharp IV – VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
20th clarinet 8th'
III threshold positive C-g 3
21st Cane-covered 8th'
22nd Principal 4 ′
23. Small set 4 ′
24. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
25th Octave 2 ′
26th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Sharp Cymbal IV 1'
28. Basson-Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Principal bass 16 ′
30th Sub-bass 16 ′
31. Octave bass 8th'
32. Pointed flute 8th'
33. Chorale bass 4 ′
34. trombone 16 ′
35. Trumpet 8th'
36. Clairon 4 ′

Bells

Gloriosa, largest ringing bell

Characteristic is the massive early Gothic tower with a baroque onion dome, the result of a tower renovation in 1749.

Inside the tower there is a spacious bell room that houses the most extensive church bells in Germany. The bells were cast over a period of over 1000 years. The bell collection includes historical Herrenberg bells as well as individual pieces from the entire German-speaking area, including loan bells from the former German eastern regions. In addition to the so-called main chime (22 bells) there is an eleven-part cymbal chime in the tower from 1998–2001, to which the bell foundries still operating in Germany, Austria and Switzerland contributed at least one bell each.

In addition to the existing chimes, there is a 50-voice carillon that was purchased in 2012 in the tower.

See also

literature

  • Roman Janssen & Harald Müller-Baur (eds.): The collegiate church in Herrenberg 1293–1993. Herrenberg 1993, ISBN 3-926809-06-X
  • Eduard Krüger : The collegiate church to Herrenberg , Stuttgart 1929

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collegiate Church Art Treasures
  2. ↑ Information on the organ of the collegiate church (PDF; 31 kB)
  3. ↑ Bell Museum, Herrenberg Collegiate Church. Association for the Preservation of the Collegiate Church Herrenberg e. V., accessed on May 2, 2015 .

Web links

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