Theodorskirche (Basel)

Theodorskirche in Basel

The Theodorskirche is an Evangelical Reformed church in the city of Basel . The Gothic church is in Wettstein - Quarter and the St. Theodore consecrated.

history

The church was first mentioned in a document in 1084 . At the beginning of the 12th century it belonged to the monastery of St. Alban . It is located upriver from today Kleinbasel in the later abandoned village Lower Basel , which at that time canonically the diocese of Constance , constitutionally , however, already for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Basel belonged. 8th century graves were found inside the church in 1947. Outside the church, burial sites from the 11th century were discovered in 1984 and 1993. With the construction of the Rhine bridge in 1225, part of the community moved down the Rhine, closer to the bridge. So the community now lacked a number of churchgoers and, above all, their church taxes . As a financial compensation, the St. Niklaus daughter chapel was built near the Rhine bridge in 1255 . For the first time, St. Theodor could be identified as the patron saint of the mother church.

Large parts of this church were badly damaged in the Basel earthquake in 1356. Reports from 1402 state the extent of the destruction as follows: [The church was] shaken, overturned, and out of shape. Both church towers partially collapsed, the altar was also badly damaged. Only the north tower was rebuilt later. On February 8, 1403, Bishop Marquard von Randegg gave his consent to the foundation of a Carthusian monastery in Basel and gave the Carthusian monastery the name St. Margarethental .

In 1984, a skeleton known as Theo the pipe smoker was excavated in a former poor cemetery next to the church .

organ

In 1770 Johann Andreas Silbermann built an organ to replace a work by Johann Friedrich Macrander ; this was sold to Saint-Imier in 1916 ; its housing is now in Basel's St. Peter's Church . A competition was announced in 1917 for a new organ case.

The current instrument was built in 1983 by the organ builders Alfred and Daniel Kern (Strasbourg) . It has 37 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I positive C-g 3 Salicional 8th' Bourdon 8th' Prestant 4 ′ Flûte à chem. 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Duplicate 2 ′ Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ Fittings III Cromorne 8th' Tremblant

II Grand Orgue C-g 3 Bourdon 16 ′ Montre 8th' Bourdon 8th' Prestant 4 ′ Duplicate 2 ′ Cornet V Plein-Jeu V Trumpets 8th' Clairon 4 ′ Voix-Humaine 8th' Tremblant

III Récit expressif C – g 3 Gemshorn 8th' Voix-Celeste 8th' Bourdon 8th' Prestant 4 ′ Flûte en bois 4 ′ Duplicate 2 ′ Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Plein-Jeu IV Chalumeau 8th' Hautbois 8th' Tremblant

Pedale C – f 1 Flute 16 ′ Soubasse 16 ′ Flute 8th' Fittings V. Prestant 4 ′ Bombard 16 ′ Trumpets 8th'

• Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Web links

Commons : Theodorskirche Basel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Evangelical Reformed Church Basel-Stadt - St. Theodor
• Theodorskirche on altbasel.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theodore Church on altbasel.ch accessed 14 December, 2007.
2. ↑ Website Altbasel
3. ^ The Silbermann / Lhôte organ. ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From the “Orgelmusik St. Peter” association, accessed on March 17, 2016. 
4. ^ JC: Competition for an organ case in the St. Theodorskirche in Basel. In: Heimatschutz = Patrimoine , Vol. 12, 1917, pp. 41–44 and pp. 2–8.
5. ↑ More information about the organ

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '32 "  N , 7 ° 35' 51"  E ; CH1903:  611958  /  two hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred eighty-seven