St. John's Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch)

The St. John's Cathedral ( Sint- Janskathedraal Dutch ) is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral in the center of the Dutch city of 's -Hertogenbosch. It is considered a highlight of the Brabant Gothic style in the Netherlands and was declared a Rijksmonument.

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History

The church was built from 1220 as a parish church in the Romanesque style. 1380 has started with the construction of the designed by Willem van Kessel Gothic church. It was 1559 Cathedral of the newly established Diocese of 's- Hertogenbosch. On July 15, 1584 a fire broke out in today's Central Tower, which badly damaged the church. Between 1629 and 1813, the church was reformed.

From 1859 to 1864 first restoration was carried out from 1961 to 1985 and a restoration of the interior. Since 2000 a further restoration in progress.

Inside the church there is a created in 1492 baptismal font and an important organ. In addition to the features of the interior, the building impresses by its size (the length is approximately 115 m ) and its richly decorated with stone sculptures facade.

On 26 June 1929, the church received the honorary title of minor basilica. Since 2007 over the western entrance, a stained-glass window of the New York terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 be seen as a symbol of hell.

Equipment

Organ

After the old organ of the cathedral was destroyed in 1584 during a fire tower, 1618 Graver renowned organ builder Florentius Hocque was commissioned to build a new organ work for 9,600 guilders. The necessary masonry work should Joris Deur run as a carpenter Frans Simonsz has been committed and the remarkable sculptures were created by Georg Schysler. These outer works were estimated at another 2,850 guilders. The structure of the organ lasted from 1620 to 1622. Removal took place only in 1634. Since Hocque had died in 1632, his student Hans Goltfuss had completed the organ. The opinion about it was so negative that it was recommended to pay Goltfuss and to look for another organ builders to eliminate the errors. Galtus Germer and his son Germer Galtus of Hagerbeer then revised the instrument between 27 April and 1 November 1634th time the organ was removed.

After a significant decline of the instrument by poor maintenance took Cornelis Hoorn Beeck 1715-1718 a conversion before. With him, Christian Müller worked on the organ, who would later take over the maintenance and other small changes. Again followed by a period of decline until 1775-1777 Anastasius Meinhard from Frankenberg undertook an overhaul. In this case, the instrument but rather harm was done. After long deliberations could on 21 June 1784 the organ builder Anthony Friedrich Gottlieb Heyneman the contract for a further renovation are closed, amounted to a new building. End of 1787, the organ was removed.

Some repairs and modifications were made in the course of the 19th century, until finally in 1897 the condition of the instrument and the contemporary taste demanded another new building. The brothers Franssen from Roermond to 1902 created an instrument in a romantic style with pneumatic action and eight high pressure votes to 300 mm Wind pressure. The poor quality of the plant in 1945 eventually led to the fact that the organ was not playable. Between 1951 and 1953 the company expanded Verschueren Heythuysen a designed as a universal organ of inferior quality with electro-pneumatic key action. Starting in 1977, we sought a restoration of the organ. The decision was made largely to reconstruct the state of 1787. The organ builder Flentrop in Zaandam was commissioned. Finally, in 1984 the organ was inaugurated in its present form. It still contains numerous pipes from the 17th and 18th centuries. Even the prospectus is obtained, which is one of the most magnificent Baroque organ cases at all. The instrument has 48 registers on three manuals and pedal today.

• Couplers: II / I, I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P
• All concoctions throughout terzhaltig.
• Mood: equally- with a1 = 415 Hz

In the choir of the church is an organ in the French Romantic style with 28 stops on two manuals and pedal and in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel an instrument with 6 split registers.