Stadtpfarrkirche Rapperswil
The Parish Church of St. Johann is a Roman Catholic church in the village of Rapperswil, Rapperswil- Jona municipality in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. After a devastating fire and the substantial new St. Johann was re-consecrated on 6 October 1885. Its style is a blend of style elements from seven centuries.
Location
The church stands on the rising eastern flank of the castle hill, on Herrenberg in the northern part of the Old Town of Rapperswil, 20 meters east of the castle. North West of the parish church there is the chapel of Our Lady was built in 1489, with the ossuary from the year 1253, Rapperswil independent parish was received and a cemetery. On the opposite side of Herrenberg Alley are the former Pfrundhäuser the parish Rapperswil -Jona.
History
The first church in the shadow of the castle has been built in 1229 by order of the Count of Rapperswil same time as the town and castle of Rapperswil. For the Rapperswil Graf house the construction of the town church was just one of a number of well-known ecclesiastical and monastic foundations and foundations: Knights Bubikon ( 1192 ), Wettingen Abbey ( 1227 ), Monastery Upper Bollingen ( 1250 ), in 1259 the Cistercian Monastery Mariazell Wurmsbach and the Dominican convent Weesen. 1227 and 1290 gave or sold the Rapperswiler the monastery Wettingen their goods in Uri, including Göschenen. This is not entirely disinterested, at that time, but unable usual charity assured the members of the House Rapperswil their salvation and earthly goods, including income. Legally subordinate to St. Johann to 1253 the parish Busskirch and thus the monastery Ragaz, since Rapperswil is an independent city parish.
Architecture and Facilities
From the archaeological excavations at the renovation work from 1971/72 insightful findings could about the former structure are obtained: Romanesque hall church with a straight chancel wall, to which anfügten parts of the cemetery was in 1383 extended and increased to the castle down to eight meters. For Romanesque north tower of the parish founding ( 1253 ) joined after 1441 Gothic, somewhat larger and massively built south tower. 1493/97 enabled regroup into Habsburg cities as well as the estate of the Countess of Reinach gutta -Wertheim to convert into a three-sided Gothic choir with ribbed vaulting and tracery windows. The resulting after the Reformation to 1531 Renaissance wing altars in the side chapels were spared from the devastating church fire on 30 January 1882 as they were placed in the Baroque period in other chapels. Also protected by thick walls tower vestry in the south tower remained intact, along with the precious treasury of the church: Masterpieces among others the Rapperswil goldsmiths Breny, Dietrich, Dumeisen, Rüssi and Ysenschlegel that make him the richest in Linthgebiet.
Advised by the art historian Johann Rudolf Rahn, the architect Xavier Müller built the church largely new, in reference to the destroyed building. The towers obtained were increased by 1.2 meters. New were a neo-Gothic choir with star vaults, the extension of the nave by a few meters and a double gewalmte wooden ceiling. The neo-Gothic altars and the pulpit created the Atelier Marggraf in Munich. The Neuweihe took place on 6 October 1885. Delivered the candelabra 1894, the company Benziger & Co. of Einsiedeln. Renovations followed 1959/60 - Exterior and new bells - and, in 1971 /73 and 1981.
Organ
The organ was built in 1975 by organ builder Mathis ( Naefels ). The instrument has 38 registers on three manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen and Registertrakturen are mechanical.
- Couplers: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P
Bells
In the large tower a sonically excellent peal of seven bells attached. The third bell historic 1960 supplemented by Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (Heidelberg ) at six bells. The bells with a total weight of about 16,000 kilograms hanging in a massive steel belfry on straight steel yokes. Saturdays at 15:00 clock is rung for approximately five minutes with all the bells of Sunday.
Parish
The parish of St. Johann was in 1253 by Count Rudolf III. founded and is now the Catholic parish Rapperswil -Jona. St. Johann is one of 3,900 believers and covers the area of 31 December 2006 independent political municipality of Rapperswil. John the Baptist is the patron saint of the parish since 1253.
Studies from several " gentlemen Musicanten " Founded in 1737 " Brotherhood of St. Cecilia and Catherine " ( Cecilia Music Society) still creates high- church music in the parish church of St. Johann. In its repertoire there are also compositions of the born in Rapperswil church musician and composer Carl Greith (* 1828, † 1887), Director of Music in Munich. From him and his father Franz Josef Greith (* 1799, † 1869) - composer and music teacher, of the melody of the song Riitli ( " From a distance, was warmly greeted, you quiet area at the lake ") composed - are known over 1,000 compositions.
Gallery
View from the city cemetery at Our Lady chapel and parish church, left the schoolhouse Herrenberg
The mother church of St. Martin Busskirch in Jona
Franz Josef Greith, monument the Capuchin monastery
Our Lady statue at the left Seitaltar
Engel with Rapperswil console Coat of Arms ( 1440 /50), formerly Tower sacristy, at the City Museum in Rapperswil