Stuttgart Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Eberhard (formerly parish church of St. Eberhard ) in Stuttgart since 1978, the second cathedral ( co-cathedral of the bishop) in the Diocese of Rottenburg -Stuttgart. The survey was conducted on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the diocesan diocese Rottenburg and its renaming in the diocese of Rottenburg- Stuttgart.
History
Since the exercise of the Roman Catholic denomination in Württemberg had been made in 1806 under royal protection, the preserved as a private right of the Dukes since the Reformation worship tradition of the Catholic court chapel was with the Catholic minority of the population, who had already taken part in their worship, became an autonomous parish constituted.
This first Catholic parish in the post - Reformation Stuttgart met first in the French Church at Bebenhäuser farm and moved, as this had become too small in the former garrison church (now the Haus der Wirtschaft, near Berliner Platz ). 1807 Frederick I pointed the Catholic community a reserved for the royal family building site in the lower half of King Street to the present location of the Eberhard church.
The foundation for this first Catholic church to be built in Stuttgart since the Reformation in 1808 placed no special sympathy to the still predominantly Protestant population Stuttgart. The church was consecrated on October 1st 1811 by the Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg, Prince Karl von Hohenlohe. This had been instructed by Friedrich I. to name the church after his ancestor, the legendary Count Eberhard the Bearded, and followed the instructions. Canon law, the patronage allocation designed, however, difficult, as Eberhard im Barte is called in any official calendar of saints and therefore did not come as a saint in question. On the other hand, the young church was not allowed to forfeit by a possible reclassification of the Church, the good will of the king. First, therefore, the Holy was. Eberhard I, Archbishop of Salzburg adopted as the official patron, although this is not known but in the calendar of saints of the diocese of Salzburg, the Roman Church. Later, the Blessed Eberhard VI. favored by Nellenburg, the founder of the Monastery of All Saints in Schaffhausen before Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht at the consecration of the rebuilt after the Second World War the church in 1955, the discussion ended by stating that both latter Eberharde as patrons of the church in the dedication inscription.
Construction
The original structural form of the Eberhard Church presented a reconstruction of the demolished at Schloss Solitude evangelical church dar. This was carefully removed and in 1808 there were transferred to the building site in the King's Road. From this previous church today only the floor plan and the facade distinctive turrets is obtained with the pointed dome.
The first transformation was 1933/34, rather than when the original images and colorful interiors removed and the church was decorated in neo-classical style. 1944, the church was completely destroyed by two bomb attacks. The reconstruction by Hugo locks on the old layout was completed in 1955. 1973, the interior was again slightly redesigned to implement the decisions of the Second Vatican Council. The Survey Co-Cathedral (1978 ) again made structural changes required. This was 1990/91 met in a profound transformation of the interior, designed by Bert Perlias through which the Eberhard church got its present shape.
Organs
The organ was built in 1982 by organ builder Winfried Albiez. The instrument has 56 registers on three manuals and pedal. The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, electrically, the Registertrakturen, the paddocks are either mechanically and electrically. Since 2006, the Co-Cathedral has a choir organ Winterhalter ( II/10 ). Since 2011 Johannes Mayr is organist.
Disposition of the main organ
- Pairing: Normal Couplers: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P
- Superoktavkoppel: III / P
Disposition of the choir organ