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Jesuit Church of the Assumption of Mary, Solothurn

Jesuit Church of the Assumption of Mary, Solothurn

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Jesuit Church of the Assumption of Mary, Solothurn

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Location: Solothurn, Espace Mittelland, Switzerland

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Paul

September 10, 2022

Jesuit Church of the Assumption, Solothurn
The Jesuit church was built between 1680 and 1689 according to the principles of the Voralberg master builders as a baroque unit room with impressive, magnificent stucco work in the Italian style. The high altar made of marbled wood shows the image of the Assumption of Mary by Franz Carl Stauder.
Text / source: Solothurn Tourismus, Hauptgasse 69, 4500 Solothurn
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Paul

September 10, 2022

Jesuit Church of the Assumption, Solothurn
In 1646 the Great Council called the Jesuits to Solothurn to take over the Latin school there. Already in the first year they teach 150 students. In 1668, financed by city foundations, a college can be founded, like the one that has existed in Lucerne for nine decades. From 1676 to 1679 the college building with the grammar school was built. In 1680 donations from the most important patrician families[1] and the French king[2] enabled the foundation stone to be laid for the church, which was consecrated in 1689. From now on, the Jesuits shape the cultural life of Solothurn. Your theater building is still the city theater today.
The further history has parallels to Lucerne: the papal dissolution of the order in 1773 caused the city council to fear for the continued existence of the school. The Jesuits therefore remain in Solothurn. The school is continued with nine priests and two brothers. Secular clerics take over the grammar school after their death. In 1805 Solothurn asked the Pope to reinstate the Jesuits, without success. In 1833, the canton of Solothurn, which had emerged from the city-state, abolished the professors' college and converted it into a "higher teaching and educational institution". The church remains in the possession of the community, which closes the poorly maintained building in 1922 for safety reasons, but still restores the facade in 1936 as emergency work. In 1952, the church, which still had its original baroque dress inside, was ceded to a foundation that carried out the necessary interior restoration[3] in 1952–1953. In 1980 the last facade restoration took place.
Text / source: sueddeutscher-barock.ch
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Jesuit Church of the Assumption of Mary, Solothurn

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2. Hermitage of Verena Gorge – Verenaschlucht and Hermitage loop from Solothurn

3. Hermitage of Verena Gorge – Verenaschlucht and Hermitage loop from Steingruben

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