Old Town Church (Königsberg)

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Old Old Town Church (1820)

The old town church was a church building in the old town (Königsberg) . The church, built in 1838–1845, was not rebuilt after its destruction in World War II.

history

The medieval old town church , originally located on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz , was demolished in 1826-28 due to dilapidation. The foundation stone was laid in 1838 northwest of the castle on Kreytzenschen Platz. On October 15, 1845, the church , built in the brick Gothic style , was consecrated. Since then it has dominated Junkerstrasse in Königsberg. The original Schinkel construction plan on which it was based had to be changed for reasons of cost: the building was reduced in size, but without reducing the number of columns, which were disturbing. Part of the inventory (altar, pulpit and organ) of the old church was transferred to the new one.

The three bells from 1469, 1622 and 1711 were the oldest church bells in the country.

The organ was transferred from the old church to the new building by the organ builder Johann Scherweit . It was completed in 1763 by Adam Gottlob Casparini and, with 65 stops on three manuals and pedal, was his largest instrument. After visiting the old church in 1809, Carl Friedrich Zelter described it as an “excellent organ”. In 1895 it was replaced by a new building by Max Terletzki, Königsberg, who integrated individual parts of Casparini into his new building with three manuals, pedal and 52 stops. Since Terletzki was manufacturing a new case, a few individual parts of the Casparini case, in particular 8 figures and parts of the frame with panels, were transferred to the Königsberg Museum of Applied Arts. Terletzki's organ only existed until 1943, when a new organ by Emanuel Kemper with five manuals and 71 registers was put into use. This was destroyed again by the fighting in 1944/1945.

The old town church suffered considerable damage in the air raids on Königsberg and in the battle for Königsberg . The ruin was demolished in the post-war period. There are still some columns that were built into the entrance of the Baltika Stadium .

Pastor

New old town church

Furnishing

  • Pastor Dr. Bernhard Derschau, bronze cast in cartilage style
  • Stag crown chandelier with a double Madonna around 1500
  • Isaak Riga confessionals (burned in 1944)
  • The 13 m high high altar, equipped with a carved crucifixion with John, the two Marys and the thieves, 1606 by an unknown master. In 1943 it was moved to a barn near Arnau and has been missing ever since. see high altar of the old town church (Königsberg)

See also

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: History of the royal capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic. Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .

Web links

Commons : Old Town Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quoted from Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, p. 403.
  2. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 400–405.

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 46.6 "  N , 20 ° 30 ′ 33.8"  E