Castle Church (Koenigsberg)
The castle church was the church of the Reformed community in Königsberg (Prussia) .
history
It was built by Johann Arnold Nering from 1690 to 1696 by order of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg . It stood in the cooking garden of the Oberburggrave Ahasverus von Lehndorff , not far from the Königsberg castle pond . The model was the Nieuwe Kerk (The Hague) . Frederick I consecrated the church shortly after he was crowned king on January 23, 1701.
In accordance with Pietism , the church was kept simple. The wooden vault of the nave was only covered with stucco, only the apses had a star vault. The pulpit was on the long side of the nave, covered like a crown with a richly carved sound cover by Caspar Schreiber . The organ was the work of Johann Josua Mosengel's journeyman Georg Sigismund Caspari (1693–1741), which he built in 1726 under Mosengel's supervision as his "Probstück" (= masterpiece) and which he gave as proof of his ability for the application run by Mosengel served for the title of "Royal Prussian court organ builder". Like many Königsberg organs, the organ was adorned with the Prussian eagle; it is considered the last organ in the East Prussian area to be equipped with a Rückpositiv on the occasion of the new building . The church portal with the allegorical figures of justice, love and mercy was donated by Charles Cabrit and built in 1727.
During the Second World War , the church was badly damaged in the second air raid on Königsberg in 1944 ; the interior burned out completely. The massive walls and tower were demolished by 1969. Today there is a park on the site of the castle church.
Pastor of the castle church
- 1904–1929: Paul Thomaschki
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 . Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899
- Anatoly Bakhtin: Forgotten Culture. Churches in North East Prussia. Husum 1998
- Georg Fritsch : The castle church at Königsberg i. Pr. And their relations with Holland . Koenigsberg 1930
- 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
- Hans-Georg Author: Königsberg - encounter with a European metropolis . Berlin 1997
- Paul Thomaschki : From the archive of the castle church . Koenigsberg 1924
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Siebenquart, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-921140-80-2 , p. 244. 254-256.
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 44.2 " N , 20 ° 30 ′ 58" E