Cathedral Church (Marienwerder)

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Marienwerder Cathedral, view from the east

The cathedral church of Marienwerder in today's Kwidzyn was built from 1343 to 1384 as the cathedral church of the diocese of Pomesania in Prussia . It represents part of the Marienwerder castle complex and took the place of the parish church previously located here. Its construction was completed during the term of office of the Pomesan bishop Johannes Mönch . The tower has a height of 55 m.

description

Nave with organ gallery and Sauer organ

When the church was built, a basilica was dispensed with and instead the shape of a two-story choir was chosen. The connection between the cathedral church and the Kapitelschloss and the city walls of Marienwerder is striking. During its construction and until the 15th century, the Marienwerder Cathedral was the most important burial place of the Pomesian bishops and the burial place of three Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order . 1391, the later canonized was Dorothea of Montau in a cell that had been built onto the building complex of the cathedral behind the main altar, as Reklusin walled and died here in 1394. After her death, she was buried in the small choir of the cathedral. With the Reformation , the cathedral became Protestant. Otto Friedrich von der Groeben rests in the chapel built especially for him in 1705 on the north side of the church .

Since Marienwerder was placed under the administration of the People's Republic of Poland by the Soviet occupying power in accordance with the Potsdam Agreement in the summer of 1945 after the Second World War and the local, predominantly Protestant population was expelled by the local Polish administrative authority , the cathedral church has been owned by the Roman Catholic Church in Poland used as a church, since 1992 as a co-cathedral of the Elblag diocese .

In May 2007 three coffins with the remains of high masters of the Teutonic Order were identified in the cathedral church : Werner von Orseln , Ludolf König von Wattzau and Heinrich the Elder von Plauen , who resisted the siege of Marienburg in 1410 .

Sauer organ from 1864

In 1863 Wilhelm Sauer was commissioned to build a new organ. The arrangement of the organ, completed in 1864, deviated slightly from the original plans and showed the following shape:

I main work
1. Principal 16 ′
2. Drone 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Flûte harmonique 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th octave 4 ′
7th Pointed flute 4 ′
8th. Fifth 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. octave 2 ′
11. Scharff V
12. Cornet IV
13. Cymbel III
14th Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure
15th Principal 8th'
16. Quintatön 16 ′
17th Dumped 8th'
18th Salicional 8th'
19th octave 4 ′
20th Reed flute 4 ′
21st Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Flageolet 2 ′
23. Mixture IV
24. Cornet III
25th bassoon 8th'
26th oboe 8th'
III Fernwerk
27. Violin principal 8th'
28. Dumped 16 ′
29 Viola da gamba 8th'
30th Voix céleste 8th'
31. Flauto traverso 8th'
32. Dumped 8th'
33. octave 4 ′
34. Flauto dolce 4 ′
35. Fugara 4 ′
36. Cromorne 16 ′
37. Vox Humana 8th'
pedal
38. Principal 16 ′
39. Pedestal 32 ′
40. Violon 16 ′
41. Sub bass 16 ′
42. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. Principal 8th'
44. Violon 8th'
45. Bass flute 8th'
46. Quintbass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
47. octave 4 ′
48. trombone 16 ′
49. Trumpet 8th'

There are plans to restore the organ.

Web links

Commons : Domkirche (Marienwerder)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, Volume 13, Leipzig and Vienna 1908, p. 299.
  2. ↑ Urania: Music magazine for organ building, organ and harmonium playing 23 (1866), p. 20ff.

Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 9.3 ″  N , 18 ° 55 ′ 18.2 ″  E