Trinity Church (Krusendorf)

Trinity Church of Krusendorf (south side), built from 1733 to 1735 (photo 2020)

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche Krusendorf is a baroque church in brick construction in Schwedeneck -Krusendorf in the office of Dänischenhagen in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde . The village of Krusendorf goes back to the former parish of Jellenbek.

location

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche is located in the middle of the village of Krusendorf on Kirchstrasse. From the church you can walk in a northerly direction 1.5 kilometers to the steep coast of the Baltic Sea. There, the parish of Jellenbek was robbed of the Baltic Sea over many years of coastal demolitions in the 17th century; A little inland, the tourist resort of Krusendorf-Jellenbek emerged on this coast after the Second World War.

Geographically, Krusendorf belongs to the Danish Wohld landscape in the northern part, between Noer and Schwedeneck, to which the village belongs. Ecclesiastically it belongs to the parish of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

Predecessor church

Foundation stones of the St. Catharinen Church on the steep bank near Jellenbek (2015)

The earliest mention was made of a settlement on the Jellenbek stream (in what is now the Schwedeneck-Krusendorf community) in 1318, "when the bishop awarded his tithes from this community to the cathedral chapter". The church was first mentioned in the following year 1319. The parish included the villages of Jellenbek, Krusendorf, Surendorf, the estates Noer, Dänisch-Nienhof, Grönwohld and every second house in the village of Stubbendorf.

The location of the former church of Sanct Catharina is described east of today's holiday home settlement (also called Jellenbek). Due to its location on the steep coast, the tower of this earlier church, built in the 16th century, served as a southern landmark in the eastern part of Eckernförde Bay . By caused by the Baltic Sea sediment -Abbrüche, particularly boulder clay , on the steep bank of the fishing village Jellenbek the houses fell in the following centuries the sea to the victims and the fishing village was abandoned at the 1650th The dilapidated church of St. Catharina am Jellenbek in 1639 was spared and served as a place of worship until the successor building was inaugurated in 1737. Then it was canceled. Up to this point, burials had also taken place in the churchyard. In 1722/1724 the pastor couple Elisabeth and Peter Struve were buried in front of the altar. The church records in the parish are led since 1660th

The first archaeological investigations at the former church site took place in 1964, which the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel continued from 2010 to 2015 after the foundation walls threatened to be demolished in 2009. According to the investigations, it was an early Gothic church building made of brick with a dimension of 10 × 15 m. The grave and bell tower search followed.

Well-known pastors

Christian Lexovius senior, around 1645
Wolfgang Philipp Leike, around 1685
Peter (Petrus) Struve, 1696-1718
Johann Andreas Boeckmann, 1725–1728
Sebastian Hinrich Stahl, from 1728

Trinity Church Krusendorf

Trinity Church of Krusendorf from the north side

The 1733 to 1735 in the Baroque style built Holy Trinity is provided with a distinctive acting atypical for the region cupola provided which to a onion tower recalls. Copper was used as the material for the tower hood.

The main initiator and sponsor of the new church was the owner of Gut Noer (Danish: Nør), Joachim von Brockdorff. The inauguration of the Krusendorfer Dreifaltigkeitskirche took place on December 15, 1737.

The church complex is listed as a historical monument according to the B-Plan Nr.18-Gesamtüberview, established by the Office Dänischenhagen MunicipalitySchwedeneck.

Church patronage

Joachim von Brockdorff (1695–1763) also acted as church patron in the new construction of the Trinity Church, who, like his father, had already been the patron of the former St. Catharinen Church. The von Brockdorff family owned Gut Noer with the manor house in the vicinity of Krusendorf, which is now known as Schloss Noer (built by Count Wulf von Brockdorff, the father of Joachim von Brockdorff). Von Brockdorff filled the patronage not only because of his wealth as an established landowner, but also because of his social status as Count zu Noer, district administrator in the duchy and, since his appointment in 1733, as Danish privy councilor (1747 also Danish Gehejmekonferensråd) in the year from which he also signed for the construction of the Trinity Church in Krusendorf.

Equipment of the church

Nave of the masonry church with the vaulted ceiling

The single-aisled brick church, secured by ten brick pillars in front, has a vaulted ceiling and is naturally lit inside through arched windows. A tall, rectangular masonry tower with a church tower roof made of copper is in front of it to the west .

Only a few pieces of equipment such as the Lord's Supper and a baptismal bowl were transferred to the new church, while the baroque pulpit altar and the baptismal font were made for the new church in the early 18th century, based on the French style of the Régence period.

Another part of the church is a closed chapel, which contains the black marble coffins of the church builder and patronage and his wife, both of whom died in 1763

View of the gallery with the Marcussen organ

The church was first equipped with a small organ (an unconfirmed source speaks of 1836), which was replaced in 1868 by a mechanical organ from the Danish organ building company Marcussen . The original instrument was refurbished on its 150th anniversary.

Pastorate

Well-known pastors

Johann Jacob Jensen, from 1754
Heinrich Christian Gosche, from 1796
Anton Johann Wilhelm Wacker, from 1818

For this pastorate it is documented that a preacher's apartment with seven heated rooms for 3,581 Reichsthalers was built in 1820.

The parish has almost 1500 members.

graveyard

Ensemble of grave crosses made of artificial iron on the east side of the Trinity Church in Krusendorf

Family crypt of Friedrich Emil August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Augustenburg - Prince and Prince von Noer - in Krusendorf

Grave slab at the crypt of Friedrich Emil August von Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Augustenburg - Prince and Prince of Noer - in Krusendorf

The Dreifaltigkeitskirche has a cemetery immediately adjacent to it, on which historical graves, crypts and a grave field with iron crosses made of artificial cast can be found. A family crypt for members of the aristocracy from Gut Noer, such as B. for Friedrich Emil August Prince of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1800–1865) .

In the period from 2014 to 2015, plantings were made in the course of the cemetery redesign to enable further urn burials on a new urn field.