Trinity Church (Warsaw)

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View from Mazowiecka Street

View from Mazowiecka Street
Construction year: 1777
Inauguration: 1781
Style elements : classicism
Client: Lutheran Church
Location: 52 ° 14 ′ 19 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 42 ″  E Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 19 ″  N , 21 ° 0 ′ 42 ″  E
Address: ul. Mazowiecka
Warsaw
Poland
Purpose: Lutheran parish church
Diocese : Warsaw
inner space
View of the organ

The Trinity Church (also Trinity Church , Polish Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Warszawie ) is the main church of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Warsaw . It is the oldest Protestant church in the city.

history

The Lutheran congregation was able to build its own church for the first time since the Warsaw treatise of 1768. The banker Peter Tepper, a member of the community, bought a piece of land in 1774/75 on which it was to be built. The building was designed by the architect Simon Gottlieb Zug in the classicism style. King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski had chosen Zug's design from among designs by several architects. The construction was financed by donations from church members and Lutheran congregations from abroad. The shape of the church was modeled on the Roman pantheon . The total height of the building is 58 m, the diameter 33.4 m.

Construction work began on April 24, 1777. On December 30, 1781, Pastor Gottlieb Ringeltaube presided over the inauguration of the Holy Trinity Church.

Among the artists who gave concerts in the church were Frédéric Chopin , who also sang in the church choir, his teacher Karl August Freyer and Stanisław Moniuszko .

On September 16, 1939, the church was hit by an aerial bomb and burned down. From 1949 to 1957 the church was rebuilt in its original form according to a plan by the architect Theodor Bursche . The first service took place on November 18, 1956.

The rebuilt building was entered in the Warsaw Monuments Register in 1965 .

organ

The organ of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche was built in 1997/98 by the Hillebrand company in Altwarmbüchen near Hanover and consecrated in March 1998. The slider chest instrument has 30 stops on two manual works and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
21st Principal 8th'
22nd octave 4 ′
23. octave 2 ′
24. Mixture IV
25th Trumpet 8th'
31. Drone 16 ′
32. Reed flute 8th'
33. Transverse flute 4 ′
34. Fifth 3 ′
35. Cornet V
II upper structure C – g 3
11. Viol 8th'
12. Quintadena 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Scharff III
16. Dulcian 8th'
41. Dumped 8th'
42. Wooden flute 4 ′
43. Nasat 3 ′
44. Forest flute 2 ′
45. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Tremulant
Pedals C–
1. Principal 16 ′
2. octave 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th trombone 16 ′
5. Trumpet 8th'
6th Trumpet 4 ′
51. Sub-bass 16 ′
52. Gemshorn 8th'
53. Night horn 2 ′

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the Warsaw Lutheran congregation and the building since 1774: Anton Friedrich Büsching (Ed.): Magazine for the new history and geography. Volume 18. Halle 1784. p.367 (= ders .: Latest history of the Evangelicals of both confessions in the Kingdom of Poland and the Principality of Lithuania. Halle 1784. p. 251ff. )>
  2. ↑ cf. also Fr. Cerulli , Pastoris of the Evangelical Congregation in Warsaw and Consistorialraths: Einweyhungs-Rede, on 2. B. d. Chronica 6, 40, 41. held in the newly built Evangelical Church on the Sunday before the New Year, December 30, 1781.
  3. ↑ Organy ewangelicko-augsburskiego kościoła sw. Trójcy . Warsaw 1998; see also the information about the organ (Polish)