Trinity Church (Warsaw)
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Construction year: | 1777 |
Inauguration: | 1781 |
Style elements : | classicism |
Client: | Lutheran Church |
Location: | 52 ° 14 ′ 19 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 42 ″ E |
Address: | ul. Mazowiecka Warsaw Poland |
Purpose: | Lutheran parish church |
Diocese : | Warsaw |
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.
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Web links
- The Evangelical Augsburg (Lutheran) Sankt Trinitatis Church (Norwegian, Swedish, English, German)
- Parish website (Polish, German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. )>
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Organy ewangelicko-augsburskiego kościoła sw. Trójcy . Warsaw 1998; see also the information about the organ (Polish)