Gasthaus zum Ritter St. Jürgen

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Street front of the St. Jürgen inn from 1879
Gasthaus St. Jürgen, garden wing.
Chapel in the St. Jürgen inn. Inside view.

The Gasthaus zum Ritter St. Jürgen , today a retirement home with a sermon hall on the eastern edge of the old town of Husum (Osterende 18), has a building history and a tradition of care that goes back to the Middle Ages.

history

In the 15th century, the facility consecrated to Saint George , which also included a church and a cemetery along with houses and land, was mentioned as a hospital reserved for the elderly, the infirm and the clergy.

From 1525, the sovereign Friedrich I supported the spread of Lutheran teaching. After Husum became Protestant in 1527, the first Protestant sermon was held in St. Jürgen in 1528. Duke Adolf arranged for a larger new building from 1571–1574. Here, the poor of the inn were taken in again, who had previously been housed for four decades in the abandoned Franciscan monastery, which was to give way to the planned palace building . The term monastery has also been attached to the inn since then. Until the 19th century it remained the most important provider of poor relief in Husum. The time brought some structural changes with it. In 1666 the dilapidated street facade was renewed. A drawing from 1861 reproduces its shape: a curious mixture of Gothic ( stepped gable) and Baroque ( rustica ground floor, column positions) elements. Despite several renovations, the facility must have been quite dilapidated around 1800. In 1871 there were still 26 beneficiaries living here . Between the demolition of the Gothic Marienkirche in 1807 and the consecration of the neo-classical new building in 1833, the services of the Husum parish took place in St. Jürgen, which Storm recalls in his story. In 1879 the wing on the street, built in 1666, also a handsome double-gable facade, was built from scratch by the Kiel architect A. Schweizer and the sermon hall was heavily restored. Even today (as of 2019) the buildings serve as a retirement home. Its legal form is a foundation under public law , which still receives substantial income from its land holdings, as it did in the Middle Ages. It is administered by four honorary “monastery heads”, each with an eight-year term of office.

architecture

The front building from 1879 with its two storeys, the central passage and the two stepped gables studded with pinnacles was built based on the two gables of the previous buildings, but in the style of the Brandenburg brick Gothic . Behind it, on the right, it continues with a long, two-story building section between the cemetery and an ornamental garden. Here is also the sermon hall, the oldest parts of which still belong to the original building from 1563–65.

Equipment of the church

  • Altar painting, Last Supper , 1641, by Dietrich Witt, in a cartilage frame at the same time .
  • Altar cross with a corpus from the 15th / 16th centuries Century,
  • Triumphal cross , Romanesque type ( three-nail crucifix , beard shape, closed eyes), probably later (late Gothic?) Revised (fold style of the loincloth),
  • Pulpit, around 1565, work by Jan van Groningen, a carver who worked in Husum and apparently came from the Netherlands,
  • Painting: Resurrection of Chrisi, with donor figures, around 1590, after a copper engraving by the Dutchman Cornelis Cort ,
  • Painting: Allegory of Christianity, 1732. Peter and Paul proclaim Christianity to the peoples of the earth. Above it, on a ball in which the Last Judgment is reflected, hovers Christ as the ruler of the world with a banner: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
  • Painting: Portrait of Pastor Simon Rechelius, 1689, in a heavy frame of the period.
  • Glass painting: Window with newly installed window beer glasses with names from 1646. - Glass painting with a portrait of Duke Adolf , 19th century.
  • Bells: The Franziskusbell , cast by Arnold van Wou in 1507 for the Franciscan monastery and moved to the inn with its later inmates in 1571, has been hanging over the entrance to the garden wing since 1959, the Melcher Grapengeter bell is in the Husum Museum Nissenhaus .

Churchyard

The cemetery west of the inn, which has been occupied since the 16th century, was redesigned in 1859 and again in 1937 by the garden architect Henry Maaß into a green area with a linden tree cross. The 55 tombs date from the 18th and 19th centuries, including above all the vaulted vault of the Woldsen and Storm families (1807). It is covered by four older grave slabs that were taken from the then demolished Marienkirche . The Husum poet Theodor Storm († 1888) and his two wives are buried in the crypt .

On the southwestern edge of the churchyard, the above-ground entrance structures and ventilation shafts of a still existing underground bunker from the Second World War have been preserved.

Storm

The Husum poet Theodor Storm had a special relationship with St. Jürgen. Hans Storm, one of the four rulers in the 18th century was his ancestor, his family was buried in the cemetery and the main story of his novella In St. Jürgen, completed in 1867, takes place in the inn . In it he vividly describes the location: On one side it [the inn] stretches along the St. Juergens churchyard, under whose mighty linden trees the first reformers preached; the other faces the inner courtyard and an adjoining narrow garden, from which in my youth the pounder women picked their little bouquet for Sunday services. Under two heavy Gothic gables, a dark doorway leads from the street into this courtyard, from which a row of doors leads into the interior of the house, to the spacious chapel and the cells of the canons .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Schlüter has presented the ownership and cattle farming of the inn up to the present day, see literature.
  2. ^ Society for Husum City History (ed.): Geschichte Husums , Husum 2003, p. 30
  3. ↑ History of Husum , pp. 52–53.
  4. ↑ Reproduction of a view drawn in 1861 of the condition of the front building at Schlüter at that time: For supply ... 2008, p. 26.
  5. ^ History of Husum , p. 129.
  6. ↑ History of Husum , p. 168.
  7. ^ Theodor Storm: In St. Jürgen , in: Samples of works, Vol. 2, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1982, p. 222.
  8. ↑ St. Jürgen-Gasthaus on the Storm Society website .
  9. ↑ At his feet lie the broken keys , a small anti-Catholic detail, cf. in addition the banner of Christ.
  10. ↑ Jürgen Schlüter: The monastery bells from the Gasthaus zum Ritter St. Jürgen (monastery) in Husum . In: Contributions to the history of the city of Husum. Issue 12, 2010, pp. 17-26. Also digital: Available as PDF under the Husum building .
  11. Jump up ↑ Storm's grave on the Storm Society side
  12. ^ Theodor Storm: In St. Jürgen , in: Samples Works, Vol. 2, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1982, pp. 221–261 with annotations, pp. 732–734.
  13. ^ Theodor Storm: In St. Jürgen , in: Samples of works, Vol. 2, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1982, p. 222

literature

  • Society for Husum City History (ed.): Geschichte Husums , Husum 2003, passim.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein , Munich 1994, pp. 335-352.
  • Theodor Storm : In St. Jürgen , in: Complete Works, Vol. 2, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1982, pp. 221-261.
  • Jürgen Schlüter: For supply in the Gasthaus zum Ritter St. Jürgen ("monastery") . In: Contributions to the history of Husum town 11, 2008, pp. 23–38. (For animal husbandry, slaughter festivals, "roast days" from the 17th to the 20th century). Also digital: Available as PDF under the Husum building .
  • Heinrich Brauer among others: The art monuments of the Husum district. Berlin 1939, pp. 116-119.

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 42.7 "  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 32.6"  E