Grundtvig Church
The Grundtvig in Copenhagen district of Bispebjerg counts due to their exceptional design of the most famous churches in the city and is a rare example of expressionist temple with predominantly neo-Gothic style elements (built 1921-1940). It is the parish church of the local Evangelical Lutheran parish that belongs to the diocese of Copenhagen .
history
For construction, operation after the Danish philosopher and pastor Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig named church, was architectural competition announced in 1913 by Peder Jensen Klint was recovered.
The foundation stone of the new church was laid after the First World War on September 8, 1921, Grundtvig's 138th birthday. The church tower was completed by 1927. On the first floor of the tower there was a large hall in which services were celebrated until the church was completed. Peder Klint did not live to see the completion of the church, after his death in 1930 his son Kaare Klint took over the management of the building work. Grundtvigskirke was completed in 1940 and consecrated on Grundtvig's 157th anniversary .
With the Grundtvigskirche, Peder Klint created a synthesis of architecture. The architect studied a large number of typical Danish village churches for his project, and was inspired by their traditional construction, building materials and jewelry. Klint combined the modern, geometric forms of brick expressionism with the classic, upward-moving lines of Gothic . A long avenue leads straight through the cemetery in the Bispebjerg district to the church and, together with the access to the main portal with the symmetrical outbuildings, forms an almost baroque visual axis .
description
The most striking feature of the building is the mighty west façade, reminiscent of a westwork or an organ prospect, which contains the 49 meter high bell tower. For the nave , Klint created stepped gables , as they are often found in Danish churches, but reinterpreted their shape and doubled their highest point. The architect provided the nave with generous dimensions: the entire length of the three-aisled hall church is 76 meters, its width is 35 meters, the central nave is 22 meters high. The gothic interior offers space for 1,800 people, making it the Danish church with the most seats. The entire building consists of six million yellow bricks , a typical Danish building material. Only the baptismal font is made of light limestone from Fakse .
At the same time, a settlement of buildings was built around the church, which, as a framing system, was supposed to increase the effect of the church and, among other things, accommodate the parish hall and apartments.
The church is open to visitors all year round and is also open outside of church services.
organ
There are also regular concerts on the large organ , which was built in 1965 by the organ builder Marcussen & Søn (Aabenraa). The instrument is 16.2 m high, 7.6 m wide and about 1.6 m deep. It has 55 registers (4030 pipes) on four manuals and a pedal . The playing actions are mechanical. Originally also mechanical Registertrakturen was converted to a double action in 1998, has been added as an electronic combination system.
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Trivia
A Greenland mountain range was named Grundtvigskirken after the characteristic appearance of the church .
Hallgrimskirkja in Iceland
In Reykjavík , Hallgrímskirkja is a building that was started only a few years after Grundtvigskirche and features a similar synthesis of Gothic and modern forms of construction.
literature
- Niels Peter Stilling: Politics bog om Danmarks kirker. 2004.
- Diana Agrest, R. Stephen Sennott: Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture . Taylor & Francis, 2003, ISBN 1-57958-433-0 , pp. 567 . (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the organ builder
Web links
- Homepage of the Grundtvig Church (Danish)
Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 59.7 ″ N , 12 ° 32 ′ 1 ″ E