Heilgeistkirche (Stralsund)

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Heilgeistkirche viewed from the south (2004)
Altar in the Heilgeistkirche (2006)

The Heilgeistkirche ( Church of the Holy Spirit ) in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund is a baroque three-aisled brick church building from the 14th century within the Heilgeist Hospital complex near the port of the city on Strelasund , on the waterway , corner of Bei der Heilgeistkirche .

description

The church, which in its present form corresponds in substance to the last reconstruction after various destruction by wars from the 19th century, is a short hall church with a rectangular floor plan. The building's gable roof towers over the hospital buildings. The church does not have a tower, instead a roof turret with an open lantern was built on the gable side to the west, on the waterway . Narrow buttresses and wide pointed arched windows with triangular arches structure the unadorned side walls. The gable side facing the city with the main entrance has three windows, whereby the window above the portal is higher than the two on the side. Both the western, neo-Gothic entrance side and the opposite baroque eastern side have a triple panel. The entrance side is almost completely overgrown with wild vines.

From the east side a portal leads into the courtyard, the inhabited church corridor . This portal was redesigned in baroque style. An inscription in the cartouche contains Psalm 50.V.15.16 and the addition

"In 1643 this gable and attached apartments required + IOHANN BUCHOW, + IOACHIMUS PANSOW, + MARTINUS KLINCKOW."

The interior is characterized by simplicity, jewelry almost entirely missing. Three octagonal pairs of pillars with a baroque warrior band support the hall roof with its ribbed vault . The second yoke from the east is the only one designed as a star vault.

The baroque color scheme dates from 1715: red for the brick walls, white and gray for the pillars and ribs. The window to the east has a certificate from the late 19th century stained glass that Martin Luther , King Gustav II Adolf. Of Sweden and Stralsund reformer Christian Ketelhot shows.

The wooden top of the altar in front of the east window dates from the years 1770 to 1775 and was made by the Stralsund sculptor Jakob Freese . In the sacristy there is an alabaster relief . The work from 1651 shows the praying family of the superintendent Stappenbeck and comes from the epitaph of the same in the Jakobikirche. The gallery over the entire width of the east wall dates from 1700. Two small doors lead from here to the gallery of the church walk.

The western of the two chandeliers has been preserved in its original form and dates from the middle of the 17th century. The Buchholz organ from 1829 above the entrance was made by Carl August Buchholz and revised in 1960 by Alexander Schuke .

construction

A previous building with the same name was first mentioned in a document in 1263, at the location of the hospital at the time on Heilgeiststrasse , named after it , in front of the Heilgeisttor . This building was a chapel of the hospital under city supervision. This church at the Heilgeisttor was last mentioned in 1309, as early as 1329 the city register only mentions a corner square at this point.

Due to the enlargement of the hospital, a new location was sought and found in the immediate vicinity of the port. The new hospital was built here between 1325 and 1329. It consists of a poor house, small half-timbered booths and the church corridor attached to the church and is still preserved today.

In 1335, Duke Wartislaw V granted the Heilgeistkirche the right to hold religious services. The hospital, which was outside the city walls, was repeatedly exposed to severe damage from wars. After the Thirty Years War , the church was rebuilt in its old form in 1650 and then again in 1715 after being destroyed during a siege. In 1650 and 1715, the surrounding walls of the church were rebuilt in block form over the remains of the original building . A few cannonballs were built into the walls as a souvenir . The baroque east gable was rebuilt according to the inserted year on the anchor in 1654.

The neo-Gothic west wall had a similar basic shape as early as the Middle Ages. The buttresses, however, date from 1843, the tracery on the central window from 1880.

history

The church has had parish status since the beginning of the 19th century . Since the Jakobikirche was destroyed, it has been the common house of worship for the Jakobi- and Heilgeistgemeinde Stralsunds. The church served as a garrison church when Stralsund was part of Sweden .

Monument protection

In the list of monuments in Stralsund , the complex of Heilgeist Hospital with church and monastic buildings Heilgeistkloster 1-23 is registered with the number 320th

photos

  • Main entrance on the west

  • Side entrance in the east

  • Detail above the side entrance to the east

  • Ceiling with ribbed vault

  • Buchholz organ from 1829

local community

The Jakobi / Heilgeist congregation has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

Clergy

Literature and source

  • DKV (Ed.): Heilgeisthospital Stralsund . In: DKV art guide No. 544/9 . 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH, Munich.
  • Burkhard Kunkel: Work and Process. The visual artistic equipment of the Stralsund churches - a work history. Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-7861-2588-4 .

Web links

Commons : Heilgeistkirche in Stralsund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 45 ″  N , 13 ° 5 ′ 48 ″  E