Holy Spirit Church (Magdeburg)

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Interior of the Holy Spirit Church after its reconstruction in 1951
The ruins of the Holy Spirit Church in October 1950
Holy Spirit Church, left in the picture, view from the northeast, 1953

The Holy Spirit Church (Sankt Spiritus Church) was a church in Magdeburg 's old town .

history

The foundation stone for the construction of a chapel for the Holy Spirit was laid around 1214. At this point in time, the wealthy Magdeburg dressmakers' guild had also built a hospital of the same name .

In 1288 another chapel (Sankt Anna) was built south of this chapel, financed by five dressmakers. Several expansions followed, as a result of which in 1490 the Holy Spirit Church was mentioned for the first time.

From 1524 this church became the parish church for a newly formed, reformed congregation. When Magdeburg was stormed by imperial troops under Tilly on May 10, 1631 (May 20 according to the Gregorian calendar) the church burned down. After rebuilding and reconstruction, it was used again from 1693. In 1752 the epitaph of the Magdeburg entrepreneur and government councilor Gottlieb von Haeseler was set up in the Holy Spirit Church.

The composer Georg Philipp Telemann was baptized in the church . In 1778 Georg Heinrich Berkhan became a deacon at the Holy Spirit Church. From 1786 to 1800 Konrad Gottlieb Ribbeck , later the first honorary citizen of Berlin , was pastor of the church. In the middle of the 19th century the composer Rudolph Palme worked as an organist in the church.

The church was badly damaged in air raids during World War II in 1945. After the reconstruction in 1948, services were held again from 1950. The company A. Schuster & Sohn (Zittau) manufactured a two-manual organ with 27 registers and an electro-pneumatic action for the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in 1957 . The church then supposedly stood in the way of the socialist reconstruction of the city. After a last service on March 30, 1959, the church was blown up at the end of May 1959. The new Schuster organ was set up in the cathedral - much too big for this organ - due to the planned demolition, because its organ had been destroyed in 1945. After a Schuke organ with 37 registers was inaugurated there in 1970, the Schuster organ was placed in the Nicolaikirche in 1975 without the register "Offenbass 16" and the major octaves of the main work principals 4 "and 8" as well as without a prospectus in the New New Town permanently. At the place of the Heilig-Geist-Kirche (today's goldsmiths bridge at the level of the government road ) there is a small model of the church as a reminder.

layout

On the west side there was a small tower with a slender spire shaped like an onion. The central nave had a Gothic vault, which was decorated with a star pattern.

In the church there was the hereditary crypt of a middle-class family, which belonged to the Magdeburg sights and could be visited. It was the oldest and largest preserved crypt of its kind. It was lost when the church was blown up.

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 2000.

Web links

Commons : Holy Spirit Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.orgelbau-welde.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 15.4 ″  E