Heiliggeistkirche (Flensburg)

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Church of the Holy Spirit / Helligåndskirken
The Church of the Holy Spirit around 1591

The Heiliggeistkirche (German) or Helligåndskirken (Danish) is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran Danish Church in Flensburg . The church ( Hillig-Geist-Kark in Low German ) is located in the old town of Flensburg on Grosse Strasse in the Marienkirchspiel.

background

The Gothic two-aisled hall church is named after the Holy Spirit . By 1300 it was the hospital of the Holy Spirit was founded, which over several centuries in the Holy Spirit transition was. The hospital, looked after by clergy from the city, in whose management also Flensburg citizens were involved, was dedicated to the care of the sick and the elderly. Foundations Flensburg citizens owed the hospital its material basis. Since 1325 the hospital has been partially exempt from tax. The monastery owned extensive estates both in the city and in the country. The hospital also exercised lower jurisdiction over people who had become its dependents through gifts.

The church was finally built in 1386 as part of the hospital. The hospital was in the wake of the Reformation combined with the other spiritual foundations of the city, where the activities in the premises of the former Franciscan - Monastery of St. Catherine of the city were focused on the southern edge. The church was much too big for the part of the new foundation that remained at the old location, and it was threatened with decay and demolition. The patronage of the churches in the north of the city, the councilors from the Marienkirchspiel, found an elegant solution. The church was added as a branch church of the main church of St. Mary and used in future for Danish-language services. Since the Reformation, German was the church language in the city, although not everyone understood it. Services have been held in Danish in the church since 1588 . After the German-Danish War , a Catholic community was also founded in Flensburg. Initially, the Catholic community was also allowed to hold its services in the Heiliggeistkirche, in order to then use a chapel above the Heiliggeistkirche, which was replaced at the beginning of the 20th century by today's Catholic Church of St. Mary Sorrowful Mother . At the beginning of May 1945 the last Reich government had withdrawn to Mürwik . Since May 8, 1945, the German-language services of the Marienkirche took place in the Heiliggeistkirche, as German troops occupied the larger church as emergency quarters.

Architecture and equipment

The medieval frescoes , the Baroque altar and several votive naves inside the church are noteworthy in the Church of the Holy Spirit . The Renaissance pulpit was removed at the beginning of the 20th century and transferred to the new St. Juergens Church. The Christ Church in the Mürwik district, also built in the 20th century, has a similar interior design to the Heiliggeistkirche, so that it almost looks like a modern interpretation of the Heiliggeistkirche.

The church has had an organ made by Peter Bruhn & Søn since 1975 with 26 stops on three manuals and a pedal . It has slide chests with a mechanical action . The disposition is as follows:

I Ryg positive C – g 3
1. Trægedakt 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Rørfløjte 4 ′
4th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Blokfløjte 2 ′
6th Sharp II
7th Krumhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Huvudverk C-g 3
8th. Gedakt 16 ′
9. Principal 8th'
10. Rørfløjte 8th'
11. Octave 4 ′
12. Octave 2 ′
13. Cornet III
14th Mixture IV
III Svälleverk C – g 3
15th Gemshorn 8th'
16. Salicet 4 ′
17th Tværfløjte 2 ′
18th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Piccolo 1'
20th Trumpet 8th'
21st Vox Humana 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Subbas 16 ′
23. Principal 8th'
24. Quintatøn 4 ′
25th Octave 2 ′
26th Bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Web links

Commons : Heiliggeistkirche (Flensburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Selk (Ed.): Flensburg anecdotes . 1st edition. Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH u. Co. KG, Husum 1978, ISBN 3-88042-072-6 , 4. Church bells in Flensburg, p. 24–25 (with the assistance of Renate Delfs ).
  2. ↑ See Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Article: Unterguineig
  3. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 28 f.
  4. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Church Jubilee: A year of celebration under the sign of ecumenism , from: December 1, 2014; Retrieved on: January 21, 2017
  5. ↑ Broder Schwensen: “The city is where the wildest rumors go around. May 1945 in the mirror of the Flensburg city chronicle ” in: Lange Schatten. End of the Nazi dictatorship and the early post-war years in Flensburg . City archive Flensburg (2000), p. 25
  6. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt: Flensburger Architektur: Young churches shape new districts from September 9, 2015 , accessed on September 10, 2015
  7. ↑ Information on the organ at www.orgbase.nl , accessed on December 8, 2019
  8. ↑ Information about the organ at www.doks.dk , accessed on December 8, 2019

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 15 "  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 57"  E