Jakobikirche (Braunschweig)

The Jakobikirche

The Jakobikirche in Braunschweig is located on Goslarschen Strasse in the western ring area . The Protestant church in the historicist neo-baroque style was built between 1909 and 1911 and consecrated in 1911. The Jakobikirche is also used regularly for events such as concerts.

architecture

The church was built in the style of the South German Baroque, but already contains features of modernity and also contains Art Nouveau influences . This transition from late historicism to modernity is known as reform architecture . The Jakobikirche was built according to a design by the Berlin architects Johannes Kraaz and Hermann Fleck , who received the order for a design in 1908 after an architectural competition. The church was built with the parish and parish hall as a coherent group of buildings.

The majority of the churches in the Braunschweig city area, as well as other city churches in the ring area, are designed in the Gothic or Neo-Gothic style. Since the destruction of the baroque Nicolaikirche in 1944, the Jakobikirche has occupied a special position in Braunschweig due to its rare architecture.

The tower of the Jakobikirche is 59 meters high. This makes it the fourth highest church in Braunschweig, after the Andreaskirche , the Katharinenkirche and the Petrikirche . The top of the tower is at a height of 135 meters above sea level.

history

The Protestant parish of St. Jakobi was founded in 1904 as a result of the Wilhelminian expansion of the city. In 1909 the parish began building their church. The Jakobikirche was consecrated on April 17th, 1911, an Easter Monday. The celebrations took place in the presence of Prince Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg , the then regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig . On May 7, 1922, the bells were consecrated in the church. The ringing consists of the bells a 'g' and e '. Bell I sounds every day at 12 noon and 6 p.m., on Saturday the Sunday is rung in with all bells. Half an hour before the service, bell III rings, a quarter of an hour before bells III and II, and five minutes before the plenum.

With the employment of a second pastor at St. Jakobi, the Jakobigemeinde was divided into two parish districts during the city ​​church day on June 28, 1934.

In the 1960s the church was renovated. The work was finished on November 5, 1961. On March 22, 1970 a new organ was inaugurated.

On Easter Monday, April 25, 2011, the Jakobigemeinde celebrated the 100th birthday of the Jakobikirche.

organ

In 1911 the church received an organ from Furtwängler and Hammer from Hanover (opus 691). This instrument contained 30 voices and a transmission, there were also four octave couplers, and it had pneumatic pocket drawers. In 1944 there was a first change in disposition, and in 1948 Franz Dutkowski changed the originally romantic disposition to a neo-baroque one with 33 registers plus a transmission.

The modified Furtwängler and Hammer organ was replaced in 1970 by a new building by Friedrich Weißenborn behind the historic prospect from the time the church was built. As far as is known, no elements have been adopted from the old organ, although the similarity of the arrangement would suggest this. Hauptwerk and Schwellwerk are one behind the other (the SW slightly raised) in the middle, the pedal divided into C and C sharp sides on the outside. In 2007 the organ was repaired by Florian Fay. It has mechanical play and electrical stop action.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3 Quintadena 16 ′ Principal 8th' Coupling flute 8th' Octave 4 ′ Reed flute 4 ′ Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Super octave 2 ′ Large Mixture V Small mix IV Trumpet 8th'

II Swell C – g 3 Gemshorn 8th' Dumped 8th' Principal 4 ′ Night horn 4 ′ Forest flute 2 ′ Capstan whistle 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ Sesquialtera II Sharp cymbel IV Dulcian 16 ′ Krummhorn 8th' Tremulant

Pedal C – f 1 Sub bass 16 ′ Principal 8th' Pommer 8th' octave 4 ′ Hörnlein II Backset IV – V trombone 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Clairon 4 ′

• Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P (as steps and switches)
• Playing aids : two free combinations, hand register, plenum, individual tabs, tutti

literature

• Isolde Helling: 100 years of St. Jakobi. 2011.
• Wolfgang Kimpflinger: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony. Volume 1.2 .: City of Braunschweig. Part 2, Hameln 1996, ISBN 3-8271-8256-5 .
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: St. Jakobi. In: Luitgard Camerer, Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon. Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 .

Web links

• Information in the Braunschweig guidance and information system for culture
• Website of the St. Jakobi Congregation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Braunschweig: Height information and coordinates of Braunschweig buildings ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ St. Jakobi Braunschweig: Memories , accessed on September 14, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 57.3 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 16.1"  E