St. Hyacinth Church (Słupsk)

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Former castle church in Słupsk
Gravestone of Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ
Former castle church in Słupsk

The St. Hyacinth Church (also Castle Church , until 1946: St. John's Castle Church , since 1946 in Polish: Kościół św. Jacka ) in Słupsk (Stolp) is a hall church built in the brick Gothic style . It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Ducal Palace.

history

The structure of the church, which survived the Second World War quite well, partly dates from the 13th century. It was originally the church of the Dominican monastery founded in 1278 . In its current form, the building was erected in the 15th century. In 1534 the rent master Ambrosius Vormann took possession of it and destroyed the furnishings. At the beginning of the 17th century, the interior of Duchess Erdmute, wife of Duke Johann Friedrich (1569–1600) was redesigned in Baroque style and a slender western church tower with a baroque, copper-covered dome was built. The inauguration of the restored church took place on June 24th ( St. John's Day ) 1602 by the Pomeranian general superintendent Jakob Faber .

The church was largely preserved during the Second World War . After the Second World War, the Roman Catholic Church in Poland appropriated the previously evangelical church. It was consecrated to the Holy Hyacinth of Poland on February 2, 1946 and has since been known as the St. Hyacinth Church . The church has served the Polish Dominican Order ever since . On June 24, 1981, a Catholic parish was established at the church.

Building description

It is a hall church built in the brick Gothic style with a steeple.

Furnishing

In the church the altar , the pulpit and the organ prospect are preserved in baroque form. The altarpiece is from 1602. The pulpit with rich paintings and decorations on the basket and bell is carried by the figure of Moses and has recently been extensively restored.

The organ has the oldest preserved prospect in Western Pomerania (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) from 1657. Today's instrument is a reconstruction of the historical organ by Paul Fischer and Michael Berigel by Józef Mollin from 2002. It has 33 stops on three manuals and a pedal .

The epitaphs of Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ († 1684), the founder of the organ and nephew of the last Pomeranian Duke, and his mother Anna von Croÿ († 1660) are also preserved.

Protestant parishes (until 1945)

In 1602 the church was put into service as a Protestant castle and parish church. Since 1702, the previously independent parish of Kublitz, with the places Ulrichsfelde and Veddin as a branch church, belonged to their parish. The congregation was Lutheran-oriented until 1685, when it also received a Reformed clergyman who alternated with the Lutheran preacher at the church services.

The church patronage was thereafter royal, later it was exercised by the city authorities. The (Lutheran) parish of the St. Johannis Castle Church in 1940 included 7,500 parishioners, of whom 5,000 lived in the town of Stolp and 2,500 in the subsidiary villages. The (reformed) parish of St. Johann (so its official name) had a total of 3400 church members. The last time before 1945 was the pastor Werner de Boor .

The two sub-communities of St. Johannis Castle Church belonged to the church district Stolp-Stadt in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 .

Pastor

The clergy of St. John's Castle Church were also court preachers until 1668. From 1602 until today:

  1. Daniel Rubenow, 1602-1636
  2. Andreas Proläus (Prohl), 1636–1651
  3. Andreas Hille, 1652–1668
  4. Johann Drenckhan (from Kublitz , after his death the place became a branch parish of the St. Johannis Castle Church), 1668–1702
  5. Philipp Christoph Fuhrmann, 1703–1729
  6. Christian Granow, 1730-1761
  7. Albrecht Immanuel Driesenthal, 1763–1781
  8. Carl Friedrich Hornig, 1782–1785
  9. Johann Ludwig Krech, 1785–1811
  10. Johann Gottlieb Heinrich Kuss, 1811–1847
  11. August David Gottfried, 1849–1868
  12. Heinrich August Sahland, 1868–1910
  13. Heinrich Maximilian Albert Meyer, 1910–1926
  14. Otto Gehrke, 1926–1931
  15. Friedrich Pieper, 1931–1941
  16. Egbert Zieger (designated from 1942, no assumption of office due to military service)

Catholic parish (since 1981)

On June 24, 1981, an independent parish was established here, to which 4640 parishioners currently belong. It is located in the Deanery Słupsk-Wschód ( Stolp-Ost ) in the Diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Archdiocese of Stettin-Cammin .

literature

  • Hans Glaeser: The Evangelical Pomerania . Part 2. Szczecin 1940.
  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Lexicon . Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-394-6 .
  • Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2. Szczecin 1912.
  • Martin Rost: Forgotten "North German" organs - study trips by the organ commission. Stralsund 2008.

Web links

Commons : Church of St. John in Słupsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Wilhelm Haken : Former monastery, current castle church of Stolp and attached branch Cublitz , in: Hakens three contributions to explain the city history of Stolp (newly published by FW Feige), Stolp 1866, pp. 89-170, online .

Coordinates: 54 ° 27 ′ 51 ″  N , 17 ° 2 ′ 1 ″  E