Johanniskirche (Flensburg-Adelby)

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The St. John's Church in Adelby , the oldest church in Flensburg , part of the Husbyharde
The monogram of King Christian VII with the Soli Deo Gloria above it on the church tower

The Johanniskirche (often referred to as Adelby Church ) is the oldest church in the city of Flensburg and is located in the Adelby area , which is probably the real nucleus of Flensburg. It is not to be confused with the city center located St. John's Church of St. John district .

history

The village church was probably built around 1080 and was consecrated to the Apostle John after completion . When construction began, churches such as St. Vincentius Church in Husby , Laurentius Church in Munkbrarup and St. Mary's Church in Sörup already existed in the surrounding area . The corresponding village, only under the name Adelby what actually today Altdorf or Mother's Village is known means disappeared probably soon after, because by expulsions from the village emerged around daughters villages. Around 1100, the settlement of Sankt Johannis at the end of the Flensburg Fjord emerged from the village of Adelby , from which Flensburg, independent of Adelby, gradually emerged. The Adelby Church is older than the church of the same name in the city ​​center of Flensburg. Although it no longer belonged to a village, it served as a branch church for the surrounding villages and settlements, so that a spacious parish was created. This parish belonged to Husbyharde , an administrative unit of the fishing area .

The churchyard, which was repeatedly expanded in the 20th century, is now the only cemetery in the east of Flensburg, which means that the church retains its importance for parishioners from Mürwik, Engelsby and former parts of Adelby. The church districts of Flensburg, fishing and Schleswig formed a new large church district in 2009.

Building description and equipment

Altar of the St. John's Church

The Romanesque stone church built on a hill within the churchyard, visible from afar, is a small village church with a west tower, thick, white painted walls and the red roof sitting on it, as well as the weathercock on the tower.

Erected around 1200 in the late Romanesque style , it was smaller and did not yet have the current church tower, but probably a stack of bells . The old walls in the middle of the nave are recognizable by the rounded, uncut, white-painted field stones. Of the Romanesque arched windows there are three on the north side and one on the south side. In the 15th or 16th century, a vestibule was added in front of the main entrance; it was used to hand in weapons that they had brought with them and gave women who had recently given birth the opportunity to attend church services, as they were traditionally forbidden from entering the actual church in the first six weeks after their birth. For this reason, this extension was given the name Frauenhaus.

In the 18th century, it was gradually converted to its present-day appearance. In 1726 the wooden tower was demolished and replaced by today's baroque tower with shod ashlar stones. Ashlar stones from the collapsed Duburg were used . Then the nave was raised with bricks and extended to the east and west up to the church tower and a little further for better integration. Today's hall church with a wide box choir was built by 1780 . In 1775, a sandstone plaque with a Soli Deo Gloria and a monogram of King Christian VII , the patron of the church, was attached to the west side of the tower . The lanterns and the helmet roof are from 1785. In 1931 and 1964/1965 the interior was again seriously changed to its present form through renovations and alterations.

The altar of the church dates from 1779 by Friedrich Windekiel .

In 2014 the community decided to push ahead with the construction of a new organ, as the old Kemper organ from the 1960s had a bad sound due to inferior materials and could no longer be satisfactorily overhauled. After a long selection process, the organ builder Paschen from Kiel was commissioned to build the new organ with 26 registers in 2017. The artist Uwe Appold was commissioned to design the organ case artistically. On May 12, 2019, the new organ was consecrated in a service by the bishop of Schleswig Gotthard Margaard. The new instrument has 26 registers on two manual movements and a pedal and is a hybrid organ: All keys are equipped with electrical contacts so that the instrument can be expanded to include electronic sounds. The console has a third keyboard, from which only electronic registers can be played.

I main work C–
01. Drone 16 '
02. Principal 08th'
03. Viola da gamba 08th'
04th Hollow flute 08th'
05. Octave 04 '
06th Slack dolce 04 '
07th Fifth 03 '
08th. Octave 02 '
09. Mixture III-IV 01 1 ⁄ 3  '
10. Trumpet 08th'
II Hinterwerk C–
11. Reed flute 08th'
12. Salicional 08th'
13. Piffaro 08th'
14th Principal 04 '
15th Transverse flute 04 '
16. Nasat 03 '
17th Forest flute 02 '
18th third 01 3 ⁄ 5  '
19th Vox Humana 08th'
20th Dulcian 08th'
Pedals C–
21st Violon 16 '
22nd Sub bass 16 '
23. octave 08th'
24. Dacked bass 08th'
25th Choral bass 04 '
26th trombone 16 '
  • Coupling : II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), II / II (sub-octave coupling), I / P (also as super-octave coupling), II / P.

  • The small north gate through which you get to the church

  • The tower of the church

  • Main entrance

  • A lion's grimace over the entrance

  • One of the anchors of the church

  • Another very elaborately designed anchor of the church

The cemetery around the church

The churchyard extends especially to the northeast to form a large cemetery and forms a unit with it. The aforementioned Adelby cemetery, which belongs to the Adelby parish, is the only cemetery on the east side of Flensburg. On it, among other things, some graves of urban historical importance can be found.

various

  • In Flensburg there is a saying when someone is clumsy in the way: He is in the way like the Adelbyer Kirch ' . According to a legend , this idiom is said to have originated from the fact that the church initially wanted to be built in one place, but where at night what had already been built was always torn down. That is why the church builders asked a clever man who lived in a forest near Tarup what should be done there. He advised them to tie two oxen together, just let them run, so that where they would lie down they should build the church. Now it goes on to say that they followed the advice, but the oxen simply lay down in the middle of the village lane and they would not have let themselves be driven away. So they had to build the church in the middle of the path, and the straight path had to be passed by it.
  • According to a legend, Satrupholm Castle , 15 kilometers south-east of Adelby, was once haunted by the ghost of the former owner, the Evil Lord of Zago, which is why a particularly famous preacher from Adelby was called in, who had previously succeeded with ghosts to banish. The Adelby preacher went into the room in which the ghost always started and tried to banish the spirit that appeared at midnight by reading certain Bible passages. But the spirit simply knocked the Bible out of his hand and the Adelby preacher could only flee. A little later, however, a dropout of theology succeeded in banishing the spirit into a large hollow beech, which many years later, with great effort, was felled with the help of the blacksmith von Ausacker .
  • In 1829 Lorenz Lorenzen was pastor in Adelby.
  • In her autobiographical novel Ellen Olestjerne (1903) Franziska Reventlow writes that she was placed in the household of the pastor in Adelby “for the better”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evangelical Lutheran Church District Schleswig-Flensburg, Adelby, Liveness with Great Tradition, accessed on: March 24, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g The Church of St. Johannis Adelby, History, St. Johannis zu Adelby - the church building and the building history accessed on: March 24, 2014
  3. ↑ See the landscape fishing ; Retrieved November 16, 2013
  4. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 24
  5. ↑ See the landscape fishing ; Retrieved March 24, 2014
  6. ^ A b Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! . Flensburg 2009, article: Adelby Church
  7. ↑ On the side of the parish : The Church of St. Johannis Adelby, history, St. Johannis zu Adelby - the church building and the building history were obviously confused the cardinal points.
  8. ↑ City wall and city gates. Reading and workbook on the history of Flensburg for home and non-life lessons .. from the University of Flensburg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.8 MB), page 15
  9. ↑ The stone blocks from one of the Duburg towers may have been used here. See: The Church of St. Johannis Adelby, history, St. Johannis zu Adelby - the church building and the building history accessed on: March 24, 2014
  10. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, p. 398
  11. ↑ Information on the organ
  12. ↑ See the list of registered cultural monuments of the state of Schleswig-Holstein (except Lübeck) ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 423 kB); Retrieved on: March 24, 2014
  13. ↑ See Friedhof Adelby, Flensburg ; Retrieved on: April 6, 2014
  14. ↑ cf. Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from Flensburg. Husum 1992, p. 50
  15. ^ Entry on Gut Satrupholm in the private database "All Castles". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ Cf. Karl Müllenhoff : Legends, fairy tales and songs of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, ghosts banned, The Lord of Zago on Satrupholm , Kiel 1845, p. 204, no. 305. 1.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 1.3 ″  E