Johanniskirche (Flensburg)

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Johanniskirche with staircase

The Johanniskirche or Sankt-Johannis-Kirche ( Danish Sankt Hans Kirke ; Low German Johanniskark ) is the smallest and oldest of the three main churches of the city of Flensburg that have been preserved . It is located in the Johannisviertel .

history

The church is dedicated to the apostle John . According to legend, the construction of the stone church began in 1128 . It was probably deposited by the Adelbyer Johanniskirche , 3 km further east , which was originally a branch church of Husby , the main church of the Husbyharde . The stone church, divided into a nave and choir, is similar in shape to other country churches in fishing . However, it is significantly more stately than the neighboring churches in Adelby, Rüllschau and Hürup , which speaks for a significant size of the oldest of the four Flensburg settlement centers 150 years before it was granted city rights. In the 13th century, however, the settlements around St. Marien and St. Nikolai developed into the core of the powerful merchant town of Flensburg. The Johannisviertel was shaped by fishermen and craftsmen and received a suburban character. It was separated from the walled Nikolaiviertel by the mill gate and only fortified with palisades .

In addition to the actual Johannisviertel, the suburbs of Süder St. Jürgen, Fischerhof and part of the Süderhohlweg, as well as the southeastern Stadtfeld, belong to the parish of the Johanniskirche .

Building description and equipment

Fresco "The Last Judgment"

The core of the hall church is Romanesque , but in the Gothic period it received larger windows and a brick choir extension. Worth seeing inside of the church is composed of the 15th century coming late Gothic vault with frescoes , like a Peter Lykt Garden of Eden were painted. In the center of the vault is the representation of the Last Judgment. The frescoes were whitewashed in 1734 and only rediscovered in 1910. They were exposed, partially completed and restored again in 1969. The old color and figure were fixed and the additions from 1910 were adapted to the original color. The damage from 1481/1513 was not replenished.

The tower of the church dates from the Baroque period (1741). Before, the church only had a wooden belfry next to the building.

The pulpit from 1587 was made by Johan von Bremen, who is assigned to Heinrich Ringerink's workshop . The sequence of scenes of the five reliefs from the fall of man through the birth of Christ , the crucifixion and the resurrection to the Last Judgment represents Luther's teaching of the justification of sinful man through Christ. The baptismal font in octagonal chalice form dates from 1592. It shows four statues that to symbolize the four evangelists : Matthew , Mark , Luke and John . The altar was created by Flensburg craftsmen and artists in 1734. It shows the Lord's Supper, painted in oil on wood. To the right and left of it are the words of Jesus' institution for bread and wine.

  • Inside the church

  • The pulpit from 1587

  • The font from 1592

  • The altar from 1734

organ

Organ brochure from 1723

The original organ by Wilhelm Buchholz dates from 1723. In 1762, Johann Daniel Busch added two pedal towers to it. Far-reaching renovations were carried out by Marcussen & Søn in 1870 and 1938 . Using the prospectus from 1723, the organ was largely redesigned and moved forward in 1966 by Emanuel Kemper . It was supplemented by a Rückpositiv and received new registers in the pedal .

Church bells

The forecast for should call the church bells of St. John "the farmers and burner". The parish of St. Johannis is located on the east side of Flensburg and belongs to the fishing region. In particular, we mean the Angelite farmers who have been selling their grain for centuries at the oat market not far from the church . With burner primarily the rum burners should be meant. The Flensburg brewery is not too far from the church .

Churchyard

Sankt Johannis-Kirche with the surrounding rest of the churchyard

The church cemetery was no longer used from 1813 when the communal Old Cemetery was established, and was abandoned in the middle of the 19th century. However, it has been partially preserved as a surrounding green area. The historical reconstruction of the Johanniskirchhof is quite well preserved on the east side and on the south-west adjacent Süderfischerstraße. On the south side is the pastorate, newly built in 1903/04 in an elaborate neo-Gothic style. The north side of the church square was completely destroyed in the 1960s. There is also the small Fleno Park near the churchyard , where the symbolic grave of the knight Fleno is located, from which the legend says the name of the city of Flensburg is derived.

Clergy

literature

  • Ludwig Rohling (arrangement): The art monuments of the city of Flensburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1955, pp. 204–229.
  • Lutz Wilde (arrangement): Art monuments in Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 2: City of Flensburg. Neumünster 2001, pp. 282–284.

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. ^ Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Legends and fairy tales from Flensburg , Husum 1992, page 38, number 45

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 27.2 ″  E