Pulpit attendant

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Chancellor from 1526 in the Grossmünster in Zurich
Kanzellettner in St. Peter in Zurich

As Kanzellettner be Lettner referred that serve primarily as preaching place.

history

The rood screen served as a barrier between the lay nave and the choir in Catholic churches in the Middle Ages , which was reserved for the priesthood or, in the monastery, for the friars and sisters . The rood screen could also serve as a sermon place, as the late Romanesque rood screen in the monastery church of Wechselburg shows, with a pulpit in front of it.

Kanzellettner, on the other hand, have a diametrically different function: They emerged in the course of the Reformation in Protestant churches, especially in the Reformed denomination . The choir, as a priesthood room for the celebration of Holy Mass , removed from the lay ship , was considered superfluous by the reformers . Since the word sermon was at the center of the Reformed liturgy , the pulpit should be positioned accordingly as a place of sermon . Added to this is the weighting of the general priesthood , which at the theological-conceptual level reduced the distance between pastors and lay people. Such liturgical and theological considerations led to the installation of pulpit lights in front of the choir arch of Reformed church buildings dating from the Middle Ages. The earliest example is the Kanzellettner, built in 1526 in Huldrych Zwingli's parish church, Zurich's Grossmünster . In the 19th century some of the pulpits were removed.

Post-Reformation church buildings with a choir and pulpit speakers are extremely rare. One example is the shelf church in Schwerin designed by the most important Reformed architectural theorist Leonhard Christoph Sturm .

Examples (selection)

Similar shapes

Wooden barriers in the church interior with a pulpit in front were very common in Reformed church buildings in the Baroque era in the Netherlands .

In the church buildings of the Wiesbaden program , the pulpit is located on a pulpit wall that separates the church from the community rooms behind.

literature

  • Georg Germann: The Protestant Church Building in Switzerland , Zurich 1963, pp. 148–150.
  • Heinrich Schneider: Journey of Discovery. Reformed sacred building in Switzerland , Zurich 2000.
  • The art monuments of the Canton of Zurich . New edition Volume 3, 1: The City of Zurich, Old Town on the right of the Limmat, Sacral Buildings , Bern 2007, pp. 146–147.