Katharinenkirche (Süderstapel)
The Katharinenkirche is a round tower church in Süderstapel in the Schleswig-Flensburg district . The main church in the Stapelholm region dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. Century. Located on a ridge directly on the Eider , it originally served as a fortified church against the Dithmarscher on the other side of the Eider . Today she is part of the Stapelholm parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The oldest parts of the Romanesque stone church date from the 12th century, the nave, tower and apse were built in the first half of the 13th century. Dithmarschers burned the church down in the 15th century, after which the Stapelholmers rebuilt it. A cemetery surrounded the church until 1885, some of which were left on the church grounds. Extensive restorations in recent times took place in 1954, when the ceiling, arch and pulpit were painted and the original design of the altar was exposed, and in 1999/2000, with new windows in the church.
Johann Adrian Bolten , who grew up in Stapelholm as the son of Süderstapel pastor Matthias Hermann Bolten (1712–1772), reported that in earlier times the parish of Süderstapel had a St. Anne's chapel in Norderstapel next to the Katharinenkirche . In the vicinity of the parish Seeth there was a parish Redeke with a St. John's Church on the march , which went down in a storm surge around 1300. The surviving residents of this lost parish would have settled on the Geest in Seeth and Drage and stuck to the Süderstapeler Church. The two earlier churches he mentioned no longer existed in his time. There were also no longer two side altars that existed until the Reformation in 1777.
In 2019 the parish of Süderstapel merged with the parishes of Erfde and Bergenhusen to form the parish of Stapelholm.
architecture
The Romanesque stone church has a nave, a choir and apse and a south brick porch. The oldest part is the choir, which dates from the 12th century in a lower form. In the first half of the 13th century, the nave, tower and apse were added, and the choir was raised.
tower
The round tower is not accessible from the outside and, with its walls up to 2.5 meters thick, served as a place of refuge and storage. Originally it was only provided with slotted windows. The spire changed over the years: in 1633 and 1783 it burned down after lightning strikes and had to be replaced. The current top dates from 1876 and is made of brick, but had to be replaced in 1971 due to dilapidation, and the supporting pillars were added. Two steel bells from 1923 hang in the tower. These replaced their two bronze predecessors, which were melted down during the First World War. The tower itself is one of two round towers in the Schleswig-Flensburg district.
inner space
The interior is mainly from the 15th to 17th centuries. The oldest piece of furniture is the late Gothic baptism made of blue marble. The baptism made in Namur (now Belgium) has the shape of an octagonal cup with four heads. In the cup there is a permanently installed baptismal font made of copper, which is now covered by a bronze basin that was added later. Similar baptisms are in Ockholm and Uelvesbüll in North Friesland.
The altar was carved by Hans Peper from Rendsburg in 1609 , and the painter Detlef Sibberen provided it with pictures: the baptism of Jesus, the Lord's Supper, the crucifixion and Jesus' resurrection. From 1843 to 1954 these pictures were covered by repainting. On the altar is a late Gothic pair of brass candlesticks from the 15th and 16th centuries. Century and a silver pair of altar candlesticks from 1694, made by FJ Ritter in the Baroque style.
The pulpit, which is a replica of the Schwabstedt pulpit, is impressive . The basket made in Husum in 1615 shows several reliefs, the inscription on the pulpit is in Low German and in the upper part reads " Gi sindt idt not de dar talk sunder iuwes vaders Geist isset de dorch iuw redet Math 10 " (because it is not you, those who speak, but it is your father's spirit that speaks through you (Matthew 10). The lower band reads: “ So hefdt godt de werlt gelevet dat he sinen own sone gaf up dat alle de an em geloven will not be presented sunder dat eternal levent lift ” (So God loved the world that he gave his own son, with it all who believe in him will not be lost, but have eternal life).
The gallery dates from the 16th century and is supported by support beams from the late Renaissance . The 21 pictures with scenes from the Old and New Testament on it come from the year 1844 by the Friedrichstadt painter HK du Ferrang . The gallery grew quite a bit when an organ was built into the church in 1800. The current organ dates from 1968, the organ front with three pipe towers from 1800. In the church there is also a silver sick chalice by CA Severin, created at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.
State of preservation
The church tower painting planned for 2007, which had already been financed with collections and the tower festival by the parish, did not take place. Experts from the building department of the North Elbe Church and monument preservationists had inspected the church in advance of the painting and found cracks in the pillars of the tower and the walls. Test drillings revealed insufficient strength of the pillars. Therefore the requirement was that the restoration of the supporting pillars should be done before painting. The parish had to hire a structural engineer who, during his investigations, found that the problem was not the tower or the supporting pillars, but the walls of the church itself. Test drillings at heights of one, three and six meters gave the following picture: the church was built with two shells . The inner and outer walls are made of field stones and boulders that are connected with lime mortar. The space between the two shells was filled with stones and other materials when the church was built. Due to leaks in the outer wall, this filling has absorbed moisture over time and has collapsed. This created considerable cavities between the walls. Since the two wall shells no longer support each other at these points, a violent hurricane can overload a wall, which can then collapse due to a lack of support and tear the roof structure with it in a chain reaction. A renovation attempt failed and made the state of the building even worse.
literature
- The architectural and artistic monuments of the province of Schleswig-Holstein: with the exception of the Duchy of Lauenburg district, edited by Richard Haupt, Volume 2, Kiel 1888, pp. 239–242 on behalf of the provincial administration
- Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein , (= The Art Monuments of the State of Schleswig-Holstein; special volume), edited in the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein and in the Office for Monument Preservation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Neumünster 1969, pp. 733–734
- Johann Adrian Bolten : Description and news of the landscape in the Duchy of Schleswig, Stapelholm together with a map of the same , Wöhrden 1777, page 126-129, page 187 ff., P. 358 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bolten: Description and news of the landscape of Stapelholm in the Herzogthume Schleswig together with a map of the same , p. 187f. 216, 234f. 240
- ↑ Bolten: Description and news of the landscape of Stapelholm in the Herzogthume Schleswig along with a map of the same , p. 190f.
- ↑ Church renovation only made things worse , shz.de of February 7, 2018
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Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 56 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 3 ″ E