Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul (Moscow)

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St Peter and Paul Church
Side view with reconstruction of the tower helmet (2008)
Altar area

The Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul is a Lutheran church with German tradition in Moscow . It is the main church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia and the sermon place of its archbishop , currently Dietrich Brauer .

history

In 1694/95, a second church for German Lutherans was built in Moscow next to the Michael’s Church , which was destroyed in 1928 . At first it was only called the "New Church", but was officially called St. Peter and Paul. This building burned down in 1711, 1737 and 1748, but was repeatedly rebuilt until it was finally destroyed in the fire in Moscow in 1812.

In 1817 the parish converted a house on Starosadsky Street into a church, which was inaugurated in 1819. Due to the rapidly growing community, this church was rebuilt in 1860/61 and replaced by a new building from 1903–1905, today's church. The architect was Wiktor Kossow , after his resignation the building was completed under the direction of Artur Loleit .

In 1938 the church was expropriated by the Stalinist regime. The building first served as a concert hall, later the "Arktika" cinema was built here. The then pastor of the Peter and Paul Church, Alexander Streck, was shot together with the church council . The church building was later converted into a film studio, "slide film". For this purpose, a false ceiling was drawn into the nave and the spire was removed in 1957.

From the mid-1990s, the community gradually regained access to the building and was initially able to set up a chapel. In 2004 the interior could be restored. On the 1st Sunday of Advent in 2008, the church was returned to its original purpose after seventy years. On October 25, 2017, the church was returned to the parish; In the adjoining buildings, which once housed a school and a rectory, facilities of the secret services FSO and FSB are still housed. The church building was transferred back on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017. The EKD Council Chairman Heinrich Bedford-Strohm and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took part in the transferring ceremony. According to the Office of the Federal President, the return of the cathedral to the congregation was not only the occasion but also the prerequisite for Steinmeier's working visit to Moscow.

organ

Since the original Walcker organ of the Peter and Paul Church was no longer preserved, it was given the organ of the Michael’s Church, which had come to a Moscow funeral complex after the church was closed. The organ was built in 1898 by the organ builder W. Sauer in Frankfurt (Oder) as Opus 755 and restored in 2005 by Organ Builder Reinhard Hüfken . It has 33  stops on 3 manuals and pedal on pneumatic cone chests and the following disposition :

I. Manual Cg 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th flute 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Viola d'amour 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Cornett III-V
10. Trumpet 8th'
II. Manual Cg 3
11. Lovely Gedackt 16 ′
12. Violin principal 8th'
13. Concert flute 8th'
14th Quintatön 8th'
15th Dolce 8th'
16. Gemshorn 4 ′
17th Transverse flute 4 ′
18th Mixture IV
19th Clarinet 8th'
III. Manual (in swell box) Cg 3
20th Quintatön 16 ′
21st Pointed flute 8th'
22nd Lovely Gedackt 8th'
23. Salicional 8th'
24. Aeoline 8th'
25th Voix celeste 8th'
26th Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal Cf 1
27. Violon 16 ′
28. Sub-bass 16 ′
29 Thought bass 16 ′
30th Octave 8th'
31. violoncello 8th'
32. flute 4 ′
33. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P (as a button under the I. manual)
  • Playing aids : hand register, two free combinations, four fixed combinations (piano, mezzoforte, forte, tutti), pipe works on, roller on, sill III. Manual (step to hook), crescendo roller.

Bells

The bells come from the Church of Peace in Rheydt, which was de-dedicated in 1999 . They were cast in 1957 by the Rincker bell and art foundry , came to Moscow in 2005 and sound in f ′ (940 kg), g ′ (655 kg) and b ′ (470 kg).

See also

literature

  • 100 years of the Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul Moscow 1905–2005. Moscow 2005

Web links

Commons : St. Peter and Paul Cathedral Moscow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Schmidt: Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul: On winding paths back into Lutheran hands. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 25, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ Frank-Walter Steinmeier: Return of the Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Moscow. Office of the Federal President , October 25, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Steinmeier made the return of the church a prerequisite for a trip to Moscow. epd article on the website of the Evangelical Church in Germany , October 19, 2017, accessed on October 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Restoration of the Sauer organ in the St. Peter and Paul Church in Moscow. Orgelbau Reinhard Hüfken, December 21, 2015, accessed on February 5, 2018.

Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 23.6 "  N , 37 ° 38 ′ 23.2"  E