Little Church by the Sea (Husum)
The little church by the sea is an early Gothic brick church from the 13th century in Schobüll , a district of Husum in Schleswig-Holstein .
history
The so-called little church by the sea was built in the middle of the 13th century and was initially a chapel belonging to the parish of Hattstedt . According to legend, it was founded by three virgins as a mission church. The church was first mentioned in a document in 1352 with the Latin name parochia beate virginis , so it was originally a St. Mary's Church . Instead of the patronage , it was referred to in later documents as ecclesiola sub mare (little church by the sea). It is located at the foot of the “Schobüller Berg”, one of the highest points on the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast, and has long served as a navigation mark for ships entering Husum.
The high Gothic tower collapsed in 1780 and was rebuilt in a shortened form by 1785 and redesigned in 1896.
In 1972/1973 the church was extensively restored. If the interior is to be renovated in 2020, the church furnishings are to be outsourced because the old layers of paint on the walls are to be removed with sandblasting .
The church belongs to the parish of North Friesland in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Germany .
architecture
The roughly east-facing single-nave church is built from red bricks in the center of the village on Geestrand in the middle of the cemetery. The elongated rectangular choir is drawn in opposite the nave and has a lower gable roof . The gable triangle is decorated by a round arch panel in a herringbone bond. The choir is illuminated in the north and south through two narrow pointed arch windows; the two east windows are walled up, as is the original priest's door on the south side. An angled frieze is attached below the eaves.
The short nave is also covered by a gable roof with red tiles. On the north side, under the block frieze, two lofty pointed arch windows have been preserved, while the south side has two round arched windows. In the west of the long sides the two stepped round arch portals are now walled up under a horseshoe screen in a pointed arch screen.
The west building from the same period has the same width as the nave in the basement and rises above large granite blocks in the lower area. In the middle, two monopitch roofs lead over to the square tower stump in the north and south, which was re-erected in 1785. It serves as a bell chamber and since then has only reached the height of the roof ridge from the nave. The blunt folding roof is crowned by a tower knob, cross and weather vane. Shed roofs and folding roofs are covered with oak shingles. The arched portal on the south side of the tower was created like the arched windows in the north and south in 1896. The west side is windowless. The iron anchors indicate the year 1785 the tower was renovated.
Furnishing
The interior is closed off by a flat wooden beam ceiling. The west gallery , which serves as the organ gallery , is marked with the year 1703. It is adorned with pictures from the Old and New Testament . A pointed arch opens the choir to the ship.
The altar table was built up at the end of the 15th century and provided with a seldom so beautifully preserved antependium made of tracery arches and rotating rosettes. The altarpiece was created around 1470 and the crucifixion group above the reredos around 1300. Instead of a crown of thorns, the crucified one wears rope around his head. A figure frieze hangs on the north wall showing the twelve apostles as well as John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene . The 14 figures originally belonged to the altar, but were placed in a housing from 1703 after the cleared altar received paintings in 1638. The central picture shows the Lord's Supper, the side wings depict the Mount of Olives scene and the Resurrection and the predella depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds .
The octagonal cup-shaped font in late Gothic style from the 15th century is made of imported Namur marble. It is said to have been taken over from another church in 1675, possibly from Strand Island , which fell victim to the Burchardi flood in 1634 . The baptismal font was created in 1703.
In addition to the font, a special feature is a towel holder from the 17th century, which shows the baptism of Christ in the gable relief. The richly carved oak pulpit by Jens Süncksen from Langenhorn in the style of the Régence dates from 1735. The parapet areas are structured by consoles with figures depicting Adam, Moses and John the Baptist at the gallery entrance and Jesus, the evangelists with their evangelist symbols on the rounded pulpit basket and depict Luther. The profiled sound cover has a dove on the underside as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, on it are putti with instruments of torture. The life-size carved triumphal cross group above the chancel arch from the late 13th century shows John and Mary with halos before rear boards.
In 1701 the chandelier was donated by Deichgraf Matz Fredies. The church stalls with carved cheeks from the 16th and 17th centuries leave a central aisle free. The choir stalls are marked with the years 1708, 1710 and 1725.
organ
The organ was built in 2002 by Jehmlich Orgelbau Dresden with a two-part prospectus . The slider chest instrument has 18 stops on two manuals and pedal. The actions are mechanical.
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literature
- Church leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community in Schobüll .
- Johannes Habich, Susanne Grötz (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-03120-3 , p. 888 f.
- Heinrich Brauer u. a .: The art monuments of the Husum district. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1939, pp. 230–235 (with ill.).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hemming von Rumohr: Dome, churches and monasteries in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg based on old models. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1962, p. 79.
- ↑ nordseepresse.de: Ecclesiola sub mare - the "Little Church by the Sea" in Schobüll , accessed on July 20, 2019.
- ↑ a b Reinhardt Hootz (ed.): German art monuments part: Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-422-00373-8 , p. 421.
- ↑ Husumer Nachrichten of November 19, 2018: Little church by the sea in Schobüll before major renovation , accessed on July 20, 2019.
- ^ A b Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.): Lower Saxony, Hanseatic cities, Schleswig-Holstein. Art monuments and museums (= Reclams Art Guide Germany. Volume 5). Reclam, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-15-008473-3 , p. 551.
- ↑ a b c d e f Habich, Grötz (edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. 2009, p. 888 f.
- ↑ So the description on pedestrial.de ; accessed on July 19, 2019.
- ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on July 19, 2019.
Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 35.7 ″ N , 9 ° 0 ′ 16.9 ″ E