Kiruna Church

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Church in summer 2014
Church with snow-covered roofs
Interior of the church

The Church of Kiruna ( Swedish Kiruna kyrka ) in Kiruna in northern Sweden was built between 1903 and 1912 according to plans by the architect Gustaf Wickman .

Building

View of the rear wall with the organ

The church, one of the most remarkable buildings of Swedish national romantic architecture, combines American wooden architecture with influences from Norwegian stave churches and Sami Koten . In the design of the church participated u. a. Prinz Eugen with an altarpiece and Christian Eriksson with Georg as the dragon slayer , a relief on the facade and twelve statues on the roof, which symbolize human feelings, including tenderness, love, pity and despair.

The relocation master plan presented in 2014 envisages a gradual relocation of the city of Kiruna by 2033 in order to be able to mine the iron ore deposits below the city. The church is to be completely preserved and moved to a new location.

  • Altarpiece and St. George

  • Statues that symbolize human emotions

  • Statue "rapture"

organ

Beckerath organ

The organ was built in 1957 by the German organ builder Beckerath . In 1978 the work was restored by the organ builder Grönlund (Gammelstad), another restoration was carried out in 2006/07 by the organ builder Gerhard Grenzing (Barcelona). The slider chest instrument has 41 registers on 4 manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.

I Rückpositiv C–
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Principal 4 '
3. recorder 4 '
4th Sesquialter II 2 2 / 3 '
5. Gemshorn 2 '
6th Pointed quint 1 1 / 3 '
7th Sharp IV 1'
8th. Bear whistle 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C–
9. Quintadena 16 '
10. Principal 8th'
11. Playing flute 8th'
12. octave 4 '
13. Night horn 4 '
14th Fifth 2 2 / 3 '
15th octave 2 '
16. Mixture V 1 1 / 3 '
17th Trumpet 8th'
III Oberwerk C–
18th Gemshorn 8th'
19th Ital. Principal 4 '
20th Nasat 2 2 / 3 '
21st Forest flute 2 '
22nd third 1 3 / 5 '
23. Sif flute 1'
24. Zimbel III 2 / 3 '
25th Dulcian 16 '
Tremulant
IV breastwork C–
26th Wooden dacked 8th'
27. Reed flute 4 '
28. Principal 2 '
29 Schwiegel 1'
30th Sharp III 2 / 3 '
31. Krumhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C–
32. Principal 16 '
33. Sub bass 16 '
34. octave 8th'
35. Pommer 8th'
36. Metal flute 4 '
37. Night horn 2 '
38. Mixture VI 1 1 / 3 '
39. trombone 16 '
40. Trumpet 8th'
41. shawm 4 '
  • Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, III / P

Church park

In the southern part of the park is the grave of Hjalmar Lundbohm - the only grave in the park. In 1897, Lundbohm managed the planning of a new municipality for the LKAB on site , which was raised to town as Kiruna in 1914.

Web links

Commons : Church of Kiruna  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - moving with the "millipede" tactic . Article dated October 24, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014.
  2. ↑ Kiruna: the town being moved 3 km east so it doesn't fall into a mine . Article dated October 22, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ City in transformation ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kiruna.se
  4. ↑ Information on the organ

Coordinates: 67 ° 51 '7.2 "  N , 20 ° 13' 58.7"  E