Petrikirche (Lübeck)

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The Lübeck Malerwinkel with St. Petri in the foreground, behind St. Marien
The already mentioned 1307 Schmiedestraße to the residence of the forge, whose Headquarters and St. Peter's Church to the 1909th
The tower of the Petrikirche seen from the Obertrave (Photo: December 1998)
St. Petri in 1958 still without a tower helmet
Reconstruction of the tower in 1961 using the Trautsch-Pieper method
View from the northernmost aisle to the south during the 2014 Christmas market
Danzig bell cast in 1647 by Gerdt Benningk

The St. Petri Church in Lübeck is a place of worship that was first mentioned in 1170. It was expanded several times over the centuries until it was completed in the 15th century. It suffered severe damage in the Second World War and was not fully restored until 1987. Since the furnishings could not be restored, only special services are held in the church. It is mainly used for cultural and religious events and art exhibitions.

The effect of the simple room of the five-aisled hall church comes into its own thanks to the special architecture. Modern works of art such as the altar cross by the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer and the illuminated neon cross by Hanna Jäger invite visitors to reflect.

history

The church was first mentioned as early as 1170 together with the Marienkirche . Between 1227 and 1250, a late Romanesque , three-aisled church hall with four bays and three apses was built . It was 29,80 m + 3 m long and 21 m wide. Around 1290 a three-aisled, Gothic hall choir was built . St. Petri was Lübeck's imperial church . At the same time, the Petrikirche was the second market church in Lübeck next to the Marienkirche . In the 15th century, it was expanded to its present-day appearance: a Gothic , five-aisled hall church made of bricks with five bays. This made the Petrikirche one of the few existing five-nave churches. In the east there are three apses, in the west a single tower on a broad base. The Reformation arrived in Lübeck in 1529/30, and the Petrikirche became Protestant. During the air raid on Lübeck on Palm Sunday 1942, the Petrikirche burned down completely. The roof, the spire and the rich interior were destroyed. This also included the organ prospectus , created by the carver Tönnies Evers the Younger , or the important brass grave plate of councilor Johann Klingenberg . The baroque baptismal font donated by the councilor Johann Philipp Lefèvre was preserved .

Great preachers and pastors

Reconstruction after 1945

The poorly covered church initially served the Lübeck Kirchbauhütte as a lapidarium in which salvaged sculptural fragments from all Lübeck churches that were destroyed in the war were temporarily stored . Only in 1987 was the outside of the church completely rebuilt. A reconstruction of the interior was refrained from, so that today the thickness of the pure structure and the relatively rare form of the floor plan have an impact on the visitor. The new crucifix in the choir fits this, a work with the dimensions of a small triumphal cross (214 × 123 cm) by Arnulf Rainer 1980/83 made of raw planks with a corpus from the devotional trade. The crucifix is ​​covered with thick layers of paint. 48 medieval tombstones have survived for the Petrikirche, most of which are no longer available or can no longer be traced.

organ

In 1992 the Petrikirche received a new organ , financed by donations from the foundation. The instrument is located in the north aisle. It was built by the organ building company Hinrich Otto Paschen (Kiel) and has 19 registers (slider drawers) on two manuals and a pedal . The game action and stop action are mechanical. The gaming table is inserted into the positive work. The organist sits in front of the main plant and looks over the positive to the community.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Tube bare 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Dumped 4 ′
7th Schwegel 2 ′
8th. Mixture III-IV
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
10. Wooden dacked 8th'
11. Reed flute 4 ′
12. Principal 2 ′
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
14th Drone 16 ′
15th Principal 8th'
16. Tube bare 8th'
17th octave 4 ′
18th Rauschpfeife II
19th Trumpet 8th'

New use

St. Petri now serves as a church for the whole city without its own congregation . Under the direction of the pastors Günter Harig (1988–2005) and Bernd Schwarze (since 1998), a usage concept was developed for the church, which became the style for the city church work in German-speaking countries. Following the insight into the increasing secularization in the cities, the concept is based on a new definition of the relationship between church and culture, religion and science. A board of trustees made up of public figures is responsible for the varied program of events. In addition to readings, lectures, podiums, masses and concerts, theological and liturgical experiments take place regularly. Since the year 2000, the nightly themed performance "Petrivisionen" has been carried out once a month. The speech series "solo verbo" deals critically with religious questions. On Maundy Thursday 2017, an artistically designed communion celebration took place under the title “Supper's Ready”.

As a church without a congregation, the St. Petri Church belongs to the “services and works” of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Lübeck-Lauenburg from a canonical perspective. Roswitha Siewert, Thomas Baltrock, Björn Engholm , Bernd Schwarze and Valentin Rothmaler have acted as art curators . In January 2016, the St. Petri Board of Trustees signed a cooperation agreement with the Lübeck Art Association Overbeck-Gesellschaft .

Since September 29, 2004 the Petrikirche is officially the " University Church " of the University of Lübeck . Martin Botsch designed the logo. Since 2006, the Lübeck University of Technology and the Lübeck University of Music have also been cooperating with the University Church.

tower

The tower is 108 m high and has been climbed since 1908. The 50 m height viewing platform can be reached by elevator . From there you have a panoramic view of the entire old town of Lübeck and the surrounding area up to the Bay of Lübeck . See also: Lübeck # Geography .

Art exhibitions in the Kulturkirche

Others

The two bells in front of the main portal originally belonged to Gdansk churches and came to the Hamburg bell cemetery to extract raw materials during World War II . These bells escaped being melted down. After 1945 they (like the bells of the carillon of the Marienkirche and the paraments of the Danzig Marienkirche, which can be seen today in the St. Anne's Museum ) were brought to Lübeck because many refugees from Danzig had found a new home here. The restitution last discussed does not currently fail because of the attitude of the Lübeck committees, but because of a pending fundamental agreement of the Union of Evangelical Churches in Berlin , which, as the legal successor of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, was decided by the Berlin Court of Appeal on September 22, 1970 for all property matters of former Prussian Protestant parishes east of the Polish-German state border has been declared responsible, insofar as it concerns movable property that was on German territory after May 8, 1945, with the competent authorities in Poland.

The morgue of the Petrikirche in the Petrikirchhof , built in 1600, was destroyed in 1942. The Lübeck construction works of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany is now located in a new building at its former location .

literature

  • Rainer Andresen: Lübeck, history-church fortifications. Volume I, p. 44 ff.
  • Rainer Andresen: Lübeck, the building history of the St. Petri Church. Volume 6, 1984.
  • Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 1: St. Petri. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Wolfgang Teuchert : The building history of the Petrikirche in Lübeck. In: The car . 1954, pp. 24-29.
  • Friedrich Zimmermann: The Petrikirche zu Lübeck (= large architectural monuments . Issue 389). 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1998.
  • Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (see also: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993)
  • Roswitha Siewert: Room dialogues. Contemporary art and church architecture. Wieland, Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3878900708 .
  • Friedrich Techen : The tombstones of the Lübeck churches. Rahtgens, Lübeck 1898, pp. 98-108 ( digitized version )
  • Günter Harig: St. Petri zu Lübeck: Reality and idea of ​​a city church. epd documentation, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Bernd Schwarze: The Petrivisions. A service that is not called service and perhaps is not one. In: Nils Petersen (Ed.) : City liturgies - visions, dreams, echoes. Church in the city. Volume 24, eb-Verlag Berlin 2016, pp. 13-19.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Turris in ede s. Petri corona deaurata cum armis cesaris et urbis insignata est "(1492)
  2. ^ German biography - Kock, Reimar. In: deutsche-biographie.de. Retrieved May 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
  4. ↑ Ev. Church Construction Day and Institute for Church Construction: St. Petri Church Lübeck. In: kirchbautag.de. Institute for Church Construction and Church Art of the Present at the Philipps University of Marburg , accessed on May 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ More information about the organ in St. Petri . On the pages of Ev.-Luth. Church district. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ StPetriLuebeck: SUPPER'S READY - An evening about the Lord's Supper. May 3, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church District Lübeck-Lauenburg

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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 57 ″  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E