St. Mary's Church (Chojna)

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Marienkirche Koenigsberg in the Neumark

The Marienkirche ( Polish : Kościół Mariacki w Chojnie ) is the former town church of Königsberg in the Neumark , built from 1389 to 1407 (since 1945: Chojna ). Erected in the brick Gothic style and evangelical since 1539, it was destroyed in 1945 and reconstructed as an ecumenical meeting and cultural place from 1990 onwards.

history

Interior (2012)
In ruins (1985)

Today's church replaces a stone church that had stood in the same place as early as the 13th century. It was built under the patronage of the Order of St. John by the builder Hinrich Brunsberg from Stettin as a hall church with ambulatory and consecrated in 1407. Between 1451 and 1459 it was extended by three yokes; a tower was also added. With the Reformation in the Electorate of Brandenburg in 1539 she became Protestant. Until it was destroyed, it was the main church in the city and the place of activity of the superintendent of the Königsberg church district in Neumark I in the ecclesiastical province of Brandenburg .

On July 2, 1843, the Gothic church tower collapsed . It was replaced by a 102.6 meter high tower designed by the Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler . When it reopened, the church received a neo-Gothic altar with an altarpiece by Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt . During the restoration from 1882 to 1884, some pieces of equipment were removed.

On February 16, 1945, the church, like most of the city, was destroyed by a fire started by the Red Army . The church ruins were hardly secured in the following years, only at the end of the 1960s and the end of the 1980s some related work was carried out.

From 1990 to 1999 the church was reconstructed. Since a steel bracket installed in the 1930s broke, the top of the tower was reinforced with a reinforced concrete structure.

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche (Königsberg in der Neumark)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 45 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 47"  E