Marienkirche (Husum)
The Marienkirche in Husum , built between 1829 and 1833 according to designs by the Danish state master builder Christian Frederik Hansen , is considered one of the main works of classicism in the state of Schleswig-Holstein .
Previous construction
A Holy Cross chapel built in 1436 initially belonged to the parish of Mildstedt and became an independent parish church in 1448 as the Marienkirche. Several extensions and extensions made it one of the largest sacred buildings in the country around 1470–1510. The tower, almost a hundred meters high, had a steep octagonal helmet and was crowned with a baroque lantern. In 1807 the church was demolished, allegedly because of its dilapidation, which is considered to be one of the greatest losses in the architectural history of Schleswig-Holstein . The Vicelinkirche in Neumünster suffered a similar fate ; it was also replaced in 1828–34 by a new building designed by Hansen and closely related to the Husum church.
Former equipment
With the exception of a painted epitaph and the bronze baptismal font (see below), the furnishings of the Gothic church were auctioned and scattered in 1807: A late Gothic carved winged altar , around 1510, has been in the St. Jakobikirche in Schwabstedt since 1834 . By Hans Brüggemann , one of the most important Gothic carver, who lived from 1514 to 1523 in Husum, a group of sculptures of is St. George slaying the dragon from the Marienkirche in the Danish National Museum come Copenhagen and the popular image work dated a lute-playing angel from signed and 1520 Sacrament house , the remaining parts of which have been completely lost, is exhibited in the sculpture collection of the Berlin museums .
architecture
The new building, designed by Hansen, whose father came from Husum, from 1812 onwards and implemented in 1829–1833, left space for today's market square in front of the west facade, as it was significantly smaller than its Gothic predecessor. A tower rises out of the rectangular building in yellow brick on the west side facing the market, which only emerges as a rusticated risalit from the front in the basement . The main entrance, framed with pilasters and gable, runs through its axis . A cylindrical cupola dome covered with copper crowns the tower. The two-storey windows on the long sides are due to the built-in gallery .
The interior of the flat-roofed hall is defined by the double row of Doric columns. They carry heavy beams behind which the galleries are hidden. The length of the originally undisturbed classicist room is now reduced by the organ loft in the west, which was moved in 1962. The color of the room had been reconstructed in 1984 according to the original version (warm beige, granite-red columns), but after that the company returned to the pure white that had meanwhile been preferred.
Furnishing
The row of columns inside leads the view of the pulpit above the altar, which is framed by an Ionic pilaster aedicula . The monumental, semicircular wall section above originally contained the organ. Apart from a painted pastor's epitaph (1576), only the bronze baptism donated in 1643 was taken over from the old church in the new building. The gilded bronze cast by gunsmith Lorenz Karsten based on models carved by Husum snitger Bernd Cornelissen is reminiscent of medieval baptismal fonts. Four seated evangelists form the supporting figures of the actual basin, the walls of which are covered by reliefs of the baptism of Christ and the apostles as well as a coat of arms of the founding administrator, Marcus Lüders.
organ
The organ was built in 1963 by the organ builder Detlef Kleuker (Brackwede) and expanded in 1996 by the organ building company Lothar E. Banzhaf based in Husum to include an echo work without its own keyboard.
At the end of October 2016 the organ was shut down due to technical defects. The old organ was dismantled in March 2019 and brought to Warsaw for reconditioning. A fundraising campaign has been started to finance the new organ. The organ building company Klais has been commissioned to plan the new organ. The new organ with 42 registers, 41 rows of pipes with up to 61 pipes and 2430 pipes (168 made of wood and 2262 made of various tin alloys) could sound as early as 2022.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Ellger in Heinz Rudolf Rosemann (ed.): Lower Saxony, Hanseatic cities, Schleswig-Holstein, architectural monuments. Reclams Kunstführer, Germany, Volume 5, 4th edition, Stuttgart 1971, p. 332
- ↑ Image: Late Gothic winged altar in the Church of St. Jakobi, Schwabstedt . Heinrich Brauer u. a .: The art monuments of the Husum district , Berlin 1939, pp. 239–241. Theodor Storm describes him in a supposedly autobiographical passage from his novella Aquis submersus ( 1st chapter online ).
- ↑ Image: Angels playing lute . Lit .: Pictorial works of the Christian epochs , Berlin 1966, cat.no.387, p. 78, fig. 63.
- ↑ The historical facts on the sections of the previous building, architecture and equipment follow the description in Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein . Munich 1994, pp. 335-352.
- ↑ The statements on the original colors are based on the information in the Dehio manual from 1994. A more recent leaflet from the parish, on the other hand, considers the current, only minimally tinted white color to be original.
- ↑ Image: Baptism ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.
literature
- Heinrich Brauer u. a .: The art monuments of the Husum district , Berlin 1939, pp. 103–115.
- Horst Appuhn : Sankt Marien in Husum , Husum 1953.
Web links
- www.st-marien-husum.de Parish of St. Marien Husum
- https://herzenssache-orgelretten.de/ Donation campaign
Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '37.6 " N , 9 ° 3' 8.1" E