Market Church of St. Cosmas and Damian (Goslar)

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St. Cosmas and Damian: View of the Westriegel
Choir room with main altar

The market church of St. Cosmas and Damian is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in the center of the old town of Goslar . It is the town's council and main parish church and is named after Saints Cosmas and Damian .

history

The market church ("ecclesia forensis") is first mentioned in 1151. The origins of today's church building go back to the 11th century, when a previous building must have already existed. This was dedicated to St. Nicholas of Myra ; it was probably a Romanesque , three-nave pillar basilica with a transept and crossing.

From this Romanesque church, today's west bar of the market church comes, which with its two towers so to speak rises like a castle. The two towers are almost the same height (north tower: 66 m, south tower 65.4 m). The north tower in its current form was built in 1593 after a fire (1589) as an "open lantern" with a Welschen hood . There is a tower room in it.

The bell chamber is located in the middle part of the west bar. There are three bells from 1848 hanging there. The largest, named Johanna, weighs 6.8 tons, has a diameter of 2.21 m and is the second largest bell in Lower Saxony. The second bell has the name Christina , the third the name Paulina . Until 2016, an iron hour bell and a quarter-hour bell hung in the open lantern of the north tower. In the meantime they have been replaced by a historical bronze bell (hour) and a bronze cast (quarter of an hour).

Furnishing

The church houses an important late Romanesque window cycle with scenes from the life of St. Cosmas and Damian. It is a masterpiece of German glass painting and is the oldest surviving cycle with depictions from the lives of the two saints. The windows were made around the year 1250. Originally they were probably located in one of the two side central windows of the original Romanesque choir, which was demolished in 1300. Today the windows hang on the site of the former Romanesque north apse. They decisively show the martyrdom of the two saints.

The baroque altar was created by the Easter carver Andreas Gröber in 1659.

In the chancel there are glass windows by the artist Johannes Schreiter , made in 1992–2003.

The clockwork of the tower clock comes from the tower clock factory and bell foundry of the clockmaker Johann Friedrich Weule from 1848.

  • Interior with renaissance pulpit (1581, Hans Seek) and organ

  • Baptismal font (1573, Margnus Karsten)

  • Martin Luther Window

  • epitaph

  • Window with scenes from the life of Saints Cosmas and Damian

  • Weule movement of the tower clock from 1848 (in the stairway to the north tower)

  • Bell cage in the crossbar

organ

The organ by organ builder Schuke

The organ of the Marktkirche was built in 1970 by the organ builder Karl Schuke . In 2012 the instrument was rebuilt, renovated and expanded by organ builders Hartwig and Tilmann Späth (Freiburg). The instrument was given a new housing , which is lower in the middle and reveals the large rose window behind it. The technical system was renewed and the individual plants rearranged. A swell mechanism was installed behind the organ as an auxiliary mechanism (tower mechanism) with 14  registers . The disposition of the existing manual works (main work, upper work) and the pedal has been expanded by a total of 7 registers. Today the organ has 58 registers on three manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 16 ′ (S)
Drone 16 ′
octave 08th'
Concert flute 08th' (S)
violoncello 08th' (S)
Coupling flute 08th'
octave 04 ′
Gemshorn 04 ′
Nasat 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′0
octave 02 ′
Cornett III-V 00 08th' (S)
Mixture V-VI 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Trumpet 16 ′ (S)
Trumpet 08th'
II upper structure C – g 3
Dumped 08th'
Salicional 08th' (S)
Principal 04 ′
Reed flute 04 ′
Sesquialtera II 00 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′0
octave 02 ′
Forest flute 02 ′
Fifth 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Sharp IV 01'
Rankett 16 ′
Hopper shelf 08th'
Tremulant
III Breastwork C – g 3
Wooden dacked 08th'
recorder 04 ′
Principal 02 ′
Sif flute 01'
Terzian II 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′0
Zimbel III 01 ⁄ 2 ′
Krummhorn 08th'
Tremulant
Swell (auxiliary) C – g 3
Violin principal 08th' (S)
Transverse flute 08th' (S)
Night horn 08th' (S)
Viol 08th' (S)
Vox coelestis 08th' (S)
Fugara 04 ′ (S)
flute 04 ′ (S)
Nazard 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (S)0
Swiss pipe 02 ′ (S)
third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′ (S)
Mixture III-IV 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′ (S)
Trompette harmonique 0 08th' (S)
oboe 08th' (S)
Clarine 04 ′ (S)
Tremulant (S)
Pedal C – f 1
Pedestal 32 ′ (S)
Principal 16 ′
Sub bass 16 ′
octave 08th'
Dumped 08th'
octave 04 ′
Pommer 04 ′
Night horn 00 02 ′
Mixture V 02 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 08th'
shawm 04 ′
  • Pairing: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, Aux / I, Aux / II, Aux / III, Aux / P
  • annotation
(S) = subsequently added register (Späth, 2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of the market church on the website of the community
  2. ↑ http://www.marktkirche-goslar.de/glocken.html
  3. ^ To the Westriegel on the municipality's website
  4. ↑ More information on the Romanesque window cycle on the municipality's website
  5. ↑ To the altar
  6. ↑ Ev.-luth. Market Church of St. Cosmas and Damian Goslar (PDF on the municipality's website)
  7. ↑ Comprehensive information on the (new) organ on the municipality's website

Web links

Commons : Marktkirche St. Cosmas and Damian (Goslar)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 20.3 "  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 40.5"  E