Neurossgärter Church

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Neurossgärter Church

The Neurossgärter Church ( Russian: Новая Россгартенская кирха , Nowaja Rossgartenskaja Kircha ) was located in the Neurossgarten district in Königsberg and was given its name to avoid confusion with the Altroßgärter Church .

Construction and equipment

It was built from 1644 to 1647 as a choir-less hall building with a flat wooden barrel vault and stitch caps . The building was a flat arched arch made of wood, which was created according to the design of the Prussian court mathematician Christian Otter (1598–1660). Otter was a mathematician, civil and war builder who later died as a professor in Nijmegen . He was the inventor of the Dutch fortification construction.

The vault showed numerous paintings. The paintings in the center from east to west showed the creation of women from Adam's rib and the fall of man . In the middle of the vault were the four paintings Adoration of the Christians , Crucifixion of Christ , Resurrection and Ascension . The Last Judgment was in the direction of the organ . Between the stitch caps on the south side were the paintings Isaiah and the angel with glowing coal (Isa. 6,7) , the union of the first human couple by God , the Annunciation , Jonas and the whale , Lot with his daughters and The Prophet . There were also paintings on the north side, including The Prophet Micah , The Flood , Exaltation of the Serpent by Moses , The Ascension of Elijah , Jerusalem, and The Apostle Philip .

The 90 m high church tower , built from 1683 to 1695, served as a landmark for the Haff boatmen. In 1667 he received a tower clock and in 1817 a lightning rod.

In 1673/74 an organ was installed by David Trampp , which was rebuilt and expanded in the years 1734–37 by Georg Sigismund Caspari (1693–1741). Since Caspari added ten registers to the organ , various sources speak of a new building, but the entire pipe material , the organ structure and essential parts of the case of the Trampp organ have been preserved. In addition to the ten new registers, the wind chests , the action mechanisms and the play cabinet were newly made .

The beautiful pulpit with figurative decorations was created in 1648, carved from the octagon, with Corinthian columns at the corners, the figure of Jesus and the four evangelists in the fields. The carrier was an angel. It had a sound cover with angels and, as a coronation, a representation of the risen Lord.

The altarpiece was painted in 1668. In the predella was a painting showing the Lord's Supper. On the first floor there was a statue on the right and left, an allegory of the virtues. In between is an oil painting depicting the crucifixion. On the second floor there were statues above the pairs of columns. Left the figure of Moses, right the figure of John the Baptist. In between an oil painting showing the resurrection. On the third floor there was a medallion oil painting that showed the Ascension. The altarpiece was crowned by the figure of Christ with the victory flag. The figure was flanked by putti with the tools of torture.

There was a crucifix on the gallery. The crucifix is ​​a work of art by the most famous sculptor of the time, Isaak Riga (* before 1653 in Königsberg, † between 1715 and 1720 in Königsberg). An angel hovered to his right and caught the blood of Christ in a chalice. On the base of the crucifix was a coat of arms: IR 1676 and an inscription in which Isaak Riga identifies himself as the creator of the crucifix.

There was a bust of the Archbishop Ludwig Ernst von Borowski on the outside, created by Emil Cauer the Elder , and a picture of Andreas Knorre in the nave, both of which were lost during the Second World War . The following oil paintings were in the Christian sacred building: The interest penny; Expulsion from paradise, crucifixion of Christ with the two thieves; Images of the apostles; Resurrection from the graves, the adulteress, Bartholomäus Benig pinx., Christ with the three women; Entombment of Jesus, removal from the cross.

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See also

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Adolf Boetticher (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. On behalf of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament . Booklet VII. The architectural and art monuments in Königsberg. Bernhardt Teichert, Königsberg 1897, OCLC 312871065 .
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .

Web links

Commons : Neurossgärter Church, Königsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boetticher, pp. 238f.
  2. ↑ cf. Boetticher, p. 240.
  3. ↑ cf. Boetticher, pp. 241f.
  4. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 276-279.
  5. ↑ Boetticher, pp. 243f.
  6. ^ Member of the Königsberg Corpsland Team Normannia I; Kösener corps lists 1910, 142/13.

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 '  N , 20 ° 30'  E