Nicolaikirche (Aabenraa)
The Nicolaikirche is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the city of Aabenraa in the Danish north of Schleswig . Until the free congregation church was built in 1905, it was also the only church in the city.
Building description
The brick building is located at the highest point of the city's oldest settlement core at the end of the Aabenraa Fjord . Construction began around 1250 at the latest. The elongated building is unusually low for a city church and gives the impression of a single-nave hall church. The north and south arms that were still added in the Middle Ages turned the building into a cruciform church. The Nikolaikirche never had a tower in Eckernförde, nor did its sister, which was equipped with a taller nave . However, it carries a high roof turret over the crossing that dominates the cityscape. This was reconstructed in the 1960s according to historical templates after a higher brick tower with stepped gables had been built in its place in 1908, but which had already become dilapidated.
Churchyard
The cemetery was moved about 500 meters west to Forstallee in the 19th century. The old churchyard is now a lawn. There is a special natural and cultural monument each. In front of the south main entrance of the church there is a huge horse chestnut . In front of the southern wall of the choir is a memorial for the victims of the First World War from the community, on which an angel figure holds his hand protectively over a German and a Danish fallen man.
local community
Originally, the parish included not only the city, but also a country parish that was not very densely populated. The latter was almost completely incorporated into the city in 1875/1910. In 1905 a Danish free parish church was built in the north of the city, which was named St. Jürgen in memory of a former leprosy hospital . Today it is the parish church of the northern part of the city. In the 1970s, the new satellite settlement Høje Kolstrup , located on the heights, received its own modern church. The Nikolaikirche, however, is still an Evangelical Lutheran parish church for most of the city. The German-speaking church services of the German-North Schleswig congregation also take place there regularly.
Furnishing
Among the bemerkenswertesten equipment pieces include numerous epitaphs from the 17th and 18th centuries, the hanging over the nave chandelier made of brass (17th century).
Further equipment:
- Baroque high altar with richly carved reredos from 1758 and two panels (Passion of Christ) from 1642 (restored in 1956)
- Font with a new granite basin (1956) on a late Romanesque base with animal figures and other ornamental decorations
- Pulpit with late Gothic paintings, reliefs and sculptures, dated 1565
- Hanging ship model in the north transept ( frigate with the monogram of King Friedrich V (18th century))
- Octagonal alms box from the 16th century
- Three chalices from 1466, 1740 and 1751.
- Two host containers from 1714 and 1716.
organ
The organ was built in 1956 by the local organ builder Marcussen & Søn . The slider chest instrument has 31 registers (2,052 pipes ) on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
literature
- Lars N. Henningsen (Red.): Sct. Nicolai Kirke i Aabenraa. Aabenraa 2002.
- Ingrid Riese / Peter J. Sönnichsen: Through the ages. 75 years of the North Schleswig community. Tingleff 1998.
Individual evidence
Web links
Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 40.1 ″ N , 9 ° 25 ′ 5.4 ″ E