Nikolaikirche (Stettin)

The Nikolaikirche was one of the four parish churches in medieval Stettin and was built in the 14th century. In 1811 a fire destroyed the church.

The church

The Nikolaikirche stood on the Szczecin Heumarkt (today Polish: Sienna) next to the old town hall. It was founded and built in 1335 under the Pomeranian Duke Otto I by merchants and seafarers who lived in the Oderstrasse and its surroundings.

The foundation stone for a church tower was laid on April 26, 1576. In 1677 it was badly damaged during the siege, but could be restored.

During the time of the Napoleonic occupation, the church served as a warehouse for the troops. On the night of December 9-10, 1811, she was completely cremated.

The parish

The ius patronatus of the Nikolaikirche formerly held the virgin monastery, before 1945 it was exercised by the city of Stettin. Since the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania in 1534, the Nikolaikirche has been a Protestant church. Two clergymen did their service here together.

After the church was destroyed, the Nikolaikirchengemeinde merged with the Johanniskirchengemeinde from Easter 1817 . The Nikolai-Johannis-Gemeinde (so its official name) belonged to the church district Stettin-Stadt in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1940 there were 16,918 parishioners.

Pastor

Pastors were active here from the Reformation to the end of the Nikolaikirche:

Nikolaus von Hoffe, until 1535 Nikolaus Hövisch, 1535–1541 Bernhard Strohschneider, from 1542 Johann Granow, until 1562 Johann Blenno, 1570-1609 Peter Hartmann, until 1575 Martin Friese, 1576–1592 Lukas Tabbert, 1593-1606 Christoph Butelius, 1607–1611 Faustin Blenno, 1607-1641 Friedrich Faber, 1611-1626 Ernst Hettenbach, 1617–1624 Samuel Fuchs Theodor Schambach, 1642–1646 Joachim Utecht, 1646–1666 Christian Groß , 1645–1650 Ludwig Jakobi, until 1669

Friedrich Cremer, 1669–1680 Konrad Tiburtius Rango , 1680–1689 Philipp Palow, 1690-1702 Friedrich Fabricius, 1667–1703 Johann Golitz, 1703-1722 Balthasar Bleccius, 1704–1719 Jakob Degener, 1720–1724 David Schumacher, 1722-1732 Joachim Sander, 1725–1767 Wilhelm Christoph Hasselbach, from 1734 Heinrich Amandus Wüstenberg, 1741–1773 Friedrich Sander, 1765–1786 Johann Christoph Pfennig , 1786–1804 Michael Gottlieb Brunnemann, 1786–1811 Johann Friedrich Schorse, 1801-1811

Church records

Numerous church registers have survived from the time of the Nikolaikirche , beginning in 1618. After 1817 they were kept together with those of the Johannis parish. The church records are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

literature

• Hans Moderow : The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 1. Szczecin 1903
• Hans Glaeser-Swantow: The Evangelical Pomerania. Part 2. Szczecin 1940
• Christa Stache: Directory of church records in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin. Part 1: The eastern church provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-9801646-4-0

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 '26.68 "  N , 14 ° 33' 35.24"  E