Pauluskirche (Kiel)

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Pauluskirche Kiel from the east
West view

The Pauluskirche in the Kiel district of Düsternbrook was built in the years 1878–1882 in neo-Gothic style as a garrison church for the Prussian naval location Kiel and was used by this until 1918. Since 1925 the Pauluskirche has belonged as a parish church to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Heiligengeist in Kiel .

history

A few years after the elevation of Kiel to the Imperial War Port in 1871, the number of naval and army soldiers in Kiel was already 3,550, so that the demand for a garrison church was loud. In 1876 the Navy acquired a 6000 m² property on Niemannsweg.

On October 2, 1878, the foundation stone was laid for a simultaneous church for 450 people. The shell was completed in the summer of 1880, and the inauguration took place on October 8, 1882 in the presence of Prince Heinrich of Prussia .

Since Germany had to reduce the navy to 15,000 men due to the Versailles peace treaty , the Petruskirche in Kiel's Wik district was sufficient as a Protestant garrison church. The Pauluskirche was therefore no longer used from 1918 and fell into disrepair.

In 1925 the church became the property of the parish association of Kiel and since it reopened on November 29, 1925, it has belonged to the Heiligengeistgemeinde in Kiel.

The damage caused by World War II was temporarily repaired in 1948 and the re-inauguration took place on January 16, 1949. A church building association established in 1955 campaigned for a fundamental renovation that was carried out between 1957 and 1960.

The church building has been a listed building since 1988.

In the church in the nave to the right of the entrance there is a memorial plaque made of white marble, which commemorates four dead crew members of the naval airship L 1 that crashed in 1913 .

architecture

The church was built as a neo-Gothic three-aisled hall with a transept and a polygonal choir based on a design by the architect von Gotzkow with the assistance of the chief engineer Gießel .

Organs

Neuthor organ from 1985–1990

The Pauluskirche houses two organs . Rudolf Neuthor built the main organ in 1985, which was completed in two construction phases by 1990. The instrument has 41 registers , which are divided into three manuals and pedal . The game action is mechanical, the stop action is electric. A new organ for a romantic-symphonic instrument in the German-French style is currently being planned.

The choir organ was built in 2005 by Orgelbau Quathamer. It comprises nine registers on two manuals. It offers flexible possibilities for church music, because the second manual can be disconnected as a portable chest organ with a separate wind supply. In addition, both manuals can be transposed separately by a semitone higher or lower. The disposition is as follows:

I Manual C – f 3
Wooden dacked 8th'
Reed flute 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Manual C – f 3
Reed flute 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
attached

Landmark for the seafaring

Due to its location 30 meters above sea level, the Pauluskirche was supposed to serve as a landmark for seafaring when entering the inner fjord. Its 72 meter high tower is Kiel's highest church tower to this day.

Web links

Commons : Pauluskirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulus Church. Ev.- Luth. Heiligengeist parish in Kiel, accessed on December 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Christa Geckeler: Kiel Memorial Day: January 16, 1949 - Inauguration of the Pauluskirche after the reconstruction. City of Kiel, accessed on February 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ Choir organ of the Pauluskirche , accessed on January 9, 2020.

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 41.5 ″  E