Petruskirche (Kiel)
The Petrus Church in Kiel 's Wik district was built as a garrison church on behalf of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz in the years 1905–1907 . He acted on the recommendation of Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia , the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II , and entrusted the architects Karl Moser and Robert Curjel with this construction project .
history
Shortly after Kiel was elevated to the status of a Imperial War Port in 1871 , the first garrison church , the Paulus Church , was built on a hill above Niemannsweg in 1878–1882 . The constantly growing Imperial Navy made it necessary to build another church for the members of the Navy. Originally planned as a simultaneous church to save costs , the new, larger Petrus Church commissioned as a Protestant church was built as this could not be implemented for political reasons. In 1907 the Catholic St. Heinrich Church was built not far from this on Feldstrasse .
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz , "father" of the naval laws , gave the order to build the two churches as State Secretary in the Reichsmarineamt , after the Reichsschatzamt initially refused to provide the funds due to lack of funds. The total costs for the Petrus Church were estimated at 300,000 marks, but exceeded by almost 100,000 marks.
For the construction of the Protestant church, Tirpitz appointed the successful and sacred architecture office of the two Swiss-born architects Karl Moser and Robert Curjel. His interested participation went so far that he asked the architects to design an "assembly" - consisting of a church, confirmation hall, rectory and administration building - which was to be built in brick in "local designs" with particularly large stones in the format of a monastery. At the suggestion of the garrison building inspector Adalbert Kelm , Tirpitz also ordered that, contrary to the usual rules, the church should not be easted, but rather northed, in order to improve the urban development effect. The high, mighty tower escapes the narrowing through the high, closed row of houses opposite on the west side of the "civil" Adalbertstrasse and faces the city, to the south. In the Second World War in 1944 by bombs partially destroyed, the Petrus Church was the mainly by donations from the American section Lutheran World Federation to be rebuilt within two months 1949th
architecture
Built in the years 1905–1907 as a naval garrison church by the well-known architects Curjel & Moser, this church is an impressive example of the modern Protestant church building of the early 20th century. Alfred Kamphausen, for example, attested the Wiker Church to be a “bolder achievement that introduced the 20th century” compared to its immediate predecessors. In it elegantly historicist and contemporary Art Nouveau forms merge . Large expansions are combined with graceful brick struts and a filigree design language in the stone carvings.
Bell tower
In the Dehio for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, one is impressed by the tower's “idiosyncratic, Romanesque and late Gothic elements incorporating Art Nouveau shape”.
Interior and equipment
Art Nouveau window
The design of the Art Nouveau windows in their original glazing enhances the effect of the overall architectural work of art. The architectural, ornamental glazing made of light cathedral glass in white and pastel yellow, blue, green and violet colors took up both lively and linear elements of Art Nouveau in the design. At the instigation of the Friends of the Petrus Church Kiel-Wik eV, the windows were faithfully restored.
Sanctuary
The chancel was redesigned in 1939 with sculptures by Otto Flath .
Evangelists
The choir of the main nave is flanked on both sides by two of the evangelist symbols, which are incorporated into the masonry as terracotta medallions.
organ
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The organ is still in its original location today, but is no longer in function (as of September 2013).
Memorial plaques and memorial
Some of the memorial plaques for marines who died or died in an accident came to the Laboe Naval Memorial after 1945 .
Memorial plaques inside
Under the round lion's head medallion on the front wall of the church to the left of the chancel there are two panels made of red marble with gold engraving in memory of the torpedo helmsmen who died in the First World War at the Baltic Sea station (left panel) and the sailors of the G 171 torpedo boat who died in an accident , which collided with the liner SMS Zähringen during a maneuver on September 14, 1912 and sank (right panel).
Under the organ gallery there is a memorial plaque for three marines who perished when SM U 3 sank in Kiel harbor in January 1911. Another memorial plaque commemorates Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Maltzahn, who went down with the SMS Mainz on August 28, 1914 in the first sea battle near Heligoland .
Memorial plaques and memorial outside
A bronze plaque in the outer entrance area to the left of the church gates commemorates 718 deck officers of the Imperial Navy who were killed in the First World War.
Opposite, in the outer entrance area, on the right, there is a bronze memorial plaque for those who died in the First World War of the naval engineer officer corps.
A head-high, forward-looking, but backward-looking lion on a pedestal in the arcade of the garrison church made of glazed, reddish stoneware reminds of those who died in the First World War of the torpedo weapon. It was made by Kieler Kunst-Keramik AG, the design comes from Fritz Theilmann . A plaque on the side indicates that 1,328 sailors from the torpedo weapon perished and 103 torpedo boats sank.
Motif
A depiction of the Petruskirche was used as a motif on the 2007 Kiel Christmas mug.
literature
- Gerhard Krause, Gerhard Müller, Siegfried M. Schwertner: Theological real encyclopedia . Walter De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990. ISBN 3-11-011613-8 .
- Theodor Fischer: The Protestant Garrison Church in Ulm (1905–1910) & Uwe Hinkfoth: The construction task of the Garrison Church in the German Empire . Georg Olms Verlag , Hildesheim 2001. ISBN 3-487-11174-8 .
- Jürgen Elvert, Jürgen Jensen, Michael Salewski: Kiel, the Germans and the sea . Franz Steiner Verlag , Stuttgart 1998. ISBN 3-515-06266-1 .
- W. Rössling: Curjel & Moser, architects in Karlsruhe / Baden . CF Müller Verlag, 1986. ISBN 3-7880-9735-3 .
- K. Sohrt, I. Engel, Gerhard Freiherr von Ledebur: The Petrus Church in Kiel Wik - devotions, views, architecture . Ed. Friends of the Petrus Church Kiel-Wik eV, Sollermann, Leer 1997
- Otto Clausen: History of the Wik and its inhabitants . Communications from the Society for Kiel City History, Volume 50, 1960
- Hans-Günther Andresen: The former naval garrison church in Kiel-Wik . Schleswig-Holstein, born 1979, issue 11 and issue 12
- Ole Michel: The Petruskirche in Kiel-Wik (former naval garrison church) 1905-1907 . Nordelbingen, Contributions to the art and cultural history of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 64, Heide 1995
- Gerd Stolz: Historic sites of the navy in Schleswig-Holstein , Verlag Boyens & Co., Heide 1990. ISBN 3-8042-0513-5 .
- Alfred Kamphausen: Schleswig-Holstein as an art landscape . Neumünster 1973
Web links
- Website of the Association for the Promotion of the Petrus Church Kiel-Wik eV
- Kiel City Archives: Kiel Memorial Days: December 18, 1907 (accessed on February 24, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Jürgen Elvert, Jürgen Jensen, Michael Salewski: Kiel, die Deutschen und die See, 1998, page 218
- ↑ See Alfred Kamphausen: Schleswig-Holstein as an art landscape. Neumünster 1973, p. 116
- ↑ Cf. Georg Dehio: Dehio - Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1972, p. 276
- ↑ Cf. Ole Michel: The Petrus Church in Kiel-Wik (former naval garrison church) 1905–1907, in: Nordelbingen, contributions to the history of art and culture of Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 64, 1995, page 120
- ↑ Losses in the home fleet. Marine, August 7, 2012, accessed September 7, 2013 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 33.2 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 8.3 ″ E