Provost church (Königsberg)

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Provost church (1908)
Nave
1944

The center of Catholic life in Königsberg i. Pr. Formed the baroque provost church in the Sackheim district .

history

Since the supremacy of the Poles in Prussia was endangered by the Swedes, Sigismund III. Wasa , in order to secure his fief, pushed for the equality of the Catholics and committed the Elector Johann Sigismund in 1611 on the occasion of his fief in Warsaw to build a Catholic church, which was consecrated in 1616. In its time it was the only Catholic church in the diocese of Samland and was subordinate to the Bishop of Warmia . It was destroyed in the great fire in Löbennicht in 1764 and rebuilt in the baroque style from 1765–76 by the building director Johann Samuel Lilienthal. It was also the city's first baroque church. Lilienthal also built the chaplaincy with the beautiful frontispiece . The Catholic funeral for Queen Luise took place here in 1810 . The church was assigned to the Old Catholics in 1876 , but returned to the Roman Catholic community after their numbers decreased . In 1886 the provost Dinder became Archbishop of Gniezno . The church was completely destroyed by the air raids on Königsberg during World War II. Nevertheless, Catholic life in Sackheim was able to recover. In 1995, not far from the Sackheimer Tor , the Catholic community Lumen Christi built a Catholic church with adjacent workshops and social station. However, the project was abandoned in March 2004.

The west gable with the four life-size evangelists and the high altar by Andreas Schmidt and Rösel from 1772 were worth seeing; the organ by Christoph Braveleit from 1790; the wrought-iron pulpit and sacristy door by Powelski from 1777.

Clergy

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. Special edition. 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
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg: Architecture from German times . Husum Druck, 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 20 ° 31 ′ 16.6 ″  E