Provost Church of the Sacred Heart
The Propsteikirche Herz Jesu an der Parade is the main Roman Catholic church in Lübeck . It was from 1888 to 1891 to a design by architects and Paderborn Diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig built and on 10 May 1891 consecrated . The patronage "Sacred Heart of Jesus" is a reference to the devotion to the Sacred Heart, which grew strongly in the second half of the 19th century .
history
With the construction of this church, the Lübeck Catholics had a church again after more than 350 years. Public fairs have been prohibited in the city of Lübeck since the Reformation ; but the Catholic canons had a right to have mass read in their curia, which were not under the sovereignty of the city, and to let their house guests take part in it. Imperial letters of protection confirmed these rights several times. In the middle of the 18th century, the Catholic community rented a vicarage curia from the cathedral chapter at Kapitelstrasse 7 . There the chapel, a small school and some apartments for the clergy were set up. Holy Mass was celebrated in this building until 1873 , from 1805 without restrictions.
Then the church council acquired a former canon curia near the Lübeck cathedral . There, on August 3, 1888, the foundation stone was laid for the neo-Gothic brick church, which was completed three years later . The first pastor of the newly built church was the later auxiliary bishop in Münster Everhard Illigens .
Until further Catholic churches were built after the Second World War , the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was the only Catholic parish church in Lübeck and the surrounding area, along with the St. Joseph Church built in 1910 in the Kücknitz district ; in honor of the martyrs active in the Sacred Heart Congregation (see below) it received the rank of provost church in 1958 .
Building description
The Sacred Heart Church is a wholly brick executed transept loose Stutz basilica with cross vaults and an apsidal choir with five-eighth circuit . Due to the situation of the property, the church is not east , but the altar is in the west. East precedes the nave is a tower for the preservation of the seven towers dominated the medieval churches of Luebeck townscape only a shortened roof turret -like spire has. All shaped bricks and most of the bricks were manufactured in the Legan brickworks in Lübeck-Niendorf .
The church has a total length of 46.5 m, of which the nave is 32 m, the chancel 6.7 m and the tower 7.8 m. The width of the nave is 18.7 m, while the tower is 7.2 m wide and the choir is 9 m. The keystones of the central vault are 14 m above the church floor, while the side aisles remain about 1.5 m lower. The ridge line of the roof reaches a height of about 23 m. The height of the tower is 27 m to the floor of the gallery, 40 m to the tops of the shield gables and approx. 60 m to the tower cross.
Furnishing
The church was completely furnished in the neo-Gothic style, made possible by donors and essentially made by the sculptor Heinrich Seling (1843–1912) and master carpenter Thiesing in Osnabrück. The communion bench came from the sculptor and cabinet maker A. Bücker in Rheda . The high altar was designed as a winged altar . Above the candlestick were carved statues of the 12 apostles, above them scenes from the Passion story: Jesus on the Mount of Olives, flagellation, crowning of thorns, carrying the cross ( Veronica hands Jesus the handkerchief ), above Jesus on the cross with Mary and John. The high altar thus presented the five painful mysteries of the rosary . Below the group of the cross and above the exposure niche was a representation of the blessing, seated on the throne of his heavenly glory, surrounded by angels making music. From 1893 onwards, the outside of the wings was adorned with two painted depictions of saints by the Osnabrück painter H. Breskamp: St. Nikolaus von Myra and St. Katharina von Alexandrien . The choir windows were decorated with stained glass from the Osnabrück workshop F. B. Lueg (Th. Beckmann) with depictions of Christ and the saints Ansgar and Vicelin . In December 1891, the Church received a copy of Our Lady of Perpetual Aid . In 1894 a neo-Gothic pulpit was added with relief depictions of Christ and the four Latin church fathers Gregory the Great , Hieronymus as cardinal and the bishops Augustine of Hippo and Ambrose of Milan .
In 1955, and more radically in 1973 in the wake of the liturgical reform after the Second Vatican Council , the interior was changed and almost all parts of the neo-Gothic furnishings were destroyed. A new, free-standing altar made of Schupbach marble replaced the neo-Gothic winged altar . A bronze plaster cross by Ernst Barlach (1930) has been hanging over it for a few years . (A bronze version of this cross is in Güstrow Cathedral .)
A medieval Pietà , which today stands at the eastern end of the south aisle, was owned by the Catholic Mission as early as 1701. In the upper area at the west end of the side aisles hang two paintings with Saints Ignatius von Loyola and Franz Xaver , which also date back to the time of the Jesuit mission in Lübeck.
In the south aisle there is a wooden figure of Mary by an unknown artist, only 70 centimeters high, which was rediscovered during the renovation work in the sacristy.
Mary with child
Pietà
Anna Selbdritt
Cross by Ernst Barlach (1930)
memorial
In the crypt of the church is since 1955 a memorial to the Lübeck Martyrs , the three-day at the Sacred Heart Church chaplains Hermann Lange, Eduard Müller and John Prassek and the Protestant pastor Karl Friedrich parking Brink, who were executed together 1,943th
There is a connection to the martyr Sister Magdala Christa Lewandowski , a Kiel woman who had visited the memorial of the Catholic priests in Lübeck's Herz-Jesu-Kirche, because of this experience gave up her job as a bank clerk and went to Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe , as a missionary . There she was murdered on February 6, 1977 together with others in the exercise of her faith.
Redevelopment
From May 21, 2012 until the re-inauguration on June 23, 2013, the interior of the church, which suffered from moisture damage, was extensively renovated according to plans by the Riemann architects' office . The liturgical situation of 1973 was essentially preserved. However, the chancel was extended towards the nave; the tabernacle was moved from the choir in favor of a retractable choir pedestal in the apse in the west wall of the south aisle. The baptismal font was given a new, more central place in the entrance area of the nave.
The Märtyer memorial got a new staircase and a barrier-free access with elevator as well as exhibition areas. Two confessional rooms were also housed in the extension.
The top of the tower, made of copper, had to be renovated in 2007 due to damage; the tower was scaffolded for a year. In 2008 the tower was shown to the public again with a new copper roof, as we know it today.
local community
For many years the parish of the Provost Church was the only parish in the Lübeck area. Little by little, five daughter parishes came into being. In the course of the restructuring of the Archdiocese of Hamburg into pastoral rooms , the previously six Catholic parishes were merged with around 23,000 Catholics from the former Lübeck deanery to form a new common parish. Since June 25, 2017 there is only one Catholic parish in the pastoral area of Lübeck. It is called To the Lübeck Martyrs . Pastor is Provost Christoph Giering. His predecessor Franz Mecklenfeld was provost from 2006 to 2016; he replaced Helmut Siepenkort († March 18, 2007), who had been provost in the parish since 1990.
Church music and organs
The first organ of the Herz-Jesu-Kirche was the work of E. F. Walcker & Cie. and was installed in 1894. It had two manuals and 13 registers and was rebuilt and expanded by Karl Kemper in 1941 . After that, the organ had 24 stops on three manuals and a pedal with electro-pneumatic playing and stop action . It was dismantled in 1997.
With the establishment of a full-time A church musician position in 1992, extensive church music work was built up at the Provost Church of the Heart of Jesus. The first job holder, Heiner Arden (* 1964), founded the following choirs: 1992 Propsteichor Lübeck, 1993 Chamber Choir Cantus Lübeck, 1998 Children's Choir Canzonetta Lübeck. Then there are the “small schola” and the “schola cantorum lübeck”.
In addition to a chest organ made by the Dutch organ building company Henk Kloop, there is an organ in the provost church made by Orgelbau Kuhn (Männedorf, Switzerland) from 1998.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I (also as sub-octave coupling), III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bells
From the first chime in 1894, consisting of three bells, in the tone sequence g ', f' and es'. The two big bells were melted down during World War I. Until 2013 it was the only bell in the church. In 2013, the Eijsbouts bell foundry in Asten / NL cast two new bronze bells. These are the following bells:
- I. Christ bell / Heart of Jesus, tone d ′, weight 1,500 kg, cast in 2013. Foundry: Royal Eijsbouts, Asten NL
- II. Martyr's Bell, tone e ′, weight 1,200 kg, cast in 2013. Foundry: Royal Eijsbouts, Asten NL
- III. Marienglocke, tone g ′, cast in 1894. Founder:?, Lübeck
House of Encounter
To the south of the church is the former home for the pastor and chaplains. In 2005, after extensive renovation, it became a house of encounters , a meeting point for several church, charitable and social institutions and church offices.
Journeyman's House
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The “Catholic Journeyman's House”, which used to belong to the church and was built by the architect Carl Mühlenpfordt , now houses several medical practices and - as an extension of the Catholic old people's and nursing home “Haus Simeon” - a living area for twelve people with progressive dementia.
literature
- Everhard Illigens: History of the Lübeck Church from 1530 to 1896, that is the history of the former Catholic diocese and the current Catholic community as well as the Catholic bishops, canons and pastors of Lübeck from 1530 to 1896 . Paderborn 1896.
- Helmut Siepenkort (ed.): Hundred years of Propsteikirche Herz-Jesu zu Lübeck. Lübeck 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ After Illigens (Lit.), p. 132
- ↑ After Illigens (Lit.), p. 133
- ↑ See renovation of the Propsteikirche ( memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 12, 2012
- ↑ Information from Dietrich Wölfel: The wonderful world of organs: Lübeck as an organ city. 2., newly revised. and exp. Edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, ISBN 3-7950-1261-9 , pp. 265f.
- ↑ On the history of the organs of the provost church
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 45 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 4" E