St. Anschar Church (Münsterdorf)

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The Protestant St. Anschar Church is a neo-Gothic church in Münsterdorf in the Steinburg district (Schleswig-Holstein). The community belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Rantzau-Münsterdorf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The building is a registered cultural monument .

The church was named after St. Ansgar , the apostle of the north .

The previous building from 1601 had to be demolished in 1871 because it was dilapidated. In the same year the present church was completed.

The church's former cemetery was leveled several years ago. The gravestones of the private tutor Christian Friedrich Neugebauer from around 1800 and the poet Johann Gottwerth Müller from Itzehoe from 1828 have been preserved. The cemetery currently in use belongs to the community.

Furnishing

  • The organ with 12 registers was erected around 1875 by the organ building company Nagel from Itzehoe .
  • The pulpit is decorated with the figures of the apostles Peter, Andrew, John, Thomas and Philip.
  • The altarpiece of the high altar is a work by Rudolf Nonnenkamp. Under the altarpiece it says Come to me, all of you who are troublesome and burdened, I want to refresh you .
  • The font was taken from the previous church. The baptismal bowl is decorated with the representation of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist .
  • The patronage stalls are next to the font; it belonged to the Counts of Rantzau and has five seats.
  • The Rantzau boards are on the back wall of the building. They are reminiscent of a foundation made by Heinrich Rantzau and his wife Christine von Halle in 1596. The text on one plaque reads: In this place ... Heinrich Rantzau, royal governor in the Duchy of Holstein, should support fifty in the churchyard next to the ossuary Alms are given to the poor. In the year of the Lord 1596, his age 71, under the reign of Christian IV of Denmark and Norway. The other board reads: Whoever you are passing by, see, wanderer, what I am now. What you are, I was and you will soon be. This is how we will all be when defiant death has carried us away. Let us therefore live piously as long as it is still granted to us .
  • A donation board on the back wall of the building mentions Miss Anna Thode, who donated money for the new building in 1851.
  • Of the three existing bells, the largest had to be delivered during the First World War . A new bell was bought as a replacement in 1934, it bears the inscription: Sacrificed to the fatherland for defense in 1917. Risen again for God's honor in 1934. O country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord .
  • The Holy Communion chalice still comes from the previous church.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pages of the parish
  2. ↑ Pages of the church district
  3. ↑ List of cultural monuments ( memorial from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Year of construction
  5. ↑ Friedhof ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchengemeinde-muensterdorf.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 12.6 "  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 29.4"  E