St. Clemens Church (Lübeck)

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Elevation of the west and south facade of St. Clement's Church (1899)

The St. Clemens Church was a brick-Gothic side church in Lübeck's old town , which stood on Clemensstrasse in the medieval harbor district not far from the Trave and was demolished in the 19th century.

history

The originally Romanesque Clemenskirche was first mentioned in a document in 1257. Their patronage related to Clement of Rome , the patron saint of sailors; it was one of the smaller side churches of the old town which, unlike the main churches , have not survived. The Clemenskirche near the harbor initially fulfilled the function of a merchant's church . The church building, renovated around 1481, was not very large as a side church and was 31.6 m long and 12.4 m wide (13.8 m in the choir area) inside. In the course of the Reformation , the need for church buildings also decreased in Lübeck, and St. Clemens became a branch church of St. Jakobi .

The Elbe and Weser barriers imposed by the English led to an economic boom in the city in the 18th century. At the request of the citizenship and with the consent of the church leaders of St. Jakobi, the Lübeck Senate decided in 1803 to profane St. Clemens . The church was sold for 20,000 marks Courant to the Lübeck trading house J. C. Kröger & Co, who used the church building as a warehouse . Only a few parts of the equipment were brought to St. Jakobi, nothing of which has survived.

Bell of the Clement Church

The church clock and one of the two bells ended up in Bad Oldesloe . The second bell from 1330 to 1340 remained in Lübeck. After the demolition via St. Jakobi it came into the collection of the Lübeck museums as the mother church of the Clement Church and is now exhibited in the bell collection in the Katharinenkirche .

In the Lübeck city view by Elias Diebel from 1552, the helmet of a church tower can be seen between the Jakobikirche and Heilig-Geist-Hospital, which is supposed to mark the position of the Clemenskirche in this east view of the city. It is heavily overdrawn for the sake of completeness of the cityscape. Even Matthew Merian exaggerated the Clemens church in his city view from 1641, in order to increase their impact. Instead of the tower shown in both cases , the single-nave church had only one roof turret on the ridge of the nave, which was demolished in 1803 as a result of the profanation.

At the end of the 19th century, the Clemensstraße, a small northern parallel street to the Beckergrube , was redesigned in terms of urban development and converted into a brothel street based on the model of Herbertstraße in Hamburg, where prostitution was permitted. The former Clemenskirche, previously used as a storage building, was torn down in 1899 and replaced by the multi-storey Wilhelminian-style houses at Clemensstrasse 2, 2a and 4, which are still standing today . Even before the First World War, well over a hundred prostitutes went about their business here.

The brotherhood of St. Clemens Kaland was closely associated with the church and continued to exist as a foundation administered by the city even after the Reformation and owned extensive land outside the city. These included the villages of Bliesdorf, Merkendorf, Marxdorf, Klein Schlamin in today's Ostholstein district .

outlook

According to the wishes of the current owners of the land in Clemensstrasse, after the brothel has been abandoned at the end of the 20th century, a cultural meeting place, combined with residential uses, is to be built there. The zoning plan was changed in 2007 by the building authorities and the special area was canceled. The old floor plans, which would have to be adapted to modern living ideas at great expense, often stand in the way of conversion. The local gastronomy tries to combine the previous use commercially with topics from the Lübeck literature of the Mann brothers ( The Blue Angel ).

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer et al. (Author), Monument Council (ed.): Lübeck. The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck; Volume 4: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thought and way crosses and the Passion of Christ. For Kunstreprod., Neustadt an der Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , pp. 349-360. (Unchanged reprint of the edition: published by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1928)
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : That healing. Geist Hospital and St. Clemens Kaland zu Lübeck, according to their previous and current circumstances, from the documents and acts of both foundations. Lübeck 1838 ( digitized version )
  • Rainer Andresen: The old townscape - Lübeck, history, churches, fortifications Volume 1, p. 53 ff.
  • Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Lübeck Lexikon. Lübeck 2006, under "Sacred buildings, demolished"
  • Monika Zmyslony: The brotherhoods in Lübeck up to the Reformation (contributions to social and economic history, 6), Kiel 1977 (Diss. Kiel 1974)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl August Ludolph Kegel: The trade in Hamburg, as a basis for a practical presentation of the current general trade system: Volume I, Volume 1 on www.books.google.de, 1806, self-published by Kegel; P. 107, § 197; accessed on February 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ On the dating and inscription: Adolf Clasen : Missed Treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, p. 181. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 12.6 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 53.7"  E