St. Jacobi Church (Greifswald)

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St. Jacobi from the southwest

The St. Jacobi Church is located on the western edge of Greifswald's old town and is the smallest of the three main Gothic churches in the Hanseatic city.

Building description

The early Gothic brick church consists of a three-aisled hall and the square west tower, which, like the multi-sided choir in the east, is narrower than the nave. The sacristy is added in the southeast corner of the nave and choir . The nave is covered with a tiled gable roof, while the tower is closed by an acute-angled pyramid roof. The west portal is lavishly designed.

Building history

The original building was built in the 13th century, when the Neustadt developed west of Greifswald, which soon became part of the old town. In 1280 the church, which was consecrated to the apostle James , the patron saint of pilgrims , was first mentioned by name. At that time it was still a two-aisled hall structure, which was unusual for a parish church. Around 1400 it was converted into a three-aisled church, although the hall was not widened. For this reason, the four buttresses had to be relocated to the outside, and the aisles were correspondingly narrow. The cross-ribbed vault of the nave is supported by four pairs of unplastered supporting pillars, which, in contrast to the other two brick churches in Greifswald, are round, i.e. as columns .

The three-story tower today originally had a half-timbered tower with a smaller floor plan. This, including the roof, was destroyed by fire on March 31, 1955 and was left out when the tower roof was restored in 1965. The cause of the fire could never be finally clarified, and charges against the incumbent pastor for negligent arson were dropped. Contemporary witnesses claimed that the fire was started by the Stasi to shut down the politically uncomfortable pastor.

The nave was probably whitewashed by the end of the 16th century. However, a Gothic ceiling fresco has been preserved in the east central nave vault . Since the church was used as a field bakery during the Napoleonic occupation, most of the furnishings have been lost. From 1817, the interior of the church was restored under the direction of Johann Gottfried Quistorp , among others nephew of Jacobi pastor Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp and also drawing teacher from CD Friedrich . The three colored choir windows were used in 1842 as part of the redesign of the choir by the university building inspector Carl August Peter Menzel . The most valuable items in the inventory are the granite baptismal font from the second half of the 13th century and a Gothic Holy Communion chalice. The pulpit with pictures of the four evangelists dates from 1855.

organ

Schuke organ (1968)

The organ was installed in 1968 by the Potsdam organ builder Schuke . It replaces an instrument that was built by the Buchholz organ building company in 1822 and that was destroyed in a tower fire in 1955. The purely mechanical instrument has 30  registers on two manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dulz flute 8th'
4th Coupling flute 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Nassat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Schwiegel 2 ′
10. Mixture VI
11. Scharff V
12. Trumpet 16 ′
II substation C – g 3
13. Dumped 8th'
14th Quintadena 8th'
15th Principal 4 ′
16. Reed flute 4 ′
17th octave 2 ′
18th Sif flute 1'
19th Tertian II
20th Scharff IV
21st Dulcian 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Principal 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Gemshorn 8th'
25th octave 4 ′
26th Reed flute 2 ′
27. Mixture VI
28. Bass aliquots III
29 trombone 16 ′
30th Trumpet 8th'

Peal

In the bell house in the church tower there is currently a bell in the tone d´. It was cast in 1964 by the Schilling foundry in Apolda. The bell before the war and the church fire in 1955 consisted of three bells. Today's bell was modeled on the former largest bell. The community pursues the goal of completing the bells again.

Image gallery

  • Pulpit and altar

  • Ship to the west

  • Ship from the west

  • St. Jacobi around 1920

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organ in St. Jacobi Greifswald. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Church Community St. Jacobi Greifswald, archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; Retrieved May 4, 2014 . 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 / jacobigemeinde.info

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 43 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 23"  E