St. Peter's Church (Copenhagen)

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Saint Peter's Church, Copenhagen
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The St. Petri Church in Copenhagen is the church of the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran congregation in the city.

history

St. Peter's Church is located in the middle of Copenhagen, diagonally across from Dom Vor Frue Kirke ("Church of Our (Dear) Lady") on the corner of Nørregade and Sankt-Pederstræde in the so-called Latinerkvarter . It is the oldest surviving church in downtown Copenhagen.

The tower, nave and choir date from the middle of the 15th century.

The church has been expanded several times. Christian IV had the south and north aisles built in the 17th century, which gave the church its cross shape. The builder Hans van Steenwinckel built a new burial chapel in 1681. At the end of the 17th century, Christian V had another north aisle built, which today bears his name (Christian V Hall).

Use / meaning

The medieval church building was initially one of the four Catholic city churches. In 1585 it was made available by King Friedrich II to the German-speaking community that had probably been founded ten years earlier.

The St. Petri Church was responsible for the German-speaking subjects of the Danish king in the capital (there was also a German church in the Christianshavn district from the 18th century). This gave the St. Petri Church a special meaning. At that time, German was the language of the country's elite at court, as well as in business, military and culture. Also included Danish general government in the 17th-19th Century the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein . Many important personalities of the Danish state were therefore members of the St. Petri Congregation (e.g. Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld , Erik Pontoppidan the Younger , Nicolai Eigtved , Henrik Hielmstierne, Heinrich Ernst Graf Schimmelmann , Johann Friedrich Struensee ). Numerous prominent contemporaries were buried in the attached burial chapels; Due to the legal regulations, burials take place today only as urn burials. The special relationship between the community and the royal family is still expressed today through the royal patron .

With the German-Danish War and the separation of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg from Denmark in 1864, the St. Petri Church lost its importance as an upper-class community.

The St. Petri Congregation had 877 members on February 25, 2012; Ascending trend. You are not automatically a member according to your place of residence, but Germans living in Denmark and Danes with a special relationship to Germany register themselves. This contributes to the community being disproportionately lively for its size. It is German-speaking and has a contract with the EKD , but it is also part of the Danish national church ( Folkekirken ). Together with the neighboring Sankt-Petri-Schule , its choir and the Sankt-Petri-Kulturverein, the church is an important center for cultivating German culture and language in Copenhagen.

Furnishing

Altar of St. Petri Church

In the church there is a painting by Hinrich Krock , Christ on the Mount of Olives . Another painting from 1732 shows the Ascension of Christ . A painting by the reformers is undated.

The classicistic altar painting, which shows the resurrection of Jesus , comes from JL Lund (1819) and was donated by Friederike Brun . The bronze baptism was made in 1830.

organ

The previous organ was designed by Johann Lorentz the Elder. Ä. Built in 1639. The instrument was rebuilt and expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries by Gottfried Fritzsche and Lambert Daniel Kastens (en).

Today's organ was built by the Wilhelm Sauer company (Frankfurt / Oder) based on a design by the architect Thorvald Jørgensen (1867–1946) and inaugurated on April 3, 1938. It initially stood on the west gallery and was moved to the north aisle as part of the church restoration. The cone store instrument has 42  registers and three transmissions on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic . It is an important monument organ from the early organ movement and the only surviving Sauer organ in Scandinavia .

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Singing Gedakt 8th'
2. Open night horn 4 ′
3. Principal 2 ′
4th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
5. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
6th Rejoicing whistle II
7th Cymbel II
8th. Vox humana 16 ′
9. Bear whistle 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
10. Quintad 16 ′
11. Principal 8th'
12. Gemshorn 8th'
13. Coupling flute 8th'
14th octave 4 ′
15th Reed flute 4 ′
16. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th recorder 2 ′
18th Super octave 1'
19th Mixture IV-V
20th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
21st Lovely Gedakt 8th'
22nd Principal 8th'
23. Night horn 8th'
24. Salicional 8th'
25th Principal 4 ′
26th Klein Gedakt 4 ′
27. Cane fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Sif flute 2 ′
29 third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
30th Scharff IV-V
31. bassoon 16 ′
32. Krummhorn 8th'
33. Field trumpet 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
34. Principal 16 ′
35. Sub bass 16 ′
36. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
37. Octave bass 8th'
38. Bass flute 8th'
39. octave 4 ′
Singing Gedakt 4 ′
40. Night horns 2 ′
41. Mixture IV
42. trombone 16 ′
shelf 8th'
Bear whistle 4 ′

Pastors

Nave
pulpit

Organists

literature

  • HW Boldt (Ed.): Collection of privileges, laws, ordinances, orders and provisions that affect the German Church and Parish of St. Petri in Copenhagen and their foundations, as well as legacies , Copenhagen 1883.
  • HW Boldt: Collected news on the history of the German Evangelical Lutheran Sct. Petri Church in Copenhagen. A memorial to commemorate the 300th anniversary of this church on February 20, 1875 , Copenhagen 1875.
  • Pictures of the German St. Petri Church and its three schools. Copenhagen 1918.
  • Louis Bobé : The German St. Petri Congregation in Copenhagen. Your Church, Schools and Foundations MDLXXV-MCMXXV. Commissioned by St. Petri Church College , Copenhagen 1925.
  • Jan Steenberg: Sankt Petri Kirke, in: Danmarks Kirker, Part 1: København, vol. 1, Copenhagen 1945-58, pp. 229-452.
  • Hans W. Praetorius: From the history of the St. Petri community association 1872-1972. Copenhagen 1971.
  • Johannes Dose u. Niels Hasselmann: St. Petri 1575–1975. 400 years of the German Evangelical Lutheran St. Petri Congregation in Copenhagen , Copenhagen 1975.
  • Johannes Lehmann, PH Frosell u. Hans W. Praetorius: The St. Petri Schools in Copenhagen. Their 400-year history. Copenhagen 1975.
  • Jürgen Beyer u. Johannes Jensen (Ed.): Sankt Petri Copenhagen 1575-2000. 425 years of German-Danish encounters in biographies with a contribution by Hans Munk Hansen to the restoration , Copenhagen 2000.
  • Jürgen Beyer: Gravmindevandring i Sankt Petri Kirke i København. In: Kirkehistoriske Samlinger 2013, pp. 79–99.
  • 400 years of the royal patron of Sankt Petri / 400 år kongelig patron for Sankt Petri , [Copenhagen 2016]

Web links

Commons : Sankt Petri Kirke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A detailed list of the burial places can be found in the article in the Danish Wikipedia. Sankt Petri Kirke
  2. ↑ 400 years royal patron of Sankt Petri / 400 år kongelig patron for Sankt Petri , [Copenhagen 2016]
  3. ↑ PetriPost 1/2012, from March 1, 2012, p. 33, accessed on September 26, 2016
  4. ↑ Jürgen Beyer: The reformers painting of the Sankt Petri church
  5. ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on July 28, 2016.

Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 47.8 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 14.4"  E