St. Petri Church (Ratzeburg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petrikirche in Ratzeburg
Altar, pulpit and organ in the central axis of the long side

The St. Petri Church or City Church in Ratzeburg is a late Baroque, Lutheran church building that was designed as a transverse preaching church .

Building history

The spätestbarocke and early classical St. Peter's Church, from 1787 to 1791 by the master builder of the electorate of Hanover , Johann Friedrich Laves as pure preaching church instead of a previous medieval church built, the late example of a querschiffig scale hall church . Altar table, pulpit and organ prospect form a room-high unit in plait style , so this church is considered exemplary for Protestant church building in northern Germany in the 18th century and, after the destruction of the old town of Ratzeburg by the Danes in 1693, fits into the new one, based on the model the city of Mannheim , a planned baroque town with its strictly rectangular building blocks.

The tower on the ridge of the church was not erected until much later in 1911 in the neo-baroque style by the architect J. Wolff.

In addition to the unity of the pulpit altar and organ, the interior of the church impresses with the side boxes and the three-story galleries.

The bell of the church comes from the caster Brun Hemminckhusen and was cast as early as 1578. The bell founder Nikolaus Gage is also proven with castings for the Petrikirche.

During its existence it was also the garrison church of the Lauenburg Jäger Battalion No. 9 .

The organ was built in 1980 by the organ builder Karl Schuke. The slider chest instrument has 31 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The key actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electrical.

  • Major works: Pommer 16 ', Principal 8', Spielflöte 8 ', Oktave 4', Rohrflöte 4 ', Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ', Oktave 2 ', Cornett IV-V, Mixtur IV-VI, Trumpet 8'.
  • Swell: Gedackt 8 ', Quintade 8', Violflute 8 ', Beat (from f 0 ) 8', Principal 4 ', Flûte Douce 4', Recorder 2 ', fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ', Sesquialter II, Scharff IV, Dulcian 16 ', oboe 8', tremulant .
  • Pedal: sub-bass 16 ', octave 8', Gedackt 8 ', chorale bass 4', night horn 2 ', back set IV, trombone 16', trumpet 8 ', shawm 4'.
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

literature

  • Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art topography Schleswig-Holstein . Neumünster 1974, p. 370 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 1578, together with Hermann Paßmann, he also cast a bell for the village church in Schlagsdorf . Look there.
  2. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

Commons : St. Petri (Ratzeburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • History (Friends of St. Petri Ratzeburg)
  • Parish side (side of the parish St. Petri Ratzeburg)

Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 25.6 ″  E