St. Petri Pauli Church (Lutherstadt Eisleben)
The St. Petri Pauli Church is a Protestant church in the Lutherstadt Eisleben . The late Gothic hall church is especially significant because Martin Luther was baptized here on November 11, 1483 . After a thorough renovation and redesign in 2010, it was reopened on April 29, 2012 as the Eisleben Baptism Center .
history
As early as the end of the 13th century, there is evidence of a St. Peter's cemetery for the emerging Petri suburb of Eisleben . The parish church is mentioned for the first time in 1333, at that time it was only consecrated to the Apostle Peter . It was subordinate to the Wimmelburg monastery .
As a result of the Halberstadt bishop's feud , the destroyed village of Lüttchen-Eisleben with its St. Paul's Church - also belonging to the Wimmelburg monastery - was abandoned after 1367, and the residents settled in the Petrivorstadt area. The St. Peter's Church received the Apostle Paul as the second patron . Due to the increased number of parishioners and the increasing prosperity of the city, a new building was started in the 15th century - today's church. The 54 m high west tower was built between 1447 and 1474; the choir and nave were completed in 1513.
In the autumn of 1483, before the final settlement in Mansfeld , the Luther family lived for some time in the previous building of today's Luther birth house a few steps northeast of the St. Petri Pauli Church, and on St. Martin's Day the child born the day before was turned over by Pastor Bartholomäus Rennbrecher baptized in the parish church in the name of the day saint .
With the implementation of the Reformation in the county of Mansfeld , Martin Luther's baptistery also became Lutheran . Perhaps the reformer visited her again during his later visits to Eisleben. The reference to his baptism ( Baptizatus sum - "I am baptized") was fundamental for him throughout his life.
Architecture and equipment
The St. Petri Pauli Church is a three-aisled hall church with a retracted polygonal choir in the east and a hood-topped square west tower. On the ribs of the reticulated vaults there are guild symbols and family coats of arms, in the chancel there are symbols of the Passion . The late Gothic altarpiece , a winged altar with fully plastic wooden figures, contains an Anna-selbdritt group in the middle : Mary with the baby Jesus and her mother Anna . Another late Gothic carved altar from the Eisleben St. Nicolai Church is in the tower chapel. Copies of the portraits of Luther and his family by Lucas Cranach hang on the north aisle wall .
For the redesign (2010–2012), the Berlin architecture firm AFF was awarded the 2013 Architecture Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. A circular baptismal fountain was created in the floor of the central nave in front of the altar, which is filled with moving water and surrounded by the lettering of Jesus' baptism command ( Mt 28:19 LUT ). From here, concentric circles run like a wave pattern through the entire church. It is used for baptismal memory and baptism by immersion. Next to it is a simple neo-Gothic baptismal font with an inscription that contains parts of Luther's baptismal font.
In 2014, eleven windows designed by Günter Grohs were installed in the nave. A moving ornament penetrates the low-color glazing. The graphical lead crack in the windows enters into a dialogue with the overlapping circles in the concrete floor.
The originally preserved three-part bell from 1499/1509 is also of supraregional importance .
organ
The organ goes back to an instrument that was built in 1929 by the Zörbiger organ building company Wilhelm Rühlmann . The instrument had 42 registers on three manuals and a pedal . In the 1980s the instrument was slimmed down to 27 registers on two manuals and pedal.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bells
A completely historical bell rings out from the bell. It is the only surviving three-way bell from the hand of the same bell founder in Saxony-Anhalt. In 1993 it had to be shut down due to serious damage to the tower and clapper hangers. After a thorough renovation of the tower and suspension, the bell could sound again for the first time in 2008.
| No. | Surname | Nominal | diameter | Weight | Casting year | Caster |
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| I. | Apollonia | as ° + 7 | 1,926 mm | approx. 4,000 kg | 1499 | Pawel Moes |
| II | Benigna | c '+ 1 | 1,667 mm | approx. 2,800 kg | 1509 | Pawel Moes |
| III | Anna | it '+ 7 | 1,301 mm | approx. 1,500 kg | 1509 | Pawel Moes |
Individual evidence
- ^ Margot Käßmann : Sermon for the opening of the ecumenical center baptism in Eisleben on April 29, 2012
- ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on December 10, 2016.
- ↑ Constanze Treuber, Peter Oehlmann: Cast diversity . Ed .: Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. 1st edition 2007. Hinstorff, Rostock, ISBN 978-3-356-01180-7 , pp. 40 .
Web links
- The St. Petri-Pauli-Kirche Internet presence of the parish
- Center for Baptism Eisleben
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 34.2 " N , 11 ° 32 ′ 58" E