St. Agnus (Koethen)

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Agnus Church in Koethen

The St. Agnus Church is a Protestant church in Köthen (Anhalt) . It was built in 1699 for the then small Lutheran community in the reformed Köthen. During his years in Koethen, Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of the Agnus Church.

history

In the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen , the Lutheran Reformation was introduced just a few years after Martin Luther posted his theses . At the turn of the 17th century, however, the Anhalt princes and with them their territories went over to the Reformed (Calvinist) creed. Only towards the end of the century did the immigrant Lutherans gain permission to practice their religion in public and to build their own churches. Her protector in Köthen was the Lutheran princess Gisela Agnes . In line with their name, the new church for the Lutherans in Koethen was named Agnus Church; her portrait of Antoine Pesne (1713) hangs in the church's chancel to this day.

The church was built from 1694 to 1699 according to plans by the Zerbst master builder Johann Bernhard Beuchel .

During his time as Hofkapellmeister in Köthen from 1717 to 1723 Johann Sebastian Bach was a member of the Lutheran Agnus congregation. His name appears regularly in the jam register and in the communicant register . The communion cup from that time is kept in the church.

With the conclusion of the union in 1827, Reformed and Lutherans in Anhalt ended their church separation; However, the Agnus community continued to exist as a personal community of Lutheran tradition until it received a regular parish in 1880.

After remodeling in the 19th century in the classicistic and neo-Gothic style and a simplistic renovation in the 1960s, the last interior and exterior restoration was carried out from 1996 to 2012.

Architecture and equipment

St. Agnus is a simple hall church inserted into the street with a retracted rectangular choir and square stair tower in the east and a roof turret in the west.

The church has a Gothic winged altar from the early 16th century and an Ascension window from 1887. A contemporary copy of the Dessau Last Supper by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1565) is remarkable .

organ

The organ was built in 1881 by Wilhelm Rühlmann sen. built as op. 36.

She has the following disposition :

I. Manual C–
Principal 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Viol 8th'
Dumped 8th'
octave 4 ′
Reed flute 4 ′
Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
octave 2 ′
Mixture 4f
Trumpet 8th'
II. Manual C–
Drone 16 ′
Violin principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Flauto traverso 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Fugara 4 ′
Flauto amabile 4 ′
Cornett 3f
Clarinet 8th'
III. Manual C–
Dolce 8th'
Soft flute 8th'
Aeoline 8th'
Lovely Gedackt 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Violon 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
cello 8th'
Fifth bass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Octave bass 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Web links

Commons : St. Agnus (Köthen / Anhalt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Copy of the jam register in the Bach memorial in the Historical Museum in Köthen, see also Johann Sebastian Bach on the website of the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district, accessed on September 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ The church, which was once in danger of collapsing, has been saved and renovated ( German Foundation for Monument Protection , July 11, 2012)
  3. ^ Rühlmann organ in the St. Agnus Church in Koethen. In: Music case Saxony-Anhalt. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 12.9 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 20.8"  E