St. Georg (Lübeck)

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St. Georg, view from the cemetery

St. Georg is a brick-Gothic village church in Genin , a village in the rural area of ​​the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , which is now part of the Lübeck-St. Jürgen heard.

history

Belonging to the Lübeck cathedral chapter

The church in Genin, consecrated to St. George , belonged to the Lübeck cathedral chapter , as did the entire village of Genin . As early as 1149, Lübeck's founder, Count Adolf II von Schauenburg, gave the village of Genin to Bishop Vizelin as a gift for the diocese , which was then still in Oldenburg , and this donation was given to the cathedral chapter in 1163 when the diocese was further endowed after it was moved to Lübeck under Bishop Gerold on the occasion of the foundation confirmed by cathedral and cathedral chapter in 1163. The final separation from Holstein did not take place until 1326, during the construction of the Landwehr and the Lübeck Landgraben . From this point on, until the secularization in 1803 , Genin belonged to the small group of Landwehr villages, i.e. the Kapitel Kirchdörfer, which were part of the Lübeck Landwehr. Only in 1804 did it come to Lübeck permanently through a comparison with the Duke of Oldenburg. Genin was the only village in the Lübeck cathedral chapter to have its own church with St. Georg, apart from the Hamberge village church .

Due to the peculiarities of the Reformation in Lübeck, which were also due to the restless Wullenwever period , Bishop Eberhard von Holle had to guarantee that Catholic services would be held in St. Georg in 1561. It stayed that way until the death of Pastor Lorenz Brüningk in 1584.

Building history

A church in Genin itself is first mentioned in a document in 1286. The parish included Genin, Oberbüssau, Niederbüssau and Vorrade . The Gutsdorf Moisling and the noble villages between Trave and Grinau were added later.

The single-nave church with a polygonal choir, which shows five corners of an octagon, dates from the 13th century. Square additions , also with cross vaults , were added to the second yoke of the choir at the same time to the right and left. It is believed that the bulge caused difficulties. In the 15th century the church was extended to its present length. The ship was probably flat-decked at the time.

The church was renewed around 1600. The massive church tower was added and the nave was raised and widened so that it had an almost square floor plan. The pulpit was purchased for this extended hall church.

The ceiling of this new building collapsed as early as 1703 and made it necessary to rebuild it in the Baroque style . The cathedral chapter procured the costs by means of a lottery and under a level wooden beam ceiling St. George now received a wooden false vault. In the following years the inventory was also adapted to the new style. In 1719 the Gothic altar was replaced by today's baroque altar.

In 1759 the gentlemen of Gut Moisling and Gut Niendorf had galleries built on the north wall of the church, which they could enter through a separate entrance. The canons secured the middle and largest box. Another gallery was built next to the organ gallery in 1770, but was removed again in the 1960s.

1973–1978 the church was completely renovated and redesigned, with the original painting being restored. Altar, pulpit and organ case were freed from dark overpainting around 1900 and were given back their original colors. In 1977 a new organ was purchased.

Furnishing

The church has a baroque high altar made of marble and wood from 1719, created in the workshop of Hieronymus Hassenberg in Lübeck. In the predella there is a relief depicting the Lord's Supper . In the central niche above there is a sculptural crucifixion group. The altar was a donation of the Lübeck merchant family Süverck in memory of the student Hermann Joachim Süverck (1692–1717), who died in a duel in 1717, out of gratitude that the cathedral chapter made it possible for the duelist to have a church burial.

The sandstone baptism was founded in 1729 by the Lübeck merchant Meno Froböse, who grew up as the son of a pastor in Genin. It is the work of the Lübeck sculptor Hermann Andreas Elleroth. The small baptismal font, modeled on an ancient altar, with a corresponding baptismal lid is surrounded by a railing.

The central arbor of the rococo gallery built by Johann Adam Soherr from 1759 was reserved for the canons and the other two for the lords of Moisling and Niendorf . The fully plastic stucco crucifixion group above the choir arch is from 1706.

The St. Anne's Museum in Lübeck is supposed to keep the tinplate altarpieces that were painted with oil paint after the looting during the Lübeck French era and that were in use in the community until the addition in 1835.

  • baptism

  • altar

  • pulpit

organ

Organ (1905)

Lichtwark in front of the organ

Of the more than 200-year-old organ, whose construction could not be found either when it was demolished or in church files, only its valuable facade had been retained. Their glaring oil paint, which had disfigured many works of art in the previous century, had been removed and the dark natural tone of the old oak was restored.

The seat that used to be in the middle of the organ was now on the right. On the one hand, this gained space for the installation of the choir, and on the other hand, it was made easier for the organist to follow the liturgical acts.

The new instrument had 15 sounding voices on two manuals and a pedal and the strength of the intonation was matched to the room in the church. The equipment consisted of a free and three fixed combinations of a play facility with 4 paddocks .

Karl Lichtwark took on Tuesday, April 18, 1905 at 3 pm, the organ of the company Kempper & Sohn from. At that time, the company's organs were also used in the choir of the Marienkirche , in Nusse , in the teachers' seminar and in the Ernestine school .

Organ (1976–1977)

organ

In the historic organ prospectus, which presumably dates from the 18th century, a new organ was built between 1976 and 1977 by the organ builder Martin Bober. The instrument has 16 registers (double-cell drawer) on two manuals and a pedal . The actions are mechanical.

I main work C–
1. Principal 8th'
2. Pointed flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Forest flute 2 ′
6th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Mixture IV
Tremulant
II breastwork C–
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. recorder 4 ′
10. Principal 2 ′
11. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
12. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
13. Sub bass 16 ′
14th Octave bass 8th'
15th octave 4 ′
16. bassoon 16 ′

Pastors

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Georg, Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle Genin PDF p. 4
  2. ↑ For these reasons, the Johanniskirche in Krummesse was built with two aisles, which in turn was expensive and therefore rare in Holstein.
  3. ↑ Floor plan PDF
  4. ↑ Chronicle Genin PDF p. 12ff
  5. ↑ Chronicle Genin PDF p. 7
  6. ↑ Information on the organ of the Georgskirche (PDF)

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 27.3 "  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 0.4"  E