St. Gotthardt (Brandenburg an der Havel)

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St. Gotthardt from the south

Sankt Gotthardt is a church in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . Along with Sankt Katharinen and the Brandenburg Cathedral, it is one of the three main churches in the city.

history

The church is consecrated in the name of the holy bishop Godehard von Hildesheim . It was probably founded before 1147 by the Slavic Heveller prince Pribislaw / Heinrich . In 1147 at the latest, a Premonstratensian monastery with clerics from the St. Marien monastery in Leitzkau was established there. 1161 this was raised to the cathedral chapter Brandenburg . In 1165 the Premonstratensian monastery moved to Cathedral Island. Since then, the St. Gotthardt Church has been the parish church of the old town of Brandenburg . The pastors were still Premonstratensians from the cathedral chapter.

In 1540 the St. Gotthardt Church became Protestant after the Reformation . From that time on, the library of the dissolved Franciscan monastery was kept on the premises of the community until 1923.

Building history

There are no traces of the first church building before 1147. Today's west tower, made of regular granite blocks, was built in the second half of the 12th century (the exact time cannot be determined) and was originally planned as a double tower. The Romanesque round arched step portal also dates from this period. It is not clear whether the large arched window was also installed at this time or was created later. The tower of the St. Gotthardt Church, with parts of the Petrikirche and the Nikolaikirche, is one of the oldest preserved buildings in the city.

From 1456 the nave, which until then had probably also consisted of granite blocks, was converted into a three-aisled Gothic hall church. The builder was Heinrich Reinstorp . The baptistery was built in 1472. In 1475 the new church was consecrated.

1904–1906 the church was extensively restored, with large donations contributing to the necessary funds. The west portal and the large arched window were exposed. In addition to the restoration, chapels and galleries and the interior of the church were rebuilt. After a church fire on May 5, 1972, which also destroyed the organ , the interior of the church was extensively renovated from 1976 onwards.

The former baptistery was renovated in the 2000s. This was badly damaged by rainwater that had penetrated for years. The repair was co-financed by an appeal for donations by Vicco von Bühlow (Loriot ), who was baptized in the chapel, and the German Foundation for Monument Protection . On September 19, 2009 the ceremonial handover of the restored north chapel took place in the St. Gotthardt Church. The city of Brandenburg an der Havel, together with the Gotthardtgemeinde, called for a fundraising campaign in order to be able to give him this present on his 85th birthday.

Furnishing

Epitaph Georg Hahn, St. Gotthardt, Brandenburg an der Havel

The treasures of the Gotthardt Church include a bronze baptismal font from the 13th century in a late Romanesque design, a valuable woven altar cloth with Christian and mythological scenes of a unicorn hunt , the so-called Trebaw's epitaph , which is a city view of the old town from the west with still intact Marienkirche , St. Gotthardt itself and the still existing Plauer gate tower shows in realistic perspective, as well as the epitaph of the mayor of the old town of Brandenburg, Simon Roter . Other rich epitaphs are those of the old town mayor Michael During and his wife Katharina Zieriss and Georg Hahn (or, incorrectly, Georg Cuno Hahn von Basedow), who died young of tuberculosis . The latter was created by the sculptor Zacharias Bogenkrantz . Glass windows were designed and made by Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt.

Since 1947 the North Chapel, which was restored in honor of Loriot, has housed the former main altar of St. Gotthardt Church, whose painting "Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane" was painted in 1874 by Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt . Since then, the late Gothic winged altar has served as the main altar again. Also in this chapel is the epitaph of superintendent Andreas Praetorius from 1675.

organ

Prospectus with positive return of the Schuke organ

The Gotthardtkirche had an organ built by Jacob Scherer from 1553–1554 / 1557 , about which Arp Schnitger gave an expert opinion in 1707.

Joachim Wagner replaced the Scherer organ from 1736–1737 with a new one. The organ bellows stood in the cross-vaulted room above the tower porch.

The Wagner organ in turn was replaced in the course of the church restoration from 1904 to 1906 by a new building from the Wilhelm Sauer company , a foundation owned by the toy manufacturer Ernst Paul Lehmann . The Wagner case from 1737 was retained. The bellows (including the motor) of the new plant were placed in the space above the old bellows room, which now served as the church library. On May 5th 1972 this organ in its valuable case was destroyed in the church fire.

In 1979 the Schuke company received the order to build a new organ . The new instrument, whose prospectus was designed by the restorer Fritz Leweke (1901–2001), was only inaugurated on September 7, 1986. The slider chest instrument has 44 stops on three manual works and a pedal . The playing and stop action are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv Cg 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Quintadena 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Sesquialtera II
6th octave 2 ′
7th Pointed flute 2 ′
8th. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Scharff IV
10. Vox humana 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
11. Dumped 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Reed flute 8th'
14th Viola da gamba 8th'
15th octave 4 ′
16. Gemshorn 4 ′
17th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th octave 2 ′
19th Mixture IV
20th Scharff V
21st Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
22nd Drone 16 ′
23. Violin principal 8th'
24. Dumped 8th'
25th Salizional 8th'
26th octave 4 ′
27. recorder 4 ′
28. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
29 Forest flute 4 ′
30th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
31. Sif flute 1'
32. Mixture V
33. Dulcian 16 ′
34. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – g 1
35. Principal 16 ′
36. Sub-bass 16 ′
37. octave 8th'
38. Bass flute 8th'
39. octave 4 ′
40. Flat flute 2 ′
41. Mixture V
42. trombone 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'
44. Clairon 4 ′
  • Coupling: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Church environment

The episcopal court was located in the northeast corner of the church area. On this adjacent to the city walls of the old property, which after the Reformation in the possession of the originating from the Prignitz family of Saldern passed that was Saldria on Gotthardt Church Square as a new domicile of Altstädtischer Latin School opened. It was the first location of the Saldria institution , several schools that are traditionally related to one another. Since 2008 the former school belonging to the parish has been used by the parish in cooperation with the Berlin-Brandenburgische Auslandsgesellschaft (BBAG) as the intercultural center "Gertrud-von-Saldern".

The predecessor school of the Saldria was a Latin school, opposite the westwork of St. Gotthardt, whose building from 1551/52, shortened by two half-timbered yokes, is still standing today and is used by the Sonnenegel Gallery, a project group for child and youth work. This building is the oldest surviving school building in the Mark Brandenburg.

gallery

  • The damaged church in June 1946

  • The Romanesque west portal

  • North portal

  • South portal

  • Roof turret

  • The choir

  • In the south aisle

  • Paintings inside the church

  • Window in the north side of the choir

  • pulpit

Others

Zacharias Garcaeus painted the first known cityscape of Brandenburg from the church tower of St. Gotthardt . It shows the view to the west over the old town of Brandenburg, over to Marienberg. Two of the houses depicted (the old Latin school and a house in Rathenower Straße), the Rathenower gate tower and the stump of the defense tower in the parish garden of St. Gotthardt still testify to the authenticity of the depiction from Garcaeus' hand. The Marienkirche also shown in the picture is remarkable.

The humorist Loriot (1923–2011) was connected to this church in several ways .

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Gotthardt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the history of the Premonstratensian pen, see Christian Gahlbeck, Wolfgang Schößler, Joachim Müller: Brandenburg / Havel. St. Gotthardt Premonstratensian Monastery. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich u. a. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies, volume 14). Volume 1. Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 . Pp. 274-277.
  2. ↑ See Dihm 1912.
  3. ↑ a b City of Brandenburg: St. Gotthard Church. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c Marcus Alert: 1600 euros for the Schuke organ. Märkische Allgemeine, January 12, 2016, accessed January 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Loriot's baptistery St. Gotthard in monumente
  6. ^ City of Brandenburg: Vicco von Bülow - honorary citizen of the city of Brandenburg on the Havel. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; accessed on January 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-brandenburg.de
  7. ↑ a b Wolf Bergelt : Organ builder. In: Organ Landscape Brandenburg. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Ibo Ortgies : Schnitger . [In addition to Arp Schnitger, his sons Arp Schnitger II, Franz / Frans Caspar Schnitger the Elder. Ä. , Hans Schnitger and Johann Jürgen / Georg Schnitger, as well as his grandson Frans Caspar Schnitger the Elder. J. ] In: Uwe Pape , Wolfram Hackel (Hrsg.): Sachsen-Anhalt und Umgebung (= Lexikon Norddeutscher Orgelbauer 3), pp. 505–509. Pape Verlag, Berlin 2015, p. 507.
  9. ↑ Dihm 1912, p. 274.
  10. ↑ Dihm 1912, pp. 273, 279.
  11. ↑ Illustration of the Wagner case in Dihm 1912, p. 273.
  12. ↑ Information on the organ  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from St. Gotthardt@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ekmb.de  


Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 58 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 23 ″  E