St. Jürgen (Kiel)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Jürgen from the south side

St. Jürgen (after Saint George ) is the name of a church building from 1954 belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Peace Community of Kiel in the Kiel-Südfriedhof district . The registered cultural monument is at Königsweg 78. It had several previous buildings and is located in the vicinity of the old Jewish cemetery .

history

St. Jürgen monastery and chapel

The first mention of St. Jürgen in Kiel can be found in the city register in 1267 . In it, a leprosorium is given under the patronage of the saint and helper Georg ( Low German Jürgen ) with the name of St. Jürgen monastery , which had twelve places and at that time was far from the city. The first mention of a chaplain in the St. Jürgen Chapel dates from before 1366 . With the decline in leprosy , the monastery became a poor institution with monastic rules of life from 1400 onwards.

In 1530 Klaus Grimm had a bell poured, which hung in Kiel's St. Jürgen chapels and churches until 1954 and was then taken to the city monastery in Harmsweg. The inscription reads: Clawes Ghrim leth mi gheten anno dm. MCCCCCXXX

After the Reformation , the St. Jürgen Almshouse formed a group of four small municipal welfare institutions together with the secularized Franciscan monastery , the Heiligengeistspital and the so-called Neugasthaus . The generous legacy of Henriette Friederica von Ellendsheim made it possible to merge the facilities:

In 1821/1822 a new single-storey building was built on St.-Jürgen-Wiese, which was named Kiel City Monastery . The building was on Sophienblatt between Ringstrasse and Raiffeisenstrasse, today the site of the train station and bus station.

From 1793 the hospital cemetery was expanded to the south. Since the opening of the Südfriedhof in 1869 , it has been known as the St. Jürgen Friedhof .

The building from 1821/1822 was extended by a second floor and a tower in 1865. In 1909 it had to give way to an extension of the Kiel main station . A new building was erected for the residents on Harmsstraße between Schützenwall and Zastrowstraße. The tower moved there too, but was destroyed in World War II.

The chapel was opposite the junction of the Ringstrasse with the Sophienblatt. It turned out to be too small for the growing southern part of the city and was demolished in 1902 for a new building.

  • St. Jürgen Chapel on the historical view of Kiel from 1588

  • Mentioned on a map from 1665

  • Chapel around 1880

  • Chapel around 1900

The church from 1904

Plan of the church
① = entrance area under the church tower ② = large entrance hall ③ = small entrance hall ④ = sacristy

The much larger new building of the St. Juergens Church in neo-Romanesque forms was inaugurated on November 10, 1904. The architect was Wilhelm Voigt . Contemporary reports emphasize that on account of the ev.-luth. Parish 2483 liters of coffee were given to the people working on the construction of the St. Juergens Church in order to counteract alcohol consumption on the construction site. With its 58 meter high tower, the church formed a special highlight on the Sophienblatt. After the demolition of the city monastery in 1909, it closed off the space created on the western side of the station against the St. Jürgen cemetery. A cruciform basilica served as the basic form of the building . To the Sophienblatt, it was given the porch of an entrance hall, which kept out the drafts and muffled the street noise. On the station side, a passage behind the choir also served to reduce noise. Between the church and the main train station there was another courtyard about 10 meters wide, through which the entrance to the St. Jürgen cemetery led. The first organist of the new church was the royal music director Heinrich Johannsen (born July 30, 1864 in Lauenburg; † February 8, 1947 in Eutin).

Due to its proximity to the main train station, the church was particularly exposed to the massive air raids on Kiel during World War II . It was finally bombed out on April 5, 1945. The life-size figure of Christ created by Adolf Brütt was lost, but was found again in 2008 in a magazine in the Kiel City Archives .

In the course of the reconstruction of the main train station and the post-war reorganization of its surroundings, those responsible decided against rebuilding the church and abandoning the cemetery in favor of widening the Sophienblatt street and a parking lot. The ruins were demolished until 1954.

  • Invitation to consecration in 1904

  • Crowd of visitors for the consecration

  • 1905

  • Chancel 1911

  • Christ statue by Adolf Brütt (found again in 2008)

  • 1952

Today's St. Jürgen Church

The current building on Königsweg was designed by the Kiel architect Ernst Mackh. It was the first large new Protestant church in Kiel after the war. Its inauguration by Provost Hans Asmussen took place on December 12, 1954. Some elements from the old church such as doors and benches and even the tower clock could be integrated into the brick building. The baptismal font was later placed in the Jakobikirche.

The seven-lane, multi-colored apse window, which is reminiscent of the fire in Kiel city center and the heavenly glory that shines above everything, as well as ten church windows in the shape of exclamation marks on the sides are characteristic of the new building .

  • The meeting house in October 1976

  • 1970

  • April 2018

  • April 2018

local community

On January 1, 2005, the St. Jürgen, Heilands and Vicelin congregations merged to form the Peace Church .

Pastors

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments (building structures) - Object number: 11889 LD - Description: Church of St. Jürgen - Type: registered cultural monument. In: Landeshauptstadt Kiel (Ed.): Monument register . Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f St. Jürgen community association. V. Kiel (Hrsg.): Chronicle of St. Jürgen in Kiel . 4th edition. 2009, p. 179-191 .
  3. ↑ a b c Hedwig Sievert: Kiel then and now - from the canal to the Schwentine. G. Mühlau Verlag, Kiel 1964, Fig. 62,63a, 64,65a.
  4. ↑ Hedwig Sievert: Kiel then and now - from the canal to the Schwentine. G. Mühlau Verlag, Kiel 1964, Fig. 63a.
  5. ↑ Der Alcoholism: Journal for the Scientific Discussion of the Alcohol Question, NF 3 (1906), p. 123.
  6. ↑ St. Jürgen Community Association e. V. (Ed.): Chronicle of St. Jürgen in Kiel . 4th edition. 2009, p. 203 .
  7. ↑ Jakobikirche
  8. ↑ St. Jürgen Community Association e. V. (Ed.): Chronicle of St. Jürgen in Kiel . 4th edition. 2009, p. 59, 70 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 '44.2 "  N , 10 ° 7' 23.2"  E