St. Jacobi (Nordhausen)

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The Jakobikirche around 1910

The Protestant St. Jacobi Church (also Neustädter Church ) was a church building in Nordhausen in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

history

Nordhausen around 1640 ( Merian ). St. Jacobi with number 3 in the tower
Location of the former St. Jacobi Church
View from the Primariusgraben to the St. Jacobi nursing home

As early as the 13th century there was a parish church with the name St. Jacobi in Nordhausen. The tower was first mentioned in a document in 1310. In 1365 the church was mentioned when the upper town and the lower town were united. In the years 1502 to 1504 a new choir was built. Buttresses were also attached to the north side in 1502, followed by buttresses on the south side in 1648. In 1744 the church was torn down by Friedrich Christian Lesser because it had become dilapidated. Only the church tower had a good structure and was included in the new building, which was financed by Duke Karl von Braunschweig . He also approved that stones from the ruins of the Walkenried monastery were broken for the construction of the church . The foundation stone for the new building was laid on July 15, 1744. The builders were Johann Andreas Voigt from Blankenburg and Johann Christian Eichler from Nordhausen. Johann Leonhard Schreiber worked as a plasterer. The church was consecrated on October 12, 1749. The building underwent several changes.

On April 3rd and 4th, 1945 Nordhausen experienced several air raids by British bomber squadrons , during which the nave was largely destroyed. Only the burnt-out church tower and parts of the outer wall remained. Around 1950 the last remains of the wall were torn down, and on September 27, 1959, the church tower was allegedly blown up to make a parking lot. The parking lot was created to the south of it and there is a green area above the foundation.

Before the St. Jakob nursing home was built in the 1990s, archaeological excavations were carried out from March to October 1999 .

Furnishing

  • The interior of the church was a simple hall. It measured 30.1 m in length and 18.2 m in width of internal clearance.
  • The pulpit altar loomed in front of the eastern gallery . The altar had a simple altar table. The pulpit structure consisted of four Corinthian columns. These stood on a high two-part pedestal , above them there was a cranked beam and baroque broken gable. The pulpit itself was octagonal, its parapet was decorated with flowers. Her foot tapered into a bunch of grapes. The sound cover was crowned by curly moldings. These joined together at the top in the middle and carried a small golden globe. In the fields to the left and right of the pulpit there was a figure of a woman with a wrinkled robe, one carrying a cross, the other a flaming heart. These embody faith and love. The pulpit altar was completed by an attached crucifix with Mary and Mary Magdalene . After the church was rebuilt, the altar was made by the sculptor Johann Kaspar Unger until 1749.
  • To the right of the altar were statues of the reformers Luther and Melanchthon . They were erected in 1905 and are 1.86 m tall. They were created by the master wood sculptor Eugen Richter.
  • Portraits of Pastors Lesser and Magister Johann Heinrich Hüpeden hang on the altar wall.
  • Prayer rooms were located in the church choir.
  • A chandelier with two rows of twelve brass light arms around spheres hung in the nave.
  • The galleries are supported by wooden pillars
  • The church had a vicariate . It was donated in 1407 by Wernherr Kalen, canon at the Nordhäuser Cathedral and Johann von Bendeleben, vicar there, and was located at the altar of the Holy Cross. On January 21st of this year, the imperial notary Johann Wainknecht confirmed the foundation.
  • A plaque commemorated the 134 parishioners who died in the First World War.
  • One of the three bells in the church dates from 1413. It was 1.75 m in diameter.
  • A model of the church, which Lesser had made for the new building in 1720, was last in the Nordhäuser Museum.

organ

A first organ , which must have existed as early as 1585, was equipped with the following arrangement in 1740 :

I upper work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
6th Mixture III
7th Cymbel II
II Rückpositiv
8th. Dumped 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Dumped 4 ′
11. shelf 4 ′
12. Octave 2 ′
13. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Octave 1'
pedal
15th Trombone bass 8th'
16. Sub bass 16 ′
17th Cornettbass 2 ′
18th Cymbel II

Instead of the tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′, there was previously a super octave 2 ′.

On May 5, 1798, the organ for the rebuilt church was delivered by Johann Gottfried Krug from Merseburg. It was handed over to the community on September 12, 1798. The prospectus of the two-manual organ comes from the Rococo. It is divided into fields by pilasters and Corinthian columns. Curved and interrupted gable work forms the upper end.

I main work CDDis – d 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Quintadena 16 ′
3. Viola di gamba 8th'
4th Flauta traversa 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Oberwerk CDDis – d 3
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Quintadena 8th'
13. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
14th Hollow flute 4 ′
15th Night horn 4 ′
16. Octave 2 ′
17th Super octave 1'
18th Mixture III
19th Cornet IV
pedal
20th Principal bass 16 ′
21st Violon bass 16 ′
22nd Octavbass 8th'
23. Trombone bass 16 ′

This organ was repaired in 1867 by the organ builder Ernst Kelle from Nordhausen.

In 1894 a new organ was installed by the organ building company Julius Strobel & Sons from Frankenhausen. It was inaugurated on November 15, 1894.

I. Manual
1. Principal 8th'
2. Drone 16 ′
3. Flute harm. 8th'
4th Viol 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Swiss flute 8th'
7th Octave 4 ′
8th. Portal 4 ′
9. Fifth (3 ′)
10. Octave 2 ′
11. Mixture?
12. Trumpet 8th'
II. Manual
13. Violin principal 8th'
14th Dumped 16 ′
15th Salizett 8th'
16. Aeoline 8th'
17th Transverse flute 8th'
18th flute 4 ′
19th Fugara 4 ′
20th Mixture II-III
21st oboe 8th'
pedal
22nd Sub bass 16 ′
23. Violon 16 ′
24. Violon 8th'
25th Principal 8th'
26th Dumped 8th'

The Principal 8 ′ prospect pipes were expanded in 1917 and delivered to the state. In May 1926 the organ was repaired and cleaned by the organ building company Kießling & Sohn from Bleicherode.

A new pneumatic organ was built in 1930/31 by the organ building workshop E. Kemper & Sohn from Lübeck. Disposition and intonation come from Karl Kemper, organist and master organ builder in Lübeck. Organ consultant was Erich Knorr, organist at St. Blasii . Erwin Zillinger , cathedral organist at Lübeck , acted as auditor .

I main work
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Drone 16 ′
3. Principal 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. Fifth 6 ′
6th octave 4 ′
7th Fifth 3 ′
8th. Octals 2 ′
9. Mixture III-IV
10. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure
11. Quintad 8th'
12. recorder 4 ′
13. Quintad 4 ′
14th Nasat 3 ′
15th Principal 2 ′
16. Sif flute 1'
17th Terzian II
18th Mixture II-III
19th shelf 8th'
III substation
20th Reed flute 8th'
21st Night horn 8th'
22nd Principal 4 ′
23. octave 2 ′
24. Zimbel II
25th Sesquialtera II
26th Sharp IV
27. Dulcian 16 ′
28. Krummhorn 8th'
29 Schalmey 4 ′
pedal
30th Sub-bass 16 ′
31. Reed flute 8th'
32. octave 4 ′
33. Night horn 2 ′
34. Rauschpfeife IV
35. Dulcian 16 ′
36. trombone 16 ′
37. Clarine 4 ′
38. Cornett 2 ′

Nothing has been preserved from this organ, as from the church.

Personalities

literature

  • Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation (ed.): Articles and photos on the history of the Jacobikirche, Nordhausen (= series of publications by the Friedrich Christian Lesser Foundation. Volume 13). Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 978-3-930558-15-5 .
  • August Stolberg / Friedrich Stolberg: The architectural and art monuments of the city of Nordhausen . In: The thousand-year Nordhausen , Volume II., Nordhausen 1927, pp. 559-562
  • Robert Treutler: Churches in Nordhausen - A foray through church life . Verlag Neukirchner, 9/1997, pp. 41-42
  • Johannes Schäfer: Nordhäuser Orgelchronik - History of the organ works in the thousand-year-old town of Nordhausen am Harz in Max Schneider (Hrsg.): Contributions to music research , Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses GmbH Halle / Saale Berlin, 1939

Web links

Commons : Jacobikirche (Nordhausen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The church on www.karstwanderweg.de Accessed on April 1, 2014
  2. ^ Certificate in the Nordhausen city archive on the Thuringia archive portal
  3. ^ Fritz Reinboth: Die Nordhäuser organ builders in the 19th century , In: Nordhäuser news. Südharzer Heimatblätter published by the Nordhausen City Archives , 3/2005


Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 56.5 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 36.5 ″  E