St. Jakob (Augsburg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St. Jacob, view from the east

The Church of St. Jakob in Augsburg , also called Jakobskirche , is a Protestant church in Augsburg. It is a monument in the Augsburg-Jakobervorstadt-Nord district and the historical center of Augsburg's Jakobervorstadt . The church is an important station on the Jakobsweg in Augsburg , the Jakobus pilgrimage route in Bavarian Swabia . The Jakobuspilgergemeinschaft Augsburg maintains the signs for the Jakobsweg from Oettingen via Augsburg to Lindau .

history

Church model

Prehistory and the Middle Ages

During emergency excavations in 1987, archaeologists found traces of several previous buildings in the church floor. Possibly as the pastor Johann Martin Christel reports in his biography written in 1733, the beginnings of the church go back to the 6th century.

The wooden St. James chapel as a station for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela was at that time still in front of the city gates. In 1080 it burned down during the siege of Augsburg by Count Hermann von Salm . The church was first mentioned at this event. A new building took place in the 12th century. Ulrich Ilsung arranged for a third stone church to be built in 1355 (or 1348) on the site of today's church choir.

St. Jakob formed the center of the new suburb. Craftsmen had settled around the church. It also gave its name to Jakoberstrasse, Jakobsplatz, Jakobertor , Jakobermauer, Jakoberwall and many other buildings and institutions in Jakobervorstadt. The oldest Augsburg folk festival, the Jakober Kirchweih , also originated here.

Connected to the church was a pilgrim house ("Jakobspfründe" by Bernhard Zwitzel ), which was moved to the convent building of the abandoned Barefoot Monastery after the Reformation. In 1352 the church was the seat of a brotherhood called "the Jacober". Thanks to donations from the Augsburg patrician Ulrich Ilsung the Elder. Ä. and Jakob Haustetters, the church was embellished from 1356 to 1360. A new tower was built in 1364, rebuilt in 1533 and received a new lantern in 1649 .

Reformation and Baroque

St. Jakob opened to the Reformation in 1521 and became the first Protestant church in Augsburg in 1525. (According to another source, the first Protestant church in Augsburg was the Barfüßerkirche ). Until 1632 it was a branch church of the Barfüßerkirche . In 1649 the church finally became Lutheran. Gottlieb Spizel (1639–1691), one of the fathers of Pietism , and the dean August Bomhard (1787–1866), an important advocate of Erlangen theology, preached in the church . In 1636 the church received a new organ.

In the 18th century, the nave was converted into a hall and the interior was given a Baroque style. In 1720 the Gothic choir fresco was exposed. At the beginning of the 19th century the church was closed and at times served as a barn. Since 1827 church services have been held in it again. In 1840 it was again an Evangelical Lutheran parish church.

Destruction and rebuilding

The church was destroyed in the air raids on Augsburg in 1944. The entire interior was also lost in the flames. Even the last remaining bell from 1534 broke when it fell from the tower. Only the east choir remained. Reconstruction began in 1949, some of which dragged on until 1963. The historic tower dome was restored in 1975. In the course of the general renovation in 1988, the choir was painted red ashlars.

Furnishing

inner space

Only the altarpiece "Annunciation of the Birth of Christ" from around 1525 remains from the original furnishings. The gallery, pulpit and three stained glass windows in the choir were installed in 1973. An 80 centimeter high altar cross by Clemens Brocker was erected in 1990. The Jacob's flag "Pilgrimage - Way of Life" was created by the artist Andrea Dresely. Some of the furnishings are on loan from the Church of St. Anna.

The Gothic fresco "Marientod" in the choir next to the entrance to the sacristy, which is no longer preserved today, was adorned with the coat of arms of the Welser patrician family, donated by Lukas Welser and his wife Johanna Lauginger in 1469. It was destroyed in World War II. The early baroque high altar with the altarpiece "Last Evening Meal" from 1650, as well as the gallery parapets with pictures, was also lost.

Peal

With a total of five bells, the church has the largest ringing of all historical Protestant inner-city churches in Augsburg:

No.
  		Mass
(kg, approx.) 		Casting year
  		inscription
 
1 831 kg 1953 Lift up my soul to the Lord
2 640 kg 1534 O REX GLORIAE CHRISTE VENI CUM PACE
3 360 kg 1953 O country, country, country, hear the word of the Lord
4th 170 kg 1953 Grant and peace gracious
5 98 kg 1975 I will sing of the Lord's grace forever

Surroundings

Jacob's well

In 1994 the Jacob's fountain was erected east of the church. It is the work of the sculptor Bernd Altenstein , which depicts Saint Jacob standing on a column and a group of three exhausted pilgrims at his feet. A little to the side, outside the fountain basin, is another dog.

Former benefice house, sacristy and sacristan's house

Two buildings are directly attached to the north side of the church: the former benefice house (address: bei der Jakobskirche 2 1/2 ), a four-storey eaves side building with a saddle roof and stepped gables from the 16th century, as well as the sacristy and sacristan's house (address like the church : At the Jakobskirche 4 ), a two-storey monopitch roof building from 1798–99. Both extensions are also under monument protection.

  • Jacob's well

  • Former benefice house

  • Sacristy and sacristan's house

Web links

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

literature

  • Parish office St. Jakob Augsburg (editor), Michael Friedrichs (editing), Werner Altmann (staff), Franz Häußler (staff), Rolf Kiessling: 650 years of St. Jakob . Augsburg, Wißner-Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3896394842
  • Wilhelm Wagner: Augsburg St. Jakob , 1992
  • Horst Jesse: The history of the Evangelical Church in Augsburg , 1983, pp. 423-425
  • Wolfgang Zorn: The St. Jacob's Congregation in the History of Evangelical Augsburg , 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Häußler: How the Church of St. Jakob in Augsburg came to its shop. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Clemens Alois Baader: Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: A - L. 1,1 . Jenisch and Stage, 1824 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Augsburger Tagblatt: 1879.7 / 9 . Reichel, 1879 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2020]).
  4. ↑ a b Augsburger Stadtlexikon
  5. ^ Leonhard Bayrer: Brief history of Augsburg: A reading book for the citizen and his descendants . Rieger, 1785 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Information on "Augsburger-Kirchen.de"
  7. ↑ The Franciscan Monastery to the Barefooted. (PDF; 46 kB) on the website of the House of Bavarian History.
  8. ^ Church website
  9. ^ History of St. Jacob | Evangelical in the Augsburg suburb. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Augsburger Tagblatt: 1879.7 / 9 . Reichel, 1879 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2020]).
  11. ↑ http://www.barfuesser-augsburg.de/sites/www.barfuesser-augsburg.de/files/dokumente/Newsletter%20Mai%202014.pdf

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '12.2 "  N , 10 ° 54' 18.4"  E