St. Jakobi (Herford)
St. Jakobi is the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the Herford district of Radewig . It is therefore also known as the Radewiger Church. Together with the Herford Minster and St. John's Church , the Jakobikirche belongs to the Herford-Mitte parish within the Herford parish .
history
The church was built in the 14th century. The Gothic hall church of the Westphalian Square type probably already had a previous building. As the patronage already suggests, it was primarily a station church for pilgrims on the way to Santiago de Compostela . With the introduction of the Reformation in Herford , the church was initially closed in 1530 by a council decision. It has served as a Protestant parish church since 1590, after it was reopened and extensively renovated at the instigation of Radewig's mayor Anton Brutlacht. Brutlacht had a completely new facility made and donated the pulpit. The Radewiger Kohlfest (see below) reminds of the first Reformation service on the 1st of Advent 1590. In the great Herford city fire of 1638, which among other things destroyed almost the entire district of Radewig, the roof and the spire were destroyed and then rebuilt. In 1778 the spire burnt down again after a lightning strike, so that in 1786 the church was given today's onion dome dome or Welsche dome , which is unusual for Westphalia . During the Second World War, the church was damaged by an aerial bomb in 1940 on the south portal and on one of the south buttresses, which were removed before the end of the war.
In 1981 the church was listed as a historical monument .
Bells
In the bell room hangs a three-part iron chill-cast chime from the Lauchhammer bell foundry with the tone sequence d 1 –f 1 –as 1 from 1921. The church also has a bronze hour bell from 1736 (d 2 ) and a steel bell from the Bochumer Verein in the lantern from 1874 for the quarter-hour strike (e 2 ).
inner space
The interior has an impressive painting and furnishings from the late renaissance of the 16th and 17th centuries. Century.
organ
The organ of St. Jakobi was built in 1973 by the organ builder Gustav Steinmann (Vlotho). It replaced the historical instrument that had stood on the former rood screen until 1863, when the Meyer brothers from Herford moved and extended it to the west gallery. This instrument was modified and expanded in 1909 by Klassmeier and in 1931 by Furtwängler & Hammer and was playable again in 1952 after war damage. In 1968 this instrument was torn down and replaced in 1973 by a new building in which part of the old case and the ornamentation by Friedrich Meyer from 1863 were reused. Today's organ is a "historically oriented copy" without any reference to the old rood screen organ. It has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Jacob pilgrims
The church was to the 16th century pilgrim church of the pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostela.
Points of attraction for the pilgrims were the miraculous Marienkirche as the location of the Herford vision and the holy Pusinna , whose relic was kept in the cathedral church .
A chapel was built in Radewig, the resting place and market place for long-distance traders, from which the later Jakobikirche arose. From a bull of Pope Julius II from 1510 it emerges that the Jakobikirche was not a parish church, but a pure pilgrimage church which served the cult of Jacob.
Radewiger Kohlfest
In 1530, by order of the council, the church was closed because of the pilgrims who had become a plague. Jacob pilgrims were seen in the city well into the 17th century.
On the Thursday after the 1st Advent in 1590 it was reopened as a Protestant church. Since there were no flowers available to decorate the church at this time of year, kale was used for this . The Radewiger Kohlfest is still celebrated on this occasion .
opening hours
Outside of worship times, the church is often not open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirchenkreis Herford (ed.): Sancta Herfordia - Hilliges Hervede: A tour through the churches of Herford and their history , Herford 1989.
- ↑ List of architectural monuments in the city of Herford (PDF; 78 kB)
- ^ Rohmann, Gregor (ed.): Bilderstreit und Bürgerstolz - Herford Churches in the Age of Faith Struggles , Bielefeld 2006.
- ↑ Information on the organ , accessed on September 5, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 55 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E