St. Jakobi (Hildesheim)
St. Jakobi is a Protestant church and literary house in downtown Hildesheim . It is used as a cultural church.
location
St. Jakobi rises in the city center of Hildesheim in the sloping Jakobistraße, which was mentioned under this name as early as 1204, on the corner of the pedestrian zone Almsstraße. The church is surrounded by numerous shops. The distance to the main station is just under 1 km in a northerly direction, while the historic market square is southeast of the church and can be reached on foot in a few minutes via Jakobikirchgasse and Seilwinderstrasse.
history
Even before the Jakobikirche was built, there was a chapel of the same name here, which gave the street its name. It was one of the numerous St. James chapels that lined the various branches of the Way of St. James .
The construction of the single-aisled Jakobikirche made of sandstone began in 1503 in the Gothic style , and the west tower with a striking, slender spire was the last to be completed in 1514. St. Jakobi was the parish church of Hildesheim's old town and was given to the Protestants in 1542 . In the 17th and 18th centuries the interior of the church was redesigned in Baroque style.
During the Second World War , the roof and windows of the Jakobikirche were severely damaged on February 22nd, 1945. On March 22, 1945 it burned out completely, whereby the later added baroque interior was lost. Only the surrounding walls, the Gothic tracery of some windows and the west tower were preserved.
Reconstruction began in the summer of 1948 and was completed in 1949. The west tower was rebuilt with a flat tent roof .
After the church was closed in 2012, it was reopened to the general public in 2014 as the “Literaturhaus St. Jakobi Hildesheim” for concerts, exhibitions and author readings.
In 2017, the St. Jakobi Church was to get a new spire for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. But due to money problems, the project was shut down indefinitely.
The church is expected to be open daily in the near future.
Architecture and equipment
St. Jakobi is a single-aisled hall church made of sandstone with a trapezoidal floor plan and a saddle roof , the nave of which is extremely slender and high, Gothic windows. The eaves of the church are surrounded by buttresses, which were omitted at the corners. The choir is also trapezoidal. A crucifixion relief from 1546 stands out on the south side of the church building. The considerable north-south slope on the sloping Jakobistraße is compensated for by a base.
Due to the destruction of the church in the Second World War, nothing of the interior decoration from the 17th and 18th centuries has survived . The interior of the church impresses with its simplicity and clarity. From the time it was built, only the sacristy with a Gothic vault and buttresses remain inside the church.
On the outside of the multi-storey west tower, a well-preserved figure of the apostle James and a figure of Mary with the child, both from the 16th century, and statues from the 2nd half of the 19th century stand out. They were created by the Hildesheim sculptor Friedrich Küsthardt (1830–1900).
In the tower hangs a bell with the strike sound: h ', which was transferred from St. Andrew's Church in 1986 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About St. Jakobi. In: stjakobi.de. Literaturhaus St. Jakobi Hildesheim, accessed on March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ New tower only for 500 years of Luther. In: www.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de. Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, accessed on December 2, 2011 .
- ↑ Old Town Guild gets out. In: www.hildesheimer-allgemeine.de. Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, accessed on August 11, 2014 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 13 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 4 ″ E