St. Lorenz (Lübeck)

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St. Lorenz
Christ figure
Sacrifice of Isaac by Jacob Jordaens

St. Lorenz is an Evangelical Lutheran parish and church in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck . The church is located on Steinrader Weg in the immediate vicinity north of the main train station .

church

The original St. Lorenz Church was the church of the first parish outside the city walls , which was established in 1669. The simple hall church had a roof turret and a baroque interior. Of them in St. Lawrence itself just is baptismal of Dietrich Jürgen Boy receive; the pulpit was moved to the Katharinenkirche in 1899 , the altar from 1674 was moved to the Georgskapelle in Schwartau .

One of the driving forces behind the construction of a new church was Johannes Bernhard . The main pastor argued that the resident population had increased enormously at the end of the 19th century , which forced the new building . The old church was demolished and a neo-Gothic building was erected in its place under the municipal building director Gustav Schaumann by the architect and builder Ernst Carl Conrad Heidenreich , which was inaugurated on May 6, 1900. At the same time, the Matthäikirche was built just a few streets further north. The new building was given a neo-Gothic interior, with the pulpit and altar made by the Gustav Kuntzsch company , Wernigerode .

It is thanks to the artistic sense and the generosity of Herrmann Paulig that the outer facade was enriched in 1908 with a 2.20 m high statue made from shell limestone by the Lübeck-born sculptor Hans Schwegerle . Originally it was planned to erect a statue of St. Lawrence in honor of the old name of the church . Ultimately, however, the decision was made for a statue of Christ. The Savior stands there as if to say: "What you will ask for in my name, I will do that the Father may be honored in the Son." (John 14.13) The artist donated to the museum of his hometown a smaller version of the statue.

In 1939, during the term of office of the radical German-Christian pastor Gerhard K. Schmidt, the church was redesigned. The neo-Gothic pulpit disappeared; the altar came up in the attic and was replaced by Otto Flath's Christ walking through the fullness of life . In 1999 the neo-Gothic altar was put up again and the Flath sculpture moved to one side.

A Baroque painting on the gallery depicting the sacrifice of Isaac was identified in 2001 by an art historian from Lübeck as a work from the workshop of Jakob Jordaens , a student of Rubens .

organ

The organ builder Sauer installed a three-manual organ , which burned in a fire in 1922 due to a short circuit; it was replaced by an instrument from P. Furtwängler & Hammer .

Between 1993 and 1994 this instrument was restored by the organ building company Lobback (Neuendeich). The organ has 30 registers and 2 transmissions on three manuals and pedal. The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I main work C–
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Dolce 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Gemshorn 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Octave 2 ′
8th. Rauschpfeife II
9. Mixture V
10. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C–
11. Dumped 8th'
12. Quintad 8th'
13. Principal 4 ′
14th Reed flute 4 ′
15th flute 2 ′
16. Sharp III
17th Sesquialtera II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
III Swell C–
18th Salicional 8th'
19th Wooden flute 8th'
20th Fugara 4 ′
21st Violin principal 4 ′
22nd Pointed flute 2 ′
23. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Cornett III-IV
25th oboe 8th'
Pedal C–
26th Principal 16 ′
27. Sub bass 16 ′
28. Octave bass 8th'
29 Flute (No. 3) 8th'
30th Flute (No. 5) 4 ′
31. Night horn 2 ′
32. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : hand registers, three free combinations, two additional pedal combinations, tutti, shelf.

  • Main entrance to the church

  • Christening of Dietrich Jürgen Boy

  • Window in the nave

  • Neo-Gothic altar

  • The church as seen from the train station

graveyard

Bell tower

The St. Lawrence cemetery is older than the church and was in 1597 due to a plague - epidemic created in which died with 7,000 to 8,000 dead about a third of that city's population. The inauguration took place on August 10th, the day of St. Lawrence of Rome, who first gave its name to the cemetery, then to the church and today also to two districts of Lübeck. Initially used as a plague and poor cemetery, it became the center of a cemetery reform movement in the late 18th century, when some wealthy citizens demonstratively bought grave sites here, first Friedrich Bernhard von Wickede , who had his wife Auguste buried here in 1786, then the later mayor Christian Adolph Overbeck , who had his mother buried here in 1797, as well as the doctor Johann Julius Walbaum , like Overbeck one of the founders of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , who was buried here in 1799. A competition began regarding the design of the classicist tombs, which the Heyd brothers from Kassel even brought in. In the 19th century, other members of families of the Lübeck patriciate followed , but also the preacher Johannes Geibel , the Niederegger family, connected with Lübeck marzipan , and the industrialist Karl Martin Schetelig . The oldest memorial in the cemetery is the free-standing plague cross from 1598 made of Gotland limestone.

In 1906 the then fully occupied cemetery came under municipal administration. He is since 1977, together with the church under monument protection . Since January 1st, 2008 the cemetery has been administered by the parish itself again.

literature

  • Hartwig Beseler (Ed.): Art Topography Schleswig-Holstein Neumünster 1974.
  • Sylvina Zander: "May we have a rural churchyard!" The "non-profit" and the vision of a new burial culture around 1800. In: Der Wagen 2006, pp. 273–288.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The construction of the new church in the St. Lorenz district was primarily due to the investment of time , money and influence of Senator Friedrich Heinrich Bertling .
  2. ↑ Hans Schwegerle's Christ at the St. Lorenz Church. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter , year 1908, No. 10, edition of March 8, 1908.
  3. ^ Heinz Röhl: Hans Schwegerle - Sculptor and Medalist , in: Der Wagen 200, pp. 215–234, here p. 220
  4. ↑ Hansjörg Buss: Entjudete theology - Lübeck Pastor Gerhard K. Schmidt and the Eisenach Institute ; P. 117; in: Church, Christians, Jews in Northern Elbe 1933–1945. The exhibition in the state house ; Series of publications by the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament 7; Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament 2006 ( Memento from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Heike Vowinkel: Baroque treasure discovered in Lübeck's Lorenz Church. In: welt.de . September 8, 2001, Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Information on [http (:) // www (.) Kirche-in-luebeck (.) De / inhalt.asp? ID = 24616 & time = 06: 09: 42 & visitor ID = 59198559 organ of St. Lorenz]
  7. ↑ Your tombstone has been preserved, but was later moved to the Vorwerker Friedhof
  8. ↑ The broken column stump of the Rechlin tomb from 1798 is striking
  9. ↑ Figural tomb for Meder († 1798) with mourning genius by Ludwig Daniel Heyd
  10. ↑ Behn 1804, Plessing 1810, Tesdorpf 1815, Jenisch 1832
  11. ↑ Inscription: ANO 1597 ON THE / TAGK LAURENTZIUS / HEBBEN DISSE AFTER / FOLLOWING PREVIOUS / UTH HETE DES ERBAREN / RADES THIS KARKHOFF BEGAN TO HONOR GOD / AND THE POOR THOM BESTE. A 1598 HEBBE DE VORSTENDE / DAT HUS BY DEN GARDEN BOWEN LATEN HINRICH MEIER / JACOB GRANEKOW HANS GLANDORP HINRICH BILDERBECK

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 7 "  N , 10 ° 40 ′ 10.4"  E