St. Lorenz (Travemünde)
The Evangelical Lutheran St. Lorenz Church in the Lübeck district of Travemünde is a single-nave brick church.
history
The church is mentioned indirectly for the first time in a papal document dated May 11, 1235. Pope Gregory IX commissioned some clergy from Schwerin with the settlement of a dispute between the Lübeck bishop Johann I and the city of Lübeck.
An originally Gothic church is expressly mentioned for the first time in 1259, of which only small parts of the north and east side of the choir have survived and which, like its predecessor, fell victim to a town fire in 1522. She received the patronage of St. Lawrence, the deacon . After the destruction of Travemünde in the count feud in 1534, today's church was built on the foundations of the previous one in the 1540s. Additions for the sacristy and a former morgue are attached to the choir . The tower followed in 1605/06, which was completed between 1619 and 1621 with an octagonal tower storey and the tower spire. On the occasion of the completion of the church tower in 1620, a document was laid down in which it says that the new tower is "higher and more beautiful than the one destroyed by a conflagration along with almost the entire town on Midsummer Eve 100 years ago".
Until the second half of the 19th century, the Lorenzkirche was legally a branch church of the Marienkirche in Lübeck ; therefore the main pastor of the Marienkirche was also the main pastor of St. Lorenz Travemünde; the actual pastor of the Lorenz Church bore the traditional title of archdeacon , the second preacher deacon .
Furnishing
The single-nave brick church is decorated with valuable ceiling and wall paintings. A painted coffered ceiling in its original state was hidden by a false ceiling and was exposed during the last renovation in 1990. One of the oldest pieces of equipment is the triumphal cross , the late Gothic body of which dates from the last quarter of the 15th century and the board cross with painted evangelist symbols from the previous building. Since the renovation, it has been in its presumably original liturgical place between the nave and the choir.
Also pre-Reformation is the wooden sculpture of St. Jürgen with the dragon in the tower entrance hall, a late Gothic carving from around 1510 attributed to the workshop of Henning von der Heyde . It comes from the St. Jürgen infirmary near Travemünde, which was only demolished around 1970 . The sculpture used to be colored, but the setting has been lost.
In 1723 Anna Magdalena Schröder, a cousin of long-time pastor Johann Hermann Siricius , donated the baroque altar. It was carved by the Lübeck master Hieronymus Jakob Hassenberg , and a Gothic grave slab from Bodenwerder from the 14th century serves as the cafeteria . The pulpit with richly carved ornamentation dates from 1735.
Old gravestones are embedded in the floor, the oldest from the year 1404. The epitaphs and paintings belong exclusively to the Christian cult of the dead and, with two exceptions, immortalize clergymen who worked at the St. Lawrence Church in the Baroque period. The oldest epitaph, the Gladow epitaph from 1583, is the only one in the Renaissance style. It shows the resurrection of Christ, the founder is shown kneeling. The structure of the two-storey epitaph Steinmetz (1663) still resembles the Renaissance style . In the lower central area it contains a depiction of the kneeling family of the founders in a landscape by Johannes Dietzius, painted in oil on wood. Above and smaller is a painting of an entombment. It also contains the risen Christ as a statuette as well as allegories for faith, love, hope and justice.
organ
The organ of the Rudolf von Beckerath Orgelbau company was initially installed on the south side of the choir in 1966, a break with tradition to create a liturgical unit of altar, pulpit and organ in the chancel, which, however, proved to be acoustically and visually unfavorable. In 1991 the organ was returned to the newly designed west gallery as part of the renovation, whereby the organ workshop Hinrich Otto Paschen ( Kiel ), taking into account the baroque style dominating in the church , gave it an external shape based on the former Stellwagen organ from 1642 and at the same time Movement extended by two registers .
- Disposition of the organ
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Chimes
The bells were confiscated in the Second World War, were stored in the Hamburg bell cemetery and could be returned on December 12, 1947.
The ringing consists of the following bells:
- I. clay e ', weight 1,195 kg, cast in 1711 by Conradt Kleymann (also Cordt Kleimann ).
- II. Tone f ', weight 886 kg, cast by Albert Benningk in Lübeck in 1673
- III. Ton e '', weight 117 kg, cast in 1604 by Reinholt Benninck in Lübeck.
Albert Benningk and Reinhold Benninck belonged to the same bell foundry family. The spelling of the surname varied over the years.
Pastors
According to Jacob von Melle :
- Johann Kock, 1533–1543
- Johann Tede, 1543–1549, then at Lübeck Cathedral
- Samuel Nisenius († 1580)
- Georg Gladow, signed the concord formula in 1580 , († 1588)
- Paul Steinmetz, signed the Symbolic Books in 1580, († 1583)
- Joachim Paschasius from Salzwedel, previously a teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck , 1583–1608
- Johann Küsel, 1588–1610, then adjunct to St. Andreas in Schlutup
- Hinrich Pöpping, 1608-1616
- Hermann Weber ( Textorius ) from Horschwinkel / Westphalia, elected 1610, pastor 1617–1626, then preacher at the castle church
- Hinricus Galenbeck ( Glambecius ), 1617–1619, then preacher at the Burgkirche, from 1626 at Lübeck Cathedral
- Rotgerus von der Hoege, 1619–1629
- Johann Küsel, back from Schlutup to Travemünde, 1626–1630
- Magister Justus Müller ( Molitor ) from Rotenburg / Hessen, 1629–1639
- Magister Johann Kuhle ( Culenius ), previously pastor in Reinfeld (Holstein) , elected 1630, pastor 1639–1648
- Magister Theodor Leinhose ( Linhase ), elected 1639, pastor 1648–1654
- Magister Hermann Reuter, son of councilor Gerhard Reuter , elected 1648, pastor 1654–1668
- Magister Jonas Emmen, previously pastor at the Pantlitz village church in Vorpommern, elected in 1654, became a preacher at the Petrikirche in 1664
- Hermann Henricus Escher, 1664–1705 (epitaph in the church)
- Johann Grünewald, 1669–1675
- Sebastian Bacmeister , 1676–1704
- Gabriel Fitzmann, son of the Physicus Johann Fitzmann , 1704 preacher and 1705 pastor († 1719).
- Johannes Matthias Wendt, 1705–1715 (epitaph in the church)
- Johann Hermann Siricius , 1715–1769 (epitaph in the church)
- Johann Wessel from Lübeck, 1719–1743
- Joachim Hinrich Ostermeier, 1743–1796 (epitaph in the church)
- Jacob Christian Schoof, 1769–1818 (epitaph in the church)
- Friedrich Joachim Hasse, 1796–1836 (epitaph in the church)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Eschenburg , 1836–1853
- Ludwig Heller (pastor) , preacher from 1836, chief pastor 1853–1878
Epitaph Escher
Portrait of a pastor Wendt
Epitaph Siricius
Epitaph Ostermeier
Epitaph Schoof
Portrait of the pastor Hasse
Open church and church music
In the St. Lorenz Church there are market concerts with organ music every Thursday from 10:30 am to 11:00 am followed by a guided tour of the church from June to September, as well as Sunday concerts and evening music. The St. Lorenz Kantorei has 90 members. The church is open daily (except Monday) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and Tuesday to Friday 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm (April to October) (open church). Services are held.
Churchyard
In the churchyard there are four listed graves from the 1830s, including the grave cross of Lübeck councilor and Travemünd city governor Johann Hermann von Duhn († 1837).
literature
- Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974, pp. 173-176.
- Uwe Albrecht , Ulrike Nürnberger, Jan Friedrich Richter , Jörg Rosenfeld, Christiane Saumweber: Corpus of medieval wood sculpture and panel painting in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume II: Hanseatic City of Lübeck, the works in the urban area. Ludwig, Kiel 2012, ISBN 3-933598-76-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e www.travemünde.de - St. Lorenz Church
- ↑ See Lübeckische Blätter 3 (1861), p. 62 as a correction to the state calendar 1861.
- ↑ Alexandra Pietroch: St. Jürgen Group in: Jan Friedrich Richter (Ed.): Lübeck 1500 - Art Metropolis in the Baltic Sea Region , catalog, Imhoff, Petersberg 2015, pp. 202–203 (No. 16)
- ↑ Beseler (1974), p. 174
- ↑ Beseler (1974), p. 174
- ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 1148/1149 ( TRLA1 ) ISBN 3-7995-5940-X
- ↑ Beseler (1974), p. 175
- ↑ www.kirche-travemuende.de ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - The organ
- ↑ Historical calendar sheet of December 12, 1947. In: Möwenpost 12/2011, p. 5
- ↑ Information from the parish
- ↑ Thorough message from the Kaiserl. freyen and the HR Reichs Stadt Lübeck , Lübeck 1787, p. 412 ff.
- ↑ Escher in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Jacob von Melle : Thorough message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Imperial City of Lübeck. 3rd edition Lübeck 1787 ed. by Johann Hermann Schnobel , p. 414
- ↑ Wendt in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Ostermeier in the Rostock matriculation portal ; Ostermeier, Joachim Heinrich: Monument of awe, love and Respect, which the. . . Mr. Johann Heinrich von Seelen. . . was brought to his resting place. Lübeck undated (1762)
- ↑ Schoof in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ GND = 102488746 studied in Jena
- ↑ Market concert. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Church music. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Welcome to our parish. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .
See also
- Laurentiuskirche
- Otto Timmermann (1916–2008), church sexton, dialect poet and narrator in Travemuende
Web links
- www.kirche-travemuende.de - St. Lorenz parish in Lübeck-Travemünde
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '24.7 " N , 10 ° 51' 54.7" E