St. Matthäi (Lübeck)
St. Matthäi is a listed neo-Gothic church building in Lübeck-St. Lorenz -Nord and worship center of the parish of the same name in the parish of Lübeck-Lauenburg of the North Elbe Church .
history
Until the end of the 19th century, the entire urban area west of the Holsten Gate was supplied from the old St. Lorenz Church , which also gave the district its name. In order to do justice to the strong population growth in the district, the synod decided at the request of the church council with Johannes Bernhard as the driving force in 1895 to divide the area and build two new churches. This was on the one hand the new construction of the St. Lorenz Church and on the other hand the Matthäi Church. The municipal area of the latter comprised the streets to the left and right of Schartauer Allee and the Teerhofsinsel .
The new community comprised the streets to the left and right of Schwartauer Allee as well as the Teerhofsinsel and around 4200 people. Their church council , which was formed in May 1896, decided to appoint their own pastor on July 1, 1896 , even though they had neither a pastorate , a church or parish rooms. Pastor Haensel at the St. Ansgar parish in Kiel was the youngest of the 15 applicants for the office. The board and committee of the community elected him on September 28th with eleven of the 15 possible votes as their first clergyman and on October 25th he was introduced to his office by the senior , Leopold Friedrich Ranke .
Since the pastor and the board of directors agreed that a new congregation needed both its own rooms and a place of worship, they declined the offer of shared use of the St. Lorenz Church. In the community area Haensel found the centrally located III. St. Lorenz School. Their large gym was made available by the Lübeck school authorities as a provisional church room for church services .
At the beginning of the new church year , the 1st Advent in 1896, Haensel held the first service in the St. Matthew parish. This date was later referred to as the actual birthday of the church. On that day, the first children's church service took place there, which was not a particularly common church offer in those years . In the period that followed, it became a trademark of the St.
The lessons of his confirmation , the first group consisted of only 21 children, as well as Bible studies were in the early days held the church in classrooms. Over the course of 25 years, more than 4200 girls and boys were to be blessed by Haensel.
Hugo Groothoff was awarded the contract after an architectural competition . The church, the location of which is the intersection of Schwartauer Allee and Friedenstraße. It was decided in 1899 to build a church with a parish hall and parish apartment next to the school. When the foundation stone was laid on February 12, 1899, the community, led by Senior Ranke and Mayor Klug , moved over to the excavation pit . The church was consecrated on the Laetare Sunday of 1900, which falls on March 25th . The St. Matthäi Church was thus the first church to be built in Lübeck after around 250 years. The new St. Lorenz Church that was being built at the same time was not consecrated until Sunday Jubilate , May 6, 1900.
It is a brick building in neo-Gothic forms , which essentially follows the Eisenach regulation , with a wide, four-bay main nave and a narrow three-bay aisle on the south side with a circumferential gallery . The tower is set to the southwest in the corner between the aisle and the main nave. The side aisle has gable roofs that are crosswise yoke. The church has a polygonal choir, separated from the main nave, and a narrow three-bay porch facing Schwartauer Allee. The interior is spanned by wide ribbed vaults.
Sacristy, parish hall and pastorate are connected to the south of the choir.
Areas beyond the flood trench as the residential areas on the upper Schwartau Avenue, Wilhelm height, the village Vorwerk and industrial space Trems were Rensefeld abgepfarrt and the new community slammed shut. A second and later a third parish was created and had to be looked after by other pastors. St. Matthäi received a chief pastor based on the model of the Lübeck churches in the city center . The community has a large community building on Westhoffstrasse. It is considered a center of the community movement and a more evangelical expression of the evangelical faith in Lübeck.
Hans Brandenburg (from 1922 to 1930) and Elisabeth Haseloff were among the better-known clergymen who worked at St. Matthäi in addition to Haensel .
The church was listed as a historical monument in 1978 . The monument protection was extended to the entire building ensemble in 1998, i.e. 20 years later, with the adjoining parish hall and the pastorate .
Furnishing
The exterior of the neo-Gothic building is largely preserved, but suffered damage during the air raid on Lübeck in 1942 and lost all of the artistically designed glass windows. The interior design such as the altar was also changed.
organ
The organ was originally built in 1901/02 by Marcussen & Sohn and rebuilt several times by Kemper & Sohn . Today it is unused because the municipality decided to purchase a three-manual digital organ instead of a restoration. The first organist at St. Matthäi was Wilhelm Stahl , Hermann Fey was his successor from 1922 to 1941.
literature
- Sabine Behrens: North German church buildings of historicism. The sacred buildings of Hugo Groothoff 1851–1918. (= Kiel Art History Studies , New Series, Volume 8.) Ludwig, Kiel 2006, ISBN 3-933598-97-4 .
- Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster: Wacholtz 1982, ISBN 3-529-02627-1 , p. 161
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Wölfel: The wonderful world of organs. Lübeck as an organ city. Lübeck 2004 ISBN 3-7950-1261-9 , pp. 230-233
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 25.8 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 34" E