St. Michael (Prague)

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St. Michaelis Church Prague

The Church of St. Michael (Czech Kostel svatého Michala v Jirchářích ) is a Lutheran parish church in Prague's New Town .

history

It was the parish church of the Opatovice settlement, which got its name after the abbot ( opat ) of the Benedictine monastery Kladruby , who founded a homestead next to the church at the beginning of the 12th century. Its remains have been preserved in house no. 20 / CH 158 to this day.

The originally Romanesque church received a new choir after the founding of the New Town and the two side aisles towards the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. The ribbed vaults of the main and south aisles date from 1511 ( late Gothic ). The tower was built in 1717 and the baroque chapel in the north aisle around 1750.

In the course of Josephinism , the church was closed and secularized in 1787 . Two years later the merchant Franticek Kehrn bought the building. In 1791 the Protestant German civil parish , which belonged to the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Böhmen , was able to acquire the building and use it as its first own church. The inauguration took place at Pentecost 1791. The pastor at that time was Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel .

The community obtained an exemption from the regulations on tolerance churches , so that the church tower was retained. In 1817 the interior was renovated and a classical pulpit was installed . Further renovations followed in 1832 and 1882 in the neo-Gothic style ; In 1904 the church received the two west windows. From 1919 to 1945 the church and congregation were part of the German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia . In the 1920s, Albert Schweitzer gave several organ concerts in the church, a plaque on the outside wall reminds of this.

Today the church belongs to the Old Lutheran Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic (ECAV CZ), which is affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod . Services today are held in Czech and English. The German Protestant congregation, which was re-established in 1994, is part of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brothers and uses the Church of St. Martin in the Wall .

literature

  • Josef Ružička: Diplomatic history of the German evangelical congregation of the Augsburg Confession, as well as their house of prayer and their school in the royal capital Prague, along with a biographical album of all the preachers of the mentioned congregation. Prague: Haase 1841,
  • Karl Eckardt: History of the united German Protestant community AB and HB in Prague: in memory of the hundred-year jubilee of the German Protestant Church of St. Michael. Prague: Haase 1891

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Prague)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of parishes, branches and preaching offices of the German Evangelical Church in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia , accessed on October 3, 2017
  2. ^ Website of the English speaking community
  3. ↑ Congregation website , accessed October 3, 2017

Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 4.8 ″  E