St. Nicolai (Westerland)
The St. Nicolai town church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Westerland on Sylt . It is located on St.-Nicolai-Straße, between the streets Maybachstraße and Trift.
The three-aisled brick building is the largest church on the island. Because of the rapid increase in population at the turn of the 20th century, the village church of St. Niels had become too small. According to plans by the architect Oskar Hossfeld , Privy Senior Builder and Head of Department for Church Construction in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin, and under the local construction management of the Westerland-born architect Heinrich Bomhoff , the construction of a larger city church began in 1906, and St. Nicolai was inaugurated in 1908. The church was named after Nikolaus von Myra , a 4th century Greek bishop. Nikolaus von Myra is the patron saint of merchants and seafarers.
construction
St. Nicolai is a three-aisled hall church with a transept , retracted west tower and semicircular apse . Brick was used as a building material. The nave is covered with slate, the tower has an octagonal copper-covered helmet. A copper-clad roof ridge sits above the crossing . The building, which was built in the era of historicism , incorporates elements of the Romanesque , such as round arches and cross-arch and toothed friezes. The plastered blind arcades on the tower and on the gables of the transept are reminiscent of models from the brick Gothic .
inner space
The flat roofed interior of the church has circumferential galleries , which z. T. on wooden pillars. The galleries of the north and south walls completely occupy the narrow aisles. Small arches separate the central nave from the side aisles and the west gallery. In the area of the crossing, four large arches support the ceiling and structure the interior. The choir area is very short and merges into the apse with semi-dome.
Originally the interior was painted in the Byzantine style. The pulpit and the carved and turned altar were richly decorated. In 1962/1963 the interior was extensively redesigned to achieve a clearer and stricter overall appearance. Altar and pulpit had to give way, the walls were painted white or gray. Colored elements were limited to the windows.
Furnishing
Baptismal font
The Romanesque granite font from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century is the oldest piece of equipment. It comes from the Church of the Sunken Eidum . The base bears a slightly conical cupa with four heads and bas-reliefs : deer, mythical creature, lion and lily.
Altar area
A colorful window element dominates the semicircle of the apse above the simple altar. The passion of Jesus is shown. It is a work by the painter and sculptor Siegfried Assmann from Ahrensburg, which was created in the course of the renovation in 1962/1963. The meditation cross on the altar also comes from Assmann.
chandelier
The two chandeliers above the aisle are modeled on the medieval tire crowns .
Gallery carvings
The surrounding railings and the wooden supports of the galleries show artistic carvings.
Organs
The main organ in the west was replaced in 1963 by a new instrument from the Kemper company in Lübeck. The slider chests -instrument has 33 registers on three manuals and pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric.
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A development association has been trying for years to renew the failure-prone instrument.
On the south side of the choir there is another small organ with seven registers, the so-called choir organ. It was built by the Neuthor company in Kiel and inaugurated in 1989. Your disposition is as follows:
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- Pairing : I / P
literature
- Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. (edited in the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein and in the Office for Monument Preservation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck) Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02627-1 , S. #.
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 23.1 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 29.5" E