St. Niels (Westerland)

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St. Niels Church (Sylt)

The church of St. Niels is an Evangelical Lutheran church in Westerland on Sylt . It is also called the village church , was built in 1634 and consecrated in 1637, making it the oldest building in Westerland. The church tower was built in 1875. The name of the church is a short form of Nikolaus .

St. Niels (Sylt): interior

Furnishing

St. Niels contains a number of valuable works of art: The crucifix (a passion cross that hangs over the arch to the apse ) dates from the 13th or 14th century and is the oldest piece of furniture. The figure of Christ probably dates from the second half of the 15th century, making it younger than the cross itself.

The three-winged late Gothic carved altar shows a coronation of Mary in the middle shrine, which is flanked by two bishops, on the left side there is Nicolaus or Severin , on the right a figure representing Dionysius . The apostles are in the side wings of the altar. In the 19th century, the center shrine was removed from the altar due to strict Lutheranism. In its place an oil painting of the Thuringian Minna von Doetinchem de Rande was added , which showed Jesus walking over the sea and Peter sinking . In 1925, the Coronation of Mary was reinstalled in its original place.

The lush, eagle-crowned 14-armed chandelier dates from 1682. The eight-armed brass chandelier is probably older.

  • Interior of the St. Niels Church

  • Late Gothic carved altar

  • Passion cross from the 13th or 14th century, corpus around the second half of the 15th century

  • Candlestick from 1682

  • Eight-armed brass chandelier

organ

St. Niels (Sylt): organ

The organ built by Marcussen & Søn found its place in the completed church tower in 1876. The instrument had eleven registers . The Lübeck organ building workshop Kemper & Sohn built a new two-manual organ with 14 registers in the old case and using old pipe material in 1965/1966 . In May 1987 the organ was renovated by the Neuthor company (Kiel) as part of the church restoration . The register fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3 'was replaced by the new reed register Krummhorn 8' . Since then, the disposition has been as follows:  

I main work C–
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Scharff III
II Swell C–
Dumped 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Sif flute 1'
Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C–
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Principal 4 ′

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Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 27.2 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 0.6 ″  E