St. Nicholas (Kiel)
St. Nikolaus is the oldest Catholic church in the city of Kiel . It is a provost church .
history
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After the first Catholic parish had formed after the Reformation in Kiel as early as 1794–1798 , the French migrant priest Abbé Dupé held the first Catholic services from 1798 onwards. After a long struggle, the responsible government of the Duchy of Holstein approved a small church building on the Sophienblatt in 1841. This is no longer preserved.
The construction of the much larger St. Nicholas Church then began in 1890 according to plans by the Kiel architect Bornatsch. It was built in the immediate vicinity of Kiel Town Hall as a three-aisled basilical brick building in neo-Gothic style with a polygonal apse and consecrated in 1893 by Osnabrück Bishop Bernhard Höting . The church was destroyed by bombs in 1944 during World War II and rebuilt in a simplified manner in the 1950s. The north-west facade and the tower were completely redesigned.
View from the town hall tower (1946) onto Waisenhofstrasse and Dammstrasse.
Consecration of St. Nicholas after the war in 1967
Festive service for the 75th anniversary of the consecration
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Furnishing
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The most important work in terms of art history is the winged altar from 1515. When open, it shows figures of Our Lady with the baby Jesus, Saint Barbara and Saint Margaret in the middle . In the left side wing there is a figure of St. Sebastian and on the right side one of St. John Cantius . When closed, paintings can be seen on the outside of the wings showing scenes from the life of St. Nicholas. The origin of the winged altar, which is assigned to the Lower Rhine art circle, can no longer be clearly clarified today. It was donated to the community in the course of the new church building in 1890.
The altar, ambo and tabernacle were created from Anröchter stone by the sculptor Paul Brandenburg in 1967 .
The church has a three-manual organ with 34 registers made by Alfred Führer (Wilhelmshaven) in 1971.
Altar 1968
Organ 1971
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KirchenKAI
The "KirchenKAI" is located on the municipality's premises facing Rathausstrasse. This glass building is one of the locations of the Catholic Citypastoral Kiel. In him find v. a. pastoral talks, art exhibitions and lectures take place. The striking building was created in 2004 based on a design by the Kiel architect Manfred Nagel and was awarded as a building in 2006 by the Kiel Advisory Board for Urban Design.
Diocese membership
Today the church belongs to the Archdiocese of Hamburg , which was founded in 1995 , before that it was part of the Diocese of Osnabrück . The current provost of the cathedral chapter, Dr. Thomas Benner was introduced to his office as pastor of the parish Franz von Assisi and as dean for Schleswig-Holstein on December 9, 2018. His predecessor, Leo Sunderdiek, who has been pastor and provost of St. Nikolaus since 1993 and was also dean for Schleswig-Holstein, retired on December 1, 2018.
Parish affiliation
The Propsteigemeinde St. Nikolaus is part of the newly established parish of Franz von Assisi, Kiel, on November 30, 2014. This includes ten churches of the former (dissolved) Catholic deanery in Kiel (the terms "Filialkirche" and "Pfarrkirche" are no longer used in the newly established parishes of the Archdiocese of Hamburg).
Together with the Catholic institutions and associations in Kiel, it forms the "Pastoral Space Kiel".
Motif
A depiction of the St. Nicholas Church was used as a motif on the 1997 Kiel Christmas mug.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Pastoral Kiel
- ↑ ARCHITEKTEN NAGEL Kiel, Manfred Nagel, architect BDA, urban planner, international, architect, urban development. Retrieved October 5, 2019 .
- ^ Parish of the Propstei St. Nikolaus
- ^ The parish of Francis of Assisi
- ^ Pastoral rooms in the Archdiocese of Hamburg
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 7 ′ 52.9 ″ E