St. Pauli (Soest)

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St. Pauli in Soest

St. Pauli is a Gothic hall church in Soest ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). The three-bay hall church with the mighty tower on a square floor plan characterizes the cityscape in the south-western part of the city. It belongs to the Protestant St. Petri Pauli Congregation, which with around 8,100 members is the largest Protestant church in Soest and belongs to the Soest parish .

History and architecture

View of St. Pauli from Haarhofgasse
The mighty tower

Archbishop Philipp von Heinsberg decided towards the end of the twelfth century to expand the city of Soest. The urban area was divided into four sectors, so-called courtyards. Every court should have a church; St. Pauli became the church of the southern court. Until then, St. Petri , also called "Alde Kerke", was the only town church. A St. Pauli church was first mentioned in 1229 in Soest. It was probably still a Romanesque predecessor church. The renovation of the current Gothic church began around 1350 and, according to the results of dendrochronological studies in the roof structure, lasted until 1405/06. The double-elevated collar beam roof of the church is today one of the largely preserved Gothic church roofs of the city of Soest, alongside that of the Wiesenkirche , and is of national importance. The oldest parts of the church are the nave and the tower ; the choir was added as the last part about 100 years later.

St. Pauli played a major role in Soest's history during the Reformation . The first Reformation sermon was held in 1530 by the humanistically educated Vice Curate Johann Kelberg, who had previously been a priest in the Dominican monastery in Soest. He openly sided with the Reformation and became the first Lutheran pastor in Soest. During the Catholic interim , the Catholic pastor appointed the chaplain Hartlieb Sennekamp. After a short time he was preaching non-Catholic and was to be removed from office. The city council encouraged the chaplain; however, Sennekamp had to be dismissed because the emperor intervened. Nevertheless, the citizens gradually returned to the evangelical faith. After the Catholic interim, St. Pauli was the first church to become Protestant again in 1552. Walther von Stollwyck was given permission to celebrate the Lord's Supper there “in both forms”.

During the Second World War , the church was largely spared from destruction; until 1950 it was renovated. From 1948 to 1960 it was a common place of worship for the St. Pauli and St. Thomä congregations. Since the St. Pauli congregation became smaller in the 1960s, it merged with the St. Petri congregation in 1972 to form the “St. Petri Pauli congregation”. The church was closed shortly afterwards due to disrepair. From 1980 to 1995 it was extensively restored and then reopened. The church is used for church services, official acts and concerts.

In January 2020, St. Pauli was named Monument of the Month in Westphalia-Lippe by the LWL Monument Preservation, Landscape and Building Culture in Westphalia .

The stained glass windows in the vestibule are works from around 1300, they are among the oldest still preserved glass windows in the city.

Furnishing

Altarpiece
Walcker organ
  • The altar panel from the school of Conrad von Soests dates from around 1430. The antependia were made in the 1940s and 1970s based on designs by the city archivist and presbyter Deus.
  • The memorial for the fallen of the First World War is a Pietà by Walter von Ruckteschell .
  • Gothic tabernacle in the choir room
  • The Gothic font was built in the 14th century.
  • Renaissance pulpit (1580)
  • The original tower clock movement from 1916 is a work from the Vortmann workshop.
  • The glass artist Anna Pauli designed the resurrection plaque on the south wall as a place of remembrance. The color white, the light, dynamically overcomes the darkness represented by the colors gray and black. This is how the mystery of the resurrection is to be presented.
  • In the western part are pries from the 16th century.

Walcker organ

The organ of the Paulikirche was built in 1895 by Walcker (Ludwigsburg, as Opus 676) in the historical baroque organ case of the previous organ from 1675 (Peter Heinrich Varenholt, Andreas Schneider). The pneumatic instrument in the German-Romantic style has 28 registers on two manuals and a pedal . A special feature is the sweeping clarinet 8 ′ in the swell . The organ was last extensively restored in the years 1992–1994 by the organ construction company Hermann Eule (Bautzen). T. was reconstructed. The organ has a free-standing console , which during the restoration was placed in the middle in front of the organ with a view of the altar (east) (this was previously at the northern end of the gallery with a view to the south, i.e. rotated by 90 °). The Manubrien the organ stops are, in different colors, in three rows next to the manuals, it ever a small button for the free combination . The push buttons for the playing aids are located below the first manual, the straight scale for the crescendo indicator above the second manual. The normal paddocks and tutti are also available as steps above the pedal.

I main work C – f 3
01. Bourdon 16 ′
02. Principal 08th'
03. Covered 08th'
04th Viola da gamba 0 08th'
05. Hollow flute 08th'
06th Gemshorn 08th'
07th Dolce 08th'
08th. Octave 04 ′
09. Reed flute 04 ′
10. Octave 02 ′
11. Mixture V 2 23
12. Trumpet 08th'
II Swell C – f 3
13. Violin principal 08th'
14th Lovely covered 08th'
15th Salicional 08th'
16. Concert solder 04 ′
17th Aeoline 08th'
18th Octav 04 ′
19th Transverse flute 04 ′
20th Cornett IV-V 08th'
21st Clarinet 08th'
Calcant bells
Pedal C – d 1
22nd Principal bass 16 ′
23. Sub-bass 16 ′
24. Violonbass 16 ′
25th Octave bass 08th'
26th violoncello 08th'
27. Octav 04 ′
28. Trombone bass 0 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P; Super I / I, super P / P
  • Playing aids : piano, forte, tutti as fixed combinations (trigger), a free combination, register crescendo as a step (left), swell kick (right), roller on, II. Manual down

Bells

Four bells from the 18th century in the wooden belfry and on wooden yokes from the casting period form the ring. On the east side of the spire hangs a bell for the clock strike . All bells come from the hand of Bernhard Wilhelm Stule.

No.
 
Surname
 
Casting year
 
Caster
 
Diameter
(mm)
Mass
(kg)
Percussive
( HT - 1 / 16 )
1 Butcher bell 1720 Bernhard Wilhelm Stule 1,250 1,200 it 1 ± 0
2 - 1720 Bernhard Wilhelm Stule 1,126 0.880 f 1 +7
3 - 1720 Bernhard Wilhelm Stule 0.992 0.500 ges 1 -5
4th - 1711 Bernhard Wilhelm Stule 0.730 0.250 c 2 ± 0
I. Clock bell 1722 Bernhard Wilhelm Stule 0.516 f sharp 2 +3

Columbarium

On December 19, 2009, a columbarium was opened in the back of the church , which offers space for 672 urns in eight steles. The design comes from the architect Hannes Knickeberg from Soest, who was also responsible for the construction management. By installing the columbarium, the living and the dead are united under one roof. The urns in small chambers are removed after twenty years and kept in a place in the church that is closed by a stone slab. The steles consist of welded plates made of stainless steel ; they were blasted with glass beads; the patina makes them appear calm. The covers were made of Baumberger sandstone , whose sand-colored and gray surfaces appear velvety. The panels are held in place by pounded in lead wool. Overall, the effect of a former small village cemetery is to be achieved, in which the graves were located around the church. The area of ​​the columbarium is separated from the church service room by a glass wall designed by the glass artist Anna Pauli. A colored glass ribbon that runs through the room with a length of 32 meters represents the theme of lifelines with a continuous program of images in different lines and colors . The abstract depictions from birth to the transition to death are intended to inspire the visitor about the Reflecting on the course of his own life. This columbarium is the first urn burial site in a Protestant church in Westphalia.

state of construction

The roofs of the nave and the tower had been in need of renovation for a long time. Since slates fell from the tower in 2004, an emergency safety net had to be made. In 2017 and 2018, the roof structure of both roofs was finally statically upgraded and repaired. In addition, the nave was re-covered with natural slate in old German cover and the spire was completely re-covered with lead, thus restoring the original state of construction.

literature

  • Hubertus Schwartz : Soest in his monuments . Vol. 3: Gothic churches . Westfälische Verlags-Buchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1957, pp. 57–79.
  • Hannalore Reuter: Historical organs in Soest. Münster 1995, p. 26f.
  • Hannalore Reuter: Historic organs in Westphalia-Lippe. Münster 2006, p. 309f.
  • Constantin Grun, Ulrich Grun : On the history of the organ prospect in the Soester St. Pauli Church. In: Kreis Soest (ed.): Heimatkalender Kreis Soest 2015. Soest 2015, ISBN 978-3-928295-52-9 , pp. 52–53.

Web links

Commons : St. Pauli (Soest)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Cityscape
  2. size of the community
  3. ^ Church district
  4. ^ Philipp von Heinsberg
  5. a b c d Denis Kretzschmar: Monument of the month: The Protestant St. Paulikirche in Soest. LWL monument preservation, landscape and building culture in Westphalia, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
  6. construction times
  7. ^ First Lutheran pastor
  8. Information on Johann Kelberg
  9. interim period
  10. Renovation in the 1940s
  11. oldest glass window
  12. Baptismal font
  13. Resurrection tablet
  14. Resurrection tablet
  15. Preaching
  16. ^ The Walcker organ in the St. Pauli Church
  17. ^ Claus Peter: Westphalia . In: Kurt Kramer (Hrsg.): The German bell landscapes . DKV, Munich 1989, p. 58.
  18. ^ Evangelisch.de: First urn cemetery opened in Westphalia
  19. Concept and architect
  20. Steles ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.knickenberg.com
  21. glass wall
  22. Glass ribbon
  23. ^ First urn cemetery in a church
  24. ^ Condition of the roofs

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 25.5 ″  E