City church Heiligenhafen

The Evangelical City Church of Heiligenhafen is a church building and cultural monument in the old town of Heiligenhafen in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

history

The church was built in the Romanesque-Gothic transition style in 1250 , fifty years before the town of Heiligenhafen was first mentioned in a document. It is considered to be an early testimony to the Christianization of northern Germany, which began around the year 1000. The church lord Hermann von Heiligenhafen has been handed down as the owner of the benefice in the 13th century.

The church was structurally altered several times, it was given its current appearance in the 1950s. In the 1970s, the interior was rearranged and the altar was redesigned, and in 1974 a new organ was installed.

Furnishing

The oldest work of art in the interior is a figure of St. Christopher . In the chancel there are statues of Adam and Eve , presumably gifts from a Danish king. Ship models hang in the nave . An epitaph by the sculptor Thomas Quellinus from 1698 above a side exit commemorates the navigator Moritz Hartmann and is considered an important work of art of the late baroque.

The bell, created in 1553 by the bell founder Karsten Middeldorp , was melted down in 1901. In 1673 Nikolaus Gage cast another bell for the church. Today's peal consists of three cast steel bells from 1901, tuned to d ', f' and as'.

Others

Theodor Storm mentioned the church in his 1882 novella Hans and Heinz Kirch and describes its interior:

“Even Captain Kirch himself could not fail to look down from his boatman's chair at church services on Sundays, into the church, where his cute boy was sitting with his mother. Occasionally his eyes also wandered over to the epitaph, where the marble bust of a stately man in a huge allonge wig was shown between various trophies of victory "

Pastors

literature

Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art-Topography Schleswig-Holstein . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1974, p. 508ff.
Jörgen Heinritz: Anniversary Festschrift. City of Heiligenhafen 700 years 1305–2005. Heiligenhafen Church 750 years 1255–2005. Edited by the city of Heiligenhafen and the Ev.-Luth. Parish of Heiligenhafen. Eggers, Heiligenhafen 2005.
The town church - a center of town life. In: The Heiligenhafener. Issue 2 / July and August 2015, p. 28.