Stadtkirche Neustadt in Holstein
The town church in Neustadt in Holstein is a brick Gothic basilica . It bears the patronage of St. Francis of Assisi , which is no longer used today, and is a parish church of the Neustadt in Holstein parish , which belongs to the Ostholstein parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
Building history
The construction of the church goes back to a promise made by Count Adolph IV in the battle of Bornhöved on July 22, 1227. The church was then built in the Gothic style with high vaults in 1238 and consecrated to St. Francis of Assisi.
The church consists of the box choir with two bays, the three-aisled nave with only three bays and the west tower with the tower hall as an entrance hall. Due to the shortness of the nave and the non-existent windows in the upper aisle of the central nave, this type of church building is known as a pseudo-basilica .
The oldest part of the town church is its chest choir, decorated with Gothic paintings, which was started in 1238/1244. It has two pointed gothic windows on the north side, the window on the east side has three lobes. In the south, the sacristy with a ribbed vault is attached to the easternmost yoke of the choir .
The three naves date from the last quarter of the 13th century. The central nave is 17.30 meters high, the side aisles 10.70 meters.
The west tower was started on February 22, 1334. A barely legible plaque made of Gotland limestone with Gothic minuscules indicates the start of construction "after Petri Stuhlfeier 1334". In 1720 the top of the tower was removed and the tower walled up at an angle. A small tower in the middle of the church burned down in 1817. The upper part of the church tower with the pointed spire was built between 1844 and 1846.
The conversion from the original hall church to the basilica also took place from 1334 onwards. Around 1350, the town church largely had its present shape, as the naves were painted in 1350. These were hidden under a white interior painting for centuries and were only exposed again in 1957 and partially added. The intermediate building on the south side between the sacristy and the south aisle is from a later period, an inscription on an alliance coat of arms with the year 1624 gives an indication of the time when this attached chapel was built.
Furnishing
altar
The large baroque altarpiece was created in 1643 by the Hamburg sculptor Zacharias Hübener († 1650) for the Schleswig Cathedral . He came to the city church in 1668 after the Brüggemann altar was erected in Schleswig Cathedral. The Lord's Supper, Crucifixion, Entombment, Resurrection are shown, as well as Moses and John the Baptist and virtues. His altar for the Schleswig Cathedral is an important example of sacred sculpture of the high baroque in Schleswig-Holstein .
There is another work by Zacharias Hübener on the Evangelical Lutheran St. Christophorus Church in Friedrichstadt , the southern portal with the coat of arms.
pulpit
The renaissance pulpit of the town church dates from 1571. It is designed as a gallery pulpit. The large rectangular sound cover over the pulpit is striking. The inscription indicates that Otto von Ritzerow and his wife Druid from Gut Hasselburg donated the pulpit.
organ
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The 17th century organ had 30 voices and was one of the best in the duchy.
The organ builder Rowan West built a new organ in the style of a north German Renaissance organ with around 2000 pipes and a console with three manuals behind the listed prospectus . The organ was inaugurated on the 4th of Advent 2009. A special feature of this instrument is the breastwork , a small "pipe cabinet" with five registers that are operated with sword levers.
The color version of the prospectus from 1614 (or earlier) was restored in 2017. The federal government subsidized the work with 35,000 euros.
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Other equipment
The triumphal cross is a work from the second half of the 15th century. The patronage box on the south wall is a work of the 17th century. Brass candlesticks are on the walls. The two chandeliers in the nave of the church were donated by the Danish King Friedrich III. on the occasion of the launch of the warship Frederik III (with 100 cannons and 500 crew members) in 1649, which was built at a Neustadt shipyard on behalf of the king.
Bells
Two bells from the Gothic period have been preserved in the town church. The Marienglocke is vaguely dated to the 14th century. The smaller one has no dating features. The current chime is a three-part "Te Deum chime", i. H. Tuned in the opening notes (e – g – a) of the Gregorian Te Deum .
Tombstones
The gravestones that are built into the side walls of the tower hall and also in the nave are striking. The oldest of them date from the 14th century and served clergymen in the church. The younger ones come from the 18th century and served as representative grave slabs for representatives of the nobility surrounding the Neustadt .
Epitaphs
On the east wall of the south aisle, the church has a large sandstone Renaissance epitaph from the Rantzau family on Gut Brodau . It was created in 1590 and depicts four family members as donors in front of a Golgatha landscape. Epitaphs are also on the rear pillars for the Sißmer (1646) and Hartmann (1698) families. The church also has various pastor pictures from the 17th and 18th centuries.
literature
- Hartwig Beseler : Kunst-Topographie Schleswig-Holstein , Neumünster 1974, pp. 523-525.
- Werner Waßner, Wolfgang Teuchert , Erich Märtz: Stadtkirche Neustadt · Holstein . Ed .: Parish Neustadt in Holstein. WFB-Druck, Oldenburg / Holstein 1957 (20 pages, brochure on the occasion of the renovation of the town church in 1957).
- Wolfgang Teuchert: The town church Neustadt / Holstein (= large architectural monuments . Issue 288). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1974 (new editions 1982, 1987, 1992).
- Jürgen Hering: Small church guide to take away. The town church of Neustadt in Holstein. Leaflet from around 2015.
- Johannes Hugo Koch (Ed.): Heimatbuch Neustadt in Holstein . Self-published by J. H. Koch, Neustadt in Holstein 1967, p. 82-87 .
Web links
- Evangelical Lutheran parish Neustadt in Holstein
- Historical photographs of the church in the picture index
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d [1] Johannes von Schröder (Captain in the Schleswig Infantry Regiment, R. v. D.): Topography of the Duchy of Holstein, the Principality of Lübeck and the free and Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck . Volume 2. Verlag Fränckel, Oldenburg in Holstein 1841.
- ↑ a b c d e f Jürgen Hering: Small church guide to take away. The town church of Neustadt in Holstein. Leaflet from around 2015.
- ↑ Harry Schmidt : Hübener, Zacharias . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 49 . (see also: Millerntor ).
- ^ Britta Butt: Angels, Lions and Mauresques - The uncovering and restoration of the Renaissance version on the organ prospect of the Neustädter Stadtkirche . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): DenkMal! Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein . No. 25 . Boyens Medien GmbH, 2018, ISSN 0946-4549 , p. 105-112 .
- ^ Stadtkirche Neustadt in Holstein - Music
- ↑ Johannes Hugo Koch: Schleswig-Holstein - Between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea . Verlag DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1987 (p. 255).
- ↑ Description of the individual medieval grave slabs in: Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 . Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 1033 ff.
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 24.8 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 50.8" E