Thomaskirche (Schulensee)
The listed Thomaskirche in Schulensee, a district of Molfsee near the state capital Kiel , is a Protestant church and the landmark of the place.
history
After the Second World War, the number of inhabitants in the northern Molfsee districts of Schulensee and Rammsee rose sharply. Until the 1950s, various rooms on the site of the former Schulehof estate served as makeshift church and community rooms. However, the further increase in the number of inhabitants made the construction of a separate church an imperative. It was decided to build a new church on a hill west of Hamburger Landstrasse in the Schulensee district.
After the foundation stone was laid on August 31, 1957, the church was consecrated on December 13, 1959 by Bishop Wilhelm Halfmann. The parsonage to the west was built at the same time as the church, and in 1963 the parish hall on the east side of the church hill (expanded in 1990) and staff apartments were added. In 1969 the first construction phase of the Osterfeld cemetery in Rammsee, about a kilometer away, was inaugurated. Until then, the Thomas parish continued to use the Flintbeker cemetery.
Initially, the northern part of the Flintbek parish belonging to the St. Thomas Church was a parish of the Flintbek parish. It was not until 1967 that the parishes were formally divided, through which the Schulensee parish became an independent parish.
Architecture and equipment
The Thomaskirche is considered to be one of the most successful examples of modern sacred buildings, in which traditional and contemporary elements have been harmoniously combined. In terms of design, the architect Otto Andersen (1924–1981) modeled the building on a ship. The floor plan is developed from a rhombus and the building has almost no right angles or horizontal lines. Only the furthest corner of the building is at right angles, and the fact that the roof ridge is horizontal only becomes apparent on closer inspection.
With its white walls, the black, structured slate roof and the conical spire towering 20 meters above it, the church stands on the top of an Ice Age moraine hill. The path to the church portal leads up in a wide arc. The visitor enters the church through the portal next to the tower and is initially led through a long anteroom without looking at the altar. Only after a 90 ° turn does the view first fall on the row of windows of creation and finally through the nave into the chancel.
The interior of the church, like the exterior walls, is white. Only the wood-paneled ceiling stands out from it and, with its structure, takes up the idea of the ship's deck providing protection.
window
The design of the windows of Dallglas done by Siegfried Assmann . The church has a floor-to-ceiling window in the chancel, which symbolically represents the Whitsun event, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit ( Acts 2 EU ). On the north-west and north-east wall, a row of seven round windows staggered in height takes up the idea of a ship as portholes. They deal thematically with the seven days of creation ( 1 Mos 1 EU ). Another round window is in the sacristy at the foot of the church tower. It shows the scene Thomas ( Jn 20.24 to 29 EU ), which is its name to the church and community.
A number of small oval ornamental windows are located on the south-east and south-west walls of the church.
Sanctuary and baptism
The chancel is raised by several steps opposite the nave. Pulpit, altar table and the baptismal font in front of the chancel are made of shell limestone.
Like the windows, the simple bronze high cross above the altar was created by Siegfried Assmann. The Christ figure wears neither a crown of thorns nor other signs of suffering. Rather, he has already overcome death and comes to meet the community from the cross with blessings.
organ
The 22- register organ built by Detlef Kleuker in Brackwede near Bielefeld was consecrated on September 17th, 1961 after its completion. The organ positive had already been playable since the church consecration on the 3rd Advent in 1959. Today church music with the St. Thomas Choir, the children's and youth choirs and the concerts supported by a sponsorship group are one of the focal points of the community's work.
Bells
The three steel bells cast by the Bochumer Verein are located in the tower on separate bell floors behind the sound hatches that can be seen from the outside . The bell has a te-deum disposition with the striking notes f sharp ', a' and b '.
literature
- Hartmut Hildebrandt: Chronicle of Molfsee 1238-1988 . Publisher: Molfsee Municipality. Molfsee 1988
- Klaus Becker: Schulensee - a parish between town and country , in: Annual papers of the communal association Schulensee-Rammsee-Molfsee 1977
- Church council of the Ev.-luth. Parish Schulensee (ed.): The Thomaskirche in Schulensee , Schulensee 1979
Web links
- Thomaskirche in Schulensee
- Church and congregation on the website of the church district Altholstein
Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 7.4 " N , 10 ° 4 ′ 51.7" E