Divi Blasii, Mühlhausen

The Divi Blasii church is a three-aisled cruciform church hall at the bottom of the market Mühlhausen / Thuringia. The elaborately designed with tracery, pinnacles and a rose window shop facade on the north side of which is an old trade route.

History

The German Order began the construction of this Gothic church around 1276. Previous buildings date back to the early 12th century. In the north transept is a Maßwerkrose, which is slightly less than that of Notre -Dame in Paris. Under the Maßwerkrose is located on the north outside a Wimpergportal. Maßwerkrose, Wimpergportal and choir polygon - here especially the low base level, the high windows and the attic - can significantly influences seen north of French cathedrals. The nave and the ca 1276/82 Built choir polygon form a ribbed vault. Two keystones in the choir adorn eagle and lion, both signs of the virtues of Christ. The stained glass windows date from the period of 1310 /30 and ask John the Baptist and St. Blasius dar. to the choir walls are grave slabs of religious dignitaries.

On the west side there are two hexagonal, 42 m high stone towers that are from a previous building from the period around 1245 /65. The tower base characterize Romanesque style elements. In Südwesturm there is a bell from the year 1281st The access to the church today is done via the west entrance. There is a tympanum depicting the crucifixion of Christ above the western portal.

Inside the church there is an octagonal baptismal font from 1596, a Luther statue dating back to 1903 and a late Gothic pulpit. Approximately between 1543-48 convertible altars were destroyed in the interior during the iconoclasm. The high altar in the choir polygon remained largely intact and shows the life of Mary and saints. Choir and transept separates a forged lattice from the Baroque period of about 1640th The choir has amongst also a portrait of former superintendent and Muehlhaeuser hymn poet Ludwig Helmbold.

1556 was the German Order of the church of a Lutheran congregation. From about 1600, the Latin name Blasius sanctus is replaced by divus Blasius.

From July 1707 to July 1708 here officiated Johann Sebastian Bach as organist. Council to change he composed in February 1708 festive cantata God is my King, which is obtained as a single from this period as a print.

With the introduction of the Prussian Union of 1817 figures saying the church was part of the Prussian Union Churches ( CEC ). She has been the secularization of the central church of the Protestant parish Mühlhausen and venue for concerts and art exhibitions.

The Gothic arch windows of the Divi - Blasius Church are a native of Mulhouse and emigrated to the U.S. architect John Augustus Roebling ( John August Roebling ) have served in the design of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge between New York neighborhoods of Manhattan and Brooklyn as a model.

Organ

On the west side loft is inaugurated in 1959 and re- inaugurated after a general mood 14 September 2008 Schuke organ that converts the organ disposition Bach. The doctor and Bach expert Albert Schweitzer worked at the concept of this organ. The Bach organ has three manuals and 42 registers. This organ is one of the very few in the world that was built after the especially made of brook disposition. Have been added, so that modern organ music is to play with the appropriate timbre few registers.

• Couplers: II / I, III / I, I / P, II / P
• Cymbelstern

Johann Sebastian Bach was 1707/ 08 organist at the Divi - Blasius Church. On the day of St.. Blasius, 3 February, the Council election took place every year. The next day, the blessing for the new Council was requested in a church service. For this occasion, Bach's cantata was God is my king, and was premiered on 4 February 1708 Divi Blasii.

• Gallery

South Tower

Maßwerkrose in the transept

Portrait of Ludwig Helmbold, 1532-1598, Lutheran hymn writer

Bell engravings

The bells of 1345 and 1448 have rare, historically significant art bell engravings, which are recognized in a work of art historian Ingrid Schulze in a separate chapter.