Image Copyright: Ingeborg Herbst

St. Jacobi is a Protestant-Lutheran community with around
3000 members in the city centre of Göttingen.

St. Jacobi Church: Jacobikirchhof, 37073 Göttingen
Pastor: Harald Storz, Tel.: 0551-43163
Cantor: Stefan Kordes (St. Jacobi choir)
Tel.: 0551-46138 / 0551-4886828, Fax: 0551-4886829
Secretary: Gisela Wojtowytsch (community office)
Tel.: 0551-57596, Fax: 0551-541253
Sexton: Hans-Werner Hoffmann
Homework Help: on every school day 2pm-4pm
Daycare Centre: Tel. 0551-57294
Organ Music: 1st of April 31st of December, Fri 6pm

Image Copyright: Anita Skiba

Henry the Lion is probably the founder of the Jakobi church (around 1190). Todays Gothic hall-church, with a central nave and two aisles was built between 1341 - 1400. The choir room has the same height as the central nave, together with the tight standing pillars, this architecture generates a tremendous depth effect.

Inside the church, there is still the original, richly decorated winged altar from 1402, whose master is unknown. The closed altar (workday side) depicts scenes of the life of the holy Jacobus the Elder, once opened (Sunday side), the childhood and Christ's suffering and open completely (festive day side), Christ and Maria, apostles, saints as well as prophets on the plinth zone.


Information about guided tours:

Tourist-Information Göttingen
Altes Rathaus
Markt 9
Tel. 05 51 - 49 980 0
Fax 05 51 - 4 99 80 10
E-Mail: tourismus@goettingen.de
www.goettingen-tourismus.de

Image Copyright: Martin Linnert

The choir room and in the south aisle, coloured windows from the year 1901, tell biblical stories. In contrast, the in 1997/98, inserted coloured windows by Johannes Schreiter seem abstract. He interpreted a psalm in its own formal language.

During the renovation in the year 1999, the church's interior got a new coat of colours. It shows the same colour design as in the Renaissance times.

In 1964/66 a big organ with 58 tunes in five works was built by the Göttinger organ builder Paul Ott. The organ was newly inaugurated after a renovation and extension phase on Whitsun 2007.

The Jacobi church was renovated by the company Gebr. Lechte Günther.