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  • 800 years celebration
  • CATHEDRAL HISTORY
    • Persons and families related to Riga Cathedral
  • CATHEDRAL TREASURES
    • Stone carvings
    • North entrance Portal
    • Donation chest for orphans
    • Tower Weathercock of 1595
    • ALTARS
      • Altar of 1896
      • The altar of the St. Mary’s Chapel of Riga Cathedral
    • The Sculpture of the Bishop Albert
    • The baptismal font of the Bishop Meinard
    • EPITAPHS, MEMORIAL PLAGUES
      • Commemorative plaque to the Hungarian composer Ferenc Liszt, author of the opening composition of the Riga Cathedral organ
      • Table of the water level of floods of April 13, 1709
      • The memorial plaque is dedicated to the events of 1812
      • Alexander Gustav Adolf Jentsch’s Epitaph
      • Epitaph of Magdalena von Rein
      • Jacob Battus’ Epitaph
      • Daniel Hermann`s epitaph
      • Dietrich Christians` epitaph
      • Dietrich Dreyling`s Epitaph
      • Epitaph of Eberhard von Kruger
      • Emil Friedrich von Boetticher’s Epitaph
      • Valentin Grawe`s epitaph
      • HERRMANN HERMENSS` EPITAPH
      • Nicolai v. Himsel’s epitaph
      • Johan Hinrich`s epitaph
      • Johann v. Benckendorf`s epitaph
      • Peter Friedrich Krögers` epitaph
      • Commemorative plate of Anders Linderson
      • Epitaph of Riga Small Guild or St. John’s Guild
      • Gustav v. Mengden‘s epitaph
      • Carl Friedrich v. Mengdens` Epitaph
      • Otto v. Mengdens` epitaph
      • Rigemann family epitaph
      • Johan Friedrich Schick`s epitaph
      • Caspar von Tiesenhausen’s and Maria von Effern’s Epitaph
      • Urzula Krüger’s epitaph
      • Valentin v. Löwensterns` epitaph
      • David von Wiecken’s epitaph
      • Theodor Heinrich v. Dreilingen`s epitaph
    • ORGAN
    • PAINTINGS
      • Organ balcony
        • The large organ balcony
          • South side
          • Central part
          • North side
        • The small organ balcony
      • The students` balcony with paintings and St. Cecilia`s relief
      • Jesus raises Lazarus from the Dead
      • The Painting “The New Jerusalem”
      • The painting “John’s Vision of Christ”
      • The Painting “The Magi Visit the Messiah”
      • The lost wall painting “Family Tree”
      • Wall Painting “Coronation of St. Mary”
    • STAINED GLASS
      • Madonna with the Infant Jesus in a Mandorla
      • Bishop Albert consecrates the land for the construction of the Riga Cathedral on July 25, 1211
      • Walter von Plettenberg, Master of the Livonian Order, on September 21, 1525 declares Freedom of Faith in Riga
      • The Delegation of Riga Greeting the Swedish King Gustav II Adolph on September 25, 1621
      • Scenes from the life of St. Martin
      • Scenes from the life of St. George
      • The Apostles Peter and Paul
      • Ruth and Orpah with Their Mother-in-Law Naomi at the Crossroads
      • “The Saviour”
      • Disciple’s meeting Christ on the road to Emmaus
      • Moses and the prophet Elijah
      • Rosette with Christian Symbols
      • “Pelican”
    • TOMB
      • Borris Depkin Wall Tomb
      • Rembert von Funcken Family Tomb
      • Tomb of Riga’s Archbishop Wilhelm von Brandenburg
      • Nicolaus Ecke’s Tomb
      • Artillery Colonel Elias Kober Family Tomb
      • Gustav Johan von Albedyll ‘s tombs facade
      • Joachim Moritz Coppenius Wall Tomb
      • Knauer Family Tomb
      • Family Tomb of Magdalena von Broitzen and her Husbands
      • Wall Tomb of Bishop Meinard
      • Facade of a tomb of an unknown family
      • The fragment of the Rennenkampff Family Tomb
      • Rose-Rosbach Family Tomb
      • Gotthard Welling Family Tomb
    • TOMBSTONES
      • Meiger’s tombstone, reused for the E. Kruger family
      • Reinhold Fittinghoff’s tombstone
      • J. Ulenbrock’s Tombstone
      • Tombstone for G. Viburg and his wife Elsa
      • Tombstone for the family of M. Geze
      • P. Arende’s tombstone, reused for family of M. Dreiling
      • H.Gize Tombstone
      • Burman’s tombstone, reused for J.M. Holsten
      • L. Heller’s family tombstone
      • Tombstone of Caspar Tisenhausen and his wife Maria Tisenhausen
      • Tombstone of Frans Baumgardt
      • Tombstone of L. Holler and his wife Catherine
      • N. Siverin, H. Boker family Tombstone
      • Tombstone of J. Midike, K. Benert, reused for the family of H. Gize
      • A. Mollen tombstone, reused by H. Steffen
      • R. Brone Tombstone
      • Durkopp Tombstone, resused by Herman Achelpohl
      • Margaretha Scedinger and Albert Foltel Tombstone
      • G. Helmsingk and C. Arnsen tombstone
      • Mattius Hartwich Tombstone
      • Hermann Kruse tombstone, reused by Jak. Petersen
      • Durkop K. Tombstone, reused for R. Weslinck and Family Audernec
      • Detmarus de Lynne tombstone, reused for Hans Moller
      • J. Sache tombstone
      • C. Benkendorf family tombstone
      • Dreling family tombstone
      • Hinrich Flügel tombstone
      • The tombstone of the Herman Becker
      • Hans Tom Broke tombstone, reused by Johann Schulte
      • Johann Tastius Tombstone
      • G. Veling tombstone
      • Hans Kreuzfeldt tombstone
      • Tombstone of Hinrich Sybenn And Otto Sehlman
      • Caspar Zeimern Tombstone
      • Tomb plate of an unknown family, reused for Cord Meyer
      • Tomb of the wine bottlers
      • Tombstone for N. Mornes, reused by the L. Bornit family
      • Johonn Ulenbruge Tombstone
      • Tombstone of Johann Mumbarch, reused
      • Tombstone of Canonists Hilbolt and Hinriks, reused
      • Heinrick Rigeman family Tombstone
      • Tombstone of T. Gronewalt
      • Shopmann family Tombstone
      • Tombstone of the Hefner family, reused by the A Gronevolt family
      • REUSED  TOMBSTONE OF UNIDENTIFIED FAMILIES
      • Wiecken family tombstone
      • Rimen family tombstone
      • Lavrentz Lemchen Tombstone
      • Tombstone of Burchard Vincellius
      • Unidentified family Tomstone
      • Tombstone of Johann Berucci and Simen Oldenborch
      • Belser Keicken’s tomb plate, reused by Sigmund Gibeler’s family
    • WOOD CARVINGS
      • The Blackheads’ Pew
      • The choir pews
      • The Pulpit
      • Riga City Council bench guards
  • RESTORATION
  • PROJECTS
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THE PULPIT

The Pulpit. Photo: U.Muzikants 2018

Contributor: Funds for the construction of the pulpit were donated by Riga city Council member, lawyer and the Royal Court Assessor Ludwig Hintelmann (1578–1643) and his wife Katarina born Lemken (?–1666) in 1641.
Author: The pulpit and wood carvings were made in the workshop of Tobias Heintz (1589–1653), the most prominent master of that time.
The angel crowning the pulpit – sculptor Pēteris Jozefs Imhoff from Cologne (1768–1844).
Transformations in corpus of the pulpit woodcarver Konstantina Schelesnikow.
Date: 1641, 1817
Material: timber of various species
Technique: wood carving
Sizes:
Restoration: 1817, the end of 19th century
The pulpit was repainted and rebuilt in 1959-1962
Sculpture of the Evangelist Luke by Sandra Priežčiekure on 1994

Inscriptions:
Biblical quotations written in the middle of the 17th century are still preserved on three panels attached to the pillar wall between the pulpit corpus and the roof:
Plate on the left:
„PSALM :XXVI.V. 7.8.9. Ich Wasche …”
Psalm: 26.6.7.8. /
“I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, O Lord,
proclaiming aloud your praise and telling of all your wonderful deeds.
I love the house where you live, O Lord, the place where your glory dwells.”

Middle plate: „PSALM: LXXXIV Wie ieblich …ANNO.1.6.41”

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Plate on the right: IESAIA. VIII. CAP.V.20 IA Nach……….”

Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
The pulpit of Riga Cathedral belongs to the most remarkable achievements in the sacral art in the Eastern Baltic in middle of 17th century.
Tobias Heinze is one of the most productive and interesting woodcarvers of the middle of the 17th century, who had even two workshops at the same time – in Revel /Tallinn/, where already in 1629 he employed several disciples, and other one in Mītava /Jelgavā/, which he inherited from his father in 1632. He returned to Revele in 1647, where he died.
The rich ornamental decor of the pulpit from middle of 17th century was altered during the church renovation on 1817. The alteration was made by the woodcarver Konstantin Schelesnikow. The mannerism has been replaced by a classic column, rosettes and fragile festoons. Modern accents have been given to the pulpit by the Neo-Gothic elements, which entered the decorative art of Latvia for the first time. The stylistic diversity is complemented by the Baroque style angel with a trumpet above the pulpit made by the sculptor Peter Jozef Imhoff (1768–1844) from Cologne. The last time the pulpit was repainted in 1959-1962.

Sculptures of Christ and the apostles are depicted on the pulpit body, evangelists on the stair railing:
Portal with the figure of John the Baptist
Evangelist Matthew
Jesus Christ
Evangelist Mark
Evangelist Luke
John the Evangelist
Apostle Jude Thaddeus
Apostle James the Younger
Apostle Paul
Apostle Philip
Apostle Thomas
Apostle Bartholomew
Apostle Andrew
Apostle Simon
Apostle Peter


Personifications of Christian virtues are placed in the niches of the lower floor of the two-story pulpit roof, and figures of naked children (angels) are placed in the tower-shaped elevation.
Allegory on the lower floor of the pulpit canopy:
Love, Hope, Faith, Mercy, Wisdom, The truth, Moderation, Fortitude, Innocence, Humility, Patience

Photo: U.Muzikants 2018

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