Master of the choir stalls from Pöhlde

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Hermann Billung and his wife Hildegard von der Westerburg. Drawing based on a wooden relief on the cheek piece of the former monastery church in Palatinate Pöhlde . (Unknown master around 1280, today Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover )

The master of the choir stalls of Pöhlde can be described as the artist or craftsmen who created the choir stalls for the church of the Premonstratensian monastery in Pöhlde in the Harz Mountains around 1280/1290 .

Location of the workshop

Information about the craftsmen and artists who made choir stalls is not only rare from the time when Pöhlde's work was created. Admittedly, decorations on chairs show pictures of craftsmen, but their representations are rare in the church. A monk at a workbench carving parts of a choir stalls can be seen on one of the desk cheeks from Pöhlde from around 1280. However, whether this can point to the origin of the choir stalls in a monastery workshop in Pöhlde is disputed. There is no further reference to this in documents on the origin of the work in the 16th century.

Site history of the plant

The choir stalls originally located in the church of the Premonstratensian monastery in Pöhlde came after the decline of the monastery in a detour in the 19th century to the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover. Today's Evangelical Johannes Servatius Church in Pöhlde, built in 1525, stands on the remains of the middle part of the three-aisled structure from the Middle Ages and again contains parts of the choir stalls.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on the significance of the Pöhlde choir stalls in this context cf. Footnote 104 in T. Burg: The signature: Forms and functions from the Middle Ages to the 17th century . LIT Verlag 2007
  2. ^ E. Meier: Art production in the Franciscan monasteries: to Korbach and Meiersdorf . Books on Demand, accessed online February 2010
  3. ↑ so it is e.g. B. as worth seeing there already listed in Baedeker's travel manuals. Germany - Northwest (From the Elbe and the western border of Saxony) Handbook for travelers, Verlag Karl Baedeker 1899
  4. ↑ A. Bischof: The return of an old choir stalls to Pöhlde . In: General Harz-Berg-Calendar for 1983. Eduard Pieper 1983 p. 118

literature

  • W. Grape: The riddle of the choir stalls by Pöhlde, Einbeck and Ilfeld , 2nd part. In: Low German contributions to art history, 43/44 (2004/05) pp. 93-134

Web links

  • Figure of the monk sculptor von Pöhlde Object 20641153 (Photo Marburg accessed February 2010)