Bartholomew Chapel (Einbeck)
The Bartholomäus Chapel in Einbeck , also called Sertürner Chapel , is the only remaining part of a former leprosy and later poor house in front of the Altendorfer Tor. The sandstone chapel building dates from the early 15th century. Sandstone foundations under the floor measuring 10.50 m in length and 5.50 m in width point to an only slightly smaller, rectangular previous building. In 1510 (the year above the door) the chapel was extended to the west with a half-timbered extension.
In the choir room on the north wall, wall paintings were discovered in 1939 when the wall was breached for access to the Sertürner Chapel. The Secco painting on a layer of lime slurry was restored in 1991/93 by employees of the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences. The wall painting is a representation of Christ on the cross between a good and a bad worshiper with Latin inscriptions in banners. Based on stylistic comparisons of the clothes of the people depicted, the creation is dated between 1430 and 1480.
Friedrich Wilhelm Sertürner , the discoverer of morphine , was transferred from Hameln to Einbeck after his death and buried in a small annex to the north of the chapel, where a stone reminds of him today.
Today the chapel is occasionally used for devotions, theater performances or exhibitions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Heege: Einbeck in the Middle Ages . Isensee, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89598-836-7 , p. 105-107 .
- ↑ Horst Hülse: DI 42 / No. 31, St. Bartholomäi Chapel . In: www.inschriften.net
literature
- Erich Plümer: The late Gothic wall paintings in the Bartholomäus chapel in Einbeck . In: Einbecker yearbook . 29, 1970, pp. 104-108
- Stefanie Lindemeier: Studies on the history of restoration of medieval vault and wall paintings in the area of today's Lower Saxony . Dissertation, 2008, pp. 292-294
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '46.7 " N , 9 ° 52' 58.6" E