Diocese museums of Regensburg
The Regensburg Diocese Museums are the museums of the Regensburg Diocese in Regensburg . In detail these are:
- Museum St. Ulrich Domplatz No. 2 Location: 49 ° 1 ′ 8.6 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 57.7 ″ E
- Domschatzmuseum (Krauterermarkt 3) Location: 49 ° 1 ′ 12.3 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 50.9 ″ E
- Diözesanmuseum (Museum Obermünster , Emmeramsplatz 1) Location: 49 ° 0 ′ 58 ″ N , 12 ° 5 ′ 40 ″ E
The early Gothic St. Ulrich Church, built from 1220 to 1230, was originally intended as a ducal palace chapel. From 1240, however, it served as a cathedral parish church. In 1824 the church was profaned . After several renovations, it has housed the exhibits of the Diocesan Museum since 1986 and is also once again the status church of the Regensburg Cathedral Chapter. The interior of the church is decorated with frescoes from the 13th to 16th centuries. In the lower area you can see medieval goldsmith's art, exhibits from the Renaissance , Baroque and Rococo on the galleries and contemporary items in the entrance area.
Among the 250 exhibits, the church treasures of the former St. Emmeram , St. Johann and Niedermünster monasteries are particularly noteworthy. Showpieces are the crooks of the Holy Emmeram and Wolfgang from the 12th century, a ciborium from ivory , called "Wolfgang Mitra" from the 13th century, the so-called Schmetterlingsreliquiar and tablature Beautiful Maria of Albrecht Altdorfer .
The cathedral treasure museum, founded in 1974 in the rooms of the former episcopal residence, mainly shows late medieval exhibits from the cathedral treasure , which was kept in a vaulted chamber behind the south choir of the cathedral before the museum was founded. The rooms are decorated with Renaissance frescoes. You can see u. a. the so-called Regensburg enamel box made around 1400 by workshops of the French royal courts in the form of a house, which was used to store relics , the Wandula altar , the Wolfgang's chalice from 1250/60, the Ottokar cross (1261) donated by the Bohemian King Ottokars II for the Agnes Monastery in Prague , silver oil bottles belonging to Bishop Heinrich II von Rotteneck from the end of the 13th century and vestments .
The Diocesan Museum shows changing special exhibitions on topics from religious graphics, contemporary Christian art and religious folk art.
literature
- Achim Hubel , Genoveva Nitz, Friedrich Fuchs : Museum St. Ulrich Regensburg (= art guide No. 1587). 2., rework. Edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-5295-3 .
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