St. Ignatius (Regensburg)
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The listed Bruderhauskirche St. Ignaz , the former (until 2015) Protestant hospital church is located at Emmeramsplatz 12 in the old town of Regensburg . The church was built in 1622 from a forerunner chapel of St. Ignatius, which was built in 1444 after the foundation of the brother house foundation for impoverished craftsmen.
Patronage
The patron saint of the Brotherhood Church is Saint Ignatius of Antioch .
history
The church has its origins around 1445. The church building owes its creation to the establishment of the Brother House Foundation, which was created in 1444 through the merger of two civil, charitable foundations. The foundation of the rich citizen Stephan Notangst, who had made the so-called Bruderhaus on Haidplatz available for impoverished old craftsmen, was combined with the Kastenmayer Foundation of the rich citizen Hans Kastenmeyer, who had bought the property on the corner of Oberer Bachgasse and Emmeramsplatz in 1444 , in order to accommodate impoverished craftsmen there after the property was converted into a new brother house. Were taken gratuitously brothers who were obliged to do light work, while incumbents had to buy and were not subject to compulsory labor. After the Reformation in 1542, the Bruderhaus became a Protestant foundation.
At the same time as the brother house was built, the St. Ignatius chapel belonging to the monastery was built. During these construction measures, Gothic-style pointed arched windows and a slim, pointed spire were preferred to the contemporary early baroque forms, while the interior was decided in favor of a very simple but contemporary interior.
building
The church building is a gable-independent, late Gothic hall building with a steep pitched roof. The Bruderhauskirche is built into the surrounding building complex, the two outer walls that remain free (south and east wall) are divided on the mezzanine floor by pointed-arch tracery windows. The roof ridge is crowned with a stone lamb.
A small choir in the form of a cantilevered bay is attached to the east wall (eaves side). A small turret rises above the bay window (renewed in 1868 after a storm, the non-Gothic upper section was replaced by a tower with a pointed helmet.)
The raised entrance is on the south wall and can be reached via a double flight of stairs. The arched portal with lead-glazed iron door from the 19th century bears the year "1622".
Interior
The almost square interior is spanned by a flat ceiling with a girder in north-south direction, which is supported by two baluster columns. The stained glass windows date from the late 19th century, the window in the apse shows a depiction of the " Good Shepherd " by Christian Kappelmeyer from 1897.
The original stalls according to the Protestant status order ("Weiberbänkl", "Mannsbänke", "der H. Geistlichen Cabinett", "Stühle der Brüder") are preserved. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the seats were rented to wealthy Regensburg residents in order to supplement the income of the Brother House Foundation.
The small apse is supported by a Gothic ribbed vault with a keystone. In front of the apse is a simple wooden altar, probably from 1889. The pulpit dates from the time it was built, the sound cover with coffered panels and the Holy Spirit dove is beautifully crafted.
In the entrance area hangs a building and donor inscription from 1622 in Latin and German. Behind the last row of seats in the northern stalls there is an offering box probably from 1622, another sacrificial box on the southern stalls probably dates from around 1900.
On the south wall there are pictures “The arrest of Jesus”, “Interrogation before Kaiaphas”, “Jesus falls under the cross” (oil on canvas, 17th century). The pictures are the remains of a Way of the Cross from the Bruderhaus. On the west gallery there is a depiction of the “Last Supper” (oil on canvas, with donor inscription and the year 163 (?)).
The gallery from 1622 is still on the north side. The gallery on the west side was demolished in the 20th century and later replaced by a modern, glazed gallery.
There is a small exhibition of liturgical implements in two showcases.
Roof truss
The three-storey roof structure from 169 (?) (According to the inscription) was previously used as a warehouse. In the loft there is still a Göpelwerk with a winding roller and rectangular window as a loading hatch. In the 19th century there were considerations to remove the “stadel-like and misshapen” roof structure in order to create a “worthy image of the Bruderhauskirche”.
Cellar and basement
Under the church, which is located on the mezzanine floor, there are two floors: the basement and the cellar, which is deep below today's street level. The basement consists of three parallel, barrel-vaulted rooms facing east-west. Presumably the cellars were formerly used as beer and wine cellars.
In one of the cellars there are two cells that may have been used as prison cells (panting) to punish the residents of the brother house.
Spolie in the adjacent building
West of the church is a Jewish tombstone for “R. Baruch, son of the martyr R. Chajim ”d. 4. Cheschwan 5140 (= October 4, 1380) inserted into the building wall. It is one of many gravestones from the medieval Jewish cemetery that were abducted after the Jews were expelled in 1519.
literature
- Hugo von Walderdorff: Regensburg in its past and present. Pustet, Regensburg 1869, p. 101 ( digitized version ).
- Georg Dehio , edited by Jolanda Drexler, Achim Hubel u. a .: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Bavaria , Volume 5: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1991.
- Felix Mader: The Art Monuments of the Upper Palatinate , Volume XXII Part III. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1981.
- Peter Morsbach: Protestant churches in Regensburg . Schnell & Steiner, Munich [a. a.] 1991.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Morsbach: Evangelical Churches in Regensburg. Schnell & Steiner, Munich [a. a.] 1991.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Peter Morsbach: Evang.-luth. Brother House Church St. Ignaz in Regensburg , documentation on inventory, construction, equipment and restoration history. January-March 1994, not published.
- ^ Eugen Trapp: Regensburg and its Middle Ages, between continuity and reception. Tradition as a program . Ed .: Museums of the City of Regensburg. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum of the City of Regensburg, 1955, ISBN 3-925753-46-X , p. 14 .
- ↑ Artur Dirmeier, Peter Morsbach: Hospitals in Regensburg. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1994.
- ↑ a b c exhibition catalog “450 Years of the Evangelical Church in Regensburg”. Museum of the City of Regensburg, 1992.
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '58.64 " N , 12 ° 5' 39.54" E