Bardowick Cathedral St. Peter and Paul

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Bardowick Cathedral St. Peter and Paul

The Bardowick Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul is a Gothic three-aisled hall church with squat octagonal towers in the Lower Saxony municipality of Bardowick . It was built between 1389 and 1485. The monastery chamber of Hanover has been the sponsor of the former collegiate church since 1850 . This place of worship was never a bishop's church.

history

Bardowick Cathedral 1720 - after an engraving by Georg Christoph Kilian (1709–1781) - at the time of the First Canon Johann Christian Jauch

Like the previous building documented in 1146, the church was a collegiate church that belonged to a mission cell of the Amorbach monastery . The church, originally made of wood, showed considerable damage after the destruction of Bardowick by Heinrich the Lion in 1189; this is documented by a papal charter from 1194. Of this previous building, there are only spoils in the area of ​​the St. Stephen's Chapel and the towers built in front to the west. Here blocks from the Lüneburg Schiltstein (a stone containing gypsum from the Lüneburg Kalkberg ) have been used. The Romanesque portal, which is protected by the chapel in front, was also built from this slightly weathered stone.

Traditional letters of indulgence from 1236 and around 1300 indicate that funds were raised for the construction of a new church at the old location. The financing is then secured from 1381 by a chapter resolution of the monastery and further indulgence letters.

The octagonal towers were built from bricks around 1300. Further construction was delayed and began with the construction of the choir in 1389 . It has three bays with a 7/10 degree, a length of 28 meters and a width of 12.80 meters. The main house is four yokes in length. Individual bricks could be dated to a period from 1390 to 1409 on the basis of stamp impressions, since the stamp is identical to that of bricks from the Lüneburg Michaeliskirche .

The roof structure can be dendrochronologically dated to 1405 or 1428. The choir stalls were created in 1487. The vestibule built at that time in front of the south portal, as can be seen in the older depictions, has meanwhile been torn down again. The wooden sculpture of a seated lion above the south portal, which is provided with a gilded lead jacket and the inscription Vestigium Leonis , remained from it.

The cathedral is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the summer months (April to September) until 5 p.m.

Furnishing

  • The bronze baptismal font is dated 1367 and is believed to be of Lüneburg origin. The four bearer figures stand on a ring. The cauldron shows Christ and saints half-sculpted in an architectural frieze , including engraved medallions.
  • The carved oak winged altar was made around 1430 by an unknown workshop and restored in 1968. In the middle part it shows Mary with the child between the twelve apostles, in the wings another sixteen male and female saints.
  • The choir stalls were made of oak in 1487.
  • The chime consists of three bells, made between 1200 and 1250, and a double bell, made around 1325 by a master Ulricus .
  • The rood screen with crucifixion group (around 1490) is exhibited in the State Museum in Hanover .

  • View from the choir to the west gallery with historical organ prospect

  • Choir window

  • Historical organ prospectus from 1867

organ

A new organ was built on the historic west gallery of the cathedral by the organ building company Alexander Schuke (Potsdam) and inaugurated on January 15, 2012. The historical prospectus of the P. Furtwängler organ from 1867 was preserved and the original wind turbine in the tower room was also reused. The organ is arranged based on central German organs, especially with a view to the organ literature of Johann Sebastian Bach , but also offers the possibility of performing the rest of the organ literature. The instrument has 45 registers on three manuals and a pedal.

I upper structure C – f 3
1. Violin principal 8th'
2. Gedact 8th'
3. Fagar 8th'
4th Hollow floit 8th'
5. Octava 4 ′
6th Lull douce 4 ′
7th Nasard 3 ′
8th. Forest floit 2 ′
9. Cornett V (from c 1 ) 8th'
10. Mixture IV-V
11. Hoboa 8th'
Carillon
Birds cry
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – f 3
12. Great Quintadena 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Drone 8th'
15th Gemshorn 8th'
16. Viola di gamba 8th'
17th Octava 4 ′
18th Pipe floit 4 ′
19th Quinta 3 ′
20th Super Octava 2 ′
21st Sesquialtera II
22nd Mixture V
23. Scharff III
24. bassoon 16 ′
25th Trumpet 8th'
III Breastwork C – f 3
26th Gedact 8th'
27. Night horn 8th'
28. Principal 4 ′
29 Gemshorn 4 ′
30th Quinta 3 ′
31. Tertia 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
32. Octava 2 ′
33. Siffloit 1 1 ⁄ 2  ′
34. Super Octava 1'
35. Mixture IV
Tremulant
Cymbelstern
Pedal C – f 1
36. Principal bass 16 ′
37. Violon bass 16 ′
38. Sub bass 16 ′
39. Quinta 12 ′
40. Octave bass 8th'
41. Bass floit 8th'
42. Octava 4 ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'
45. Trumpet 4 ′
  • Pair : I / II, III / II, II / P

see more

  • West portal from the inside

  • Memorial plaque for those who fell in 1870/71 in the cathedral

  • Erected grave slab

  • View of the choir room

  • altar

  • Choir stalls

  • Romanesque portal

  • South portal

  • Baptismal font

  • Vestigium Leonis

literature

Web links

Commons : Dom St. Peter and Paul Bardowick  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The Lion's Track"; during a restoration the order of the two words was reversed
  2. ↑ Information from the Hanover Monastery Chamber on the new organ ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 177 kB), accessed on October 13, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klosterkammer.de
  3. ↑ Available for disposition (PDF file; 39 kB), viewed February 3, 2016. ( Memento from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ See the section History up to the Middle Ages under Bardowick

Coordinates: 53 ° 18 '0.3 "  N , 10 ° 23' 22.8"  E