Dominican monastery St. Johannis (Hamburg)
The Dominican monastery St. Johannis is located in Hamburg-Barmbek-Süd on the site at the corner of Weidestrasse and Elsastrasse, right next to the Church of St. Sophien . Like its predecessor, it is consecrated to Saints John the Baptist and Saints John the Evangelist .
predecessor
The medieval predecessor of the monastery was founded around 1236 and built on the site of today's town hall market . After a fire in 1314, it had to be completely rebuilt. 41 monks and 13 novices are recorded for the 16th century . After the beginning of the Reformation , all Catholic monasteries in Hamburg were abolished by a council decision in 1529. The monastery building was then initially used by the Johanneum's school of scholars and nuns from the former Herwardeshude monastery , and from 1613 onwards the newly founded academic high school . Only the monastery church with the Thomas Altar by Master Francke from the 15th century served as a Protestant church even after the abolition of the monastery until the French period in Hamburg . After that, it was temporarily used as a storage room and parade ground for the Hamburg citizens' military and demolished in 1829.
history
The Dominican Order has been represented in Hamburg again since 1962. Due to Hamburg's location in the Catholic diaspora , the Catholic Church was looking for a connection to an existing parish for the planned monastery . The choice fell on St. Sophien in Barmbek, as there was a sufficiently large property in a fairly central location.
In 1966, Bishop Johannes von Rudloff inaugurated the monastery with a pontifical office and handed it over to the first six Dominicans.
The monks of the monastery do the parish work of the parish of St. Sophien and also take on sermons to other Catholic parishes in Hamburg. An important focus is theological educational work and life counseling.
building
The monastery is structurally connected to the choir of the church. The polygonal ring-shaped building with its brick facades and brutalistisch influenced eaves was from 1964 to 1966 by the architect Rau , Bunsmann and Sharp built. A good connection between traditional and modern architecture was achieved here. The construction turned out to be more difficult than expected, as an underground bunker on the edge of the property could not be changed or damaged.
The building, with a maximum of three floors, looks rather plain from the outside. Since the almost windowless cloister inside runs around the outside of the building, almost all rooms face the inner courtyard . This is open to the apse of the church and also functions as a monastery garden . Only the entrance area and the two-level event hall show larger windows to the outside.
The ground floor and basement contain the various rooms for the work of the monastery such as guest rooms, common rooms , dining rooms , consulting rooms, rooms of the parish and library. The living rooms for 13 friars are separated from the public on the upper floor . The monastery chapel forms a pentagonal northeast-facing extension and is connected to the other rooms via the stairwell.
Artistic arrangement
The monastery has two pieces by Hermann Stehr , he designed the aluminum decoration of the entrance door and the sculpture Great Sermon I in the inner courtyard as a reference to the central task of the convent and the community. There are several pictures in the anteroom of the refectory and in the common rooms, noteworthy is a depiction of the crucifixion by the painter Karl Goris , a depiction of Dominikus by Gerd Winner , a picture of the Church of St. Sophia by Albert Reck and an oil painting of the old St. John's Church by Jes Bundsen .
The chapel, which is illuminated by a skylight, is dominated by the modern designed altar by Rudolf Krüger , which uses motifs from the Revelation of St. John . In the chapel itself there is a painting from the 18th century by Johann Christoph Achert showing Dominic and Catherine of Siena . Near the entrance to the chapel hangs a modern Mexican-influenced depiction of the Madonna and Child by the Indian artist Nan Cuz .
At a central point in the stairwell in front of the chapel there is a wall painting with an extract from the constitution of the Dominican Order. The text in pace continui, in studio assidui, in praedicatione ferventes is intended to remind the brothers of the challenge that they should be "constantly in peace, with patience in studying and with enthusiasm in preaching".
organization
The convent in Hamburg belongs to the Teutonia Order , which is administered from Cologne and covers the entire northern part of Germany. All friars of the convent elect the prior for a three-year term.
The friars are active in morning mass, pastoral care, youth work, faith courses and look after the Ghanaian community. The daily routine begins at seven o'clock with morning mass and morning prayer. Then individual daily tasks, lunch and dinner together and Holy Mass at 6 p.m.
Photographs and map
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '46.7 " N , 10 ° 2' 5.3" E
Location map
Cloister
chapel
Order constitution in the stairwell
literature
- Ralf Lange : Architecture in Hamburg . Junius Verlag , Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88506-586-9 , p. 182 .
- Dominican Convent Hamburg (ed.): Small guide through the Dominican convent St. Johannis in Hamburg-Barmbek (Flyer) . Self-published, Hamburg 2014.
- Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 372 (keyword: "Johannis-Kloster").
- Donate Reimer u. a .: 100 years of St. Sophien, Hamburg-Barmbek: Festschrift; 1900-2000 . Catholic parish of St. Sophien, Hamburg 2000, p. 36-38 .
- Matthias Gretzschel : Hamburg's churches: history, architecture, offers . Axel Springer Verlag , Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86370-116-1 , p. 132 .
- Friedhelm Grundmann , Thomas Helms: When stones preach . Medien Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-929229-14-5 , p. 97, 103 .
- Order of Teutonia (Ed.): The Dominicans (Flyer) . Self-published, Cologne 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bishop hands over the new monastery to the Dominicans . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from 17./18. September 1966, p. 5.
- ^ List of pastors at St. Sophien. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
- ↑ Stefan Dombert: The brothers from Barmbek. In: Hamburger Wochenblatt, January 14, 2015, p. 1.
Web links
- Official website of the parish of St. Sophien , there history and photo collections
- Official website of the Order Province
- Official website of the Dominicans in Hamburg