Brandenburg cathedral retreat

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East wing of the cathedral chapel

The cathedral retreat in Brandenburg an der Havel is a monastery-like building in which the canons of the Peter and Paul Cathedral lived according to the rules of the Premonstratensian order until the Reformation . The sponsor is still the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation. It was built from brick , initially in Romanesque , predominantly in Gothic style.

Medieval buildings

Cathedral retreat at the cathedral: Spiegelburg at the back left, Romanesque, Gothic and raised, east wing to the right with plastered upper floor, left north wing with buttresses , front west wing, neo-Gothic replaced

Three wings of the building, together with the cathedral, enclose a courtyard with a cloister on the north side of the church. A fourth tract connects to the northeast corner. This is called Spiegelburg. Erected soon after 1156, when construction began on the cathedral, it is the oldest part of the cathedral retreat.

Construction of the east wing began around 1220 or 1230. Not much later was the first floor of the north wing. In the middle of the 15th century the library of the cathedral chapter was set up in the upper cloister of the north wing. At the end of the century, Hartmann Schedel , the author of the Schedel world chronicle , mentioned its painted walls.

Educational institutions

In 1507 the monastic community was abolished. The cathedral monastery continued to exist. With the consent of the Prussian king, it founded the Knight Academy at Brandenburg Cathedral in 1704 or 1705 . Using them, the north wing was renovated in a simple baroque style from 1707 . The Knight Academy was officially a grammar school in 1809, dissolved in 1849 and re-established in 1855.

In 1869–1870 the west wing was replaced by a neo-Gothic school building. The remaining buildings were used for the academy's boarding school and renovated in 1902–1906. In 1937 the school was closed, but the boarding school continued.

Schools were resumed soon after the end of World War II, initially under the name Cathedral School . The first Abitur took place in 1947. In 1948 the cathedral chapter was again responsible for the enclosure. In 1949 the school was renamed the Pushkin School, and in 1951 the Theodor Neubauer School. In 1958 the last Abitur exams took place there. The school in the rooms of the cathedral exam became the Polytechnic High School Theodor Neubauer. In 1975 it moved to a new school building.

North Wing of the water of Havel arms Domstreng

Since the school year 2000/2001, part of the cathedral exam has been housed by the Evangelical Primary School Brandenburg an der Havel . The Evangelical High School at Brandenburg Cathedral, founded in 2006, has moved into the newly renovated building of the Theodor Neubauer Polytechnic High School.

Recent renovation

In 2008 the enclosure building was renovated. Inside, medieval frescos were uncovered in the library. The outer masonry was freed from the sponge . Where it had been concealed under plaster for 300 years, it has now been slurried so that the structure of the brick wall can only be seen again. Individual Gothic window openings were completely restored.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salderngymnasium - New school start after WWII (page 2 of 3)
  2. ^ Brandenburg Cathedral Monastery - former library as exhibition space
  3. ↑ Monument Preservation Quedlinburg - References → Brandenburg Cathedral Examination (2008)

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 57 ″  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 3.1 ″  E