Hildesheim Cathedral Museum
 Hildesheim Cathedral Museum, entrance (2018). |
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| place | Hildesheim |
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| opening | 1978 |
| operator | |
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Claudia Höhl
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-160716 |
The Hildesheim Cathedral Museum is the cathedral treasury and the Diocesan Museum of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hildesheim . The cathedral treasure is part of the UNESCO world cultural heritage. It is located in historical rooms around the cathedral's cloister . The cathedral museum illustrates over 1000 years of church, art and piety history in Lower Saxony .
exhibition
The Hildesheim Cathedral Treasure is a collection of liturgical vessels, reliquaries, vestments, books and sculptures of the highest quality that has grown over centuries . The so-called Great Golden Madonna, a work of the Romanesque , is considered to be one of the oldest figures of Mary in Western art. The Hildesheim Marian reliquary dates back to the early days of the diocese and is associated with the founding legend of the cathedral . Especially valuable pieces, including with gems ornate Bernward Cross , the Precious Bernwardevangeliar and calendula Heimer Cross , created in the heyday of the diocese under Bishop Bernward († 1022), the Ratmann Sacramentary of 1159 in connection with its incipient saint worship. A bust and arm reliquary of St. Bernward date from the 13th century. Magnificent monstrances and other gold and silversmiths' work date from the baroque period . Several of these art treasures are still used today on highly festive occasions in the cathedral liturgy.
The Artemisia tapestries came into the possession of the cathedral church in 1727. They were restored until 2015 and were given their own hall in the reopened museum.
history
Through the work of Bishop Eduard Jakob Wedekin († 1870) , the Dommuseum became a diocesan museum, which unites church art from the entire diocese and beyond . He brought mainly Gothic works from the parishes and from his private property into the cathedral collection and arranged for them to be properly stored and exhibited.
In the course of the cathedral renovation, the cathedral museum was expanded and completely redesigned from 2010 to 2015. The secular church of St. Anthony and parts of the cloister were added to the museum rooms. As a result, the exhibition area grew from 200 m² to 800 m², so the museum can now show a much larger part of its collection than before. The Domlettner from the Renaissance period has been erected in a new building attached to the Antonius Church . The Bernwards Wall exposed during the renovation can be seen in the basement. A Gothic quatrefoil window was also found, and it was also integrated into the exhibition. The grand reopening took place on April 17th, 2015.
The architect of the new cathedral museum is Johannes Schilling from the Cologne office of Schilling Architects . Andreas Platthaus called the conception of the Dommuseum a “masterpiece” and a “stroke of genius that promises to have an effect well beyond the anniversary year and the city”.
After the reopening, in addition to historical art objects, contemporary works of art will also be exhibited for the first time, with a focus on graphics and sculptures in the area of bronze casting. In 2018 the museum was awarded the museum seal of approval from the Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen eV.
gallery
The Marian reliquary has a special position due to its age and importance for the history of the diocese.
The Precious Gospel Book of Bishop Bernwards (here the dedication picture) is one of the great testimonies of Bernwardin art.
Front cover of the "Precious Bernward Gospel"
Head reliquary of St. Oswald , Hildesheim around 1185–1189, Hildesheim Cathedral Museum DS23
Head reliquary of St. Jakob von Nisibis , Hildesheim after 1367 ( Battle of Dinklar )
literature
- Marlis Stähli: The manuscripts in the cathedral treasure of Hildesheim. Descriptions . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02471-2 , online
- Victor H. Elbern : Cathedral and cathedral treasure in Hildesheim . 2nd improved edition, Königstein i. T. 1991.
- Reflection of the sky. Romanesque in Hildesheim (exhibition catalog Hildesheim), ed. by Michael Brandt, Hildesheim / Regensburg 2001.
- Erich Garhammer : KunstRaum. The new cathedral museum Hildesheim . In: Lebendige Seelsorge , Vol. 66 (2015), pp. 455–460.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Precious Gospels of Saint Bernward (exhibition catalog Hildesheim / Munich 1994). Edited by Michael Brandt, Munich 1993.
- ↑ Martina Junghans: The arm reliquaries in Germany from the 11th to the middle of the 13th century . Dissertation Bonn 2002, cat.-no. 19th
- ↑ http://www.dommuseum-hildesheim.de/de/hildesheimer-dommuseum
- ^ Andreas Platthaus: A museum in the name of the rose. Hildesheim is giving itself the most beautiful gift for the 1200th birthday of its diocese: the new cathedral museum offers the right architecture for the grandiose objects. This is how modern and romantic come together . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 30, 2015, p. 9.
- ↑ http://www.dommuseum-hildesheim.de/de/sammlung-des-dommuseums-hildesheim
- ↑ Nine museums are happy to receive a seal of approval from ndr.de on February 8, 2018
- ↑ Carla Margarete Fandrey: The Oswald reliquary in the Hildesheim cathedral treasure (= Göppingen academic contributions. Vol. 125). Kümmerle, Göppingen 1987, ISBN 978-3-87452-679-1 (also Diss. Bonn 1982).
- ↑ Information from the diocese ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 57.4 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 51.2 ″ E