Dormition Basilica
The Dormition Basilica is a Roman Catholic church on Mount Zion , south of the walled old city of Jerusalem . The Basilica minor is the abbey church of the German-speaking Benedictine Dormition Abbey and lies within the jurisdiction of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem .
At this location in the neighborhood of the Upper Room which will according to tradition the Virgin Mary in the circle of disciples of Jesus have died; hence the name Dormitio Mariae (“Dormition of the Virgin”), which is also an old name for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .
Previous buildings
The Byzantine basilica Hagia Sion , which was destroyed by the Persian King Chosrau II in 614, was built on the site in the 5th century . In the 12th century, the crusaders built a church on the ruins under the name Sancta Maria in Monte Sion , which was destroyed by the Muslim rulers after the defeat of the crusaders around 1200 .
history
On the occasion of his visit to the Holy Land in 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm II acquired the property and handed it over to the German Association of the Holy Land for use by the German Catholics. Wilhelm II describes the history and purpose of the “dormition” in his work “Events and Shapes”. In the following years, the Dormition Church and Dormition Abbey , a German Benedictine monastery , were built according to plans by the Cologne diocesan master builder Heinrich Renard . The church was consecrated on April 10, 1910 and has the patronage of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .
On July 19, 1957, it was elevated to a minor basilica .
Peal
In the tower there is a four-part chime in the striking notes c sharp 1 , e 1 , f sharp 1 and g sharp 1 , which is coordinated with the church bells of the Church of the Redeemer . The bells were cast in 1909 by the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen and shipped to Jerusalem. The bells have the following names: Bell I - Salvator Mundi (2327 kg), Bell II - Immaculata (1373 kg), Bell III - Bonifacius (993 kg) and Bell IV - Elisabeth (683 kg). During the War of Independence in 1948/1949, Bell II was so badly damaged by fire that it could no longer be rung. It was replaced in 1972 by a new bell from E. Gebhard in Kempten.
Organs
The small choir organ from 1979 with two manuals and pedal and 8 registers and the main organ from 1982 with three manuals and pedal and 40 registers distributed over the main work , swell and Rückpositiv come from the Oberlinger workshop .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm II .: "Events and Figures 1878-1918" Verlag KF Koehler, Leipzig / Berlin, 1922, p. 181
- ↑ Recording of the full bells
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 285-297, 517 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 40, 255-258, 481 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ Main organ choir organ on page 2 (accessed June 2015)
literature
- Theodor Zahn: The Dormitio Sanctae Virginis and the house of Johannes Markus. Deichert, Leipzig 1899.
- Anneliese Goergen, Anton Goergen: “Basilica” of the Benedictine Abbey Dormition Mount Zion / Jerusalem. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1990.
- Oliver Kohler: Between Christian yearning for Zion and imperial politics. The creation of the church and monastery “Dormitio Beatae Mariae Virginis” in Jerusalem. EOS, St. Ottilien 2005.
- Max Küchler : Jerusalem - a manual and study guide to the Holy City. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007.
Web links
- Dormition Basilica on the Dormition Abbey site
- Entry on Dormition Basilica on gcatholic.org (English)
Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 19.9 " N , 35 ° 13 ′ 43.8" E