Eberbach kiss board
The Eberbach kiss tablet is a relic from the area around Eberbach Monastery . The goldsmith's work of the early Renaissance is now part of the Limburg cathedral treasure .
history
The table was made on the Middle Rhine at the beginning of the 16th century . According to an inscription on the plaque, the papal legate, Cardinal Raimund Peraudi , gave the kiss plaque to the Eberbach abbot Martin Rifflinck in 1503. The kiss tablet had a from Pope Alexander VI. Consecrated medallion in relief depicting an Agnus Dei , making it a relic. Each believer who reverently kissed the tablet should receive forty days of indulgence .
In the following years the tablet was kept in the reliquary collection of the monastery. During the Thirty Years' War , the convent saved this relic from being pillaged by Swedish troops in 1631.
In the secularization of the monastery in 1803, the Kiss panel came into the possession of the Principality of Nassau . The government sold them to the early knife Professor Müller from Winkel . She gave it to Josephine Brentano . After her death, her husband Anton Theodor Brentano gave the kiss tablet to Limburg Bishop Peter Joseph Blum .
Blum left the kiss tablet as a "Josephine and Anton Brentano donation" to the collection of the Limburg Cathedral Treasury. Here the kiss board was renewed. Instead of the lost relief medallion of Agnus Dei, one consecrated by Pope Pius VIII was used.
description
The kiss board is a 19 × 11.5 cm gold-plated board made of embossed silver with a simple base. The table is rounded at the top. On the front is the oval wax tablet of Agnus Dei. This is framed by a crystal above and below. The front is surrounded by nine rock crystals . Fourteen crabs with Gothic scrollwork form the edge . Two saints are engraved on the back. On the left, St. Martin in the bishop's robe with a kneeling beggar. On the right side, St. Catherine with a kneeling abbot. This saint was especially venerated by Abbot Martin. In the middle there is a swiveling handle. The base describes the donation process from 1503, using the Antiqua font . The coat of arms of the monastery and Abbot Martin are attached to the narrow sides of the base.
literature
- Willy Schmidtt-Lieb: Artistic impressions from Eberbach Monastery . In: The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach eV (Hrsg.): Eberbach im Rheingau . Cistercian - Culture - Wine. The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Wiesbaden / Eltville 1986, p. 161-163 .
- Ferdinand Luthmer : The architectural and art monuments of the Lahn area: Oberlahnkreis, Limburg district, Unterlahnkreis . District association of the administrative district Wiesbaden, Frankfurt am Main 1907, p. 110-111 .