Episcopal Chancellery

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Former prince-bishop's office, now episcopal chancellery, in Osnabrück
Pediment of the central projectile with the coat of arms of Frederick of York

The Episcopal Chancellery (originally Prince Bishop's Chancellery ) is a listed building in Osnabrück (Lower Saxony). The building, erected from 1782 to 1785, introduced the classicism architectural style in Osnabrück. It was the seat of the chancellery - the government - in the Principality of Osnabrück . After the end of the prince-bishopric in 1802, it served as a country and justice office until the Osnabrück diocese bought the building back in 1896. The headquarters of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Osnabrück is located there.

history

The government in the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück did not initially have a permanent seat. It stayed at the residence of the Prince-Bishop. Bishop Heinrich III. von Sachsen failed in 1578 when he asked the estates to finance a permanent office building. Even the Protestant prince-bishop Philipp Sigismund von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel did not achieve his goal of a government building in 1597. It was not until the early 17th century that the government took its permanent seat in the city, in a building on the Cathedral Freedom. It fell into disrepair, so that in 1652 Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg asked the state parliament to build a new building. He provided funds, but if they weren't enough for a new building. It was not until 1779 that the purchase of the Martini chapel and two neighboring vicariate houses was approved, on whose land the office was to be built. Instead of a design by the Prussian court architect Heinrich Ludwig Manger , it was decided to go for the cheaper Clemens Lippers , canon at St. Johann Abbey . He planned a building with two side wings, which was waived for cost reasons after an objection from the Land and Justice Chancellery. The new building was finally built according to the plans of the master builder Franz Schaedler . It was carried out under the direction of master mason Anton Mang. Justus Möser had advertised in vain to hire a master builder from Munster .

The building burned down in a bombing raid on September 13, 1944 during World War II . The interior was renovated from 1948 to 1950 after the end of the war. The English royal coat of arms was renewed by the Osnabrück sculptor Fritz Szalinski in 1966. He changed the coat of arms by placing the six-spoke wheel of the Osnabrück coat of arms in the center of the royal coat of arms.

building

A free-standing two-storey sandstone building with three-axis central risers on the east and west side is located on a rectangular base in Hasestrasse . The risalites are uniaxial on the north and south sides. In the triangular gable of the risalit to Hasestrasse is the coat of arms of Frederick of York with the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense and Dieu et mon droit . A double flight of stairs leads to the main entrance. The building has a hipped roof that was covered with plain tiles until 1902 . The facade is structured with pilaster strips and cornices . There are three crowning vases above the triangular gable facing Hasestrasse. The building was flanked by a sandstone fountain, created by the sculptor Georg Gerhart Wessel . One of the wells has been preserved; it is located in the front garden of Kleine Doms Freiheit 23.

There is a vaulted cellar underneath the office building, which was used as a storage room or bicycle cellar. On special occasions, food and drinks are served in the room, B. during the May week and the Christmas market. The proceeds go to aid projects run by Caritas or the Maltese . The basement is accessed from Hasestrasse, via an exceptionally low door below the main staircase of the building (see top picture).

literature

  • Heinrich Siebern, Erich Fink (arrangement): The art monuments of the province of Hanover, IV. Administrative region of Osnabrück, 1st and 2nd city of Osnabrück . Hanover 1907; Reprint of the inventory of art monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 39 . H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1978, pp. 247-252, ISBN 3-87898-133-3
  • Hans-Herbert Möller (Ed.), Christian Kämmerer (Ed.): Architectural Monuments in Lower Saxony, Volume 32, City of Osnabrück . Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986, pp. 65-66 ISBN 3-528-06209-6
  • Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation: Directory of architectural monuments according to § 4 (NDSchG), City of Osnabrück, status: 15.07.1986 , p. 4 ( attachment of the architectural monuments in Lower Saxony )

Web links

Commons : Episcopal Chancellery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kröger: Episcopal Chancellery In: The Osnabrück Lexicon . P. 29
  2. ↑ Fritz Szalinski during the reconstruction of the coat of arms on fritzszalinski.de (with photos)
  3. ↑ The Episcopal Chancellery on the Osnabrück.de website.
  4. ↑ Mulled wine and apple punch in the old bicycle cellar in Osnabrück , noz.de, December 14, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 40.7 "  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 37.8"  E