Frankenberg Church

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Frankenberg Church
View of the choir with high altar
Looking west

The former monastery church and today's Evangelical Lutheran parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Goslar is usually referred to as the Frankenberg Church and stands on the hill called Frankenberg at the western end of the historic old town. It is essentially Romanesque, but has Gothic and Baroque alterations. Together with the building of the “Little Holy Cross” (hospital from the 14th to the 17th century), the sexton's house from 1504 and an old gate from 1510 (which originally opened the access to the Bergstraße 62 property and only after 1906 at this point was rebuilt) in the immediate vicinity, it conveys a remarkable picture of medieval urban development.

history

The oldest surviving evidence of the existence of a church in this area dates from the year 1108. The church building to which reference is made, however, was probably completely demolished at an earlier date and later. The current church can be dated to the first half of the 12th century. It was built partly from rubble and partly from stone.

The church was initially the parish church, later the church of the monastery on the Frankenberg of the convent of the " penitent sisters of St. Magdalena ". The presumed year of foundation of the convent is 1234.

After the Reformation , the monastery continued to exist as a Lutheran women's foundation. It had a dominatrix, a provost and a convent of virgins. The village of Bodenstein was one of the estates . The provosts were at the same time Seesen superintendents. The best known provost was Andreas Jacob Krieg, author of "Hartzburgischer Mahlstein" (1706). The last Domina von Kniestedt died in the 1820s. In 1796 the dissolution of the monastery began, which ended with the auction of the property in 1837. The church became a parish church again.

architecture

The church is a three-aisled Romanesque basilica . The floor plan is cross-shaped. The church was initially flat-roofed and was later vaulted (1230). The westwork initially carried two towers, which were demolished in 1783 above the roof ridge of the nave and replaced by a slate-clad baroque lantern. The westwork with tower is an integral part of the city ​​wall . The eastern choir of the nave is closed off by a semicircular apse . A semicircular eastern apse also adjoins the north transept. The south transept probably originally corresponded to the northern one, but was subsequently extended by an extension to the east.

Furnishing

The furnishings of the church essentially belong to the Baroque era. The altar and pulpit with pyramid-shaped sound cover by the Goslar carver family Lessen from 1675, in whose workshop the altar of St. Andreas in Langelsheim was made. The triumphal cross was created in the 2nd half of the 15th century. The figure of Christ crucified wears natural hair and a crown of thorns, a circumstance that can be found in the Harz region and in the southern Black Forest. Above the portal on the south side of the church is a stone Romanesque tympanum depicting Christ, Peter and Paul from around 1200. It may have originally belonged to the previous church.

literature

Web links

Commons : Frankenberger Kirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Hillebrand (ed.): Goslar The image of the city in the 20th century, a photo documentation . In: Contributions to the history of the city of Goslar , issue 30, fig. 33, description p. 116

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 11.4 "  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 6.4"  E