Franciscan building (Quedlinburg)

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Franciscan building

The Franciscan building is a listed building in the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The building, which was thought to function as a chapel in the past, is located on Schulstrasse immediately west of the Bosseschule . There is no evidence of a function as a chapel, and the lack of an apse speaks against such use. The building, which is also a listed building, borders on Breite Straße 34 to the west. The location of the former church of St. Franziskus is assumed to be on today's school site in the direction of the clinic.

history

The small building represents the remainder of a former Franciscan monastery . The Barfüßer monastery stretched between Breiter Strasse and Schulstrasse .

A convent of the Franciscan order founded in 1210 is first mentioned in Quedlinburg in 1257. He belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province . In the 14th century, negotiations between Count Albrecht von Regenstein and Halberstadt Bishop Albrecht II took place in the monastery of the Franciscans, who apparently enjoyed the trust of both parties . In the course of the Reformation the monastery was secularized in 1525 after it was stormed by the citizens. A Latin school was set up in the same place . This later became the Quedlinburg high school. The medieval monastery buildings were replaced by new buildings as early as the 16th century. From 1890, the area was fundamentally redesigned. The buildings to the east of the preserved building gave way to the new Bosseschule . From 1903, services of the Quedlinburg Jewish community took place in the building. The chapel then served as a gym for the boss school for a longer period. The currently vacant building is to be secured for 420,000 euros through the urban redevelopment east funding program . It is then planned to prepare the rooms for events at the adjacent school. Among other things, a bridge is planned between the first floors of the school and the former chapel.

architecture

The preserved single-nave and two-storey building was probably built in the second half of the 13th century in the high Gothic style . There is a striking stepped gable on the east side , which was built in the 1890s when part of the building was removed at this point. Originally the building had three bays . Two yokes have been preserved on a square floor plan. The ground floor is spanned by ribbed vaults , the upper floor by groined vaults. On the walls of the first floor there are semi -columns without combatants . The windows are designed in three parts around 1890 and have simple tracery . While the upper floor has window fronts on two sides, the windows on the ground floor are only arranged on the south side. On the simple portal, which until 1890 was in the place of the reconstructed western window on the south side, there are stuck-in profiles.

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , p. 739.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 240.
  • Achim Todenhöfer: The Franciscan Church of St. Franziskus in Quedlinburg. In: Achim Todenhöfer: Churches of the mendicant orders. The architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Saxony-Anhalt. Reimer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-496-01396-9 , pp. 116–125 (At the same time: Halle, University, dissertation, 2006: The Franciscan and Dominican churches in Saxony-Anhalt, studies on medieval church architecture and monastery topology. ) . review

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Due to image sources and small remains of building, laborious reconstructions are being worked out for the Franciscan churches of Burg, Magdeburg and Quedlinburg; however, they do not achieve sufficient security to carry further statements ”, cf. Matthias Untermann: Review by: Achim Todenhöfer: Churches of the mendicant orders. The architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Saxony-Anhalt, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 2010, in: sehepunkte 10 (2010), No. 12 (December 15, 2010).
  2. ^ Achim Todenhöfer: The Franciscan Church of St. Franziskus in Quedlinburg. In: Achim Todenhöfer: Churches of the mendicant orders. The architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Saxony-Anhalt. Reimer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-496-01396-9 , pp. 116-125.
  3. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 53.103.261.
  4. ↑ a b Franciscan Chapel - Securing and renovation have begun . In: City of Quedlinburg (Ed.): Qurier . The Official Journal of the World Heritage City of Quedlinburg. Quedlinburg February 24, 2018, p. 8 ( quedlinburg.de [PDF; 12.7 MB ; accessed on March 3, 2018]).
  5. ^ Manfred Mittelstaedt, Quedlinburg , Sutton Verlag Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-560-8 , page 30
  6. ↑ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 36

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 28.9 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 41 ″  E