Tomb slab of Katharina von der Hoya

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The shortened former grave slab of Katharina von der Hoya (right); on the left the epitaph for Melchior Reichard († 1593)

The grave slab of Katharina von der Hoya in Hanover is a listed mural in the style of the Renaissance . The work of art from the early 17th century, attributed to the sculptor Jeremias Sutel , shows the noble Katharina von der Hoya († 1617) and can be found today on the northern outer wall of the St. Georgii et Jacobi market church in Hanover.

Description of the grave slab

The original grave slab with a roughly life-size depiction of the deceased carved in sandstone is now around 2.05 meters high and 1.15 meters wide. The plate was initially larger; later, the upper and lower part of the surrounding inscription was chiseled off in order to insert the stone as an epitaph in the church wall at its current location. The date of death was also omitted, but was then carved to the left of the figure.

Katharina von der Hoya is shown here as praying on her knees with folded hands and looking to the left, half seen from the front. She is dressed on the head with a contemporary hood and a millstone collar . Over her shoulders she wears a cloak-like, turned-up, hip-length coat without arms. Under her wide-folded floor-length skirt, which comes together under a flick waist , the sitter stretches “her left foot out from under the skirt hem in a striking way”.

Apparently only the coats of arms of the parents and grandmothers of the deceased were placed in the four corners of the grave plate, but not those of the two husbands of the Hoyas. According to Sabine Wehking, the four medallions with heraldic reliefs are from the families

Comparable sculptor works and their masters

In order to identify the master sculptor, the Hanoverian museum director Carl Schuchhardt compared some details of the Hoyas grave slab with other pieces that were partially similar in the Hanover region at the beginning of the 20th century . On the one hand there is "the hood with the open back and the full-cheeked, soft angel heads "

  1. on the wall painting from 1622 by Pastor Johann Haller and his wife Anna Bokelmann at the St. Vitus Church in Wilkenburg ;
  2. and on the monument of Jobst Möller on St. Petri Church in Döhren, created around 1630 .

The foot stuck out of the skirt is similar

  1. at the stand for the sheep master Gewert Maier († 1611) in Wilkenburg
  2. and on the fragment of the statue of a woman († 1617) at the church in Döhren.

These works "are connected by multiple threads marked" by Jeremias Sutel .

literature

  • Carl Schuchhardt : No. 55. Tomb slab of Catharina von der Hoya ... , in this: The Hanoverian sculptors of the Renaissance , ed. from the city of Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1909, p. 95, panel XIII u.ö .; Digitization via the internet archive archive.org

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang W. Ewig: The tombs in the market church in Hanover. Site plan , A4 leaflet [undated, 1992?]
  2. ↑ Gerd Weiß , Marianne Zehnpfennig: Market Church. In: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover, part 1, vol. 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 52ff .; as well as in the middle of the addendum to volume 10.2, list of architectural monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hanover , p. 3ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Carl Schuchhardt: No. 55. Tomb slab of Catharina von der Hoya ... , in this: The Hanoverian Sculptors of the Renaissance , ed. from the city of Hanover, Hanover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1909, p. 95 and panel XIII
  4. ↑ a b c d Sabine Wehking: DI 36, City of Hannover, No. 264 on the inschriften.net page of the Deutsche Insschriften Online

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 18.9 ″  N , 9 ° 44 ′ 7.1 ″  E