Hallesches Heilum
The reliquary collection of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg in his residence Halle (Saale) is called Hallesches Heilum .
history
The reliquary collection begun by Albrecht von Brandenburg's predecessor Ernst von Sachsen consisted of 42 bodies of saints and 8133 particles in 353 artistically and materially valuable reliquaries at its heyday around 1520 .
Albrecht's favorite residence was Halle (Saale) . In addition to the conversion of the Marktkirche and Moritzburg, he had a former Dominican church converted into a cathedral (known as Hallescher Dom ) for his Archdiocese of Magdeburg and the New Residence built. Albrecht first preserved Hallesche Heilum in the Moritzburg, from 1520 in the “New Abbey of St. Moritz and the Blessed Maria Magdalena to the Lord's handkerchief ”in Halle, where healing demonstrations took place in 1520 and 1521.
His steadily growing collection of relics prompted Martin Luther to refer to him as the “idol of Halle”. In 1517 Luther published his letter to Albrecht with the 95 theses a. a. against the indulgence trade. The sale of indulgences served Albrecht to finance the collection of relics, his court and his buildings.
Due to increasing debt, Albrecht had to disclose his finances to the state parliament in Calbe (Saale). As a result, Albrecht left Halle in 1541, after the city had finally become Protestant the previous year, and retired to his Archdiocese of Mainz, which was not affected by Protestantism. He took Hallesche Heilum and most of his art treasures with him to Aschaffenburg , where he had them described and illustrated in a manuscript, the “Aschaffenburger Codex” (in the Aschaffenburg Court Library, Ms. 14). He sold parts of the reliquary in order to meet the demands of the cathedral chapters of Magdeburg and Halberstadt. Healing and works of art are scattered today; only around 20 reliquaries - and these mostly only as fragments - have survived.
literature
- Jürgen von Ahn: Archbishop Ernst von Wettin and the "Early Hallesche Heiltum" ... several thousand pieces of high-quality hayligtumbs ... Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8325-4562-8 .
- House of Bavarian History (ed.): The Halle'sche Heiltum. Reliquary cult and goldsmithing of the early Renaissance in Germany. Augsburg 2002/2003.
- Holger Brülls & Thomas Dietzsch: Architectural Guide Halle an der Saale. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-496-01202-1 .
- Rose-Marie Frenzel & Reiner Frenzel: Art and culture guide Leipzig, Halle and surroundings. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-361-00351-2 .
- Klaus Friedrich & Manfred Frühauf (eds.): Halle and its surroundings. Geographic excursion guide. mdv Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2002, ISBN 3-89812-167-4 .
- Jörg Rassmussen: Investigations into the Hallesches Heilum of the Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. In: Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst, 3rd volume, Vol. XXVII, Munich 1976, pp. 59–118, 3rd volume, Vol. XXVIII, Munich 1977, pp. 91-132.
- Michael Pantenius: City Guide Halle. Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1995, ISBN 3-8112-0816-0 .
- Hallesche Heilum. Edited by Philipp Maria Halm and Rudolf Berliner. German Association for Art History, Berlin 1931.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Halle'sche Heiltum, 2002/2003, p. [4].
