Sebaldus of Nuremberg

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Legendary transfer of the mortal remains from Poppenreuth to Nuremberg, on the left the church of St. Peter and Paul in the Poppenreuth district of Fürth (tapestry, around 1410)

Sebaldus von Nürnberg , also called Sebald for short , may have lived as a hermit in the Nuremberg area in the 8th century . Legends call him a Danish prince who broke his engagement to a French princess in order to act as a messenger of faith - especially in Franconia  - after a trip to Rome .

After his death, a team of oxen without a handlebar is said to have brought the body from the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Poppenreuth to the then St. Peter's Chapel in Nuremberg, where he was buried. His veneration as a saint is documented there from around 1070. The first verifiable German-language legends about him date from the 14th century. The Sebalduskirche was built over his grave from 1223 to 1274 . In the 16th century, Peter Vischer created a magnificent bronze shrine for the coffin of saints, the Sebaldus grave . Pilgrimages to his grave contributed to the prosperity of the city.

The grave of Sebaldus is special in that the relics of a saint canonized by the Roman Catholic Church are kept in a Protestant church.

On March 26, 1425, Sebaldus was accepted into the canon of Catholic saints by Pope Martin V. Pope Martin referred to the writings of a Nuremberg delegation, which presented a version of the legends edited for Rome. The main argument in favor of canonization was that the Nuremberg people had been venerating their saints for 500 years and Sebald is said to have performed miracles in Nuremberg. He is one of the three city ​​patrons of Nuremberg, alongside Laurentius of Rome and Deocar , some of whose bones are still in Nuremberg.
His festival is celebrated on August 19th. He is often portrayed with the attributes of a staff, a model of his church, a rosary and a scallop shell.

literature

  • Herbert Bauer , Herbert Liedel: Cheeky putti, seductive women, wild men. Discoveries at Sebaldus tomb . context medien und verlag, Nuremberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-939645-28-3 .
  • David J. Collins: The Holy Recluses. In: Reforming Saints: Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, pp. 51-74.
  • Georg Hammacher: St. Sebald, the patron saint of Nuremberg. For the five hundredth anniversary of his canonization 1425-1925. Nuremberg 1925
  • Sebaldus, p . In: Johann E. Stadler , Franz Joseph Heim, Johann N. Ginal (eds.): Complete Lexicon of Saints ... , Volume 5 (Q-Z), B. Schmid'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (A. Manz), Augsburg 1882, pp.  225-228 .
  • Gerhard Weilandt: The Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg. Image and Society in the Age of Gothic and Renaissance. Studies on the international history of architecture and art 47. Imhof, Petersberg 2007
  • The life and miracles of St. Sebaldus, the apostle and patron saint of the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1842.
  • Klaus-Stefan Krieger:  Sebald, H. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1267-1268.
  • Hubertus Seibert:  Sebald. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 105 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Bauer: Old Nuremberg (sagas, stories and legends) . 4th unchanged edition. J.Lindauer Verlag (Scheafer), Munich 1969
  • H. v. C .: A great master and his greatest work . In: The Gazebo . Volume 3, 1867, pp. 501, 502–504 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - with illustration by Rudolf von Seitz ).

Web links

Commons : Sebaldusgrab  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Sebaldus von Nürnberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Author's Lexicon . Volume VIII, Col. 971 ff.