Johanniskapelle (Quedlinburg)

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John's Chapel
Station on the Camino de Santiago

The St. Johannis chapel in Quedlinburg is originally a Romanesque building. It joined the St. Johannis Hospital for lepers and lepers at the gates of Quedlinburg's old town and is therefore also called the St. Johannis Hospital Church .

Since 2003 the chapel has been a station of the German extension of the Way of St. James .

History and description

First mentioned in a document in 1229, its construction goes back to the second half of the 12th century. In its current form it corresponds to a late Romanesque single-nave village church about 8.25 m long and 5.15 m wide. In 1704 a trapezoidal extension of the choir was added to the west . There is a roof turret near the western gable . It bears the city's two oldest bells from the 13th century. One bell weighs 60 kg, the other 70 kg. The bells are rarely rung. They also served as the clock's striking mechanism.

A sacristy with a groin vault was added to the south side in the 13th century . This was probably supplemented in 1483, after a dendrochronological investigation at least after 1380, by a structure built in half-timbered construction.

John's Chapel around 1900

Inside the chapel there are remains of wall paintings that date back to the Middle Ages . The interior is completed by a wooden barrel ceiling with paintings . There is a gallery on the north and west sides. The box on the south side was added during the renovation in 1704. In the church there is a three-part wooden pulpit altar from 1725. The altar is decorated with Corinthian columns and acanthus carvings. In laterally inserted shell niches there are figures of the evangelists . The crucifix is of an older date and dates from around 1250.

From 1843 to 1848 the theologian Johann Christian Wallmann was pastor at the Johanniskapelle.

The chapel is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register. The building is the oldest in the Süderstadt district. The chapel underwent a comprehensive renovation between 2002 and 2014. The roof turret was fitted with a weather vane for the first time in autumn 2002.

Since the end of the renovation and the abandonment of the neighboring St. John's Church as a place of worship, the chapel has been used more often again. The chapel is particularly suitable for family celebrations such as weddings and baptisms. There are monthly prayers for peace and book readings in the chapel during the summer months. Also in summer the Protestant parish of Quedlinburg offers a service once a month on a Sunday at 9 a.m. In the Advent season 2018, Advent services took place on three Mondays. A group of friends takes care of the opening of the church and its maintenance. The dates of the public events in the Johanniskapelle can be found in the "Kirchliche Nachrichten" of the Protestant community of Quedlinburg.

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  1. ^ Georg Piltz: Art guide through the GDR . Urania-Verlag Leipzig - Jena - Berlin. 4th edition 1973; P. 266.
  2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 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. 264.
  3. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in 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. 264.
  4. ↑ 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.

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 53 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 6.9"  E