Johanniterkirche (Schwäbisch Hall)

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Gothic choir and tower of the Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall

The Johanniterkirche (formerly also called Johanniterhalle ) is a former church building in Schwäbisch Hall , which was profaned in the 19th century . After extensive restoration, it has served as an exhibition hall for paintings and sculptures by old masters since 2008 . The Johanniterkirche is run as a branch of the Kunsthalle Würth . Works from the Würth Collection and special exhibitions are shown.

The building

The originally Romanesque church , which was extended in the 14th century Gothic , is in a prominent urban development location in the former unpaved hamlet of Vorstadt von Schwäbisch Hall above the Henkersbrücke , which leads over the Kocher .

The church building from the 12th century survived all wars and urban changes into the 21st century. The church is named after the Order of St. John , whose main tasks were nursing the sick and who ran a hospice here next to the church . The Johanniter left the city around 1600. From 1539 to 1812 Protestant services were held in the church. In 1812 the church was secularized and in 1816 the city acquired the property from the Kingdom of Württemberg . The interior was sold; so the pulpit and the organ came to the Marienkirche in Rieden . The church room served as a storage room and was the first municipal gym from 1846 . In 1950 it was redesigned as a cultural hall and u. a. used as a rehearsal room for the city festival. In 2004 the city sold the building to the Würth Group . Under the direction of the Stuttgart architect Erich Fritz , the building was extensively renovated, set up as an exhibition hall and expanded with a cube-like glass extension. In November 2008 the Johanniterkirche was opened as an exhibition hall for art from the Middle Ages and the early modern period.

The collection

The core of the collection shown in the Kunsthalle are works from the Fürstlich Fürstenberg collections in Donaueschingen , which Reinhold Würth acquired in 2003 for "less than 50 million euros" from Heinrich Fürst zu Fürstenberg and which are on public display for the first time after their restoration. The collection mainly consists of sacred and profane panel paintings, mostly by painters from southern Germany, including Lucas Cranach the Elder . The bundles include a portrait of a lady by Hans Süss von Kulmbach and the magnificent portrait of a gentleman by Andreas Haider , as well as two copies from the seventeenth century after Matthias Grünewald , one of which keeps the lost image of Maria Magdalena in front of the crucified Christ.

The show is complemented by objects from the Würth Collection, including sculptures and paintings by Tilman Riemenschneider , Daniel Mauch , Bartholomäus Zeitblom and from the circle of Hans Multscher . The Winser Madonna is also shown in the exhibition.

Since January 2012, the Madonna of Mayor Jakob Meyer zum Hasen by Hans Holbein the Younger (also known as Darmstadt Madonna ) has been exhibited in the choir of the Johanniterkirche as the most valuable piece of this collection .

Exhibitions

  • 2011: Riemenschneider in the choir. The Bode Museum is a guest in the Johanniterhalle Schwäbisch Hall

literature

  • C. Sylvia Weber (Ed.): Johanniterhalle. New use of old walls. Documentation of the new use of the former Johanniterkirche in Schwäbisch Hall as a new home for the "old masters" from the Würth Collection . Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2008, ISBN 978-3-89929-153-7 .

Web links

Commons : Johanniterhalle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Herstatt: The screw king buys princely on zeit.de (accessed on December 27, 2008)
  2. ^ Claudia Ihlefeld, lsw: Holbein-Madonna presented in Schwäbisch Hall . vote.de. Archived from the original on January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Holbein-Madonna on kunst.wuerth.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 6 '47.5 "  N , 9 ° 43' 57.4"  E