Chapels of the Aegidienkirche in Lübeck
Side chapels were added to the aisles of the Aegidienkirche in Lübeck from the end of the 14th century. They are named after the burials located in them.
Breitenau chapel
Christoph Gensch von Breitenau acquired the north side chapel on the tower in 1715 for 900 marks Lübisch. It has been named after him ever since.
The chapel was initially used for the burial of deceased family members. His niece Catharina Elisabeth von Heespen, née. Gensch, whose husband Tilemann von Heespen used Gensch von Breitenau as the main heir, and their children Anna († 1715), Christoph Wilhelm († 1717) and Catharina († 1718), who died young. Gensch von Breitenau himself was buried here on January 29, 1732. After him were buried: Alexander Tilemann von Heespen († December 26, 1738), the chamberlain Bernhard Hartwig von Plessen († 1767; ▭ in Lübeck only 1776) with his wife Sophie Dorothea, born. von Drieberg , (* 1730; † April 7, 1771; ▭ in Lübeck not until 1776) and most recently her second husband, District Administrator Christian Friedrich von Heespen (* April 24, 1717; † May 18, 1776).
By erected by Christian Friedrich von Heespen Familienfideikommiss the chapel became the property of the family of Hedemann-Heespen . The von Hedemann-Heespen family transferred the chapel with the maintenance obligation back to the Aegidiengemeinde in 1870 by means of a compensation payment. The five monumental copper engravings on the life of Jesus by François Langot , which originally adorned the chapel, were placed in the hall of the Deutsch-Nienhof manor house .
Breitenau Chapel, outer portal
Breitenau Chapel, inner portal
Breitenau Chapel, coat of arms from the inner portal
Vorrade or Kalven Chapel
The large transept-like chapel was designed by Gesche Vorrade, b. Pleskow , built for her husband, councilor Tidemann Vorrade , who died in 1385 . Both lived in the nearby Brömserhof , which had been the ancestral home of the Vorrade family in Lübeck for several generations. She sold the Stockelsdorf and Mori estates located in Holstein in 1410 to the New Council, which undertook to maintain the chapel she had donated from the income. Gesche Vorrade was also buried here in 1416; the sale was later declared unlawful by the reinstated Old Council, in 1441 the goods and the patronage of the burial chapel went to her grandson, the mayor Wilhelm von Calven .
A vicarie belonged to the chapel . The provision that was made in 1411 and renewed in 1441 that 50 marks a year from the income from Stockelsdorf should be used to maintain two vicars in the chapel remained in force with every change in ownership. It was a burden that rested on the property and was easily passed on to each subsequent owner. At the same time, the owner retained the patronage with the right to fill the positions. The vicars had to read masses and take part in the choir prayers. Their activity ceased with the Reformation, but the majority of the posts continued and were given a different purpose. The vicariate connected to the chapel became a scholarship for theologians, as can be seen from a document from 1679 in which the cathedral chapter formally introduced the theology student Johannes Tielmann into possession of the vicariate at the suggestion of von Calven. He was then entitled to take it for life. The vicariate money was paid to the cathedral chapter and transferred as legacy money to the government of the Principality of Lübeck in Eutin in the 19th century . It can be assumed that after the extinction of the von Calven family, which may have happened soon after 1720, the council had no knowledge of the right of presentation that had fallen into its possession and consequently could not make use of it. Then the cathedral chapter was empowered to appropriate it itself.
The patron was obliged to maintain the structure of the chapel. Gotthard (VIII.) Von Höveln , the owner of Stockelsdorf at the time, had the necessary repairs carried out in 1695 after the head of the church had informed him that the chapel was in disrepair. When he died the following year, before they were completed, the son and successor maintained that Mori must also make a contribution because it had previously been united with Stockelsdorf. Heinrich Adrian Müller contradicted this , but was then persuaded to voluntarily bear a third of the costs.
In 1790, in order to clarify ownership and maintenance obligations, the church issued an invitation to the owners of the chapel to report. The then owner of Stockelsdorf did not answer, but a man who claimed to be descended from the von Calven family. But he was not ready or able to reimburse the costs previously related to the chapel.
The church could now consider the chapel as its property and then expanded it according to its ideas. After the First World War , pastor Wilhelm Jannasch had the chapel converted into a memorial chapel for the war dead in the community. This also included the installation of artistically designed stained glass windows by Curt Stoermer . These were completely destroyed by the pressure wave of an air mine during the air raid on Lübeck at Palmarum in 1942. Today the chapel is used to set up the choir and instruments for church services and church concerts.
Seal (around 1398) of Gese Vorraden († 1416)
Scharbau Chapel
Heinrich Scharbau : On the north side of the Aegidienkirche is his grave in the Scharbau chapel , built in 1760, acquired as a building site on February 8, 1759 by the widow two days after his death for 450 marks Lübisch plus a legacy of another 1,000 marks for Lübisch Entertains. It is located at the end of the fourth yoke at right angles to the outer edge of the north aisle at the northern Wendelstein .
Scharbau Chapel
Darsow Chapel
The Darsow Chapel was bought by councilors Hermann von Wickede and Johann Hertze with their wives for their father, councilor Bernhard Darsow († 1479). From 1609 until the 18th century it was also called the Lunte Chapel after the mayor Gottschalck Lunte , a son-in-law of Hermann von Wickedes, who was buried here . Even Francis of Stiten as a son Luntes is buried here. Wickede's daughter Elisabeth caused a scandal in 1533 after the death of her first husband, city governor Gottschalck Lunte, who was appointed mayor by Jürgen Wullenwever , by marrying general Marx Meyer .
Woltersen Chapel
The later so named Woltersen Chapel is probably the oldest of the chapels and, due to the building findings, must have existed alone at first. In 1392 a vicariate was donated for her altar . One of the eponymous family members was the councilor and head of the church Cordt Wolters († 1591).
Marientiden or Ahlefeldt Chapel
Various foundations were made between 1506 and 1515 for a chapel for the Marientids , which the other Lübeck churches had held for a long time in their own chapel, mostly behind the high altar. In 1515 the chapel was consecrated by Bishop John VIII Grimholt . On the occasion of this consecration, Mayor Hermann Meyer and Councilor Johann Nyestadt made a foundation. After the Reformation it was used as a tool room for the pallbearers. 1717 purchase by Wulf Christian von Ahlefeldt.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Holstein with his wife, son Christian Friedrich and daughter Ottilia Elisabeth von Ahlefeldt , abbess of the Itzehoe monastery , are buried here.
Holstein Chapel
Acquired in 1742 by Karl von Holstein , initially for his wife Benedicta Christiana, born in 1741, who died in 1741. from Ahlefeldt. He himself and his second wife Dorothea, geb. von Ahlefeldt, are buried here in marble coffins.
literature
- Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring's publishing house: Lübeck 1920, pp. 464–471. Quoted: “BuK II”. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1925
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Names and dates according to Paul von Hedemann-Heespen: The life of the secret councilor Christoph Gensch von Breitenau. In: Nordelbingen 10 (1934), pp. 1–161
- ↑ Johannes Baltzer and Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church . Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring: Lübeck 1920, pp. 470–471. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
- ↑ BuK III, p 465
- ↑ Fehling, No. 416; Son of Bertram Vorrade .
- ↑ LUB 5, No. 339, cf. No. 343
- ↑ This and the following from: Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : Die Lübeckische Landgüter. In: ZVLGA 7, Heft 2 (1895), pp. 151-236, here pp. 164f
- ↑ Illustration in Der Wagen 1931, p. 96 ff.
- ↑ Fehling No. 547
- ↑ Fehling, No. 545
- ^ Buk II, p. 465
- ↑ Baltzer / Bruns, p. 464
- ↑ there: Carl von Holstein