Diesdorf monastery
The monastery This village , originally Kloster Marienwerder was a pin of the Augustinian Canons in this village in the northwest of Saxony-Anhalt . The Collegiate Church of St. Mary and the Cross ( Mary and the Cross consecrated) is now the parish church of the Evangelical-Lutheran church, this village in the parish of Salzwedel of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is assigned to the brick Romanesque and is located on the Romanesque Road .
history
The monastery was founded in 1161 by Count Hermann von Lüchow on a valley sand island ( Marienwerder ) next to the town of Diesdorf. In the same year the church was consecrated by Bishop Hermann von Verden. The convent may have consisted of Augustinian canons , but there is no written evidence of this. At first eight Slavic villages belonged to the monastery. Augustinian choir women lived here by the end of the 13th century at the latest. At the end of the Middle Ages , 46 villages belonged to the monastery.
The Reformation was introduced in 1541 at the latest, and in 1551 it was converted into a Protestant women's monastery. The church became the parish church of the Protestant community. The property became a domain office of the Mark Brandenburg. In 1810 the monastery was dissolved in what was then the Kingdom of Westphalia .
Convention
A total of 339 women choirs are known by name. They came from the noble and middle-class families of the western Altmark and the Braunschweig and Lüneburg area . In the 15th century between 50 and 70 women choirs lived in the monastery.
After 1551 a dominatrix, seven noble and six middle-class ladies lived here.
Building history
The collegiate church was built from brick by Jerichower builders in the late Romanesque style from 1182 to 1230 , roughly at the same time as the Arendsee monastery church . It was the first domed church in the Altmark in the fully developed bound system . The Holy Sepulcher Chapel in the north aisle was first mentioned in 1332 .
Until 1827 a roof turret stood over the choir . The organ was built between 1863 and 1872 with a neo-Gothic organ front. At the same time, a neo-Romanesque pulpit was installed; Finally, in 1872, the west tower was built over the middle section of the west wing in the neo-Romanesque style. 1966 to 1972 the church was restored due to moisture damage; In 1990 the organ was restored and partially renewed.
The monastery now has a very well preserved church, some medieval farm buildings and large parts of the monastery wall.
Architecture, equipment and use of the church
The monastery church is a three-aisled basilica with a transept , choir, apses and west bar. It has a complete groin vault and was built in a bound system. On the outside there are decorative elements such as pilaster strips and various friezes such as cross-arch frieze , diamond frieze , zigzag frieze and German ribbon . The interior of the church is colored by the contrast of red brick and whitewashed walls.
One of the few preserved art treasures from the Middle Ages is a “holy grave”, a coffin in which a carved figure of Christ lies. It is located in the Holy Sepulcher Chapel in a shrine. The figure was taken out and exhibited on Easter Sundays. In the same aisle is the grave of Count Hermann II von Lüchow, who died in 1273, with an incised drawing showing the deceased.
The equipment includes a silver-gilded chalice from the 18th century with a late Romanesque base on which medallions with reliefs of the four evangelists are attached. Another chalice from the 16th century comes from the Althaldensleben monastery . A wooden arm reliquary , a late Gothic chasuble embroidery from around 1500, which was later used as an antependium , and three late Gothic knags are also among the art treasures of the church. The triumphal cross group dates from the end of the 15th century. Under the former nuns' gallery there is a room at ground level that resembles a crypt with four brick pillars and a groin vault . The simple pulpit is neo-Romanesque. The neo-Gothic baptismal font dates from 1920 and is made of zinc .
The church is used as the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Diesdorf.
Monastery grounds
To the west of the church is the “Alte Amtshaus”, a half-timbered house from the mid-18th century. To the north of this there is an even older administrative building from the 14th and 16th centuries, whose earlier function in the monastery is unclear, as well as the "Alte Darre", which was built in the 14th century and formerly served as a brewing and baking house and is now a local history Exhibition houses. These houses are also made of bricks. The old country road leading east to Dehre left the monastery grounds through a kennel and a gate; remains of the kennel have been preserved. The site is surrounded by a largely preserved, once 1.2 kilometer long monastery wall made of field and brick. Outside the monastery walls there are numerous oaks that are several centuries old. The site is located a little north of the center of Diesdorf.
See also
literature
- Eberhard Borrmann, Joachim Stephan, Tilo Schöfbeck: This village Augustinian choir women. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich u. a. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies, volume 14). Volume 1. Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 . Pp. 412-424.
- Hartmut Bock, Gotthold Hofmüller, Michael Scholz: Church life in Diesdorf: 850 years of Diesdorf monastery church. Publisher: Ziethen Dr. Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3862890-30-9
- Peter Seyfried: The monastery church to Diesdorf ( large architectural monuments , issue 463). 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1998, without ISBN.
- Peter Fischer : Monasteries, churches and other monuments . In: The north-western Altmark - A cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1991, without ISBN.
- Peter Fischer: Monuments of the Salzwedel district . Freilichtmuseum Diesdorf, Diesdorf 1990, without ISBN.
Web links
- Information on the Diesdorf Monastery at altmark-pur.eu
- Church information on the congregation website
- The Augustinian nuns monastery church St. Maria and Crucis in 250 pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Altmark Zeitung of July 27, 2011
- ^ Peter Fischer: Monasteries, churches and other monuments . In: The north-western Altmark - A cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1991, without ISBN, p. 119
- ↑ Peter Fischer: Monuments of the Salzwedel district . Freilichtmuseum Diesdorf, Diesdorf 1990, without ISBN, pp. 66, 80–82
- ↑ Information on the Verbandsgemeinde website , accessed on April 30, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 9.3 " N , 10 ° 52 ′ 36.2" E