Hillersleben Monastery
The monastery Hillersleben (cartridge: St. Lawrence, St. Stephen and St. Peter) is a former convent and later abbey and the Benedictines in Saxony-Anhalt Hillersleben . Today it is used by the Hillersleben Protestant parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany and is part of the Romanesque Road . The monastery is registered as a ground monument in the local register of monuments .
history
Hillersleben Abbey was probably founded as a nunnery in the second half of the 10th century. After it was around the year 1000 under Emperor Otto III. was destroyed in an incursion by the Slavs, Archbishop Gero of Magdeburg had the monastery rebuilt in 1022 as an archbishop's own monastery . In 1096 it was settled by Benedictine monks from Ilsenburg from Bishop Herrand von Halberstadt .
In 1577 the convent joined the Augsburg Confession . 1628–1632 the monastery became Catholic again, after which the Magdeburg Cathedral Chapter took possession of it. In 1687 the monastery property was converted into a domain . In 1935 the domain passed to the German Army Administration, in 1945 the Soviet armed forces took over the monastery domain. In 1951 it was handed over to the new farmers in Hillersleben as part of the land reform .
architecture
From the monastery church of St. Laurentius, St. Stephan and St. Petrus only parts of a new building after 1179 have survived. This was probably a flat-roofed pillar basilica with a transept, separated crossing , rectangular choir with apse and two side choirs, as well as a three-part transverse rectangular western building with a raised central section similar to the Minden cathedral .
The foundation walls were probably taken over from a building from around 1100. After the destruction around 1550, an almost complete new building was necessary, which lasted until around 1600. The eastern parts were demolished in 1788. After the tower collapsed in 1811, a renovation in the neo-Romanesque style was carried out in 1859/1880 , which included rebuilding the apse and the two-tower front in the west as well as parts of the surrounding walls. The west towers were built in 1863 according to a design by the master builder Carl Askan Stüler, revised by Friedrich August Stüler , and rebuilt in 1878/1880 after a lightning strike in 1874.
The barrel vault supported by consoles with stitch caps in the central nave dates from the 16th century, while the open roof trusses over the side aisles date from the 19th century. The western crossing pillars and parts of the transept have been preserved from the high Romanesque core of the church. The arches over the portals, which are similar to those of the church of the Goseck monastery , the collegiate church of Quedlinburg and the church of the monastery of Our Lady Magdeburg, are striking . Until 2011 the church was restored again.
Furnishing
Most of the furnishings date from 1865. A cup-like baptismal font from around 1580 with relief busts showing a Madonna and Saints Barbara , Katharina and Laurentius should also be mentioned . The organ is a work by Carl Böttcher from Magdeburg from 1879 and shows a neo-Romanesque prospectus . It was extensively renovated between 2010 and 2011 by W. Sauer Orgelbau .
A sandstone epitaph showing a niche with an oval in writing for Ludolf Dietrich Ladey († 1689) has also been preserved.
Monastery building
The monastery buildings date from the second third of the 12th century and were renovated around 1260. The site of a former moated castle, which can still be traced south of the enclosure and the Ohre , was included.
To the south of the church are the remains of the cloister from the 13th century, which consist of five bays of the north wing (used as a community room since 2001) and five bays of the south wing with pointed arches. The east wing with apartments is essentially early Gothic. It consists of an elongated, two-storey building made of Grauwacke , which has been rebuilt several times , to which the east porch was added a little later. Two pointed arched doors to the west and Gothic windows to the south and east have been preserved. Under the east gable is the date 1483, which probably applies to the construction of the brick gable above. In three blind niches, figurative Romanesque reliefs with angels are built, which probably come from the late Romanesque choir screen of the church.
Presumably after a fire in the monastery buildings in 1600, the reconstruction took place under Abbot Henricus Fabritius, who is dated to 1614 by an inscription with the abbot's coat of arms. The profiled rectangular windows preserved on the upper floor date from this period. The upper floor contains the dormitory with latrines in the south, the lower floor the chapter house and the sacristy to the north. In the east porch there is a barrel-vaulted room, which presumably once served as a chapel, and above it a groin-vaulted room which housed the library at the end of the 17th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 411–414.
- Otto Lager: On the history of the Hillersleben monastery. In: Journal of the Association for Church History of the Province of Saxony (and the Free State of Anhalt) , Vol. 30 (1934).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
- ↑ Rudi Fischer: 800 years Calvörde - a chronicle until 1991.
- ^ Marion Schmidt: On the Romanesque Road . 11th edition. Schmidt-Buch-Verlag, Wernigerode 2015, ISBN 978-3-936185-94-2 , p. 34 .
- ^ Restoration of the Carl Böttcher organ. Retrieved August 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 23.1 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 18 ″ E