Grimma Monastery Church

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Grimma Monastery Church
Grimma Monastery Church.jpg
Construction time: 1300-1430
Inauguration: June 8, 1435
Style elements : Gothic
Dimensions: 54 × 12 × 19 m
Location: 51 ° 14 '6.5 "  N , 12 ° 43' 49.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '6.5 "  N , 12 ° 43' 49.6"  E
Address: Klosterstrasse 1, 04668 Grimma
Grimma
Saxony , Germany
Purpose: concert hall
Local community: without (secularized)
Parish: -
Website: www.grimma.de
Grimma monastery church from the direction of the old town
One of Grimma's best-known views: the monastery church and the grammar school that has been part of it for centuries
Grimma Monastery Church (left) in 1915
View of the monastery church (2013), used as a concert, event and exhibition space

The monastery church of St. Augustin zu Grimma is a sacred building erected around 1435 as a hall church , the predecessor of which was built around 1300. The impressive structure has a wall thickness of almost one and a half meters, a length of more than 54 meters, an average width of over twelve meters and a height of 19 meters - Martin Luther once called it a "breast breaker".

The Grimma Abbey Church, together with the St. Augustin High School (architect: Hugo Nauck ), forms a unique architectural ensemble for strollers on the other side of the Mulde, which is one of the best-known cityscapes of the Mulde city.

The monastery church was used by the order of the Augustinian Hermits until the Reformation , then until 1937 as the church of the adjoining Princely and State School in Grimma, then until 1975 - on the basis of a usage contract with the city of Grimma as the building owner - occasionally as an Evangelical Lutheran house of worship . After the vacancy, the building police had closed the building and the roof collapsed over a large area in 1989, the roof was renewed after the collapse of the GDR and the conversion made possible.

present

The city administration calls the monastery church "Grimma's inner-city culture hall". She uses the monastery church as a place for art, culture and music, for exhibitions, concerts and meetings. Since March 19, 2016, the sacred building has also served as a backdrop for mundane trade : at the initiative of the city administration, a fresh market for regional foods and products takes place every third Saturday of the month from spring to autumn. There is also an annual Grimmas Martinimarkt in the monastery church.

In August 2014 the city administration of Grimma started a series of events called “Rock in the Church” - the first concert took place on August 23, 2014. However, there have been no follow-up concerts so far (as of July 2019).

On April 17, 2015, an artistic light installation was officially released in the west wing of the church, where the organ and gallery were once located, on the occasion of the anniversary “50 years of the Grimma Photo Association”: The 7.5 meter wide and 5 meter high mosaic photograph shows the at Flood in 2002 destroyed the Pöppelmann Bridge and the St. Augustin High School and consists of 1,035 portrait photos of flood helpers. The 450 kilogram installation with 2,500 LED lamps was created by the Grimma Art and Photo Association; the project was funded by the Sparkasse Muldental Foundation with just under 15,500 euros.

After a long break, the monastery church once again served as a religious place in the summer of 2017: the participants in the full conference of the denominational Evangelical Lutheran Conference used it for their final divine service on July 2, 2017 - the neighboring St. Augustin high school was the conference venue and hostel for the Conference participants.

The MDR Music Summer is a guest in the Grimma Abbey Church
The MDR Music Summer Concert on July 7th 2017 in the Grimma Abbey Church

On July 7, 2017, the Grimma Monastery Church was sold out for a concert of the 26th MDR Music Summer . It had been selected as an “architecturally attractive venue” for his concert series Perspektiven . There were follow-up appointments for 2018 and 2019.

An exhibition was dedicated to Elsa Brändström , which stopped in the monastery church in spring 2018. They created 40 female artists from GEDOK Bonn and Leipzig, the female artists' association founded in 1926.

The time since 1990

At the beginning of the 1990s there were eager, passionate discussions in Grimma about the reconstruction and use of the monastery church. Over the years, for a variety of reasons, art, culture and music have established themselves as new focal points for the traditional building. A steel truss roof structure - still paid for with GDR marks - was put in place in the summer of 1992 and the floor was renewed. In July 1993 the roof of the church, which was around 1670 square meters in size, was given a new roof. The Hemmrich company from Colditz laid around 20,000 natural red K 1 type bricks. The walls remained plain and barren.

The only church decorations that have been shown in the middle east gable window (towards the Mulde) since 1996 are the life-size, colored portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . These glowing glass windows (probably from around 1900) were recovered from the rubble of the school hall at the foot of the Osterzgebirge during the GDR era by Helmut Berthold (former pupil of the Princely School) and hidden in his parish barn. In the early 1990s he made them available to the Grimma city administration for the monastery church.

Two stained glass windows with portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon are the only religious decoration of the Grimma monastery church

In February 1997, the Grimma monastery church was used as a set for German rock music: Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk filmed a video there with Heinz Rudolf Kunze for his song “You are not alone” , which a few weeks later - on March 6, 1997 - was shown for the first time on MDR - TV was broadcast.

The baroque pulpit of the monastery church found its new home in 1998 in the Sankt-Katharinen-Kirche in Buchholz (Annaberg-Buchholz). The altar plate (canteen) of the altar from 1686 is now in the church in Trebsen .

photos

  • Grimma Abbey Church and St. Augustin High School

  • View from the Mulde to the monastery church

  • City-facing side of the monastery church

  • Portal of the monastery church - to the left of it the tip of the pillory stone

  • Prangerstein on the left of the portal - due to the filling of the city, only the tip (head with pointed cap as a mockery) can be seen

  • Detail shot

  • Gable side from the direction of the old town

  • View along the nave towards the Mulde

history

A variety of documents relating to the history of the Grimma Abbey Church can be found in the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation , which is located in the neighboring St. Augustin grammar school in the former rector's apartment and was managed by Kurt Schwabe from 1992 to 2010 .

Augustinian hermits in Grimma

On April 23, 1287 Friedrich von Landsberg , to whose domain Grimma belonged at that time, allowed Augustinian hermits from Gotha to settle in the city. In the area of ​​the lower town, which was probably already largely developed at that time, the Augustinian monks built their monastery within the city wall, which was built here parallel to the bank of the Mulden. In addition to the inner-city parish organization, the monastery and monastery church existed as special church institutions.

The monastery church

Apart from the church, nothing has survived from the former monastery. The monastery church, structurally not yet completed around 1300, was partially torn away by a flood as early as 1315. The unfavorable location near the river has caused damage again and again up to our century (most recently in June 2013), although the urban terrain in this area has been heaped up by around two meters over the centuries. After a fire in 1430, the monastery church was rebuilt and re-consecrated on June 8, 1435. With a wall thickness of 1.45 meters, a length of 54.65 meters and an average width of 12.25 meters, it corresponds roughly to the Augustinian mother church in Gotha.

Presumably, the building concept originates from the end of the 13th century, while the current enclosing walls date back at least partially to the period after 1315. The almost seven meter high wooden barrel vault came from the years between 1430 and 1435. Other fixtures and fittings were added later.

Martin Luther and the Grimma Monastery Church

Martin Luther is said to have called the monastery church a “breast breaker” after a sermon he gave. What is meant is the difficulty of filling the approximately 11,000 cubic meters, 19 meter high room - back then with a wooden barrel ceiling - with a clearly understandable voice right down to the last row of listeners. Of Luther's ten or so stays in Grimma - mostly overnight stays while passing through - this statement can be related to an otherwise unspecified visit to the monastery, which was part of Luther's order. Unfortunately, a sermon he gave in Grimma has not been recorded.

reformation

In 1529 the Reformation was introduced in Grimma. As early as 1522, monks had started to leave the monastery. Nevertheless, in 1529 the visitors found that nine monks still lived in the complex and that the prior had to vacate it. The last monks did not move out until 1541. With the dissolution of the monastery, the monastery church lost its original purpose and from then on never had its own parish. Since then it has mainly been used for Protestant and occasionally for Catholic services.

Owner from 1550

The owners of the monastery church after the Reformation were successively the Saxon electors - first the Ernestine, from 1547 the Albertine line of the Wettins -, the Kingdom of Saxony and from 1918 the Free State of Saxony . After 1945 and the land reform , the city of Grimma is the owner (finally confirmed in the contract dated May 5, 1976 between the Evangelical Lutheran District Building Office and the mayor of the city of Grimma). This sacred building was never the property of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony . This situation was fatal for the historic building, especially in the period 1945 to 1990 (i.e. until the end of the German Democratic Republic ).

Church of the Princely School

In 1543, Duke Moritz decided to build three state or princely schools in Albertine Saxony from secularized monastery property, namely in Meißen, Pforta and Merseburg. Grimma did not belong to his domain until 1547, and the establishment of a state school in Merseburg did not materialize due to the objection of the local bishop. During a visit to the city, the city council of Grimma offered the now elector Moritz the monastery complex on May 1, 1549 for the pending establishment of the announced third princely school. In 1550 the monastery church was assigned to the newly founded state school, which found its home in the former monastery. From then on, it was used for the divine services specified in the school rules and for the confirmation of the alumni . It was a school church until 1937.

Structural changes

The changed use of the monastery church resulted in a number of changes on and in the building over the centuries. The altars - at least ten - were removed apart from the main altar. In 1617 a wooden ceiling was put in to achieve better acoustics. After the reorganization of the choir and altar space, the rood screen was demolished. From a crucifixion group located on it , the figures of Christ, Mary and John came to the Grimma Museum. The last major redesign took place between 1679 and 1685: insertion of a flat wooden cross vault, erection of the pulpit, installation of the three-storey gallery on the northern long side and an additional portal in the west gable. The exterior has also been redesigned. A thorough renovation was carried out between 1840 and 1841 after the old monastery buildings had been rebuilt a few years earlier and partially replaced by new school buildings.

Decay after 1945

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Grimma used the monastery church as a place of worship during the summer months - even after 1945. After the state school was closed or converted into a secondary school (later extended secondary school), the monastery church remained in municipal ownership. In 1952, the Preservation of Monuments in Dresden informed the city leaders in Grimma that dry rot was clearly visible in the roof of the monastery church .

Events of the church district of Grimma also took place in its walls. Since the church interior was heavily soiled and damaged (among other things as a result of the 1954 Mulde flood), the Grimma church council under Superintendent Hellmuth Ott decided to carry out a thorough interior renovation: It drew - similar to a tenant and occupant - for the repair work carried out from 1959 to 1960 responsible. Parish members made a great contribution through donations and personal contributions. The result was a neat, bright church interior into which a porphyry font from the 17th century from the Frauenkirche Grimma was transferred. The inauguration after the interior renovation was on July 3, 1960. From 1960 onwards there were repeated concerts by the Dresden Kreuzchor .

Occasionally baptisms and weddings were carried out there: Ralf Thomas and Ulrike Ott were married on May 6, 1962 in the monastery church of Grimma, the wedding was carried out by the bride's father, Grimma's superintendent Hellmuth Ott.

In 1959 the organ was also repaired - it had been built in 1896 by the Emil Müller organ builder from Werdau. However, 40 years after this repair - in 1989 - this organ had completely disappeared: From 1975 (when it was again completely under the responsibility of the city of Grimma) the sacred building was obviously inadequately secured against break-ins and theft, and thus the valuable organ pipes ended up being favored from the consistent looking away from the authorities and the People's Police - for years probably in the scrap trade.

The repairs to the roof and the external plaster were also not carried out. Personnel changes on the part of the user and the legal entity interrupted the partnership, which was based on cooperation.

Grimma Monastery Church, interior view (around 1960)

In view of the massive roof damage in the monastery church, the church council declared in 1975 to the council of the city of Grimma, as the legal entity of the monastery church, the waiver of the continuation of the right of use. With a contract dated May 5, 1976 between the Evangelical Lutheran District Building Office and the mayor of the city of Grimma, it was agreed that legal ownership and thus responsibility for the sacred building would be completely transferred to the city of Grimma. From then on, without a divestment service, the doors of the monastery church remained closed to the parish. There were still no safety and renovation works.

After all, in 1979 the roof turret was renovated for 120,000 GDR marks and a new weather vane was put on; the big companies in Grimma were involved. The work showed the actual damage ( dry rot ). A blunder game that had lasted for years began: The city administration was obviously overwhelmed, and higher-level government agencies in the GDR could not or would not take care of the building - a church building under non-church responsibility. A financial rescue offer from the Federal Republic of Germany went unanswered in 1985 - in Gotha, a similar offer is said to have led to the renovation of the Augustinian Church there.

Finally, VEB Chemieanlagenbau Leipzig-Grimma took over . The now slightly inclined roof turret was straightened and an elaborate steel truss roof construction was designed. One problem was the dismantling of the old roof structure. But in the summer of 1989, after decades of idleness in the western part, the rotten framework fell into the depths. Shortly before Christmas, the remains were dismantled with a large crane and the blurry wood was burned.

Music in the monastery church

Sacred music in the services of past centuries

An integral part of the regular school church services that the students and teachers of the neighboring state and princely school held in the monastery church was the sacred music typical of the time. The approximately 1300 musical manuscripts and prints that originally belonged to the holdings of the Fürstenschul-Bibliothek Grimma are significant evidence of 300 years of academic and academic music cultivation. They can be found today in the Dresden State Library . The completeness of this collection of music is important: it includes motets from 1550, individual manuscripts such as sacred concerts and early cantatas, as well as copies of church music from the Viennese classical period, oratorios and central German church music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The important Princely School Cantors and composers represented in these music manuscripts include Tobias Petermann , Samuel Jacobi , Johann Sigismund Opitz , Heinrich Gottfried Reichard and Heinrich Ludwig Hartmann .

The complete catalog was created by the musicological association “Repertoire International des Sources Musicales”, RISM branch in Dresden - it is available in book form in the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation in Grimma and an electronic version is available online free of charge from Qucosa .

Madrigal Choir St. Augustin

After the war ended in 1945, Diethard Hellmann began teaching music at the Princely School. Hellmann founded the St. Augustin Madrigal Choir , which demonstrably had a dozen larger gigs in Grimma and the surrounding area in 1946. This madrigal choir lived up to such high standards that the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk recorded its Christmas concert in December 1946 and broadcast it on December 25th and 28th, 1946. The climax and conclusion of Hellmann's engagement at this school was Mozart's Singspiel Bastien und Bastienne in May 1948, then he left Grimma for Leipzig .

The Augustinian bell

The bell from the time before the Reformation is 48 centimeters high and has a lower diameter of 58 centimeters, its weight is 143.25 kilograms. The upper part is decorated with the following Latin inscription: "O rex etne (= aeternae) glorie (= gloriae) vei (= veni) cu (= cum) pace" ( "King of eternal glory, come with your peace" ), supplemented with the Number 1491, the year it was made. This makes it one of the oldest surviving bells in and around Grimma. The sound of the bells initially regulated the daily routine for the monks and later for the pupils at the Grimma State and Princely School. It was also heard on Sundays at 9 a.m. for the main service in the monastery church.

The school bell of the Fürstenschule Grimma fell victim to the First World War as a metal donation by the German people , and the monastery church took over its tasks: With the approval of the Ministry and the approval of the church inspection, it was removed from the roof turret of the monastery church on August 27, 1925 and placed on the school roof of the Trough wing installed. It rang for the first time at the school festival on September 14, 1925. The bell rang at 6 am to wake up, 12 noon, 6.30 pm and 8.30 pm to end the day. - There are various traditions about whether and how the bell continued to be used regularly for school purposes after the Second World War . In any case, on February 8, 1952, the bell ritual was officially abolished - from then on, the daily school routine was exclusively regulated by the electric break bell, which had been in use for many years and was used in parallel.

In 1974 the bell was dismantled and taken to the city archive, and in 1989 to the district museum. In 1993 the church roof was re-roofed, and the old Augustinian bell was hung back in its traditional location by the Schnabel company from Naunhof, i.e. in the roof turret. According to information from this company from January 2014, the bell was installed with an electric bell device. Nevertheless, until February 2014 the general opinion was that the bell could not sound because it was assembled without a clapper (according to a newspaper report from January 9, 1995). So the bell continued to be silent.

In February 2014, a trained teacher climbed to the bell with the help of the caretaker from St. Augustin - and he succeeded in photo proof from a lofty height: The Augustinian bell has its clapper. It has now also become known that after the flood in 2002 there was a ringing test of the bell and that it had worked perfectly. Thus, after decades of silence, the historical bell can ring at suitable school and city events. This officially happened again for the first time after a 63-year break at the 2015 Grimmas Festival of the Reformation on August 30, 2015.

swell

  • Karlheinz Blaschke: How our cities came into being 3: The city of Grimma. In: The panorama. 24: 58-60 (1977).
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments: the districts of Dresden, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig. Berlin 1966.
  • Georg Buchwald: Luther Calendar. In: Writings of the Association for Reformation History. Volume 47, issue 2 (No. 147). Leipzig 1929, pp. 1–158.
  • Georg Fraustadt u. a .: The Princely and State School St. Augustin zu Grimma in the past and present. Grimma 1930.
  • Christian Gottlob Lorenz : The city of Grimma in the kingdom of Saxony, historically described. Grimma 1856.
  • Emil Sehling: The Protestant Church Orders of the XVI. Century. 1st department, 1st half. Leipzig 1902.
  • Richard Weidauer: Grimma Reformation Memories. The visitation of the monastery St. Augustin zu Grimma a. D. 1516. Poetry and Truth. Leipzig 1938.
  • Bernhard Woerner: Signpost in Buchwald's Luther Calendar. In: Writings of the Association for Reformation History. Vol. 52, issue 2 (No. 158). Leipzig 1935, pp. 74-103.
  • Winfried Zehme: On the building history of the Grimma monastery church. In: The Grimmaer care. Monthly supplement to the news for Grimma 9 (May 1930), No. 5 running.

Further literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Issue 19: Amtshauptmannschaft Grimma (1st half). Dresden 1897, pp. 99–110 - online in the SLUB - further information on the documentation Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony at Wikisource
  • Winfried Zehme: The monastery, the monastery church and the Princely and State School in Grimma. In: Augustiner leaves. Year VII; Grimma, May 1930, double issue 1 and 2, pp. 16–34.
  • Winfried Zehme: On the building history of the Princely and State School in Grimma. Dissertation in 1941 and as a true-to-the-letter typewriter copy (no year, approx. 2000) in the holdings of the Fürstenschüler archive in Grimma with the following full title: The Augustinian Hermits Monastery and the Princely and State School in Grimma - their building history. Dissertation approved by the Saxon Technical University Dresden to obtain a doctoral engineer. Presented by government building officer Winfried Zehme from Olugumangalam (East India). Speaker: Oscar Reuther. Co-referee: Fritz Rauda. Submitted on July 24, 1941. 87 pages (A4) with numerous illustrations, sketches and drawings.
  • Rudolf Priemer : The fate of the monastery church in Grimma. In: The panorama. From the culture and home of the Wurzen, Oschatz and Grimma districts. 37th year. 1/1990, pages 32–33 with three illustrations.
  • Christian Gottlob Lorenz : City of Grimma in the kingdom of Saxony, historically described. P. 1–48 as a facsimile of the book of the same name that appeared in Grimma in 1856 in: Augustiner Blätter, special issue No. 1 - On the history of the monastery church and the state school. published by the director of the St. Augustin high school in Grimma; Grimma 1995.
Organ in the monastery church Grimma
  • Ulrich Dähnert: Historic organs in Saxony - an organ inventory. Ed .: Institute for Monument Preservation, Dresden Office. 319 pages, format <A4, Leipzig 1980, without ISBN. With bibliography on pp. 289–299. On the organ in the Grimma monastery church: pp. 134–137

Other publications related to the monastery church

Trivia

Grimma Augustiner drops with a picture (from around 1900) of the monastery church and the state and princely school in Grimma

Under the name of a local spirits manufacturer founded in 1920, a herbal liqueur of the brand "Grimmaer Augustiner Drops" is still produced, on whose historical label is advertised with a contemporary image of the Grimma monastery church and the Grimma State and Princely School from around 1900.

Web links

Commons : Klosterkirche Grimma  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The source for the original version of this Wikipedia article is the documentation by Ralf Thomas : Die Klosterkirche St. Augustin zu Grimma. Typewriter manuscript as accompanying material for the exhibition of the same name in the Frauenkirche zu Grimma (approx. 1987); Organization: Thomas Ott - to be found in the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation .
  2. ^ Official journal of the large district town of Grimma. No. 11/2013, July 27, 2013, p. 1.
  3. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Grimma/44-Haendler-zum-Auftakt-2017-Beim-Frischemarkt-in-Grimma-wird-es-eng
  4. ^ René Beuckert: Monastery church: Fresh market under the church roof in Grimma. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, July 21, 2019. Accessed July 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ http://www.goeschenhaus.de/martinimarkt/?SHC=1
  6. ↑ Roger Dietze: Rocky rhythms make the monastery church sound - Leipzig veteran Tino Standhaft denies the start of a new series of concerts / Kleeberg and comrades play as opening act. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . Muldental edition, August 25, 2014, p. 27.
  7. ↑ Cornelia Braun: Light installation with 1000 flood helpers - Art and Photo Association Grimma designs mosaic photography in the monastery church. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. Muldental edition, August 19, 2014, p. 28
  8. ↑ Luminous attraction in Grimmas monastery church. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. Muldental edition, April 21, 2015, p. 26
  9. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Grimma/Grimma-ist-Gastgeber-fuer-Belösungenlutheraner-aus-der-ganzen-Welt
  10. ↑ http://elfk.de/html/celc/celc_2017/
  11. ↑ http://elfk.de/html/celc/?mdocs-file=633
  12. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/musiksommer/spielorte/grimma-klosterkirche100.html
  13. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/kultur/videos-und-audios/audio-radio/audio-grimma-klosterkirche-musiksommer-100.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mdr.de  
  14. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/konzerte/konzertkalender/konzert2380_day-7_month-7_year-2017_zc-0efa5a66.html
  15. ↑ Brochure 26th MDR Music Summer , Leipzig 2017, page 7
  16. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/musiksommer/spielorte/grimma-klosterkirche100.html
  17. ↑ Detlef Rohde: Exhibition about Elsa Brändström opens in the Grimma monastery church. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  18. ^ Renate Faerber-Husemann: Exhibition on Elsa Brändström: The "Angel of Siberia". Vorwärts (Germany) , online portal. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  19. ↑ a b Rudolf Priemer: Grimma and Muldental . In: Sax guide . Beucha 1992, ISBN 3-9802997-1-6 , pp. 44 .
  20. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung. Local section Grimma, July 10, 1993, p. 24.
  21. ^ Letter from Helmut Berthold dated September 12, 2003 to the mayor of Grimma (in the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation in Grimma)
  22. ↑ Ingolf Rosendahl: Camera to: Heinz Rudolf Kunze rocked in the monastery church . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung, February 13, 1997, page 6
  23. ↑ Sunday. Weekly newspaper of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony. April 29, 2001, p. 6.
  24. ↑ a b Rudolf Priemer: The fate of the monastery church in Grimma . In: The panorama . No. 1 , 1990, p. 32-33 .
  25. ↑ a b c d Christian-Friedrich Meinhardt: The monastery church - a gem of Grimma awaits revival . In: Friedrich Wermuth, Karl Irmscher u. a. (Ed.): From the electoral state school to the St. Augustin high school in Grimma 1550–2000 . Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-930076-99-3 , pp. 81 .
  26. ↑ Wolfgang Fritzsche: Post from the monastery church . P. 259 in: Grimma - Ein Lesebuch , Ed. Stadtverwaltung Grimma, Editor: Wolfgang Fritzsche. 1st supplemented reprint, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 3-930846-16-0
  27. ↑ According to tradition, this wedding was the first in the monastery church - and according to what we know so far, it was probably the only one. Ralf Thomas also wrote the manuscript on the history of the Grimma Monastery Church, which was the basis on the one hand for an exhibition in 1985 in the Frauenkirche Grimma and on the other hand for the first version of this Wikipedia article.
  28. ^ Christian-Friedrich Meinhardt: The monastery church - a gem of Grimma awaits revival . In: Friedrich Wermuth, Karl Irmscher u. a. (Ed.): From the electoral state school to the St. Augustin high school in Grimma 1550–2000 . Beucha 2000, ISBN 3-930076-99-3 , pp. 83 .
  29. ↑ www.fuerstenschueler-stiftung.de
  30. ↑ www.nbn-resolving.de
  31. ↑ Andrea Hartmann: The music manuscripts of the Princely School Grimma. In: Augustiner leaves. Special issue no. 6 (2010), published by the headmaster of the St. Augustin high school in Grimma: Sold and forgotten - or responsibly preserved? About the fate of the music manuscripts and other treasures in the former library of the Princely and State School Grimma. Pp. 12-19.
  32. ↑ Volker Beyrich: Singing against inhumanity. In: Archive dust. Messages from the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation - Kurt Schwabe Archive -. Edition March 2013, pp. 3–5.
  33. ↑ http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/1933/118/0/
  34. ↑ According to information from the historian Klausjürgen Miersch (born 1925), who lived and studied in the Moldanum from 1938 (after the end of the Second World War, he and his classmates had to catch up on the Abitur that they received in 1948).
  35. ↑ Martina Bloi: Odyssey of a bell steeped in history . P. 1–3 in: Archive dust - messages from the archives of the Fürstenschülerstiftung “Kurt Schwabe Archive” , No. 6, March 2014
  36. ↑ http://www.reformationsfest2015.de/programm/sonntag-30-august-2015/
  37. ↑ Text on the label on the back: “When Augustinian monks came to Grimma in 1286 and built a monastery here, they made a drink for their wellbeing from herbs, roots and berries. The Augustiner drop is now made from this tradition. (...) "Source: template, July 2020
  38. ↑ https://www.ossiladen.de/products/augustiner-tropfen-0-7l , accessed on July 18, 2020