Klostermansfeld monastery church
The Protestant monastery church Klostermansfeld is a Romanesque church in Klostermansfeld in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It belongs to the parish Klostermansfeld in the parish of Mansfeld in the parish of Eisleben-Sömmerda of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is a stop on the Romanesque Road .
History and architecture
The monastery was probably in 1140 as a Benedictine monastery founded, but came later than in 1158 as a priory of the Monastery of Santa Maria in the Valley of Josaphat in Jerusalem. The monastery church was rebuilt around 1170. The monastery was destroyed in the peasant wars in 1525 . In the course of the 16th century, the side aisles and transept gables of the monastery church were removed. It was restored between 1960 and 1970, removing the fixtures from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Romanesque components come from two construction periods. The eastern parts originally consisted of a short choir bay with an apse and a wide transept with side apses. The main apse, which has been proven by excavations, was replaced by a rectangular extension of the choir around the middle of the 15th century . The side apses are also broken off, but can still be seen to some extent on the transept. The transept is only preserved in full in the main nave. The walls of the cross arms were beveled and connected to the roof of the nave with pent roofs .
In the chancel there is still a Romanesque window on the north and south side as well as a round arch frieze , which is also continued over the Gothic extension. This extension is illuminated by three tracery windows and is clearly marked by a building joint inside and outside by a wall protrusion.
The nave consists of two square double yokes with alternating supports ; the aisle walls have been rebuilt up to the western end of the entire building so that the original western building cannot be reconstructed. The earlier date of origin of the eastern parts can be recognized by the steeper slopes of the choir windows compared to the upper cladding windows in the nave, by the ancient shapes of the pillars, especially on the south side of the triumphal arch, and by the inorganic abutment of the central nave walls against the west wall of the transept. Thus, the nave was probably built from west to east after the western parts were built.
Of the western parts, only the basement of the middle part with round arches to the east, south and north as well as part of the gallery has been preserved. The large gallery arch to the nave is also still Romanesque; some of the side panels, like the square top with a curved hood , are Baroque additions from 1732.
The compact columns in the relatively short nave show high Attic bases with a strongly developed lower bulge and cube capitals with corner noses and deeply drawn cushions. Only the capital of the western pillar of the north arcade is decorated with palmettes and corner masks, which are based on the churches in Quedlinburg and Gröningen Monastery . The pillar fighters are profiled as inverted Attic bases. The four upper clad windows are not centered over the arcades.
At the beginning of the 14th century, a sacrament niche with two basket arched openings was installed on the north side of the raised choir . A priest gate has been set up in the southern wall of the choir .
Furnishing
The main piece of equipment is a late Gothic carved altar from the end of the 15th century. The coronation of Mary is in the middle shrine and two saints are depicted in each of the wings. A crucifix from 1470/1480 probably comes from a triumphal cross group . Two late Gothic carved figures from 1510 come from an altarpiece that has not survived.
The round baptismal font , dated 1582, is provided with crouching arms on the base; the evangelists are depicted between coats of arms on the bowl. An elaborate alabaster epitaph for M. Hennrich und Frau († 1700) shows the relief busts of the deceased flanked by warlike emblems above an inscription tablet; Allegorical figures are depicted on the segments of the blasted gable .
Finally, there is a double figural tombstone from 1680 and two figurative tombstones for Hilmar Rottorf and Mrs. Felitz von Grele († 1564) from the second half of the 16th century that belong together. A stained glass in the east window was created by Charles Crodel .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , pp. 369–371.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 11 ° 29 ′ 49.8 ″ E