Pirna Monastery Church
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The Pirna Monastery Church is the Gothic monastery church of the former Dominican monastery on the northwestern edge of the old town of Pirna in Saxony . It is used by the Catholic parish of St. Kunigunde Pirna, which is part of the Dresden-Meißen diocese .
History and architecture
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The Pirna Monastery was founded by the Dominican Monastery of St. Pauli in Leipzig around 1300. Of the monastery buildings, only the chapter house building and parts of the cloister have been preserved as a result of renovations since the Reformation . The original patronage of the church, of which only the nave, the tower and the approaches of the choir have been preserved, is not known. After repairing damage from the Second World War, the nave was used as a Catholic church since its consecration in 1957 with the patronage of St. Heinrich .
The church was built around 1300 as an elongated, flat-roofed hall with four bays with a retracted choir. In the second half of the 14th century the church was converted into a two-aisled hall church with six bays; the choir was probably already separated from the nave at that time. The tower on an almost square floor plan was probably also built at the same time in the angle between the nave and the choir on the south side, and its upper floor was probably added around 1470. The church consists of mostly unplastered sandstone ashlar masonry using brick.
The simple exterior of the church is determined by the buttresses and the pointed arched windows with rich tracery on the north and south sides. The west wall with a high gable is completely closed. Entrances are in the second yoke from the west, of which only the northern one is original.
The interior is determined by the slender octagonal pillars, which merge without a fight into the separating arches and support the ribbed vaults. The ribs are supported by partially figurative consoles; the keystones are decorated with ornaments or have coats of arms. Remains of wall paintings from the 14th century show the Last Judgment on the east wall, a Mother of God with a founder on the south wall and the confirmation of the Dominican order by Pope Innocent IV in the northwestern yoke . The vault paintings with plant motifs were largely renewed in 1956/57.
From September 2002 to December 2003 a restoration took place due to the flooding of the Elbe , during which the platforms, benches and the heating were replaced.
Furnishing
The original equipment has not been preserved. The main piece of the current furnishings is an altar with an impressive crucifix by Friedrich Press from 1973.
On the south wall there is a late Gothic retable from 1510/20, which shows the Virgin Mary flanked by Saints Mary Magdalene and Margaret in the shrine. On the inside of the wings, Saints Catherine and Barbara are depicted on the left and Peter and Paul on the right. The outside of the wings show painted representations of Saints Leonhardt and John the Baptist on the left; on the right are Anna Selbdritt and a bishop. The simple sandstone baptismal font from Thallwitz dates from 1574. A carved mourning Mother of God from a crucifixion group around 1500 is attached to a pillar.
Some of the glass paintings created around 1520/30 are loans from the Protestant town church of St. Mary .
The embroidered Bohemian antependium from the middle of the 14th century probably once belonged to this monastery and is now in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden (inventory number 37417).
The first organ was made by the Jehmlich company in 1962. It fell victim to the flood of August 2002. In 2005 a new organ with 14 was registers on two manuals and pedal the company Voigt consecrated.
Former monastery building
The monastery originally included a three-storey building located north of the church, which contained the chapter house and is now used by the Pirna City Museum , as well as the cloister that has not been preserved . In the basement is the two-aisled, three-bay chapter house, whose ribbed vaults are supported by round pillars on an octagonal base. On the west side, the chapter house is lit by three pointed arched windows with tracery.
The room on the first floor, possibly once used as a refectory , is similar to the chapter house, but lower and has square pillars as supports. The room on the top floor has a beamed ceiling. The building adjoining to the north also dates from the Middle Ages and could have been used as a Lady Chapel earlier. On the west side it shows tracery windows (later modified) on the ground floor and an arched curtain window from the Middle Ages on the upper floor.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 699–701.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Catholic parish St. Kunigunde Pirna. Retrieved August 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 48.3 " N , 13 ° 56 ′ 20.4" E