Haug Monastery

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Haug Abbey as seen from Marienberg Fortress
Collegiate monastery Haug (tower front), above the portal the figure of the church patron John the Baptist, in the other niches the statues of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Interior view with a view of the apse, in the niches of the crossing piers the statues of the Apostles Peter (left) and Paul (right)
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With Stift Haug in the district will Haug (also called Hauger quarter), this parish church of St. John in Würzburg called, the corresponding parish as St. John in Stift Haug. The former collegiate church belonged to the Haug collegiate monastery until secularization in 1803 . The church, consecrated to John the Baptist and John the Evangelist , was completed in 1691 according to plans by Antonio Petrini .

Previous construction

Model of the medieval Haug Abbey around 1525, currently the Würzburg station forecourt (Fürstenbaumuseum Würzburg)
Memorial to the founder of Stift Haug, Heinrich I (Balthasar Esterbauer, 1708). The right putto, who was involved in hanging up the festoon , was recreated in 1946 by Julius Bausenwein based on a photograph.

The collegiate monastery St. Johann zu Haug can be traced back to the 1002 mentioned community of "Lords of the Mountain", the name to houc  → Haug → Hügel. The Haug Abbey, originally founded around 1000 and consecrated by its builder, Bishop Heinrich I of Würzburg , was located north of the city wall, at the location of today's station a few hundred meters north of the current location. In the 14th century, the physician and Wimpfen canon Berthold Blumentrost , who came from Schwäbisch Hall , taught as a scholastic in Würzburg, where he had received an additional canonical position in 1326 as the canon of St. Johannes in Haug. In order to make room for the baroque city fortifications, the prince-bishop at the time had the monastery torn down at its old location in 1657 and rebuilt at the current location.

New collegiate church

From 1670 to 1691 Antonio Petrini , whose main work is the Hauger church building, created the synthesis between the Central European double tower facade and the Roman domed structure, whose slender towers with the massive, slate-covered dome form an element that largely shapes the cityscape. The large crossing dome, inspired by St. Peter's Basilica , rises to a height of 60 meters. At the highest point inside the dome, the symbol of the Holy Spirit , the dove, can be seen in a halo . The dissolution of wall boundaries by means of arcades goes back to an idea by Donato Bramante , which he realized around 1480 in the interior of the church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro in Milan. Petrini, who was the leading Baroque builder in Franconia in the second half of the 17th century, created the first monumental Baroque building in Würzburg after the Thirty Years' War with his Hauger collegiate church .

Parish church

In 1803 the Haug monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization. The collegiate church became a parish church.

Renovation after bombing

After the bombardment and the subsequent city ​​fire of March 16, 1945, the former glitzy interior, which was created mainly from around 1690, burned down with wooden altars, choir stalls, sculptural and painting decorations, pulpit and organ (including most of the works by Michael Rieß, Johann Caspar Brandt ( 1652–1701) and Oswald Onghers ), after the reconstruction, the cool proportions and bright expanse of Petrini's massive architecture are impressive. In 2005 the complete renovation of the interior was completed. Only remnants of the old furnishings have survived on the southwestern crossing pillar: the monument to the founder of the monastery, Bishop Heinrich I by Johann Balthasar Esterbauer, and the statue of the evangelist Lukas from him, commissioned by the monastery chapter in 1705 and completed in 1708, equipped with Lahn marble and yellow-white alabaster Forchtenberg- born Würzburg sculptor Michael Rieß on the southwestern crossing pillar from 1695. In 1964, the monumental oil painting of the crucifixion of Jesus (9 m × 5.5 m) by the Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto was erected as a replacement for the high altar of the church destroyed in the hail of bombs was created in 1585 for the Munich Augustinian Church (today the German Hunting and Fishing Museum ). The modern base bears the inscription "ECCE LIGNUM CRUCIS IN QUO SALUS MUNDI PEPENDIT VENITE ADOREMUS" (German translation: See the wood of the cross on which the salvation of the world hung. Come, let us adore) from the liturgy of the celebration of suffering and Death of Christ . On the high altar table in front of it is a golden tabernacle adorned with rock crystals .

To the left of the main facade, the former chapter house with its colossal structure of pilasters , also created by Petrini from 1699 to 1703, adjoins the collegiate church. It houses the Matthias Ehrenfried House , a church youth and educational institution.

The relics of three Franconian saints are set in the altar stone of the celebration altar: Burkard , Bruno and Liborius Wagner . The bronze cross by the Thuringian artist Dietrich Klinge is a modern work of art .

organ

View to the organ gallery

The organ was built in 1971 by the organ manufacturer Klais (Bonn). The slider chest instrument has 45  stops on three manual works and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions are electric. Organ concerts are often held in the church. Klaus Linsenmeyer , who worked as a music teacher at the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium, was the organist of many years in Haug Monastery.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Quintad 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′
5. Principal 2 ′
6th recorder 2 ′
7th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. None 8 ⁄ 9 ′
9. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Scharff V 1'
11. Ranckett 16 ′
12. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
13. Pommer 16 ′
14th Principal 8th'
15th Funnel-shaped 8th'
16. Octav 4 ′
17th Gemshorn 4 ′
18th Super octave 2 ′
19th Cornett V 8th'
20th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
22nd Trumpet 8th'
23. Clairon 4 ′
III Swell C – g 3
24. Wooden principal 8th'
25th Reed flute 8th'
26th Vox coelestis II 8th'
27. Principal 4 ′
28. Wooden truss 4 ′
29 Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Octav 2 ′
31. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
32. Sifflet 1'
33. Acuta IV-V 1'
34. bassoon 16 ′
35. Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
36. Principal 16 ′
37. Sub bass 16 ′
38. Octav 8th'
39. Pointed flute 8th'
40. Tenor octave 4 ′
41. Metal dacked 4 ′
42. Backset V 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. trombone 16 ′
44. Wooden trumpet 8th'
45. Schalmey 4 ′
  • Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

Bells

With ten bells after the cathedral, the ringing of the church is the second largest in the city of Würzburg. In 2015, Albert Bachert in Karlsruhe was able to cast a new bell with a c sharp 'strike. The plan is to acquire a large bell in the pitch a °. This project will be realized in the next few years in order to complete the bells and give a worthy sound finish downwards.

Current bell:

  • Bell 1 "Johannes Evangelista" (cis ′), Albert Bachert / Karlsruhe, 2015
  • Bell 2 (d ′), Rudolf Perner / Passau, 2002
  • Bell 3 (e ′), Rudolf Perner Passau, 2002
  • Bell 4 (fis ′), Rudolf Perner / Passau, 2002
  • Bell 5 (a ′), Christoph Glockengießer / Nuremberg, 1574
  • Bell 6 (h ′), Sigmund Arnold / Fulda, 1613
  • Bell 7 (cis ″), Christoph Glockengießer / Nuremberg, 1574
  • Bell 8 (d ″), unmarked, 1499
  • Bell 9 (e ″), FW Schilling / Heidelberg, 1958
  • Bell 10 (g sharp ″), unmarked, 13th century

literature

  • Enno Bünz : Haug Abbey in Würzburg. Investigations into the history of a Franconian collegiate monastery in the Middle Ages . Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History 128; Studies on Germania Sacra 20. Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-35444-4 .
  • Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 618–622, 624, 626 and 645.

Web links

Commons : Stift Haug Würzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the 19th century, the members of a fourteen-saints association met at the parish church in Haug.
  2. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 643 f. and 947.
  3. ^ Gundolf Keil : Blumentrost, Berthold. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 189 f.
  4. ↑ Rüdiger Krist: Berthold Blumentrosts 'Quaestiones disputatae circa tractatum Avicennae de generatione embryonis et librum meteorum Aristotelis'. A contribution to the scientific history of medieval Würzburg. Part I: Text. (Medical dissertation Würzburg) Wellm, Pattensen near Hanover (now Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg) 1987 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 43).
  5. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 619.
  6. ↑ a b Peter A. Süß: Würzburg , Würzburg 2000, p. 59.
  7. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 624 and 642 f.
  8. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 632.
  9. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company.
  10. ↑ Main-Post (2011): Klaus Linsenmeyer has been organist at Haug Abbey for four decades .
  11. ^ Hanswernfried Muth: St. Johannes-Stift Haug, Würzburg. Schnell & Steiner Regensburg, 2008 ISBN 978-3-7954-4032-9 . P. 5.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '52.5 "  N , 9 ° 56" 9.3 "  E