Commandery Church (Osnabrück)

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Commandery Church Osnabrück

The Commandery Church in Osnabrück, also known as the Kommendekirche St. Georg , is a former church in the Osnabrück Neustadt. Today the listed building is used by an amateur theater .

history

The Commandery Church was mentioned in a document in 1389 as part of the Kommende St. Georg , founded in 1352 . The Kommende St. Georg was founded by the Teutonic Knights as a branch in Osnabrück and became independent around 1380. With only three friars, it was the smallest in the Westphalia Ballei , but survived the Reformation . During the Thirty Years' War the church burned down in 1643. Prince-Bishop Ernst August II of Hanover , as administrator of the Teutonic Order, had the church rebuilt in 1725. The hall building with a 3/8 choir has arched windows and two portals , each of which is below the middle window. The baroque portal on the north side is richly decorated as the main portal. After the order was secularized by the Kingdom of Westphalia under Jérôme Bonaparte on June 10, 1809, the Commandery Church and other properties of the order were nationalized and later sold. In 1881 the Jewish community of Osnabrück planned to convert the Commandery Church into a synagogue, but this was rejected by the Prussian government, which is why the old synagogue was later built.

The Komturhaus northwest of the church was destroyed in World War II. From 1950 onwards, Seventh-day Adventists used parts of the church, while other rooms were used as a commercial warehouse. At times the Adventist prayer room was shared by the city's Baptists. From May 1, 1951 until the completion of the own church in 1960, the Baptists were guests.

With the widening of Kommenderiestraße in 1976, the church was threatened with demolition, which was only prevented by the objection of the city's preservationist Bruno Switala. After the Seventh-day Adventists no longer used the church in 1980, the amateur theater of the rehearsal stage became home there from January 1, 1981. In the prepared main room, plays can be performed in front of a maximum of 99 spectators.

Web links

Commons : Komtureikirche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerd-Ulrich Piesch: The former Osnabrück German Order Coming (1352 / 89–1809). In: Ders: Monasteries and monasteries in the Osnabrück region. (= Great Art Guide Volume 218; plus. Culture Region Osnabrück Volume 24) Schnell & Steiner. Regensburg 2006 ISBN 3-7954-1737-6 pp. 71-72.
  2. ↑ Silke Grade: "An ornament of the city of Osnabrück" or "the temple of Jews" . In: Osnabrück Yearbook Peace and Science 18/2011 . 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-904-8 , pp. 193 .
  3. ^ History of the local community Osnabrück. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Joachim Dierks: The history of the former commandery church in Osnabrück. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , March 27, 2018, accessed on July 22, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 6.1 "  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 55.7"  E