Monks Church (Jüterbog)

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The Mönchenkirche seen from the Mönchenstrasse from the south
The monks church seen from the street Am Frauentor from the north-west

The Mönchenkirche or Franziskaner-Klosterkirche is a church in Jüterbog . The church was part of the Franciscan monastery . It is located south of the street Am Frauentor and north of the Mönchenstraße on Mönchenkirchplatz and is registered as No. 09105341 in the list of monuments in Brandenburg. Since 1985 the church has had a library and an event center.

History of the monastery and church

Towards the end of the 15th century, the Franciscans collected with the permission of the Brandenburg bishop Arnold von Burgsdorf for a monastery building in Jüterbog. They were very welcome there after the great city fire of 1478. The monastery was built on the northern city wall and was completed in 1510. It belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ) and was close to the observance movement of the order, which practiced a strict interpretation of the rule of the order , especially poverty. The monastery in Jüterbog was one of the study monasteries of Saxonia for training the next generation of the order. For the city population they were pastors, u. a. active as confessor .

When the church was built, the choir was built first , and an altar was donated in 1484 . The church was then usable. The construction of the nave began around 1490/1500 . The monastery was a square to the north between the church and the city wall. The still preserved east wing with the large library adjoined the choir of the church, the north wing contained the utility rooms and the south wing the dormitory .

The Jüterbog Franciscans were involved in the conflicts of the Reformation from the beginning. The Dominican Johann Tetzel also appeared as a preacher of indulgence in Jüterbog , which is said to have prompted Martin Luther in the not far away Wittenberg to publish his 95 theses . Discussions were held with theology lecturers and students from Wittenberg about the ideas of the Reformation, against which the Jüterboger Guardian and some lecturers at the religious college dissociated themselves because they feared for the unity of the church. At Easter 1519 there was a dispute between Thomas Münzer and the Franciscans in Jüterbog , which was carried out through public sermons. The lecturer Bernhard Dappen made a complaint to the Bishop of Brandenburg on behalf of the convent , which was leaked to Martin Luther, whereupon he threatened the Jüterbog Franciscans with public exposure of "their wonderful wisdom". Although the Brandenburg bishop forbade sermons against Luther, the attitude of the brothers in Jüterbog contributed to the fact that the Saxon Franciscan Province as a whole was critical of the Reformation and had to accept the closure of almost all monasteries in the following decades. During this time, Franciscans who had held higher religious offices or were preparing for such belonged to the Jüterboger convent.

The citizens of Jüterbog remained loyal to the Franciscans for some time and attended the Catholic services of the friars in large numbers. In 1544, Luther advised the Jüterbog provost Christoph Fischer, at his request, to refuse a burial in the cemetery to anyone who continued to attend Catholic mass, and also to forbid donating alms to the Franciscans. The provincial chapter of the Saxon province met in Jüterbog in 1554 , the Jüterbog Guardian Thomas König was elected provincial and a novice master was appointed to accept new members of the order.

At the electoral visitation in 1562, however, only three Franciscans lived in the monastery, and the city council promised to provide them; in 1564 there were two. On January 31, 1564, at the request of the city, Archbishop Sigismund von Brandenburg converted the church into a Protestant parish church. A Latin school was set up in the east wing of the monastery, from which a grammar school emerged in 1577. The building ("Old Monastery") was used for school purposes until 1912, most recently as a teacher training college.

In 1694 the church roof was damaged in a storm and then re-covered. In 1711 a baroque altar was erected instead of the Gothic winged altar. In 1739 the roof turret was built in its current form.

During the Wars of Liberation , the church was used as a warehouse in 1812 and 1813 . This damaged the interior. It was restored until 1820. In 1914 the town of Jüterbog became the owner of the church. The parish continued to have the right of use, the maintenance costs were shared. Regular services were held until the 1920s, and the parish continued to use the church. In 1970 the church was abandoned for church services and used as a warehouse, which led to ruin. From 1980 the church was rebuilt. Since 1985 it has been used as a library, theater and concert venue.

The church

The church is built in the style of a mendicant order church of brick and has a length of one hundred cubits, a width of 35 cubits and a height of 40 cubits. The nave of the hall church has three naves and five yokes . It has a ribbed vault supported by eight slender, octagonal pillars. The single-aisled choir, closed on three sides, has three bays. On the roof there is a ridge turret that was first put on in 1493. The south and west sides as well as the choir have high windows with late Gothic tracery , the north side of the nave, to which the monastery was built, has no windows. The ogival entrance portal made of sandstone is on the south side. Originally the church had vault paintings that showed Christ as judge of the world and the stigmatization of the order's founder Francis of Assisi .

There is nothing left of the medieval furnishings. During the profanation , furnishings were brought to other churches, most of the parts are in the Liebfrauenkirche in Jüterbog.

Here are a few pieces of equipment and their whereabouts:

literature

  • Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante: Monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow Fläming District, Part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna Monastery and Niedergörsdorf community. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 88-92
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, 2000, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pages 483-484

Web links

Commons : Mönchenkirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , pp. 199f.
  2. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , pp. 200f.
  3. ↑ gsgym.de ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Goethe-Schiller-Gymnasium, school history. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gsgym.de
  4. ↑ → List of sights
  5. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , p. 202.
  6. ↑ Cultural Office of the Elbe-Elster district, Bad Liebenwerda district museum, Sparkasse Elbe-Elster (ed.): Orgellandschaft Elbe-Elster . Herzberg / Elster 2005, p. 20 to 21 .
  7. ^ Organ database , accessed on November 1, 2017.

Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 31.2 "  N , 13 ° 4 ′ 39.9"  E