Monk's Church (Salzwedel)

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Monastic church from the north with a former monastery
Monk church from the east with praying mantis sculpture
Main nave facing west with a view of the organ
Rood screen

The Mönchskirche is a church in the town of Salzwedel in northwest Saxony-Anhalt . It is assigned to the brick Gothic and serves as a concert and art hall.

history

The monk's church was built around 1250 on the last free plot of land in the old town of Salzwedel, on the border with the new town, as a monastery church of the Franciscan order founded in 1210 . The first written mention of the Franciscan monastery in Salzwedel dates from 1261. It belonged to the Saxon province ( Saxonia ) of the order. In 1345 a vaulted choir and a side aisle were added on the south side. The main and side aisles were vaulted. Between 1435 and 1500 the choir, main and side aisles were expanded and a hall roof was installed.

After the Reformation , the monastery fell to the city of Salzwedel. The last Franciscan living there died in 1552. The cloister , which was immediately north of the church, was used as a Latin school from then on . The church itself was transformed into a Protestant church between 1575 and 1581. In 1582 an altar created in the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger was installed in the monk's church. It depicts the parable of the workers in the vineyard from the Gospel of Matthew . Another altar from the village of Bukau, which fell devastated in the Thirty Years' War , was also set up in the monk's church.

In the 19th century, the Salzwedeler Gymnasium was located in the former enclosure, and since 1895 the town hall. Until 1920 the monk's church was a garrison church . The Bukau Altar was set up in 1947 in the Katharinenkirche in Salzwedel . Services were held in the church until 1964. After that the church stood empty and fell into disrepair. A late Gothic door frame, bronze chandeliers and numerous organ pipes were stolen. The Cranach Altar was restored and handed over to the Johann Friedrich Danneil Museum in Salzwedel in 1968 . From 1984 to 1986 the monk's church was converted into a concert hall; the pulpit from 1581 was also removed. The event was held 21 Workers' Festival of the GDR , the 1986 District Magdeburg took place and therefore also in Salzwedel. The organ was inaugurated again in 2009.

Architecture, equipment and use

The monk's church is a two-aisled hall church made of brick . It has a roof turret that slopes to the west. The inner walls are painted white, the ribs are red. The furnishings include the choir stalls from the 15th century, the organ loft from 1579/81 and 21 tombstones, including the tombstone for Anna von der Schulenburg, geb. von Wenckstern from 1575 and the tombstone for the Swedish Colonel Joachim Ludwig von Seckendorff, who was executed in Salzwedel in 1642 . The monk's church is used as a concert and art hall.

Surroundings

At the northeast corner of the church is the sculpture Für Walter - instead of flowers , a stylized large-scale sculpture of a praying mantis made of iron by Hans Molzberger, which was created for Expo 2000 .

The Jeetze flows directly to the west of the church, to the north the town hall borders the church. The monk's church is located in the north of the Salzwedel old town. Other medieval churches in the old town are the Marienkirche and the Lorenzkirche .

literature

  • Achim Todenhöfer: The Franciscan or Monk Church in Salzwedel. In: Churches of the mendicant orders. The architecture of the Dominicans and Franciscans in Saxony-Anhalt. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-496-01396-9 , pp. 126-140.
  • Ulrich Kalmbach, Jürgen M. Pietsch: The vineyard altar by Lucas Cranach the Younger from the Monchskirche in Salzwedel. Edition Akanthus, Spröda 1996, ISBN 3000010661 . Excerpts from books.google.de

Web links

Commons : Monk Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 59.
  2. ↑ on the Cranach Altar , accessed on July 26, 2010
  3. ↑ a b c Hartmut Bock, Peter Fischer et al .: The north-western Altmark - a cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 1991, without ISBN, p. 127f
  4. ↑ a b c Information on the monk's church on altmark-pur.eu ( memento of the original from February 6, 2013 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. , accessed May 24, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altmark-pur.eu

Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 11.2 ″  E