Marienkapelle (Bamberg)

Former Lady Chapel

The Marienkapelle in Bamberg is a church building on Judenstrasse. This building was rebuilt in place of the razed synagogue . The Lady Chapel was secularized in 1803 . The purpose-built building was used as a house of worship from 1946 to 2008 by the Bamberg Baptist Congregation under the name of Christ Church as a community center.

Because of its past, the Marienkapelle is also popularly known as the Judenkapelle .

history

In the square of the streets Schrannenplatz / Lugbank / Pfahlplätze / Balthasargäßchen / Judenstraße was the first demonstrable settlement of Jewish residents in Bamberg. The Jewish school and the synagogue were located in this construction area. When the latter was built cannot currently be determined.

Probably with the persecution and expulsion of the Jews in 1348 under the bishop of Bamberg Friedrich I von Hohenlohe , the predecessor building ended as a synagogue. However, it was only in 1428 that this building was first mentioned as the “Our Lady Chapel”. In 1502 Hartmann Schedel noted in a prayer book written in Hebrew that he had acquired from the Dominicans that it had been found in the synagogue.

Before 1470 canon Johann Marschalk von Ebneth had the outdated former synagogue replaced by a new building, which Auxiliary Bishop Johann Goldener consecrated on July 2, 1470. However, it is currently not clear how much of the synagogue's structural fabric is still preserved in the existing building. In the course of the 18th century the chapel was redesigned in Baroque style. On October 1, 1803, the service was stopped and the inventory was sold. The chapel then came into the possession of the collector Paul Bundle , who used it as a storage room. In 1832, the city of Bamberg acquired the building and set up an apartment for the caretaker on the top floor . A gymnasium was set up in the chapel room in 1876 and was used well into the 20th century. In 1946, the US site administration Bamberg used the chapel as a Protestant church. In 1951, the city of Bamberg sold the chapel to the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (Baptists), which still owns it.

After the Baptist congregation on the outskirts of Bamberg inaugurated a new congregation center in 2008, the building is again for sale.

Transferred cultural asset

The altar piece Maria in the ear dress , which was originally in the chapel, later went to the Martin von Reider collection in Bamberg. In 1859 it was taken over by the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. Altar leaves with the same motif are in the Upper Parish and in the Historical Museum in the old court of Bamberg .

literature

The art monuments of Bavaria: Bamberg-bourgeois mountain town , page 335ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maria in the ear dress, unknown artist. Retrieved October 6, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '24 "  N , 10 ° 53' 8"  E