Martinikirche (Erfurt)

This article describes the outer martini church . The no longer existing church of the same name within the oldest city wall can be found under Inner Martinikirche (Erfurt) . A third Martinikirche in the Erfurt city area can be found under Martinikirche (Ilversgehofen) .

Martini Church

Martinskloster (2017)

The Martinikirche is a Catholic church in the west of the old town of Erfurt . Since January 1, 2017, it has been an independent parish of the newly founded Erfurt inner city parish St. Laurentius.

history

The Martinikirche was first mentioned in a document in 1248. In 1303 the church was transferred to the nearby monastery of the Cistercian Sisters.

In 1472 the church was destroyed in a fire, only the tower survived this event. The nave was partially rebuilt in the following period until 1483.

Between 1755 and 1758 the church was comprehensively rebuilt with the help of a foundation from the auxiliary bishop Johann Friedrich von Lasser and received a baroque interior. In 2001/02 the church was extensively renovated.

With its portals, the windows in the nave, a barrel vault , the image of the Annunciation, the Way of the Cross surrounding the side walls and the pulpit and high altar, the church has retained its baroque shape to this day.

Bells

In the tower there are still two old bells from 1419 and 1590. The bell, cast in 1419, has rare, art-historically significant carved bell drawings , which are honored in a work by the art historian Ingrid Schulze.

Exam

The four-wing two-storey enclosure on the west side of the church is also of Gothic origin. It was fundamentally rebuilt from 1726 to 1736. After secularization , it was converted into a Prussian barracks from 1818 to 1819 . At the southeast corner there is a baroque sandstone sculpture of Mary with child .

literature

• Dehio Association : Handbook of German Art Monuments: Thuringia. Arranged by Achim Hubel and Stephanie Eißing. German Kunstverlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-422-03050-6 , p. 332.
• Ulrich Simon: Erfurt, St. Martini extra muros. In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Regina E. Schwerdtfeger: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia (Germania Benedictina IV), St. Ottilien 2011, pp. 677–705

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St-Laurentius-Erfurt.de - St. Martini. Catholic parish of St. Laurentius Erfurt, accessed on October 24, 2018 . 
2. ^ Ingrid Schulze: Incised drawings by lay hands - drawings by medieval sculptors and painters? Figural bell scratch drawings from the late 13th century to around 1500 in central and northern Germany. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-939404-95-8

Web links

Commons : Martinikirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Parish website
• Site of the acolytes
• "Mariengarten" monastery. In: CISTOPEDIA - Encyclopædia Cisterciensis

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '24.4 "  N , 11 ° 1' 2.1"  E