Monstrance (St. Peter and Paul, Ratingen)
The monstrance of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Ratingen is "the most important of the 14th century on the entire Rhine". The tower monstrance was created in 1394 and is the gift of Bruno de Duysborgh called Meens (d. 1411), who was pastor in Ratingen in 1394. Stylistically, it is related to the Gerresheimer Monstrance , which is ascribed to the same master. The Ratinger monstrance is still in use today and is carried during the Corpus Christi processions in the community.
description
The Ratinger Monstrance is 89 cm high and is made of gold-plated silver. An architecturally richly designed tower rises above one foot and is adorned with a total of 43 small, three-dimensional figurative representations.
The central part is the rock crystal display cylinder with a diameter of almost 8 cm and a height of 12.4 cm to accommodate the host. It is flanked by four buttresses with arches leaning against it, under each of which there is a young man with passion instruments. A trombone player can be seen on the outside of the buttress arches.
The multi-level attachment above the crystal cylinder can be removed to insert the host. Directly above the display vessel is a small crystal dome, around which the twelve apostles with their symbols stand under a canopy closed with latticework . Four pillars rest on it, each decorated with an additional musician. On the four sides of the second floor you can see the figures of the “ Patrone ” of the monstrance: St. Viktor (Clemen still identifies him as St. Gereon ), St. Catherine , St. Petrus and St. Helena . They stand under ornate canopies. Viktor and Helena are to be read as patrons of the Xanten cathedral as a reference to the founder Bruno de Duysborgh, who was also canon of the cathedral monastery in Xanten . On the next floor the Mother of God is enthroned with the child and a saint who cannot be identified with certainty. The top of the tower is crowned by a crucifix.
On the foot there is the inscription: BID BEFORE THE PRIEST DE DIT CLEYNOYT AL UP BEREYT GEGEVEN HEET DESER SYNRE KYRKEN TO RATINGHEN TER EREN DES HEYLEN SACRAMENTZ ANNO DOMINI MCCCXCIIII (Pray for the priest who loved to give this gem to his church in Rating Honor of the Holy Sacrament in the year of the Lord 1394).
Paul Clemen describes the monstrance in Die Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt und der Kreis Düsseldorf (1894):
“The high six-sided foot is pierced along the edge à jour with large round openings, each of the six leaves flared three times and with three pinned silver rosettes. The masterfully crafted six-sided essay shows a half-figure of a young man making music in the window openings under battlements separated by struts. The shaft invites to a round knob with four pastes , which are decorated with (again) glass rivers , around the knob a silver ribbon. The calyx base of the crystal cylinder is decorated with cut foliage , on the side of the cylinder four rich strut systems with arches leaning against it, under each of which stands a curly young man with the passion instruments. Outside each a trumpet-blowing youth. In the turrets twice a king, twice a royal maiden. The coronation rises on four floors. The twelve apostles with their symbols stand in a circle around the crystal dome above the lattice-finished canopy. On each of the four pillars of the top there is another young man making music. On the four sides of the first floor the figures of S. Gereon, S. Katharina, S. Petrus, S. Helena under protruding, richly decorated canopies. The essay rising in the richest architectural structure ends with a (renewed) crucifix . "
Web links
- Ratingen, monstrance at the Rheinische Bildarchiv with detailed recordings
literature
- Holger Guster: The Host Monstrances of the 13th and 14th Centuries in Europe. Dissertation University of Heidelberg , 2006, pp. 323–328, Fig. 6–8, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 16-opus-101797 .
- Hans Müskens: St. Peter and Paul in Ratingen. In: Festschrift for the reopening of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Ratingen , 1998, on the monstrance pp. 18–20 ( available online (PDF)).
- Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume. I. The art monuments of the city and the district of Düsseldorf. On behalf of the Provincial Association of the Rhine Province . Düsseldorf 1894, p. 159 ( available online at Archive.org )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Clemen (Ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz (1894), Vol. 3, p. 159.
- ↑ Holger Guster: The Host Monstrances of the 13th and 14th Centuries (2006), p. 325.
- ↑ For 621 years… Report on the website of the parish of St. Peter and Paul, 2015 (accessed on January 29, 2016).
- ↑ Hans Müskens: St. Peter and Paul in Ratingen (1998), p. 20