Naumburg Madonna
The Naumburg Madonna is a Gothic Madonna statue on or in the Catholic town church St. Crescentius in the city of Naumburg in the Kassel district in northern Hesse .
The construction of the parish church of St. Crescentius, a two- bay , three-nave Gothic pseudo-basilica , began in the 14th century. The nave was extended around 1420/30 and the tower was completed in 1512. After the great city fire on July 9, 1684, which largely destroyed the church, the building was renewed in its current form and consecrated in 1692 . A change of patron saint may have taken place: before 1692 the church was probably consecrated to Saint Mary , as the Naumburg Madonna suggests.
The typically Gothic statue made of light sandstone was created around 1340 by a no longer known sculptor and stonemason . It is unclear whether the artist came from the area or traveled to Naumburg specifically to work; the sculpture does not show any stonemason marks that would suggest him. The Madonna holds the baby Jesus on her left arm at shoulder height and the child holds a bird in her hands. The statue originally stood on a console 3 m high on a buttress on the south exterior of the church. Today the original is inside the church, and a copy is in the original place on the outer facade.
Web links
literature
- Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck. Bernecker, Melsungen, 1971, p. 89.
- Friedrich Bleibaum (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the Kassel administrative district, New Series Volume 1, Wolfhagen district, Marburg, 1937
- Georg Ulrich Großmann & Katharina Hoppe: DuMont Art Guide Northern Hesse , DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 1991, ISBN 978-3-77011-874-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ EcoPfad Archeology Naumburg: The parish church of St. Crescentius
- ↑ Bleibaum, p. 117; Großmann & Hoppe, p. 219, name the third quarter of the 14th century