Niedermünster Church

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Niedermünster Church

The Niedermünster Church in Regensburg , first built around 700, was the church of the former canonical monastery of the Niedermünster Imperial Abbey and today serves as the cathedral parish church.

Buildings and history

A first hall church of 10 by 23 meters was built around 700. The traveling bishop Erhard was buried inside on the north wall . Parts of the foundation walls are still preserved.

In the late 8th century, a slightly larger, single-nave successor building measuring 12 by 27 meters was built, which was probably built as the church of a newly founded monastery. It was probably made by Duke Tassilo III. founded by Bavaria (ruled 748–788).

Shortly before 955, the hall church was replaced by a much larger three-aisled basilica with a transept and three apses . It measured 21 by 48 meters and shared the north wall with the first church building. In 955 Duke Heinrich I of Bavaria and 985 his wife Judith were buried in this new building .

From around 1146 the Niedermünster Church was rebuilt in the Romanesque style. This building is still largely preserved today.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the church was modernized and equipped with important works of art. a. a monumental bronze crucifix and the mourning Magdalena by Georg Petel . The roof structure in its current form dates from the Baroque period. After secularization , the church became the property of Bavaria and has been used as the cathedral parish church in place of the St. Ulrich church since 1821 . During the Second World War, the cloister of the Niedermünster Church was badly damaged by bombs.

  • Photo-realistic reconstruction of the Palatinate Chapel built around 780 as a predecessor from the Carolingian era

  • Floor plan of the Romanesque basilica from around 1150

  • South view of the new Romanesque building from around 1150

  • western entrance hall from around 1150 with Romanesque components

  • the basilica from around 1150, which was newly decorated in the Baroque era

During excavations between 1963 and 1968, the foundations of Roman military buildings and the predecessor buildings of today's church from around 700 AD were uncovered. These can only be visited with a guide. The finds and virtual reconstructions will be made available to the public in the document niedermünster exhibition .

After storm damage in 2004, extensive renovation work was carried out on the roofing of the tower and nave from 2007 onwards.

The Niedermünster Church as the final resting place

The following people were buried in Niedermünster: St. Erhard , Blessed Albert von Cashel , Heinrich I of Bavaria , his wife Judith of Bavaria and their daughter-in-law Gisela of Burgundy , wife of Heinrich II the brawler .

  • Gothic grave canopy above the grave (around 710) of Wandering Bishop Erhardi on the north wall of the church

  • Erhardi shrine, relics of St. Erhard

  • the grave of Duchess Judith of Bavaria, discovered in 1963/68

Furnishing

literature

  • Peter Morsbach: Dompfarrkirche Niedermünster Regensburg (= Schnell Kunstführer 50), 1993 (2nd edition).
  • Eleonore Wintergerst: The Niedermünster in Regensburg. The development of the women's monastery in the early and high Middle Ages , In: Denkmalpflege in Regensburg 4 (1993/94), pp. 62–68.
  • Silvia Codreanu-Windauer : The early church in the diocese of Regensburg: considerations on the archaeological and written sources up to the end of the 8th century In: 1250 years of art and culture in the diocese of Regensburg. Munich, Zurich 1989, pp. 9–45, here catalog no. 14.

Web links

Commons : Stift Niedermünster (Regensburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bavariathek.bayern/ Wiederaufbau/orte/detail/regensburg/ 38
  2. ↑ For these excavations see Michaela Konrad : The excavations under the Niedermünster in Regensburg. So far 3 volumes, CH Beck, Munich 2005 ff. Michaela Konrad offers a summary of the excavations: From the Roman military camp to the medieval collegiate church. Archeology under the Niedermünster in Regensburg. In: AkademieAktuell. Issue 3/2006, pp. 38–44 ( PDF ).
  3. ↑ Renovation work on the Niedermünsterkirche should end before the onset of winter , online since November 7, 2007 at bistum-regensburg.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '10.3 "  N , 12 ° 6' 2.8"  E