Peterhof Chapel
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The Peterhof Chapel , also known as the Holy Cross Chapel , is part of the Peterhof , which was built from 1492 and was the Freiburg city quarter of the St. Peter Monastery in the Black Forest . This building complex is also the oldest building at the University of Freiburg .
history
The chapel was built by the monks towards the end of the 16th century and is only accessible from inside the building, as it was only intended as a place of prayer for the monks. The name of the builder is not known, the construction shows a mixture of late Gothic and a simply laid out Renaissance . Despite a major renovation in 1731, the interior of the chapel was preserved, a rare example of mannerism . The master of stucco decoration was possibly the Herrenberg resident Wendel Nufer or Neufferer, who designed the similar stucco work in the St. Luzen monastery church in Hechingen . The statement that the sculptor Julius Seitz , together with Franz Xaver Kraus, “carried out the furnishings , produced sculptures and stucco work and renewed the paintings with the help of the painter Ambros Müller ”, is to be understood as restoration, not the creation of new sculptures and stucco.
The Peterhof was largely destroyed in World War II, but thanks to the old iron door, which is still in use today, the chapel was only damaged. The entire building complex including the chapel was rebuilt in the 1950s, with the outside being restored in baroque form. According to the art historian Frank Löbbecke, it is “today the most beautiful Renaissance building in Freiburg”.
In addition to the chapel, there are still lecture halls in the building today. On Trinity Day in 1960 , the Peterhof Chapel was handed over to the Russian Orthodox and Romanian Orthodox congregations by Bernhard Welte , the dean of the theological faculty .
The iconostasis and the church utensils were purchased through a donation from the Evangelical Church. The icons of the iconostasis were made by the Romanian artist Corina Sombart († 1970) between 1960 and 1964.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Roman Janssen: Two Renaissance artists: Hans Ulrich Alt and Wendel Nufer. in: Roman Janssen and Oliver Auge (eds.): Herrenberger personalities from eight centuries. Herrenberger historical writings volume 6. City of Herrenberg 1999.
- ↑ Dagmar Zimdars: Handbook of German art monuments, Baden-Wurttemberg II, the administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 224 and 286.
- ^ Michael Klant: Artist Prince in the Province. The sculptor Julius Seitz . In: Sculpture in Freiburg. 19th century art in public spaces, ed. v. Michael Klant, Freiburg 2000, ISBN 3-922675-77-8 , p. 183
- ^ AE Völker: Julius Seitz, the Freiburg sculptor and his work. In: Badische Heimat. Ekkhart yearbook for the Badner Land 1962, pp. 121–130.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 7 ° 50 ′ 51.5 ″ E