St. Magnus Church (Beber)

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St. Magnus Church in Beber
Description text on the building
Church tower

The St. Magnus Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Beber (Lower Saxony).

history

The church was built between 1499 and 1516. During renovation work in 1957 it was found that the foundation walls of the current church are built on the walls of an earlier church.

description

The church is a single nave, fairly uniform late Gothic vaulted structure, consisting of two nave bays , which are adjoined by a strangely narrow choir bay, and a sacristy extension. In the 4.80 m² large vestibule hangs a crucifix , a Christ clad in a tunic (cf. Volto Santo von Lucca ), the date of which is put at the end of the 13th century and whose ancient image type and raw form gave rise to various misinterpretations. So it was called "holy sorrow " or as Duke Magnus II. Torquatus of Braunschweig Lüneburg .

The church is a listed building .

Magnus overburden

According to the local legend, the picture is supposed to represent St. Magnus, a knight whose castle was in the Süntel. Knight Magnus was wounded in a fight with the Normans in the Weser Valley and was taken prisoner. The knight's servants who had seen the master fall reported his death to the woman. The woman had four churches built in memory of her. After ten years, Magnus came out of captivity. Seeing his wife's devotion, he converted to Christianity. When he returned from a crusade , his wife had died. Magnus gave his goods to the four churches and lived as a hermit in the Süntel. One day he was found dead and carried his body lying on a wooden cross to the church in Beber, where he was buried. The legend, which is decorated several times, is obviously based on an attempt to explain the picture.

literature

  • Heinz Rudolf Rosemann (ed.): Reclam's art guide. Germany Volume 5. Lower Saxony, Hanseatic Cities, Schleswig-Holstein. Architectural monuments . Stuttgart 1967, ISBN 3-15-008473-3 .
  • Ernst Hegemann: On the iconography of Christ crucified in the belted tunic. In: Low German contributions to art history. 13, 1974, pp. 97-122, esp. Pp. 97-104.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Critically processed by Karl Sichart: St. Hulpe - On the interpretation of the Stedinger seal . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 44, Bremen 1955, pp. 66–67 and E. Hagemann (see lit.)
  2. ↑ On this misnomer see the main article Sankt Hulpe

Web links

Commons : St. Magnuskirche (Beber)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 52 ° 13 '26 "  N , 9 ° 22' 49"  E