St. Andreas (Fulda-Neuenberg)

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St. Andreas (Fulda-Neuenberg)
Neuenberg; St. Andreas.JPG
place Fulda-Neuenberg
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Fulda
Patronage Andrew (apostle)
Construction year 1023
Construction type Hall church and former monastery church
function Parish church

St. Andreas is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Fulda district of Neuenberg in the eastern Hessian district of Fulda , which belongs to the diocese of Fulda . The current parish church emerged from the former monastery church of the Neuenberg monastery and is assigned to the Fulda deanery .

The church building is not far from Bardostraße ( B 254 ) at Andreasberg 5.

history

Location of Neuenberg (Neuoberg) on a map of the Fulda Monastery from 1574

The church of St. Andreas was built as a single-nave, cross-shaped church, 1020-1023 as a provost church - monastery church with transept , apse and crypt with wall paintings. The monastery church received a west tower .

When the Benedictine monastery was founded on the “New Mountains of St. Andreas “as a reform monastery by the Fulda abbot Richard von Amorbach († 1039) in front of the city of Fulda, the need for reform of the Fulda abbey was known even to Emperor Heinrich II , who was very concerned about the welfare of the church. He saw in the learned and pious reform abbot Richard von Amorbach a suitable abbot to bring the Fulda monastery back to order. So he urged the Fulda monks to elect the abbot. The monks submitted and elected Richard for the first time a foreign monk from the Amorbach monastery as their head.

Benetictine Reform Monastery

It can be assumed that Abbot Richard wanted to establish his own monastery for his task, from which he could carry out his reform work with a selected convent of monks. From the “New Mountains of St. Andreas “as a model monastery, a new impetus and a reformed way of life should emanate on Benedictineism and the entire life of the church.

In 1023 the completed church on the Neuenberg was consecrated by the Archbishop of Mainz Aribo .

The first chairman ( praepositus ~ provost ) was Bardo , a relative of the Empress Gisela, who was to become Archbishop of Mainz eight years later . Abbot Richard found his final resting place in St. Andrew. His grave has remained unchanged to this day and is the only abbot's grave in Fulda that dates from before 1700. The monastery housed around 25 monks in the first few years.

The Easter week of 1525 brought devastating destruction to the monastery, when revolting peasants from Swabia and Franconia pushed forward via Dipperz to Fulda during the peasant war . The devastation of the former Neuenberg monastery was so great that the displaced Benedictine monks never returned to their monastery.

The monastery church was able to exist and has not been destroyed to this day. After the dissolution of the monastery in the throes of a peasant war is still parish church of the same parish . The property of the monastery was preserved and formed the provost office of Andreasberg .

Modern times

The high altar 1647 by H. Klemp shows the martyrdom of St. Andreas
Interior view (2018)
The baroque pulpit by K.Ph. Arndt, 1767, with rococo ornaments

In the 17th century the church of St. Andrew was redesigned in the Baroque style. The nave was given large windows and the Romanesque beam ceiling was replaced by a stucco vault . The monastery church subsequently also serves the village as a parish church .

Until 1715 the community of Neuenberg belonged to the parish Haimbach , in 1715 it became a branch of the cathedral parish ; since 1939 it was curate and since 1962 parish . On April 1, 1939 Neuenberg was incorporated into the city of Fulda. Until then it belonged to the parish of the Fulda cathedral parish.

Late Romanesque frieze, in a niche on the right by the stairs to the crypt

crypt

In 1932 the old wall paintings of the Ottonian crypt were rediscovered and exposed during repair work. They show a liturgical procession of 22 angels towards the altar. On the east wall in the apse there are three small Romanesque windows with the reveals depicting the Old Testament figures Abel , Abraham and Melchizedek . Since early Christian times, these have been used as models for the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and the offering of the Eucharist .

Crypt of St. Andrew's Church (Fulda-Neuenberg) after 15 years of restoration

The Ottonian crypt of the monastery church is still in its original state under the provost church of St. Andreas. There are only two crypts with a closed sacred space and wall paintings in Germany that have been preserved from the Ottonian period. The crypt was consecrated again on February 3, 2006 after 15 years of analysis and restoration by Bishop Heinz Josef Algermissen .

Pastoral Association

The parish is one of the four Catholic parishes close to the center of the predominantly Catholic district town of Fulda. She belongs to the pastoral association St. Antonius von Padua Fulda-West in the dean's office in Fulda:

The current pastor of St. Markus acts as the moderator of the pastoral network. It's Pastor Markus Schneider.

Art in St. Andreas

The church of St. Andreas as an old monastery church is known for its modern sacred art objects , which come from the hand of the goldsmith Michael Amberg ( Würzburg ) and the Benedictine Lioba Munz , who lived in Fulda , among others . The latter was a master student with Elisabeth Treskow at the Cologne factory schools in 1958 .

These works of art include:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diocese of Fulda: deaneries, pastoral associations, parishes

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 8.4 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 42.8 ″  E