St. Benedikti (Quedlinburg)

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St. Benedikti, view from the west
inside view
High altar from 1700

The Market Church St. Benedikti is a church building of the Evangelical church in Quedlinburg .

Building history

The market church of St. Benedikti, preserved as a hall church with octagonal pillars and a late Gothic choir from the 15th century, was first mentioned in a document in 1233, but is much older as it was consecrated as early as 1173 and still shows Romanesque remains. There is a bricked-up Romanesque window in the south aisle , and Romanesque windows have also been preserved in the tower.

The two west towers of the market church have different heights. While the north tower still rises 60 m, as it was originally, the south tower is a few meters lower due to the fire. Both towers burned down on April 29, 1901, including the tower house, but were later rebuilt true to the original. The tower level of the former tower house has been accessible again for several years and offers a panoramic view of the old town to the east, south and west.

The church is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

Furnishing

Mary Altar (1480)
Vespers altar around 1500

The pulpit was built in 1595 by the v. Stamer donated. The font dates from 1648. The high altar from 1700, which focuses on the Easter event, was made by the Braunschweig sculptor Joachim Querfurt based on a design by the mathematics professor Leonhard Christoph Sturm from Wolfenbüttel . In the south aisle there is a late Gothic winged altar (around 1500). The central eye-catcher in the central shrine are the almost life-size figures of the Pietà (mourning Mary with the dead Jesus), St. Benedict and St. Nicholas .

In the Kalandskapelle located in the eastern part of the north aisle there are several interesting tombstones, pictures of pastors and a late Gothic altar of Mary (around 1480). The name of the chapel is derived from the benevolent order of the Middle Ages Kaland , whose members always met here on the first day of the month (Roman: the Kalends ).

organ

The organ

The existence of an organ in St. Benedikti is first mentioned around the year 1510. For the great anniversary of the Reformation in 1717, there then apparently existed two organs that were coordinated and could make music together; the larger of the two instruments had 2,928 pipes and was comparable to the Silbermann organ in the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the cathedral organ in Freiberg Cathedral. In 1834 this instrument was replaced by a new building.

Today's organ was built in 1888 by the Ernst Röver organ building company in Hausneindorf as Op. 10 created. The instrument is largely original. In 1917 the tin prospect pipes had to be handed in for war purposes; they were later replaced by zinc replicas. In the 1950s and 1960s, 5 stops of the breastworks (II. Manual) were changed (baroque) in line with the "organ movement". The instrument has 51 stops (3,310 pipes ) and a transmission on box drawers, divided into three manual movements and a pedal . The playing and stop actions are pneumatic. Behind the organ is the large, originally preserved bellows; it is supplied with wind by a later added wind motor in a side chamber. The console is free, in the middle in front of the organ; the organist looks at the altar.

From October 2018 to June 2020, the organ was completely restored by the organ building company Jehmlich. The modified registers of the second manual were recreated from the historical original. The inauguration took place on June 13 and 14, 2020.

I Hauptwerk C – g³
01. Principal 16 ′
02. Drone 16 ′
03. Principal 08th'
04th Gamba 08th'
05. Gemshorn 08th'
06th Hollow flute 08th'
07th Dumped 08th'
08th. octave 04 ′
09. Harmony flute 0 04 ′
10. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. octave 02 ′
12. Mixture IV
13. Scharff III
14th Cornett IV
15th Trumpet 16 ′
16. Trumpet 08th'
II breastwork C-g³
17th Bourdon 16´ n
18th Principal 08th'
19th Reed flute 08th'
20th Salicional 08th n
21st Dumped 08th
22nd Transverse flute 0 04´
23. octave 04´
24. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ´ n
25th octave 02´ n
26th Mixture IV
27. clarinet 08th n
III Oberwerk C-g³
28. Lovely Gedackt 0 16 ′
29 Violin principal 08th'
30th Distance flute 08th'
31. violin 08th'
32. Aeoline 08th'
33. Vox Celeste 08th'
34. octave 04 ′
35. Soft flute 04 ′
36. Forest flute 02 ′
37. Mixture III
Pedal C – f 1
38. Pedestal 32 ′
39. Principal 16 ′
40. Violon 16 ′
41. Sub bass 16 ′
42. Gedacktbass (= No. 28) 0 16 ′
43. Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
44. Octave bass 08th'
45. Flute bass 08th'
46. Dacked bass 08th'
47. cello 08th'
48. octave 04 ′
49. Cornett III
50. trombone 16 ′
51. Trumpet 08th'
52. Clairon 04 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids: Fixed combinations (pp, p, mf, f, ff, tutti, coupling off)
  • Remarks:
n = Register reconstructed in the course of the last restoration according to the original disposition (after changes in the 1950s / 1960s)
  1. ↑ In the meantime converted to Waldflöte 2 '.
  2. ↑ In the meantime rebuilt to fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ´.
  3. ↑ In the meantime rebuilt to a third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ´.
  4. ↑ In the meantime converted to Sifflute 1´.
  5. ↑ In the meantime rebuilt to Nasard 1 1 ⁄ 3  ´.

Bell jar

The only remaining church bell in the church is called the baptismal bell and is consecrated to Our Lady . The bell, which weighs almost two tons, was cast in the 13th century and bears the English greeting in the form of a fine incised majusc inscription on its shoulder . A relief of the enthroned Mother of God with the Christ Child is cast on the flank.

The empty chair compartment and the yoke inside are the rest of what was once the largest bell. This was cast in 1708 by Christian Ludewig Meyer from Braunschweig, but was already a second casting of a bell from 1304. With a diameter of 2.26 meters, it was one of the largest bells in Central Germany.

Others

Renaissance epitaph of Baron Heinrich von Bortfeld (1576)

Between 1711 and 1714, the composer Gottfried Kirchhoff worked as organist in the church, under the director musices Christian Friedrich Rolle (1709-1721). From 1757 to 1764 the later well-known educator Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz was pastor of the Benedictine Church . Later, Johann Heinrich Fritsch (* 1772; † 1829) worked as chief preacher and superintendent at the church , who wrote the first complete chronicle of Quedlinburg's history of the former imperial monastery and the city of Quedlinburg in 1828.

Thanks to the sponsorship of a Belgian gas company, the Marktkirche has been illuminated at night since June 2009. Small tours of the church and tower are possible every day. The roof and attic of the church are designated as fauna and flora habitats (FFH) for the large mouse-eared bats .

To the north of the church is the last remnant of the grave complex of the former market cemetery , Goetzsche Mausoleum , which was built in 1726 . At times, the house , located further north, at Breite Straße 18, served as the parish rectory . The community school for boys was located in Marktkirchhof 16 .

Pastor

  • 1539–1545: Andreas Ernst
  • 154? –1565: Johann Majus
  • 1565–1570: Johann Regius
  • 1571–1577: Johann Brendelin
  • 1577–1598: Bartholomäus Bertram
  • 1598–1612: Andreas Brand
  • 1612-1635: Martin Titius
  • 1635–1646: Andreas Freytag
  • 1647–1656: Johann Höfer
  • 1657–1661: Daniel Heimburger
  • 1662–1684: Jacob Nicolaus Röser
  • 1684–1689: Jakob Roeser
  • 1690–1698: Seth Calvisius II.
  • 1699–1701: Gerhard Meyer
  • 1703–1722: Friedrich Ernst Kettner
  • 1723–1733: Joachim Quenstedt
  • 1734–1749: Johann Röttger Himme
  • 1749–1757: Heinrich Meene
  • 1757–1767: Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz
  • 1767–1769: Johann Gottlieb Lindau
  • 1769–1794: Georg Christoph Hallensleben
  • 1795–1804: Wilhelm Christoph Besser
  • 1804–1829: Johann Heinrich Fritsch
  • 1830–1850: Wilhelm Schmidt
  • 1851–1867: Ferdinand Heinisch
  • 1868–1872: Anton Schmidt
  • 1873–1905: Johann Martin Gottfried Ludwig Busch
  • 1906–1927: Wilhelm Koch
  • 1928–1947: Hans von Stein
  • 1933 united as the first parish of St. Blasii-Benedikti
  • 1948–1971: Friedrich Caesar

literature

  • Antje Diener-Staeckling: Heaven above the council. On the symbolism of the council election in central German cities , Halle / Saale 2008 (= Studies on State History, Vol. 19).
  • Joachim Wolf: The market church St. Benedikti in Quedlinburg. Published by the Evangelical Church Community of St. Blasii-Benedikti Quedlinburg in conjunction with the Rhenish Association for the Preservation of Monuments and Landscape Protection. RVDL u. a., Cologne a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-88094-543-8 .
  • Joachim Wolf: Quedlinburg - Market Church St. Benedikti. UNESCO World Heritage. (Photos by Gregor Peda; Ed. Christina Pfeffer). Kunstverlag Peda , Passau 2005, ISBN 3-89643-598-1 ( Peda art guide 598).

Web links

Commons : St. Benedikti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Additional information on the story
  2. ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Quedlinburg Music Summer website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.quedlinburger-musiksommer.de
  3. ↑ Mart Church :: Ev. Quedlinburg parish. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ C. Senula: Expansion of industrial u. Magdeburger Strasse industrial estate. Quedlinburg 2010, p. 44 (PDF; 842 KB)
  5. ^ Hans Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, half-timbered town, world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 34
  6. ^ Hans-Hartmut Schauer, Quedlinburg, specialist workshop / world cultural heritage , Verlag Bauwesen Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-345-00676-6 , page 81

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 24.9 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 32.2 ″  E