St. Gertraud (Würzburg)

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Parish Church of St. Gertraud
St. Gertraud, right side altar

The parish church of St. Gertraud in the old town of Würzburg is located on Pleicherkirchplatz, the central square in the Pleich quarter north of the Julius promenade and west of the Juliusspital . It was built in the 12th century and is a protected monument with the file number D-6-63-000-429 of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

history

St. Gertraud was built around 1130 by the bridge, cathedral and town builder Enzelin as a separate church in the northern suburb of Pleich and raised to parish church by Bishop Embricho in 1133 . In 1248 the patronage was transferred to the St. Mark's convent assigned to the Dominican Order in 1246 (cf. Adrian von Nikomedien # memorials ), also known as St. Marx. The Gothic choir was consecrated in 1250. From 1611 to 1613, the church was rebuilt in its present form under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter .

Saint Gertrude , abbess of the Nivelles monastery , is the church patroness. Gertrud's extraordinary zeal in caring for the sick, widows, pilgrims and prisoners made her the special patroness of hospitals that often bore her name in the Middle Ages. The patronage is on March 17th.

Description of the monument

construction

St. Gertraud is a hall church with a gable roof and a recessed 5/8 choir, it has a protruding square west tower with a pointed helmet. The height of the tower is around 35 meters. The plaster masonry has sandstone frames and window tracery in the so-called post-Gothic style (so-called real Gothic or Julius style). The nave is flat-roofed and has four window axes with pointed arch windows. The sacristy is north of the choir. The church was built in 1612, after war damage in 1945 it was rebuilt until 1950. The church's furnishings are also listed.

Mount of Olives

Outside the church building there is a mount of olives on the south-west side; it is a single-storey monopitch roof extension with a basket arch opening and set figures made of sandstone. They come from the Renaissance; Jörg Riemenschneider created them in the middle of the 16th century.

inner space

Special works of art are the crucifix by Julius Bausenwein and various gravestones (including a grave slab for the councilor Hans Schiler, also known as Johann Schiller, who died in 1492, and his wife Elisabeth, who died in 1487, around 1485/90 and the epitaph for Kilian Baiß († 1531), probably from Jörg Riemenschneider).

From 1978 on, the remains of the shrine with the “Holy Body” of the martyr Adrianus, who fell victim to the fire in 1945, were kept in a small reliquary. After an eventful history behind them, the bones of the saint were recast in 1806 by the citizens of Pleich and placed in St. Gertraud.

Peal

The church has a four-part major bell with the tones e ′, f sharp ′, g sharp ′ and h ′. It was cast by the Schilling company in Heidelberg in 1956.

  • Tower with entrance

  • Entrance portal

  • Commemoration of the war destruction

  • Mount of Olives scene by Jörg Riemenschneider

  • Tracery windows

  • Interior with a view of the apse

Parish community

The church of St. Gertraud belongs to the parish community of Würzburg city center. The community has existed since January 10, 2010. In addition to the parish of St. Gertraud, the parishes are the cathedral parish (churches: Dom and Neumünster), the parish of St. Johannes in Stift Haug (church: St. Johannes in Stift Haug) and the parish of St. Peter and Paul (churches: St. Peter and Paul and Hofkirche).

Web links

Commons : St. Gertraud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 .
  • Felix Mader: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria. Volume XII, Ed .: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich / Vienna, Würzburg 1915, p. 196 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Schmolinksy: Maria Magdalena or Katharina as patrons of Dominican convents. and Klaus-Bernward Springer: Paulus, Maria, Johannes, Maria Magdalena and Katharina von Alexandrien. Models for Comtemplation and Apostolate. In: Sabine von Heusinger, Elias H. Füllenbach, Walter Senner, Klaus-Bernward Springer (eds.): The German Dominicans in the Middle Ages. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-046867-0 , p. 429 ff. And 443 ff., Here: p. 431 and p. 456.
  2. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Folk culture and everyday life. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1 (2001): From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasants' War. ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 , pp. 491-514 and 661-665, here: p. 497.
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999. p. 1167.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Brückner: Church-influenced lifestyles in the 19th and 20th centuries (1840–1950) . In: Lower Franconian History . Edited by Peter Kolb and Ernst-Günter Krenig, Volume 5/2, Echter-Verlag, Würzburg 2002, pp. 107–148; P. 127

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 51.7 "  N , 9 ° 55 ′ 39.2"  E