St. Johannes Evangelist (Marburg)

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St. Johannes Evangelist (Marburg)
Kugelkirche 2.jpg
The spherical church
place Marburg
Denomination Roman Catholic
diocese Diocese of Fulda
Patronage John the Evangelist
Construction year from 1492/95 to around 1520
Construction type Hall church
function Parish church - former monastery church
Interior with high altar
Reticulated vault and organ

The Sankt Johannes Evangelist church , also called Kugelkirche , is a Catholic parish church in Marburg . It is located in the upper town and is the youngest medieval religious building in Marburg.

history

The construction of the Kugelkirche began in 1492/95 and was finished around 1520. The building belongs to the former monastery of the Kugelherren, who belonged to the community of Brothers of Common Life . The name of the church ( Kugelkirche ) and the name of the street in which it stands (Kugelgasse) are derived from the headgear of the brothers. They wore a long-pointed hat called a " Gugel ". After the abbey was dissolved in 1527, the church was bequeathed to the newly founded Marburg University. After that it was used temporarily as an auditorium or as a lecture hall by the theological faculty. It has been owned by the Catholic parish since 1827 and is used by them as a parish church. In 1967 a fundamental restoration was carried out, in which the choir room was redesigned in order to adapt it to the changed liturgical needs resulting from the liturgical reform.

architecture

The spherical church is a single-nave building with six bays , five-eighth end and a transept to the west . The two western bays have lower side rooms, as they were changed inside by galleries at the end of the 19th century. The north side of the church has no windows, but the large windows on the south side and the choir create a bright, light-filled room and have tracery windows that are broken up in the late Gothic style .

The rich network vault from 1516 rests on thin services in front of the wall . The net vault between the vault ribs is decorated with Gothic frescoes in the form of radiant wreaths and foliage. The thin services lead in the nave to below the window sills, where they end with a smooth slope. In the choir, on the other hand, they lead down to a plinth, but here too they do not act as a support, but rather as a wall structure. The ribs cross in the capital zone, run in the wall and thus do not sit on consoles or services. After the first third of its total length, the belt arch splits into two arms, each of which strives towards the keystone on the side . The intersecting ribs and the splitting belt arches create a series of intersections that form the network vault. The keystones are adorned with coats of arms and partially stylized or naturalistic tendrils.

Furnishing

The wall tabernacle a few meters high on the north wall

A late Gothic painting from 1516 covers the intersections of the vault with floral-ornamental lines. On the north side there is a large tabernacle in the form of a delicately openwork, Gothic spire. A neo-Gothic high altar dates from the end of the 19th century and features a Marian program, the wooden figures of which are partly late Gothic and date to the end of the 15th century. There is also a neo-Gothic Elizabeth altar under the gallery. The font is made up of rich, neo-Gothic shapes.

organ

The organ of the Kugelkirche was built in 1976 by the organ builder Gerald Woehl (Marburg). The purely mechanical instrument has 38 registers on 4 manuals and a pedal . A special feature of this instrument is that the main work does not contain any trumpets, but rather the appropriate registers have been “outsourced” in the IV. Manual “Trompeteria”.

I upper unit C–
1. Reed flute 8th'
2. Viol 8th'
3. Voce celeste 8th'
4th Principal 4 ′
5. Transverse flute 4 ′
6th octave 2 ′
7th Sesquialtera II 2 23
8th. Larigot 1 13
9. Sharp IV
10. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II main work C–
11. Drone 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Beat 8th'
14th octave 4 ′
15th flute 4 ′
16. Fifth 2 23
17th octave 2 ′
18th Fifth 1 13
19th octave 1'
20th Mixture IV
21st Vox Humana 8th'
Tremulant
III breastwork C–
22nd Dumped 8th'
23. Reed flute 4 ′
24. Nasard 2 23
25th Flageolet 2 ′
26th third 1 35
27. Sif flute 1'
IV Trumpeteria C–
28. Trumpet 8th'
29 Trumpet 4 ′
30th Trumpet treble 8th'
31. Trumpet bass 4 ′
32. Cornett V treble 8th'
Pedal C–
33. Sub bass 16 ′
34. Principal 8th'
35. octave 4 ′
36. Mixture VI
37. trombone 16 ′
38. Trumpet 8th'
  • Coupling I / II, III / II, IV / II, I / P, II / P, III / P, IV / P
  • Playing aids shut-off valves (Hauptwerk, pedal)

Picture gallery

literature

  • Joseph Boymann: Marburg as a city of art . Marburg 1924, pp. 38-40
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Hessen I, administrative districts of Giessen and Kassel. Munich and Berlin 2008, p. 625
  • Rainer Kieselbach and Klaus Laaser (eds.): Marburg . Marburg 2001
  • Katrin Petter: Kugelkirche (Catholic parish church) and Kugelkloster (institute building) , in: Marburg. Architecture Guide, ed. by Ellen Kemp

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the parish of St. Johannes Evangelist on www.st-johannes-marburg.de
  2. On the disposition of the organ of the Kugelkirche ( Memento from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : St. Johannes Evangelist (Marburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 30.5 ″  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 58.4 ″  E