St. Joseph and St. Maria Magdalena (Würzburg)

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Street front of the Reuer monastery, in front the church
Main facade of the Carmelite Church, completed in 1668 by Antonio Petrini

The Carmelite Church of St. Joseph and St. Maria Magdalena in Würzburg was built by Antonio Petrini from 1662 to 1669 . The cross-shaped baroque building with a well-structured facade is the monastery church of the Würzburg Carmelite monastery of St. Maria Magdalena . It was not until 1997 to 2001 that the church received new fittings to replace the one that was lost in World War II . Popularly it is still called Reuererkirche (locally "Reurerkirche").

history

The monastery church is located in the former Sandervorstadt. This was enclosed in the Würzburg city walls around 1200. The monastery of the penitentiary of St. Mary Magdalene is documented there in 1227. It went under during the Reformation in the middle of the 16th century. In 1627 the empty and run-down monastery was handed over to the Catholic Reform Order of the Discalced Carmelites , who had come to Würzburg at that time . The new church and convent could only be built after the Thirty Years' War . The monastery was completed in 1661, and in 1669 the Carmelite Church , the oldest baroque church in Franconia . A statue of Joseph on the eastern front of the monastery, made in 1655 according to the old-fashioned still picture scheme, was made by the Würzburg sculptor Gregor Diemeneck. The Latin inscription on the gable names Prince Bishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn and the city's citizens as donors.

Perhaps also, since the monastery was held by a Viennese bank, the monastery was not closed in 1803 and, like the three other mendicant orders in the city, was spared from secularization . On March 16, 1945 , the vaults of the church, which were still used as a public air raid shelter in 1944, were destroyed by bombs or firestorms , which burned the “by no means modest” furnishings (including altarpieces with altar panels by Johann Baptist Ruel , Oswald Onghers and Johann Christoph Storer ) almost complete. The building had been rebuilt by 1950 and was simply and provisionally furnished over the next few years. A popular altar was erected in 1967.

Refurbishment of the church began in 1976 and was not completed until 2001. The sculptor and painter Paul Nagel created the altar , ambo , ciborium , tabernacle and, with Alain Creunier, the large choir painting in a post-modern design language inspired by the Baroque . The monastery church is a cross-shaped wall pillar basilica with a strongly structured blind facade and a slender side choir tower with a square copper dome. With the monastery building, the monastery church is a protected monument with the file number D-6-63-000-516 of the BLfD.

Bells

In the church tower there are three bells with the tones g sharp, h and c sharp, a Te Deum motif. Bell 1 and 3 were cast by Karl Czudnochowsky in Erding in 1957. Bell 2 is a work by Spannagl in Regensburg in 1879.

literature

  • Martin Brandl: The Carmelite Church in Würzburg. Gerchsheim 2002. ISBN 3-934223-09-5 .
  • Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 616–619 and 622.

Web links

Commons : Reuererkloster (Würzburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 616 f.
  2. ↑ Jens Sobisch: CityTrip Würzburg. Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2nd edition 2017, p. 31.
  3. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, p. 623.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430–449 and 1303, here: pp. 430 and 435.
  5. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 196-289 and 1271-1290; here: p. 269, fig. 74.
  6. ↑ Stefan Kummer: Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. 2004, pp. 622 and 625 f.
  7. ↑ Illustration of ciborium and choir painting

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '18.1 "  N , 9 ° 55' 50"  E