St. Kornelius (Kornelimünster)

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Provost church of St. Cornelius, view from the southeast
Provost church of St. Kornelius, view from the northeast

The provost church of St. Kornelius in Kornelimünster , a district of Aachen , is a church building of the Roman Catholic Church in the diocese of Aachen . The church is dedicated to Saint Cornelius , who was Pope from 251 to 253 . Originally it was the monastery church of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster . The Christ relics kept in it made it the destination of numerous pilgrimages, especially during the Kornelimünster sanctuary that takes place every seven years . After secularization in the Napoleonic period , it became the parish church of the parish of Kornelimünster. It also remained a pilgrimage church and the destination of the sanctuary tour that takes place every seven years.

The church is a five-nave basilica and is one of the most important buildings in Rhenish architecture. The first building from the Carolingian period was replaced by a larger building in the Ottonian period, which was rebuilt in the Gothic style in the 13th and 14th centuries . In the 15th century there was an extension to two southern aisles, and in the 16th century an extension to two northern aisles. In the 18th century, the Cornelius Chapel was added as an extension of the choir .

history

Construction phase plan of the provost church by Leo Hugot

Originally built as a monastery church, St. Cornelius increasingly became a pilgrimage church due to the relics kept and venerated there . This dual function and the associated alterations and expansions can be used to explain some structural features such as the asymmetrical floor plan and the different heights of the aisles in the north and south.

The shape of the destroyed previous buildings is known from two archaeological excavations in the years 1886–1889 and 1960–1967. The reason for the excavation in the 19th century was the search for the grave of the founder and first abbot of Kornelimünster, Benedict von Aniane . It took place under the direction of the pastor of the Aachen penal institution. The excavation in the 1960s was led by the later Aachen cathedral master builder Leo Hugot , who at that time was the site manager at the Aachen cathedral construction works.

Carolingian predecessor building

When the "Inde Monastery" (approx. 814–817) was founded by Ludwig the Pious , the first monastery church was built and consecrated in 817 in the presence of the emperor . It was a three-aisled basilica with a length of 26 meters and a width of 12 meters. Her three ships were almost the same width, with the nave being a total of 10.7 meters wide and 9.22 meters long. The wall thickness was between 0.7 and 0.9 meters. The floor was 0.71 meters lower than it is today. The church already had the same orientation as the current building. In the east of the transept , as a continuation of the central nave, the choir with apse and two side apses , which probably had domed roofs , was connected. A rood screen provided the spatial separation of the choir and the nave . In the west, a westwork with three square rooms and extensions connected the central nave with the adjoining monastery buildings. Its open, hall-like ground floor served as a place for court hearings and burials. Apparently it was also intended as a burial place for the imperial couple, because a double burial site from the Carolingian era was found there. On the south side of the transept, a rectangular building was added as a martyrdom in the second half of the 9th century, in which relics of martyrs were kept.

Romanesque basilica

After the church and monastery were destroyed in the Norman invasions in 881 and 892, at the end of the 10th century under Otto III. a new building of the church as a three-aisled, Romanesque pillar basilica with a two-storey west building . The flat wooden ceiling of the building was supported by square pillars with a side length of 0.8 meters. At the beginning of the 13th century, martyrdom was laid down to make way for a single-nave pilgrim church with a separate entrance on the south side. Aachen citizens damaged this ensemble in 1310 in a feud between the city of Aachen and Gerhard V , Count of Jülich . This was not only Vogt of Aachen, but also Vogt of the abbey , which had supported him in the fight against the Aacheners. However, the damage to the monastery does not seem to have been too great, as the city later only had to pay a relatively small amount of compensation. Of the abbey church, only the west building was affected, the reconstruction of which resulted in a now closed ground floor and a west facade made of bluestone .

Gothic conversion

From the beginning of the 14th century, the church interior was fundamentally redesigned by adding a choir in the high Gothic style with a 5/8 end and tracery windows. The end of the construction work can be dated to the second half of the 14th century. A century earlier, in the second half of the 13th century, the battlement cornice, arches and cliffs of the central nave had been renewed in the Gothic style.

In the 1360s / 1370s a fire broke out in the monastery, which destroyed the abbey and church down to the foundations . During the reconstruction, which began shortly afterwards, Abbot Johann II of Levendael (also spelled Löwendael) or Winrich II of Kintsweiler had a new two-aisled church built in place of the previous, single-nave pilgrim church, which now also had a direct connection to the convent church via arches. The current columns in the south aisle of St. Cornelius are remnants of this building.

South and North extensions

Abbot Heribert von Lülsdorf began redesigning the church around the middle of the 15th century: the two south aisles that served as pilgrims' churches were rebuilt. A keystone in the outer south aisle shows the year 1470 and thus announces the end of the construction work. At the same time, the previously flat ceiling of the central nave was replaced by a ribbed vault . For this purpose, half-columns were placed on the square Romanesque pillars as arch supports. In the first half of the 16th century, the west building received an extension on the north side and a vaulted ceiling on the ground floor. The two north aisles of the church date from the same period. They were probably during the tenure of Abbot Heinrich III. von Binsfeld (1491–1531) erected. This is indicated by his coat of arms on the door of the so-called abbot at the western end of the outer north nave. Galleries were added to the choirs of the two north aisles - together with the choir of the central nave - in the 17th century , which were used for the public display of the sanctuaries kept in the church.

Baroque remodeling and expansion

Illustration of the Reich Abstei including the monastery church in Codex Welser

Under Abbot Hermann von Eynatten , who headed the monastery from 1620 to 1645, St. Cornelius received an interior in the Baroque style . The high altar , the Benedictine altar in the choir of the inner north aisle and some paintings are still preserved from that time . By 1706, the choir of the central nave received an eastern extension in the form of the octagonal Cornelius Chapel, which was consecrated in 1708 at the behest of Abbot Rüdiger von Neuhoff called Ley. In order to be able to realize this extension, the central window of the Gothic choir had to be walled up. In the second half of the 18th century, the interior was changed again, this time in the Rococo style. The builder Johann Joseph Couven from Aachen provided the designs . The decor of the main altar, the communion pews and the case of the organ date from that time.

Time as a parish church

After the monastery was secularized by Napoleon's decree in 1802 and the last monks left the monastery in August of the same year, St. Kornelius became the parish church of Kornelimünster. In the 1830s, the first extensive restorations took place on the church. Among other things, the old roof construction was changed in order to combine the central and inner north aisles under one roof with a ridge turret. In the 1880s, excavations followed, which exposed the foundations of the previous buildings, before in the period from 1896 to 1899 (with a temporary interruption) the Cornelius Chapel was renewed for over 11,000 marks and thus saved from the previously planned demolition. The window glazing was partially reconstructed based on a historical model. In the 1930s, ceiling paintings in neo-Gothic style were applied to the whitewash applied in the baroque period in the central nave . For a long time, research assumed that this decoration was the late medieval original painting, but during restorations in 2013 the actual neo-Gothic painting was found behind the current one. Restoration work also took place in the church in the 1970s. Among other things, the vault paintings in the west building were exposed and today's church windows were installed.

description

location

The provost church of St. Kornelius stands in the middle of the historic center of Kornelimünster, which lies in a loop of the Inde river , on an approximately 100 meter wide flat strip of land between the river and a ridge on which the cemetery and the St. Stephanus mountain church are located. St. Cornelius is indeed faces east , but the central axis deviates from the exact east direction by about 15 ° to the north. To the west of the church are the buildings of the former imperial abbey Kornelimünster, to the east the church is surrounded by a large square.

Exterior

St. Cornelius in 1912, view from the south

The church owes its appearance to its longstanding dual function as a monastery and pilgrimage church. From the outside as well as inside it gives an essentially Gothic impression. However, it still contains parts of the earlier Romanesque basilica, which in turn replaced a Carolingian previous building. The church consists of a central nave with two north and two south aisles. Its western end is formed by a two-storey western building. At the eastern end of all aisles, choirs have been built, some of which have galleries on the outside. The choir of the central nave protrudes furthest to the east. To the east is the octagonal Cornelius Chapel in the strict Maasland Baroque style with two rows of rectangular windows and ox eyes above . Its masonry parapet with a final wrought iron grille conceals the dome of the chapel , so that from the outside only the lantern with the crowning statue of Cornelius can be seen.

The masonry , which was plastered on the outside in the Baroque period, is now visible as stone, so that the different building materials can be seen very well. The walls of the Südschiffe and the choir circuit made of light brown dolomite - Crushed stone while arrived at the North ships blue stone blocks used. It is noticeable that the heads of the buttresses were made of red sandstone . The tracery of the choir was renewed from Weiberner tuff in the 1860s . The west building is clad with blue stone blocks and has windows whose tracery made of Ettringer tuff is a modern replacement for its predecessor. The Cornelius Chapel is made of brick and has corner blocks as well as cornices and window frames made of bluestone.

The church can be entered via two entrances on the north and south side, whereby the southern entrance door was the former main entrance for the pilgrims. The entrance portal is flanked by the statues of Saints Cornelius and Cyprianus .

Interior

Layout

St. Kornelius has a clear width of about 51 × 42 meters. The flooring consists of bluestone tiles. In the nave and in the choir, they have different light colors and are laid in a diagonal checkerboard pattern. The glazing of the church windows all date from the 19th and 20th centuries, because the glass in the monastery church was removed after the secularization. Many of today's windows were made between 1971 and 1976 by Wilhelm Buschulte and the Cologne glass painter Franz Pauli . Only in the Cornelius Chapel is there still some original glazing from the 18th century.

West building

Organ on the gallery in the west building

The middle room of the west building is now used by the parish as a weekday church. The main portal was located in its east wall until the 13th century. In front of it, the archaeologically proven Carolingian double grave complex is marked by two plates in the ground. Brick bench seats are a reminder of the former use of the ground floor as a courtroom. A door from around 1500 leads from the higher north room of the west building to the inner north nave. Their fall shows the coat of arms of Abbot Heinrich von Binsfeld. A remnant of the former cloister of the abbey joins the west building in the north . Today it serves as a treasury , in which reliquaries and a choir cloak from the 15th century are on display. The paintings on the cross vault of this room date from the beginning of the 16th century and were uncovered in 1974, but not restored. Heinrich von Binsfeld's coat of arms can also be found on the upper floor in the keystone of the ribbed vault from the 16th century. Below is the organ on a gallery , which was installed in 1963 by the organ building company Georg Stahlhuth from Aachen in the existing Rococo case of the previous instrument. The first organ was built in 1763 by the organ builder Johann Theodor Gilmann with 19  stops on two manuals and an attached pedal . In 1913 it was replaced by a new instrument from the Bonn organ building company Klais , which was given to St. Nicholas' Church in Aachen in 1963 . Today's organ has 29 registers on two manuals and a pedal. The playing actions are mechanical.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Rohrquintadena (D) 8th'
2. Gedackt (B / D) 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th recorder 4 ′
5. octave 2 ′
6th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Carillon II-III
8th. Sharp IV – VI
9. Wooden dulcian 8th'
10. Schalmey 4 ′
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
11. Quintad 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Cane-covered 8th'
14th Gemshorn 8th'
15th octave 4 ′
16. Capstan flute 4 ′
17th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Flute 2 ′
19th Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Cimbel III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
21st Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Sub-bass 16 ′
23. Principal bass 8th'
24. Thought bass 8th'
25th Fifth bass 5 1 ⁄ 3  ′
26th Octave bass 4 ′
27. Rauschpfeife IV
28. trombone 16 ′
29 Bass trumpet 8th'

Central nave and choir

Baroque high altar in the choir of the central nave

The central nave is now the place of the parish liturgy . The ribs of its central vaulted yoke split towards the center and form a star that wraps around a round keystone. This stone shows a triangle surrounded by rays and the omniscient eye. In addition, the keystone bears the inscriptions Deus trinus et unus and Deus lux vera ( German  “God is three and one” and “God is the true light”). On the south side, the upper clad windows are covered by the roof of the south aisles. In the eastern region of the central ship the order in 1317 under the influence of stands Cologne cathedral workshop created choir stalls . It has 32 seats, making it one of the oldest and most complete chairs in the Rhineland . Restored from 1997 to 1999, it was then put back in its assumed original location. The misericords still preserved show artistic carvings. Formerly separated from the choir stalls by a rood screen, the high Gothic choir and apse are connected. In the course of history, these two parts have been changed many times, for example when the aisles were built and when the Cornelius Chapel was built. However, the original stone statue of St. Cornelius, which was donated by Abbot Heribert von Lülsdorf around 1460, has been preserved. It stands on a high base and under a pinnacle-crowned canopy on the first northern pillar of the choir. Its current glass windows were not installed until 1960. The center of the choir is the baroque high altar. It dates from the time when Hermann von Eynatten was in charge of the abbey, but was changed in Rococo style around 1750 based on a design by Johann Joseph Couvens. The altar shows the Descent from the Cross by the Rubens pupil Gérard Douffet , above a smaller painting by an unknown Dutch painter from the 17th century. The altar is crowned by the wooden figure of the risen Jesus Christ . On the tabernacle there is a relief depicting the Last Supper , on the sides of which are motifs from the Old Testament : the sacrifice of Isaac and the manna rain . To the right and left of the altar there are door extensions with the statues of St. Cyprian and St. Cornelius from the Rococo period. They lead to the adjoining Cornelius Chapel.

South aisles

south aisles
Anna's step altar by Master Tillmann
Anna altar with saints

The two south aisles, separated by columns, were the usual place of reliquary worship for pilgrims and pilgrims. Via the southern entrance they got into the outer Marienschiff and retreated through the inner Annaschiff to the exit. A Middle High German inscription in a vault stone dates the south aisles to the year 1470. They take their names from the altars set up in the apses. The Marien Altar consists of a Gothic substructure with a Baroque tower added later and a statue of the Madonna from the 14th century. The Anna altar in the apse of the inner south aisle was made by Master Tilman at the beginning of the 16th century and is one of the main works of the Lower Rhine- Cologne School. In the middle is the depiction of Anna Selbdritt , on the left Saint Barbara and Katharina , on the right Saint Dorothea and Margareta . Above the middle part the crucifixion group with the donor and St. Cornelius. The abbot at the time, Heinrich von Binsfeld, commissioned the carved altar as the donor, in order to be able to show the Annahaupt , a relic of St. Anne , which was located in Kornelimünster for a short time in 1501 and which is now kept in Düren's Anna Church . On the reredos are figures of Saints Christopher and Andrew . The inside of the altar wings show the scene of the birth on the left and the adoration of the kings on the right. Three abbot coats of arms can be seen on the predella . On the walls around the altar, which was restored at the end of the 19th century, hang three epitaphs by former abbots of Kornelimünster.

North aisles

North aisles

The two north aisles, separated by octagonal pillars, also served to worship relics, but they were reserved for special guests of the abbot. Their names also result from the altars placed in them. The inner Benediktus aisle was named after a baroque altar which is set up in its choir with a 5/8 end. Its central wooden relief is framed by the stucco figures of St. Benedict of Nursia and his sister Scholastika . The outer North ship is according to the simple cross altar on the east wall cruise ship called. Above that on the wall there is a grisaille painting with a Golgotha scene, which was uncovered during restoration work in 1981/1982. A double chapel adjoins the nave behind the east wall with the cross altar. Its ground floor was previously used as a sacristy , while the upper floor houses the sanctuary chapel . There the three Biblical Shrines are kept. They are shown to the faithful on a pilgrimage every seven years . In the past, the abbot could do high-ranking personalities the honor of showing the sanctuaries outside of this cycle. For this purpose the band has a small sanctuary for cruise ship pointing lancet window through which the relics were shown to the special guests while it in the so-called Abtloge on the opposite west side of the cruise ship sat. This box can be reached via an external round stair tower . The people to whom the sanctuaries were shown outside of the usual appointment included, for example, Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Cornelius Chapel

Altar in the Cornelius Chapel

The Cornelius Chapel, built to store the Cornelius relics, has a diameter of nine meters. Its interior is particularly richly decorated. On the east side there is a large gilded baroque altar, in whose tabernacle the Cornelius relics were previously kept. The altarpiece is by an unknown artist from the 18th century. On both sides of the altar there used to be two figures of St. Peter and St. Paul from the Baroque period, more than two meters high . They previously flanked the high altar in the central nave. The corners of the chapel show stucco pilasters with Corinthian capitals and are lavishly decorated with festoons and putti . The dome ceiling also shows rich stucco decor.

Church treasure

Part of the church treasure is now on display in the treasury on the west building. The most important reliquaries, however, are locked away and are only shown at certain times. These include various relics related to St. Cornelius and three Christ relics.

Biblical sanctuaries

The Christ relics are also called the Biblical Sanctuaries . They are said to have been assigned to the monastery by Ludwig the Pious when it was founded. They are the apron, the shroud and the handkerchief of Jesus. Every seven years they are shown to the public on the occasion of the Kornelimünster Shrine Tour, which takes place at the same time as the Aachen Shrine Tour. The apron is an approximately 2.3 meter long cross weave made of linen , with which, according to tradition, Jesus is said to have dried the feet of the disciples when he washed their feet during the Last Supper . Because various pieces have been cut out of it in the course of history, it is of different widths in different places. The narrowest point measures 68 cm. The cloth has been sewn onto a red silk base since 1895 and has a dark spot in the middle, popularly known as Judas' foot. The handkerchief is said to have been in the tomb of Jesus when John and Peter entered it on Easter morning. The approximately 4 × 6 meter large, very fine byssus fabric was folded several times and sewn onto a red silk pad. According to tradition, Jesus was placed on the approximately 1.8 meter wide and 1.05 meter long shroud after he was deposed from the cross. The cloth, woven from fine linen, creates the impression of an ornamental ceiling thanks to its numerous cultic signs and symbols.

Cornelius Relics

Half of the shroud of Jesus is said to have been brought to the monastery of Compiègne under Charles the Bald in exchange for a skull and arm relic of St. Cornelius , where it later burned. However, the Cornelius relics are first documented in the abbey for the year 1359. The skull bone is kept in a bust made around 1360 under the abbot Johann von Levendael . This is made of chased silver , has gilding and is set with numerous precious stones . On the head of the 78 cm high bust sits a tiara made up of three crowns . The arm reliquary also dates from the 14th century. The Kornelius relics also include the so-called Kornelius horn , a 30 cm high buffalo horn set in silver . It could have reached Kornelimünster from the Stablo Abbey in the 10th century . The Cornelius relics are exhibited every September during the Korneli octave in the Cornelius Chapel.

Other relics

Two other relics that are important in terms of art history and cult are part of the church treasure: on the one hand the bust of Cyprianus, on the other hand the reliquary of Stephen . The Cyprian relic is part of a skull bone and is kept in a silver-chased bust that was created in the 17th century under the abbot Hermann von Eynatten. The partially gilded bust is 59 cm high and has a miter on its head. The Stephanus reliquary is an oval glass body flanked on both sides by twisted silver pillars. Above it is a filigree structure with a small statuette of the saint. The height of the reliquary is 38 cm. It was donated in 1734 under the abbot Hyacinth Alfons Graf von Suys, which is reported by a Latin inscription on its foot.

  • The Biblical Shrines

  • Cornelius bust

  • Kornelius horn

  • Cyprian bust

literature

  • Marcel Bauer [among others]: On the way in Couven's footsteps. Grenz-Echo Verlag, Eupen 2005, ISBN 90-5433-187-9 , pp. 87-95.
  • Leo Hugot : The former abbey church in Kornelimünster. In: Church and castle in the archeology of the Rhineland . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1962, pp. 85-91.
  • Leo Hugot: The former imperial abbey in Kornelimünster . in: Art and Antiquity on the Rhine. No. 8, exhibition catalog Düsseldorf 1963, pp. 85–91.
  • Leo Hugot: Kornelimünster - Investigations into the historical development of the former Benedictine monastery church . Dissertation at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen 1965.
  • Leo Hugot: Kornelimünster. Investigation of the historical development of the former Benedictine monastery church (= supplements to the Bonner Jahrbucher . Volume 26). Böhlau, Cologne / Graz 1968.
  • Leo Hugot: The Inda Monastery and the Monastery Plan of St. Gallen . in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein 84/85, 1978, pp. 473–498.
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  • Leo Hugot : The Inda Abbey - Kornelimünster . in: VA Schneider (Ed.): 'And they followed the rule of Saint Benedict'. Cologne 1980, pp. 257-263.
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Web links

Commons : St. Kornelius (Kornelimünster)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  44. ^ H. Reiners: The art monuments of the district of Aachen. 1912, p. 70.

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 6 ° 10 ′ 55.6 ″  E