St. Magdalenen (Hildesheim)
St. Magdalenen is a Roman Catholic former monastery church in the old town of Hildesheim . It is named after St. Mary Magdalene and is located at Mühlenstrasse 25.
history
In 1224, Bishop Konrad II founded a Magdalen convent on the Innersteufer in front of the western city wall . A provisional monastery church was soon followed by today's building, which was consecrated in 1294 and was Hildesheim's first Gothic building.
When the Hildesheim Council decided to introduce the Reformation , the monasteries under the protection of the episcopal sovereign remained unaffected. The Magdalenenkloster existed until secularization at the beginning of the 19th century. Since then, the church has been the property of the Hanover Monastery Chamber . Since St. Michael , with the exception of the crypt and the monastery buildings, had become Lutheran , St. Magdalenen also became the parish church for the Catholics of the northern old town. The relics of St. Bernward were transferred here from Michaeliskirche.
In the 15th century the church was rebuilt like a hall. In the 18th century, early baroque portals and, shortly before the turn of the 19th, rococo furnishings were added. Parts of a high altar, which was created at the beginning of the 15th century as the work of an unknown master and shows the Magdalen legend, are now in various museums, for example in the State Gallery in Stuttgart .
In 1694 Francesco Maria Capellini, known as Stechinelli , court banker of the Guelph Dukes , was buried in the vault under the church's choir.
In 1816 the elf altar came from the secularization mass of the Michaelis monastery to St. Magdalenen; From 1843–1945 he stood in the cathedral, since 1961 here again.
When Hildesheim was destroyed on March 22, 1945, the Magdalen Church was also badly hit and burned out. The restoration in partly simplified form and equipment was not completed until 1961.
From August 1, 2004, the church belonged to the parish " Zum Heiligen Kreuz ", the St. Magdalene parish was dissolved in this context. Since November 1st, 2014 the St. Magdalenen Church has belonged to the parish " St. Godehard ".
architecture
St. Magdalenen, about 81 meters above sea level, is a late Gothic three-aisled hall church with a turret and a rectangular choir . Only this one and the aisles are vaulted today. The original vault of the nave was a six-part ribbed vault. The choir bears the design of the baroque renovation from 1794 to 1799. The west portal from 1733 is flanked by two low stair towers, presumably from the 17th century. The building lacks the verticality, brightness and weightlessness of high Gothic rooms. Its simplicity and the almost crouched overall impression correspond to the penitential character of the Magdalene Order and the first construction phase of the 13th century. They stand in stark contrast to the Gothic chalice capitals in the nave, which bear the signature of the renovation in the 15th century. The exterior is characterized by baroque alterations: the west facade (probably 17th century) and the west and south portal (dated 1721).
Furnishing
In addition to some altars and figures of saints, the silver shrine of the Bernwards relics is the most valuable of the baroque and rococo furnishings . It was created in 1750 by Wilhelm Rammer in Augsburg and shows St. Bernward, lying in episcopal regalia, and saints and angels connected to him at the corners in expressive poses.
The most important piece of equipment in the Magdalenenkirche is the late Gothic passion altar in the high choir, which is called the elf altar after its presumed donors, a pair of brothers from the Michaeliskloster . This winged altar was probably made from linden wood around 1515 by the Brunswick carver Levin Storch and depicts dramatic scenes from the Passion of Christ with many figures. Following the example of Tilman Riemenschneider , the artist achieved the desired expressiveness without colored painting simply by working the wood. The elf altar is counted among the best works of its kind.
Central nave to the northeast
Choir with passion altar and Bernwards shrine
Passion altar
organ
In 2009/2010 a new organ was built in St. Magdalenen by the organ builder Romanus Seifert & Sohn . It replaced the previous instrument from 1962 from the Hillebrand Brothers Orgelbau workshop (III + P / 21). The new organ was consecrated on February 14, 2010 by Auxiliary Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz . The instrument has 33 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal . It cost around € 470,000 and was financed half by the monastery chamber of Hanover and half by the diocese of Hildesheim .
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- Normal coupling : III-II, III-I, II-I, III-P, II-P, IP
- Subcoupling: III 16'-III, III 16'-II, III 16'-I
- Super couple: III 4'-III, III 4'-II, III 4'-I
See also
- List of churches in Hildesheim
- List of churches in the Diocese of Hildesheim
- Magdalenengarten
- Maria Magdalena Church
literature
- Hermann Engfer: St. Magdalenen Hildesheim. Libertas Verlag for Church and Home Hubert Baum. Stuttgart 1961.
- Ina Birkenbeul: The “Elven Altarpiece” in the St. Magdalenenkirche, Hildesheim. Diploma examination at the University of Applied Sciences Hildesheim / Holzminden, Institute for Restoration and Monument Preservation, winter semester 1999/2000.
- Werner Lemke, Stefan Mahr, Roman Seifert: The Seifert organ in St. Magdalenen Hildesheim. DKV art guide No. 662 (series of the Klosterkammer Hannover, issue 3), 1st edition, February 2010, ISBN 978-3-422-02259-1 .
Web links
- Church on the parish website ( Memento from May 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Images by Raymond Faure
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated February 1, 2014 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.
- ↑ after Georg Dehio (abbreviation): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bremen and Lower Saxony, 1992, pp. 721–722.
- ↑ Hildesheim, Germany (Lower Saxony) - Catholic parish church Sankt Magdalenen. In: Orgel Databank Nl. Piet Bron, accessed on January 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Hildesheim, Germany (Lower Saxony) - Catholic parish church Sankt Magdalenen. In: Orgel Databank Nl. Piet Bron, accessed on January 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Simple, but elegant. St. Magdalenen gets a new organ for 420,000 euros. (No longer available online.) In: Bistum Hildesheim. Diocese of Hildesheim, August 14, 2009, archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; accessed on January 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 3 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 28 ″ E