St. Marien (Oberwiederstedt)

The church of St. Marien is a former monastery church and today's village church in Wiederstedt , a district of the town of Arnstein in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . It is under monument protection and is entered in the monument register with registration number 094 65195 as a monument . It belongs to the parish of Hettstedt in the Eisleben-Sömmerda parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

View from the southeast

Church with the rest of the convent building (right) from the east

location

The monastery church is located in the Schäfergasse of Oberwiederstedt, northwest of Oberwiederstedt Castle and south of the main street of the village.

History and architecture

The Dominican convent from Kupferberg in Hettstedt was moved to Oberwiederstedt between 1256 and 1259, where its founder, Mechthild von Arnstein, headed it as abbess. After the monastery was secularized in the 16th century, part of the monastery became a castle, the other part remained in church use. The village church was built from the nun's gallery, whereas the warehouse building to the east used to be the altar and parish room of the village. The elongated, eight-axis sacred building still represents a typical mendicant order church in its current form , to which an approximately 30-meter high tower was added. This west tower has a late Gothic octagonal superstructure, which is crowned by a Welsche dome with a lantern.

Interior and outfit

Inside, the church has openings from various building periods, including a round-arched opening from the nave to the tower and a bricked-up pointed arched opening between the nuns' gallery and the nave. The altar of the church was sold to Hettstedt in 1978, where it is located in the church of St. Marien . On the other hand, an epitaph for Jakob von Blankenburg († 1595), who was in charge of the monastery office after secularization and from whom it passed to the von Hardenberg family, and a figure grave stone for his sister-in-law Katharina von Arnim († 1575) are preserved on site. Due to the presence of those from Hardenberg, the former monastery church also became the baptistery of Novalis , from which there is also a quote ( If only I have it, if it is only mine from the fifth of the Spiritual Songs ) on the partition. In addition, the grave slab for Hans Friedrich Georg von Oldershausen (1749–1772), brother-in-law of Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg, lies in front of the mansion gallery.

literature

• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt II. Administrative districts Dessau and Halle. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .
• Erich Neuss Berent Schwineköper : Wiederstedt. In: Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 , pp. 498-499.

Web links

Commons : Klosterkirche Oberwiederstedt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Novalis Museum to St. Mary's Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Saxony-Anhalt (pdf) - answer of the state government to a small question for written answer (the MPs Olaf Meister and Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert; Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) - printed matter 6/3905 from March 19, 2015 (KA 6/8670)
2. ↑ Dehio, pp. 632-633.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Novalis Museum
4. ↑ Dehio, pp. 632-633; Neuss / Schwineköper, pp. 498–499.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 0.4 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 47.2 ″  E