St. Marien (Quedlinburg)
After the collegiate church and St. Wiperti, St. Marien on the Münzenberg was the third large pre-Romanesque church in Quedlinburg . It has not been used as a sacred space since 1525, but most of its remains were made accessible again in the 1990s and 2000s through a private initiative by Siegfried Behrens and his wife. To ensure long-term security, this project was transferred to the German Foundation for Monument Protection .
history
The church was founded in 986 at the instigation of Abbess Mathilde in memory of her brother, Emperor Otto II , who died unexpectedly early , as a monastery church of the Quedlinburg Benedictine Sisters . In 1017 it was re-consecrated after a fire in the presence of Heinrich II . The church had a three-cell sanctuary with a spacious semicircular apse, a short nave and a voluminous transverse rectangular western building with a gallery. There is a hall crypt under the apse.
According to individual researchers, the building shows similarities with Eastern Roman-Byzantine churches, such as the basilica ruins of Qalb Loze from the 6th century in today's Syria . These should primarily affect the presbyteries accompanying the sanctuary and the western building with galleries. Whether the Empress Theophanu personally intervened in the building is controversial.
The monastery was abandoned after the destruction in the Peasants' War . Since the second half of the 16th century, common people (musicians etc.) settled on the Munzenberg. They sprawled the former monastery grounds with many small houses, so that the church interior was divided into 17 individual houses and built over.
The development still exists today in large parts, whereby the group of houses is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register. The house of Munzenberg 8 is today a listed monument itself. The Munzenberg house 2 was built on the choir and the cross arms of the church. Originally built in half-timbered construction, the half-timbered construction was replaced by a solid construction. On the west side of the house at Münzenberg 65 there are flat, stylized tendril ornaments that have been used again.
The portal is now at St. Wiperti. A large part of the church interior could be made accessible again based on the original form in the Munzenberg Museum . When the church floor plan was uncovered, several impressive high medieval niche graves were discovered.
literature
- Siegfried Behrens, Winfried Korf (ed.): The Munzenberg near Quedlinburg. History, monastery, museum. Museum Association Monastery Church on the Munzenberg eV, Quedlinburg 2007.
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 186
- Leopold, Gerhard: The Ottonian churches of St. Servatii, St. Wiperti and St. Marien in Quedlinburg: a summary of archaeological and architectural research from 1936 to 2001 . Petersberg, Kr Fulda: Michael Imhof Verlag 2010. ISBN 978-3-86568-235-2 .
- Winfried Korf: The Munzenberg to Quedlinburg. Bussert and Stadeler, Quedlinburg et al. 1998, ISBN 3-932906-01-2 ( Edition Metropolis 1).
- Michael Scheftel, The former St. Marien monastery church on the Munzenberg in Quedlinburg. New findings on the western building , in: Mitteilungsblatt 23, 2011 (Religiosität I), p. 169 f. ( PDF 1.53 MB)
Web links
- Museum Association Monastery Church on the Munzenberge eV
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '15.9 " N , 11 ° 7' 59.2" E