St. Maternus (Lubomierz)
The former monastery church, the parish church of St. Maternus ( Polish: Kościół Wniebowzięcia NMP i św. Maternusa ) is the most important building in the rural town of Lubomierz (Liebenthal) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .
location
The church building is wested and located south of the long market square. The former monastery buildings connect to the southwest.
history
The history of the town of Liebenthal is closely linked to the monastery. The widow Jutta von Liebenthal founded a Benedictine monastery here in 1287, after which the settlement was expanded to become a town, but remained dependent on the monastery. The monastery church goes back to a Gothic stone building from the 15th century that burned down in 1688. In its present form it was built in 1727-30 by the Liegnitz master builder Johann Jakob Scheerhofer and is considered to be one of the most important baroque buildings in Silesia.
In the course of secularization , the Benedictine monastery was dissolved in 1810, but remained as the central monastery of the closed Silesian women's monasteries and was led by Ursulines from 1845 .
Architecture and equipment
Since the church is westerly, the east facade facing the city could be designed in a representative way. The curved facade with volute gable is three-storey and has three portals. The gable of the main portal, which is flanked by statues of the religious saints Benedict and Scholastica and crowned by the titular saint, shows an oval plaque with an inscription about Abbess Martha Tanne, who was the builder of the church in her 82nd year of life and 65th year of profession , reported.
The curved, four-bay interior is supported by recessed wall pillars, with chapels and galleries in between. The Silesian painter Georg Wilhelm Neunhertz created the frescoes of the bohemian cap vault of the main nave with the Transfiguration and the Ascension of Christ from 1728 to 1730 . The depictions from the life of Jesus on the aisle vaults were created by Neunhertz, the painter Konrad Jäger. The vault above the choir is raised to form a dome and is stuccoed by the four church fathers and the twelve apostles. The bare choir wall is closed off by the main altar. The main field of the massive altar shows a high relief of the Assumption of Mary , flanked by statues of the religious saints Benedict and Scholastica, above which a cornice structure supported by Corinthian columns and finally the Gloria of the Holy Trinity rises in the top. In the simpler side parts of the altar - the crowning of which are showcases with relics of Saints Benignus and Victorin , who used to be the destination of pilgrimages - there are two entrances to the sacristy, above which statues of Saints Wenceslas and Maternus as well as Bernhard and Florian on consoles are set in pairs are attached. This altar from 1736 therefore consists entirely of sculptures that, like most of the sculptures in the church and especially the pulpit, were created by the local sculptor Johann Joseph Friedrich. The rich baroque interior is rounded off by the side altars of Saints Benedict and Charles Borromeo from 1736 in front of the choir and other altars in the chapels.
The high altar covers an older, lower western part of the church from around 1517. This is two-story: the sacristy is in the lower area, the nun's choir is on the upper floor , the star vault of which can still be seen behind the high altar. This Gothic choir extension is separated from the baroque church interior only by the main altar, the back of which is decorated with paintings of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the crucifixion as an altar for the nuns choir. The back of the altar, like the stalls and paneling of the nuns' choir, was created in 1775 in the Rococo style.
In addition to the nuns' choir, the slender tower adjoining it to the west is one of the oldest components of the church. Due to the staggering of the church roof from the high nave to the lower nun's choir , the tower has a solitary effect. A stone inscription gives the year of its construction: 1554. The slender late Gothic tower is square in the substructure and merges into an octagonal shape. Like the church itself, it has been extensively restored in recent years. The double openwork, baroque onion dome helmet was not put on until 1804.
Former monastery building
To the southwest of the church is the former Benedictine monastery , which is built around the cloister built in 1503. The monastery buildings were made of stone in the 15th century and rebuilt several times, especially after the fires of 1688 and 1802. Inside, some halls with ribbed vaults, such as the Holy Cross Chapel from the 15th century, but also the refectory from 1676, have been preserved. In front of the church is the baroque rectory from 1689 with a baroque Marian column .
literature
- Dehio -Manual of Art Monuments in Poland: Silesia. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-422-03109-X
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Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 44.3 " N , 15 ° 30 ′ 28.7" E