St. Moritz (Speyer)

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The ruins of St. Moritz in 1783
Grave slab of a canon of St. German and Moritz in Speyer (1560), Bad Schönborn- Langenbrücken

The St. Moritz Church in Speyer was a Gothic parish church that stood on today's Königplatz in the center of the old town of Speyer. At that time it was considered the most important Gothic church in the Vorderpfalz .

history

The St. Moritz Church was founded in the 11th century as the main parish of the township . Modern research is based on the founding of the church in the late 9th or 10th century. In the 13th century the church was rebuilt in the late Romanesque style. The church had a pointed-helmeted west tower 60 meters high and was about 40 meters long, 25 meters wide and about 20 m high to the roof. In the 15th century, between 1422 and 1468, the St. German Abbey, located in front of the city walls on Germansberg, was relocated to the St. Moritz Church and henceforth referred to as St. German and Moritz Abbey or St. Germanus and Mauritius. The church received a late Gothic transept and a choir . It was also surrounded by a circular wall about 2 meters high.

When the Speyer town fire in 1689, the church was burned down except for the tower and the surrounding walls. Apparently some of them were repaired for the church service, because there are church registers of the Moritz parish between 1729 and 1798, and Damian Hugo Philipp von Lehrbach was ordained there for 1764 by the Speyer Auxiliary Bishop Johann Adam Buckel . The monastery also continued to exist until secularization . After that, his goods were leased and sold in 1803.

Around 1806 the church was completely demolished and the place where today's Königsplatz was built, under which the foundations of the church still lie today.

The memories of this former landmark of the township of Speyer are exhibited today in the Palatinate History Museum . Drawings of the former sacred building have also been preserved.

literature

  • Franz Staab: The church and monastery landscape of the diocese before the Salic Sepultur in Speyer . In: C. Ehlers, H. Flachenecker (Hrsg.): Spiritual central locations between liturgy, architecture, praise to God and the rulers: Limburg and Speyer (=  German royal palaces, contributions to their historical and archaeological research ). tape 6 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-35309-X , p. 41-48 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speyer church books website, with digital scans of St. Moritz church books on Speyer.de, accessed on September 8, 2019
  2. ^ Joseph Schwind : Damian Hugo Philipp von Lehrbach, the benefactor of the Speyer Cathedral , Speyer, Jägersche Buchhandlung, 1915, p. 17
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schieder (Ed.): Secularization and Mediatization in the Four Rhenish Departments 1803-1813. Edition of the data of the national goods to be sold. Part 4. Donnersberg Department . Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1911-2 , p. 398 and 400 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 59.4 "  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 12.3"  E