St. Spiritus (Einbeck)

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Chapel of St. Spiritus

St. Spiritus was one of four hospitals in the medieval city of Einbeck . The current buildings with the Gothic hospital chapel, which are managed by the Einbeck Hospital Foundation, are located on the eastern edge of the old town within the former Einbeck city fortifications on the Long Bridge , between the Einbeck market square and the former Augustinian Hermit Monastery (today Möncheplatz).

history

The St. Spiritus Hospital was founded in 1274 as an orphanage and hospital by Duke Albrecht I of Brunswick . The buildings consisted of a large hall with a hospital ward, kitchen and other rooms as well as a hospital chapel. Except for the chapel, all buildings were destroyed by the great city fire in 1540. From 1571 the hospital buildings were rebuilt by the Einbeck patrician couple Hans Diek and Dorothea Raven and demolished again in 1863 due to dilapidation. Today's neo-Gothic brick building was based on designs by Conrad Wilhelm Hase .

The Gothic hospital chapel with a crypt under the high choir was built on the edge of the former floodplain of the Krummen Wassers in the early 14th century. The choir is raised compared to the nave, the crypt below has a groin vault supported by two 1.70 m high pillars. The crypt is partially filled with rubble and rubbish from the 18th and 19th centuries, so that the pillars now only protrude about half a meter from the ground.

Two crucifixes from the 16th century come from the hospital and are now kept in the city museum. Furthermore, there is an originally late Gothic winged altar made of oak wood, painted over in 1625 and set up in the chapel. After the overpainting was removed in the 1960s, it has been installed in the St. Jacobi Market Church since 1993 .

The hospital was spiritually cared for by the market church. From 1725 to 1753 the chapel was used as a garrison church and served as a hay store from 1807 to 1813. From 1817, church services were held again and after the town fire of 1826 in Einbeck Neustadt, it served the community as an emergency church for 16 years. In the 1870s, the inside of the hospital chapel was renovated by the architect Hase , equipped with a small organ on a cone shop by the organ builder Theodor Reinelt from Elze and housed the Einbeck City Museum from 1895 to 1932 .

use

The Einbeck Hospital Foundations manage the assets of the St. Spiritus Hospital and the combined St. Bartholomäi and St. Gertrud Hospitals and use the foundation's assets to support older, disabled and socially needy people, primarily from Einbeck.

The hospital chapel has been used by the Greek Orthodox community of Agia Trias ( Greek Αγία Τριάς , Holy Trinity ') in Einbeck since 1970 .

literature

  • Andreas Heege: Einbeck in the Middle Ages . Isensee, Oldenburg 2002, ISBN 3-89598-836-7 , p. 38, 102-104 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Hülse: DI 42, Introduction Einbeck, 2. The Einbeck inscriptions - classification in the city's history . In: www.inschriften.net
  2. ↑ Jürgen Huck: Of organ builders, singers and musicians; in: Yearbook of the district of Hildesheim, 1992, p. 189

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Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 7.5 ″  E