Collegiate Church (Gaesdonck)

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The Gaesdonck Collegiate Church
View from the southeast
Choir view with interaction

The collegiate church is a Roman Catholic church in the Goch district of Gaesdonck. She is dedicated to the Seven Sorrows of Mary . The former church of the Augustinian Canons as well as the associated former monastery complex today form the structural core of the episcopal boarding school Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , which is based on a foundation by the monks who lived there until the secularization in 1802 (and for a short time afterwards).

history

The Augustinian Canons' Monastery, which belonged to the Congregation of the Windesheim Canons , was founded in Goch around 1360 and moved to Gaesdonck in 1406. There was originally a farm mentioned for the first time in 1346, which belonged to the Gocher Fraterhaus , from which the Canons' Monastery emerged. The spatial division of the church and its decoration have been changed several times over the centuries according to the art tastes typical of the time (e.g. baroque or neo-Gothic ) as well as the liturgical needs and requirements .

During the Second World War , the roof of the collegiate church was almost completely destroyed and the western gable was half destroyed. The masonry and the vaults in the choir were badly damaged. Several vaults in the cloister were destroyed or damaged. The restoration took place until 1961, whereby the neo-Gothic structure of the west facade was simplified and instead of the neo-Gothic chapel wreath a plinth-like ambulatory was built as a sacristy and a new roof turret was added.

architecture

The collegiate church, consecrated in 1437, is a single-nave Gothic building with ribbed vaults and a 5/8 choir closure and high three-part tracery windows on the choir and on the south side of the nave. The simple interior is divided on the north side by ogival wall niches between the inwardly drawn buttresses and flat blind windows. Above these niches are the buttresses outside the church in the library rooms above the cloister. A similar structure can be found on the south side in the two eastern nave bays, followed by the two-bay neo-Gothic sacristy, which was built in place of a Gothic predecessor and now serves as a sacrament chapel.

Furnishing

The wooden pulpit from 1621 shows the forms of the late Renaissance. The choir stalls from 1623 and the three seat from 1653 are now housed in the premises of the college. A wooden standing figure of Our Lady from around 1490/1500 with a renewed version is ascribed to the Maasland master von Elsloo as one of his main works. A painted triptych from the mid-16th century shows the Calvary, the birth and ascension of Christ and the donors in Augustinian costumes . A Vesper picture was made from wood in the middle of the 17th century based on a late Gothic model.

Cloister and library

The two-storey south wing of the cloister from the 15th century is divided by buttresses and two-part windows in basket-arched panels. After being damaged in World War II, it was restored in 1961 and brought under one roof with the church. The cloister and the library on the upper floor have a groin vault; the library is provided with ogival wall niches between the buttresses. It contains, among other things, an extensive collection of manuscripts compiled in the 15th century; the illuminated manuscripts are now in the Berlin State Library .

literature

Web links

Commons : Stiftskirche (Gaesdonck)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: Kriegsschicksale Deutscher Architektur. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Volume I. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-926642-22-X , p. 488.

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 11.6 "  N , 6 ° 7 ′ 12.3"  E