Telgter hunger cloth
The Telgter Hungertuch from 1623 is in the RELíGIO - Westphalian Museum for Religious Culture in Telgte .
The Telgter Hunger Shawl is one of the most important religious cultural assets in Westphalia . In 1623 - five years after the beginning of the Thirty Years' War - the Lent Shawl was donated by Burgmann Henrich Vos and his wife Catarina Droste. The Telgter pastor Bitterus Willge, who is represented in the bottom row of pictures with his initials, presumably gave the initiative. It replaced an older starvation cloth that had already fallen victim to the war in 1621.
The fillet work from double- twisted linen thread on knotted nets was carried out by noble ladies of the knight families Vos, Droste, Brockhausen or Bischopping and von Münster. This can be seen from the coats of arms , which are contained in the image fields of the bottom row of images. The first four rows depict Christ's ordeal, the fifth row shows the symbols of the evangelists and the " Lamb of God " as a symbol for Christ, the sixth row shows motifs from the Old Testament. Stylistically, the scenes are based on Gothic models. The idea that the more important figures are shown larger is also medieval. Stencils were often used, for example for the figure of Christ, the women or the thieves.
Until 1905, the cloth was hung in the first choir arch every year during Lent in the parish church of St. Clemens . The Telgter Hunger cloth belongs to the group of Westphalian fasting cloths with figurative representations. This also includes the cloths in Everswinkel , Alverskirchen , Vreden and Freckenhorst , which are still used today or are exhibited in the churches.
literature
- Johannes H. Emminghaus: The Westphalian hunger cloths from post-medieval times and their liturgical origin. Published on behalf of the Zittauer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV by Rudolf Suntrup and Volker Honemann. Görlitz 2004, ISBN 3-932693-85-X .
- Paul Engelmeier: Westphalian hunger cloths from the 14th to the 19th century. Munster 1961.
- Rudolf Suntrup: Lent cloths as evidence of late medieval passion piety: Gurk - Zittau - Telgte. In: Zittauer Geschichtsblätter , special issue 1 (2002), pp. 22–31.
Web links
- The Teltger Hungertuch from 1623 on the website of RELíGIO - Westphalian Museum for Religious Culture
- Telgter hunger cloth on kirchensite.de
- Telgter Hungertuch on medienwerkstatt-online.de
- Vredener Hunger cloth