Our Dear Women (Castle near Magdeburg)
The Protestant town church of Our Lady in Burg near Magdeburg , Saxony-Anhalt , is a Gothic town church with Romanesque components. It belongs to the parish of Our Dear Women and St. Nicolai in Burg in the Elbe-Fläming parish of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . It is also known as the Upper Church of Our Lady and, with its unequal towers, together with the Lower Church of St. Nikolai, shapes the cityscape of Burg near Magdeburg to this day.
History and architecture
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The upper church in Burg was first mentioned in 1186. The western building, which has two towers in the upper part and resembles that of the lower church, but was only built very carefully from stone blocks around the middle of the 13th century, still comes from the late Romanesque original building. The upper parts of the twin towers show three-part cloverleaf arched sound openings in an ogival aperture. The three-part interior of the west building is closed on the sides with transverse barrel vaults , in the higher central part with groin vaults and open to the central nave with a pointed arch. The slender pointed helmet of the south tower was built in 1585, the north tower in 1586 for a watchman's house increased and with a curly hood with lantern completed. Another remnant of the first Romanesque building is the semicircular apse in the east wall of the north aisle, which apparently belonged to a transept that no longer exists.
The remaining part of the church was renewed in the late Gothic style, beginning with the two-bay choir consecrated in 1359 (according to an indulgence table ); then the five-bay, three-aisled nave was renewed as a hall church, similar to the partly demolished town churches in Magdeburg , with pointed arcades without combatants. The completion of this renovation was done according to an inscription 1412-1455. The choir was built from older granite blocks without buttresses, although it was originally vaulted. The pointed arch windows show rich tracery with a slope made of sandstone.
The south side of the nave is even more richly designed as a show side, the three-part tracery windows of which are wider than those of the choir and are partly sloped, but on the south side they have a continuous valley . In the south-east corner there are tracery arches with free-hanging lily ends above the windows. The buttresses are provided with figure consoles. These rich forms of jewelry of the soft style probably go back to the model of St. Nikolai (Zerbst) . The delightful east gable of the ship was only rebuilt in brick in 1567 and is divided into square fields, which are animated with arches on the outside.
Portals are located on the south side in the first and fourth yoke of the south side and in the fourth yoke on the north side. The latter portal is provided with a vestibule from the last quarter of the 14th century, the gables of which are livened up with clover-leaf arches and a relief of a saint. The first-mentioned portal is highlighted as the main portal in the garment with crab decorations and flanking pinnacles .
The interior shows cross vaults in the nave with brick ribs mostly above consoles; only on the south side are these carried by services . Particularly in the south aisle, they show heavily busted vaults. The choir has had a richly decorated, painted field ceiling since 1592, the painting of which has been restored several times.
Two sacrament niches have been preserved in the choir polygon , one of which is architecturally framed in late Gothic style with crabs and pinnacles; the other shows a painted frame with Agnus Dei in the medallion. Left and right of the passage to the tower hall remains of late Gothic wall paintings from the 2nd quarter of the 15th century were uncovered. A restoration of the interior was carried out from 1956 to 1962.
Furnishing
The main pieces of equipment are magnificent works of the Renaissance. The richly decorated altar is a work from 1607 by Michael Spieß from Magdeburg. It has an architectural structure made of sandstone with reliefs made of alabaster, which depict the Passover Supper , the Last Supper as the main image and the crucifixion in the essay. A resurrection group is arranged above it. There are also numerous free figures that depict John the Baptist and Christ as the Man of Sorrows on both sides of the main field .
The baptismal font, dated 1611, is also attributed to the same artist, which shows scenes from the Old and New Testament in six small reliefs rich in figures. The attribution of the pulpit from 1608 to Michael Spieß is uncertain, but it certainly comes from his area and shows a similarly high quality. The hexagonal pulpit is carried by a figure of Paul. The arched fields on the pulpit show the Annunciation , the Birth , the Resurrection and the Last Judgment in alabaster reliefs separated by columns made of colored marble ; Old Testament scenes are depicted on the stairs, Salvator mundi and the virtues on the door . Round gables with the reliefs of the four Evangelists and Luther's are attached to the wooden sound cover .
An epitaph for the mayor Johannes Rudolph, who died in 1599, is also by Michael Spieß and shows the human being between death and redemption based on the model of Lucas Cranach . On the west wall of the south aisle, a remnant of a wooden late Gothic epitaph has been preserved, showing two groups of three kneeling figures each in front of a large crowd of children. In the tower hall there is a tombstone of the priest Johannes Ricke († 1363) with the incised drawing of the deceased and an inscription tombstone with the date 1689. Other baroque tombstones from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century are placed on the outside walls of the church. The organ is a work with two manuals and 22 registers and was built in 1969 by the Eule company from Bautzen.
literature
- Walter May: City churches in Saxony / Anhalt. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1979, p. 198.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony Anhalt I. District of Magdeburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , pp. 133-136.
Web links
- Parish of Our Dear Women and St. Nicolai Castle near Magdeburg
- The Upper Church of Our Lady in 92 photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish of Our Dear Women and St. Nicolai Castle near Magdeburg. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '24 " N , 11 ° 51' 43.5" E