Pilgrimage chapel to the Mount of Olives

Preserved tracery north of the monastery

The pilgrimage chapel to the Mount of Olives , often incorrectly referred to as the Alexius Chapel , was a late Gothic pilgrimage chapel in Magdeburg's old town . Only a tracery of her remains , which is not at the original location south of the monastery of Our Lady , but now north of the monastery.

history

The chapel was built in 1506 in the monastery church yard south of the monastery. It contained a plastic representation of the suffering of Christ in Gethsemane . The visit to the chapel and prayer should count as much as the actual visit to the Mount of Olives in Palestine . The reputation of the monastery was thus to be revived. It belonged to the Alexius Hospital located there . Nevertheless, contrary to frequent confusions and equations in literature, it is not identical with the older Alexius Chapel , which was located east of the pilgrimage chapel to the Mount of Olives. In Protestant times, the chapel served as the hereditary burial of the merchant Plattner, who provided a foundation for this purpose, from which food for the poor was provided on June 24th of each year until well into the 20th century. Both chapels were damaged in the Thirty Years' War and later converted into a farm building. The Ölberg chapel was thus included in a side wing of the building at Klosterkirchhof No. 2 . In 1888 the farm buildings and with them the chapels were demolished.

The display facade of the pilgrimage chapel to the Mount of Olives, which is now regarded as an important document of late Gothic architecture in Magdeburg, was preserved and was erected on a wall north of the monastery.

architecture

The Ölberg Chapel was a two-bay building and had a small cell vault . The preserved, biaxial, finely structured display facade may have originally served as a canopy shrine for a group of Mounts of Olives. The facade is designed as a four-part arched curtain window . The surfaces of the walls are covered by a snowshoe mesh in the form of a net and are based on the French flamboyant style . The sharp-edged profiles of the windows overlap. On the left and right there are partially preserved figures standing on consoles and spanned by canopies .

literature

• Professor Kratzenstein: History of the monastery in The Monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg , self-published by the Magdeburg Monastery in 1920, page 24 f.
• Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg , City Planning Office Magdeburg 2000, page 41
• Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 236 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of monuments, page 236 f.
2. ^ Professor Kratzenstein, History of the monastery in The Monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg , self-published by the Magdeburg Monastery in 1920, page 25
3. ↑ Hans-Joachim Krenzke, Churches and Monasteries in Magdeburg, page 41
4. ^ List of monuments, page 236 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 39.5 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 17.6 ″  E