Pilgrimage Church of St. Marien (Küblingen)
The 1328 first documented Marienkirche in Küblingen , now a historic district of Schöppenstedt , was a medieval angle - Sanctuary . This is also where the Dominican Johann Tetzel is said to have sold his letters of indulgence.
history
In the late Middle Ages, the Marienkirche was a well-known pilgrimage site , which, according to legend, was very popular because of a miraculous image of Mary that was brought there in 1291 . This was a welcome source of income for the nuns of the Marienberg monastery in Helmstedt , who held a fair at the Marienkirche. Pilgrims came, often laden with heavy chains of penance, to lay their burden at the feet of the miraculous. In order to mark the pilgrimage church as such, the outside niche was created before 1334 - at that time the church and chapel were already connected - and a stone statue of Our Lady was placed in it. It still radiates a reflection of the ecclesiastical and cultic importance of Küblingen in the later Middle Ages. The hereditary burial of the von Streithorst, the patrons of Gut Küblingen, is located in the church tower.
Building description
The flat-roofed nave (now the chapel of the dead) is the oldest part of the church. To the east, separated since 1720 and with its own south portal, there is a Gothic vaulted choir square; a brick shows the year 1479. The continuous bar walls of the portal match this date. The capitals with their applied foliage point to the early 14th century. The choir is followed to the north by a rectangular yoke with a ridged vault, on this, facing east, the two-yoke rib-vaulted chapel for the worship of the miraculous image. This is apparently the document named 'Clus'. In the corner between the nave and the northern extension is the burr-vaulted sacristy , in the south wall of which there is a conspicuous, ogival niche.
Church description 1907
“The village of Küblingen, located near Schöppenstedt, has a strangely built church. It consists of two wings that meet at right angles; The altar is at this angle, and above it is the pulpit. Since the men sit in one wing and the women in the other, both can see the preacher, but not each other. In the Middle Ages, many people made a pilgrimage to Küblingen because they believed that a stone image of the Virgin Mary at the church there could do miracles and heal the sick ” (Friedrich Bosses Kleine Braunschweigische Landeskunde)
Interior
A bronze Romanesque crucifix from around 1100 stands on the table of the baroque pulpit altar in Regency style (restrained Baroque style around 1720). Like the altar, it is set up diagonally in the northwest corner of the chapel so that both parts of the "corner church" set up at the time can be seen be. The Küblinger crucifix, cast in bronze , is one of the oldest pictorial representations of the crucified in the Braunschweig region. A related piece from Räbke am Elm is in the Wolfenbüttel Museum. On the north wall of the church hangs the old triumphal cross , an expressive late Gothic work of the "soft style" carved in oak from around 1430. In this work, according to the late medieval conception, Christ is depicted as the suffering man during the high Middle Ages of the Romanesque period Depicts Christ alive on the cross, calmly, without traces of suffering, with open eyes, as on the aforementioned lecture cross.
There is also a silver-gold-plated communion chalice from the baroque era . The cuppa is framed by a driven cuff with buxom angel heads. The cast nodus shows gnarled mask work with a female mythical creature, at the foot again chased angel heads appear between fruit hangings. It is a work by the Danzig goldsmith Ernst Kadau I (died 1679). Its founder was Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Ulrich von der Streithorst and his wife. The wafer box, an oval silver-chipped box with characteristic baroque tulips, is particularly finely crafted. Its maker is a hitherto undetermined Augsburg master HB in the 2nd half of the 17th century.
The epitaph (memorial plaque) of the war and domain councilor Johann Christ von Lohse (died 1745) on the south wall of the “chapel” dates from the Rococo period , in the middle of the 18th century . This work impresses with the delicacy of the material (white alabaster for the figurative, blue-gray marble for the rest). The winged, bearded god removes the curtain from the tablet with an elegant movement so that posterity can recognize the mourning for the deceased. On the sarcophagus-like lower part lies a grieving mother with two children, in the essay a female figure looking up plaintively at the sky, next to her a smoking ash urn. This epitaph, one of the most attractive Rococo works in Northern Germany, is the work of the Brunswick court sculptor Johann Heinrich Oden.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 42.3 " N , 10 ° 47 ′ 14.2" E