Heilsbronn Abbey
The monastery Heilsbronn is a former Cistercian abbey in Heilsbronn in Franconia. Today the buildings house including the Catechetical Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
History
Bishop Otto I of Bamberg founded the monastery 1132. From 1297 to 1625 the cathedral was the place of the grave of Hohenzollern. After the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved in 1578. The convent school is transformed into a 1582 Prince's School, which was in 1737 united with the High School Ansbach. One of the first graduates of the newly founded school was the famous scholar Friedrich deaf man. After the termination of the lay church of St. Catherine in 1773 was built on its foundations of Catherine tower (also called Dicker Turm ). Now houses the city library and the local museum in it. The cloister and some other parts of the church were redesigned from 2009 to 2010. This restructuring included, among other things, a new three-shell fountain made of glass and the transformation of the way.
Attractions
The monastery church was built from 1132 to 1139 in the Romanesque style, but was soon converted gothic and extended. The nave, the north aisle, parts of the transept and the chancel have been preserved from the Romanesque building. Changes that took place in the Baroque period, especially, were reversed after the Second World War. Here, the initial state has been largely restored.
On the stone pulpit of the former monastery church of the cathedral, an imperial eagle stone is depicted standing over the figures of the evangelists on a ( world) ball. Today it is covered by a cloth. Interesting in this context is that the design for this pulpit from 1942 comes, the actual implementation but only in 1946 was held.
The late-Gothic main altar is attributed to the circle of artists around Michael Wolgemut. Laterally in the choir there is a also a late Gothic tabernacle.
In the nave, which still shows the forms of the Romanesque, are the grave sites of several Elector of Brandenburg and Margrave of Ansbach.
As an important example of early Gothic monastery architecture from the first quarter of the 13th century, the former refectory of the monks has been retained; it has a vaulted ceiling and Romanesque and early Gothic ornaments and now serves as a meeting place of the Protestant church.
Organ
The organ was built in 2006 by the company Lutz wet cheeks. The abrasive loading instrument has 35 registers on three manuals and pedal. The third manual work has only one register and is designed as Continuowerk, and has a transposing between 415 Hz, 440 Hz and 465 Hz mood is the organ by Neidhardt. The play and Registertrakturen are electric.
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