reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches
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Erfurt Cathedral
The Choir Stalls. The oak for these 89 stalls was felled in 1329. The stalls are reckoned to date from about 1360-
@Praxiteles wrote:
Erfurth Cathedral:
Gunter! is this what you are looking for?
Perfect 🙂
I could have got the same view myself, but it would have involved climbing to the top of a bungee-jump crane and that was never goin’ to happen.
Erfurt is very interesting from an urban intervention point of view, because apparently there was a serious fire in the 19th century which took out the city block below the building with the red tiled roof and the city authorities decided to use the opportunity to amalgamate two smaller city squares into the one vast square that exists today.
This created a huge space for festivals (and bungee-jump cranes) but the Dom and the other church, with the three little spires, are now a bit lost on the edge of the vast space and they don’t dominate in the way that they must have done originally.
I must try to get more information on this, could be useful when considering the qualities that make for great urban spaces. Probanly a bit OT for this thread.
Erfurt Cathedral
Another important aspect of the Cathedral is its bell peal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWU1RMH44o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41DaCFo4bmU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOkQeUBOTLg&feature=related
Ah! This is what I was looking for:
The Dom was too easy 🙂 what’s ye got on this one?
It’s over the other side of town, don’t have anything on it.
Gunter!
Praxiteles thinks that it might be the Franciscan church which was bombed during the war and only partially restored. If its is, then the chancel -which is roofed – has important medieval galss depicting the passion of Our Lord and the life of St. Francis (the usual Franciscan assimilaton of Christ and St. Francis). It should be near the Grafengasse and is also called the Barfuesserkirche.
The Franciscans made their foundation in Erfurt in 1224. The church was rebuilt inn 1291 and chancel and choir were built in 1316 (the present roofed section).
Franciscan Church in Erfurt:
Here are some plans and elevations of the church. On looking at them, you will notice a well defined rectangle wich was probably the early church of 1291 reflecting the building ordinances of the general Chapter of the order which forbade elaborate design and features such as towers or steeples. The same ordiances were regorously observed in ireland where the rectangular form survived well into the 14th century. This insistence on simplicoty was regarded as necessary for the Franciscan charism of povery.
With the growth of preaching in the 14th century, we find that Franciscan churches expanded. there were two favoured means of doing this: either by breaking down the north wall and adding an extra aisle (shich is what has happened here) or else by adding a huge transept on the south side. Building on the south side of Franciscan churches generally did not lend it self to aisles because the exterior of the church on the south side was usually occupied by a grave yard – roughly where the street is in Erfurt. the same is true of these early Irish foundations.
By the 14th century, especially in Britain and Ireland, it became customary for Franciscan churches to have bell towers sividing the chancel from the nave giving rise to what is now regarded (perhaps not quite so accurately) as typicaly Franciscan church architecture. Later Franciscan churches are readily identifiable by the cebntral bell tower feature. Earlier houses, however, are identifiable by the building of the later bell towers withing the original walls.
The Franciscan Church in Erfurt:
An example of the surviving glass from 1235 showing the adoration of the Magi and St Francis receiving the stigmata:
On the subject of the ground paln of Franciscan churches, here is a typical example Devenish, Co. Fermanagh
(scroll to page 192, figure 39)
On the subject of the building regulations for the churches of the Franciscans, the General Constitutions of 1260 laid down the norms and canons tht attempted to express the povrty and humility of St. Francis.
more from the Lorenzbasilika in Kempten, germany
http://germany.archiseek.com/bavaria/kempten/st_lorenz_basilika_interior.html
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