The St. Paul's Cathedral is an outstanding monument of the Middle Ages and one of the most important churches in Westphalia. Many thousands of people looking at him day after day.
Plan Description:
a main entrance
2 paradise porch
3 nave
4 West choir
5 Southern aisle
6 John's Choir
7 ambulatory, Astronomical Clock
8 Stephen choir
9 Sacrament Chapel
10 North aisle
11 cloister, Domherrenfriedhof
12 Domkammer
A sanctuary
B Episcopal
C west choir with the new place of the grave bishops
D chapter house
E sacristy
F Lady Chapel
G Galensche chapels
data and facts to the bishop's church
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length of the Cathedral: 109 meters
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width (with Paradise lobby): 52.85 meters
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height of the north tower: 57.7 m
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height of the south tower: 55.5 meters
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height of the nave: 22.5 meters
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width of the nave: 28.3 meters
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Ostquerschiffes width: 43, 3 meters
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width of the west transept: 40.55 meters
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Number of seats: 700
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number of bells: 10
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largest bell: so-called "cardinal" bell "
7.6 t weight, 2.30 m in diameter from 1956
The cardinal bell - the largest bell in the
diocese - consecrated 1956th
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Exterior
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The gently rising Cathedral Hill is supported broadly and majestically enthroned at St. Paul's Cathedral. With its bright yellow walls Baumberger sandstone and green copper roof bil det he the historic center of Münster, the capital of Westphalia. Since the early Middle Ages, the cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Münster.
After Ludgerus n at the instance of Charles the Great 80 0 brought Christianity to Westphalia, and had built the first church, the Today's cathedral (after establishing a second Ottonian cathedral) is the third cathedral.
laid in 1225 Bishop Dietrich von Isenburg the Green d stone for the generous three-aisled basilica, which was consecrated in 1264 by Bishop Gerhard von der Mark.
destroyed in the Second World War, was the cathedral until 1956, rebuilt in the liturgical design of the choir with the community set the altar, he realized already ideas, which we ten years later the z iten Vatican Council should demand.
Paradise (outside)
The "Paradise" - Main entrance of St. Paul's Cathedral.
With its perfect already around 1200 towers , the long-stretched central nave and two transepts, the St. Paul's Cathedral, a typical Beis piel late Romanesque architecture.
The main entrance, the so-called paradise, and also show the southern front of the eastern Transept in the 16th Century redesigned extended and supplemented with sculptures. It was also in the this time the west facade remodeled late Gothic (after the second World War Romanized).
About Paradise, on the south wall of the western transept, however, a symbolic sculptural decoration is even visible from the building time of church. In the middle of the six-part Radfensters the powerful head of St. Paul, the principal patron of the cathedral and the diocese, the head of John the Baptist, who was in the cathedral especially revered, and Lion and Lamb from the Apocalypse of Johannesburg, symbolizing the natures of Christ.
on the southeast wall, however, are illustrations of a crane as a symbol of the good (vigilance) and a wolf as a symbol of evil.
The "Paradise" (inside)
The "Paradise" - the entrance hall of St. Pau-lus domes a n the south side.
the imagery of the gable to be seen in context with the underlying sculptural decoration of the Paradise lobby, which was at the time of the late Romanesque even more open.
In the lobby of Paradise had the court in Send Middle Ages its place in the 9th end of the ecclesiastical judge misconduct in the diocese since Century teaching.
perched above the double doors to Christ the Judge blessing rights and accompanies the book of life in his left, the statues of the apostles, as it will appear here as assessors of the court. Paul also with the sword as a patron of the Church (Henry Brabender, c. 1535) supports the idea of world judge, who judges the people. Paradise is like a Porta Coeli , a gate of heaven, through which it passes into the interior of the cathedral.
The name "Paradise" refers to the original state of paradise and the fall of man, which is also seen in connection with the court issue. A relief of the Fall (John Brabender, around 1540) was formerly attached to the outer portal.
nave and chancel
A look through the nave to the altar.
you step through the paradise through the nave, looking east, then opens up to visitors to the majestically proportioned space of Basilica, where the aisles all the church by soaring arches Scheid almost like an H the nave are connected. The architecture is already marked next round arches with pointed arches, which, imported from the Arab architecture in the 12th and 13 Kathedralbau the century opened up new opportunities for proportioning.
was originally in the sanctuary of the Baroque Hochalta r, as a large shrine with painted and carved wings (Adrian van den Boegart, Gerhard Gröninger 1619-1622) was created (today reliquaries in the treasury).
This altar shrine is Today in the historically oldest part, the western chorus. This is also part of the rich choir stalls are set up, so that every day in this area the church to pray Vespers. Today's high altar contains statues of the 14 Apostles Century from the shrine. It was designed in conjunction with
the full choir in the sanctuary concept and the attached cathedra of the bishop, who embodies his teaching post by the artist Emil Stephan around 1956.
Originally, the choir area by a rood screen and rood side (reliefs now in the treasury) from holding its own as a small architectural
rhalb rest of the cathedral Space separated. The Liturgy of the 40 aristocratic canons formed one of the main points of the Church's liturgy.
The treasures
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| The Plague Cross from the 14th Century in the north arm of Ostquerhauses. | |
equal the entrance stands the giant statue of Saint Christopher (Johann von Bocholt, 1627), which was normally mounted since the Middle Ages in the entrance area, since a quick glance at him before a sudden
should keep death.
One of the oldest sculptures is the great triumph of the Cross in the choir (to 1200), the Christ with open eyes and a long robe as the new High Priest and King of heaven is. The choir includes other sculptures by the Romanesque to the Baroque (evangelists, angels, saints Mari a and Joseph). On the side altars, which are also grave sites, were celebrated for centuries fairs and prayers.
was especially important to the people in
Middle Ages, the obtaining of eternal salvation. The foundation of the many precious epitaphs (grave monuments), and altars, decorate the walls of the nave to the south and north and also the pillars, have stress on the idea. Mostly they show the kneeling donor, who is involved in the sacred event and at the same time as it were, forever, with a presence in the liturgy of the cathedral.
The Astronomical Clock and Galen's chapels
A particularly valuable Ausstattungsstüc k is the Astronomical Clock, equipped by artist Ludger tom Ring, Dietrich Tzwyfel and Nicholas winds Maker and Johann von Aachen was manufactured from 1540 to 1542.
Do the epitaphs an overview of piety ideas from the Middle Ages to the time of the 18th Century, the Galensch en chapels are not simply a pious witness, but would also point also to the absolutist governance of the Prince Bishops in the Baroque period.
The three chapels were Galen's Christoph Bernhard von Galen after his victory over the city of Munster built 1661-1663 as a visible sign of his power. The city had rebelled against him. He had besieged and conquered it.
is in the chapel, the monumental tomb of the Prince-Bishop, by his court sculptor Johann Mauritz Gröninger 1677-1679 developed, in which the archbishop is included in the form of the so-called perpetual adoration in the test event with. At the same time, as if on stage, he presents his military victories over the city of Munster and in the struggle against the Turkish threat.
In one of Galen's chapels Clemens August buried by Galen, the "Lion of Munster, who after his elevation to bishop in 1933 brave over the entire period of the reign of the Nazis preaching against the abduction and killing of patients and the killing of cleric found and was constantly in danger of , arrested. He was elevated to cardinal in 1946, but died shortly afterwards.
The Astronomical Clock is a
special jewel
in Paulus.
Ostquerschiff, cloister, Domherrenfriedhof
The Domherrenfriedhof Paul's Cathedral.
located in the southern transept arm of Ostquerhauses the new organ (Klais, Bonn, 1984-1987), besides the extremely high quality late Baroque epitaph of the Provost Ferdinand von Plettenberg (1712-1713) with the moving scene of Christ on the Mount of Olives.
you go from there in the choir, so we look at the Astronomical Clock (bell clock game 12) and may consider a number of interesting statues of saints.
If you continue to the northern exit portal of the eastern transept, we see there the 14th so-called Plague Cross Century, and diagonally opposite the monumental tomb of the Prince-Bishop Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg (Johann Wilhelm and Johann Mauritz Gröninger 1707-1709), formerly in the choir.
From here you can reach through the wooden doors of the cloister, which was created 1390-1395 and inside the cemetery includes the canons. Attached to the cloister of the cathedral treasury, the major products of the craft of sculpture and painting from the 1200-year history of St. Paul's Cathedral is contains.
Text: Dr. Domkustos Udo Grote / Photo: Michael Bönte,
from the book "The Cathedral of Münster and
his art treasures," dialogue-Verlag, Münster 2000
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