Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen

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Market Place with the Red Tower, the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen and a statue of Handel
Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen celebrated its 450th anniversary in 2004.

The Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen ("Market Church of Our Dear Lady") is a church in the centre of the city of

Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
, Germany. It was built between 1529 and 1554 and is the most recent of the city's medieval churches. In German, its official name is shortened to Liebfrauenkirche but it is also referred to as Marienkirche (St. Mary's Church) and the Marktkirche (Market Church).

The church replaced two former churches in the market area, their towers were integrated into the new building. The Market Church is considered one of the most important buildings of the late Gothic period in central Germany. Its four towers, together with the Red Tower, are the landmark of the city, hence its nickname "Stadt der fünf Türme" (City of the Five Towers).

Reformation into Halle, and his friend Martin Luther preached in the church. George Frideric Handel was baptized here and received his first organ lessons. Johann Sebastian Bach inspected the new organ, and his son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was an organist. The beginnings of both pietism and Enlightenment
were connected to the church. Little damaged in World War II, the church is today a historic protected monument.

History

The Market Church was built between 1529 and 1554 at the location of two predecessors, St. Gertrude and St. Mary. The Church of St. Gertrude to the west dated from 11th century and was the church of the salt makers in the center of Halle on the Hallmarkt, the salt market. The St. Mary's Church to the east dated from the 12th century and had been the parish church of the merchants and tradesmen of this mining town on the Marktplatz, the market square.

Albert of Brandenburg in his study (1526), by Lucas Cranach the Elder

Cardinal

cemeteries surrounding the churches. A new burial site was chosen – the Martinsberg, a hill outside the town – and the Stadtgottesacker cemetery was laid out. This cemetery with 94 arches, designed by Nickel Hoffman, is a masterpiece of the Renaissance
.

Construction history

From 1529 to 1530 the old nave of St. Gertrude was demolished. What remained were the Blue Towers dating from around 1400, with their spires, which had been added in 1507 and 1513. On the east side the Watchmen's Towers (Hausmanntürme) of St. Mary's, with Late Romanesque bases and Renaissance upper stories, dating from 1551 to 1554, were linked by a bridge for the watchmen, who in case of fire and danger alerted the inhabitants by the ringing of the bells. Today, the watchman's room (Hausmannsstube) can be viewed on certain occasions.

Martin Luther, portrait by
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1529
Justus Jonas in the Cranach family register, 1543

The new church built between the two pairs of towers is the last great hall church of the

matroneum
. The church was built in two phases, the first from 1530 to 1539 and, after a short interruption, the second from 1542 to 1554.

Subsequent history

The Market Church, which had been built to defend against the spread of

lay in repose in Halle during his funeral procession from Eisleben to Wittenberg. In the same year Jonas was banished by Maurice, Elector of Saxony
and left the city.

In 1625, during the

Wallenstein invaded the city; the inhabitants paid him almost a million Gulden a year for not housing his soldiers.[3] When Samuel Scheidt
lost his job because of Wallenstein, he was appointed in 1628 as musical director over three churches in Halle, including the Market Church.

Handel and the Bach family

The small organ
The main organ

On 24 February 1685, Handel was baptized in the Market Church. The small organ above the altar, built between 1663 and 1664, a replacement for an earlier model and not replaced since, is one of the oldest in Central Germany; the young Handel received his first organ lessons from Friedrich Zachau, who was in service since 1684.[4]

In 1713,

Pachelbel, had composed two cantatas for the occasion.[7]

Musicologists debate whether Bach's earliest extant Christmas cantata Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63, with two choruses and two duets, but no arias or chorale, on text probably written by the Halle theologian J.M. Heineccius was premiered here in 1713 or in 1715,[8][9][10] or if it was performed for the bicentennial of the Reformation in 1717.[11]

From 1746 to 1764, his son

Kantor, Johann Gottfried Mittag, "who had misappropriated money due to Bach". In 1753 he made his first documented attempt to find another post, and thereafter made several others. W.F. Bach had at least two pupils, Friedrich Wilhelm Rust and Johann Samuel Petri. In June 1764, Friedemann left the job in Halle without any employment secured elsewhere. In 1768 he re-applied for his old job in Halle, without success. In or around 1770 he moved to Braunschweig and applied as a church organist.[12]

Pietism vs Early Enlightenment

Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten, minister

In 1728, the 22-year-old

bibliophile, was appointed as minister of the church. In 1734 he became professor in theology and in 1748 rector of the Halle University. At the end of his life he translated encyclopedic articles or biographies from English into German, for example Samlung von merkwürdigen Lebensbeschreibungen grösten Theils aus der Britannischen Biographie (Collection of remarkable descriptions of lives mostly from Britain biography), published in 1757.[13]

At the end of the 17th century, two important movements started in Halle which influenced many people during the 18th century:

Friedrich's Universität, which was located next to the Market Church in the former Weigh house.[citation needed
]

On 12 July 1723,

Jonathan I. Israel "the conflict became one of the most significant cultural confrontations of the eighteenth century and perhaps the most important of the Enlightenment in Central Europe and the Baltic countries before the French Revolution."[18]

What happened in Halle should not be seen as an isolated case, but as trendy and fashionable. Around 1720

manufactory had been started up to copy it and Chinoiserie
was popular among artists and buyers. In 1726 Wolff published his Discours, in which he again mentioned the importance of listening to music put on pregnant Chinese women, and had reworded some on Moses. In 1736 a research was started to evaluate the case and in 1740 (or 1743) Wolff was reappointed by the philosopher-king Frederick the Great. It is possible the eminent professor, in between a member of the Royal Society and the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, introduced Wilhelm Friedemann Bach to the Prussian court.[citation needed]

In 1840 and 1841, the layout of the altar area was changed based on plans by Wilhelm August Stapel and Karl Friedrich Schinkel.[citation needed] The historical artist, Julius Hübner painted a new altarpiece of the Sermon on the Mount with the text Schaut die Lilien ("Consider the lilies" or "Look at the lilies").[19]

After World War II

Westside from the Hallmarkt. The fact that the western pair of towers are slightly crooked has its origin in a tectonic fault, called the Halle Marketplace fault.
Eastside from the market

The Market Church has not undergone any permanent changes to its external and internal appearance over its history. During the

East German period. The work was conducted under the direction of the Institute for the Preservation of Historic Monuments. (Institut für Denkmalpflege). It was decided to restore, as far as possible, its appearance in the 16th century. For example, even the original polyptych was returned to its old spot and Hübner's altarpiece was brought out of the sacristy
and displayed behind it.

Marian Library

The Market Church itself houses a library, the Marian Library (Marienbibliothek), which is considered to be one of the oldest and largest church libraries in Germany, founded in 1552 by Sebastian Boetius, senior pastor of the church. Until the establishment of the

Philipp Jakob Spener – the lectures were not held in Latin, but in German – it was the only public (or non-private) academic library in the city.[21]
Students were encouraged to visit this library.

Museum

In memory of the Reformation and Martin Luther, a small Luther Museum was established in the basement of the Blue Towers in May 2006. Amongst the objects on display are the death mask made of him on 19 February 1546 and impressions of his hands.[22]

References

  1. ^ Kowalski, J. "Die Sanierung der Hausmannstürme" (in German). Aki Halle. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  2. ^ "Die Beziehungen des Reformators Martin Luther zu Halle" (in German). Buergerstiftung Halle. Archived from the original on July 7, 2017. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
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  4. ISBN 978-0-8357-1833-2
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  5. ^ Koster, Jan. "Weimar (II) 1708–1717". University of Groningen. Archived from the original on March 28, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  6. ISBN 978-0-520-21414-9
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  7. ^ "Gottfried Kirchhoff (Composer) – Short Biography". Bach-Cantantas. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  8. ^ "Cantata BWV 63 Christen, ätzet diesen Tag Discussions – Part 1". Bach-Cantantas. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  9. ^ "Johann Michael Heineccius (Librettist)". Back-Cantantas. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  10. ^ Finscher, Ludwig (1976). Das Kantatenwerk. Harnoncourt and Leonhardt. p. 31.
  11. ^ John Eliot Gardiner (2010). "Cantatas for Christmas Day – Herderkirche, Weimar" (PDF). Bach-Cantatas. p. 1. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  12. ^ "Über den Freundeskreis". Wfbach.de. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-01-02.
  13. ^ Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob; Johann David Schleuen; Johann Salomo Semler (1757). Samlung von merkwürdigen Lebensbeschreibungen grösten Theils aus... Vol. 4. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  14. ^ Wolf, C. (1985). Michael Albrecht (ed.). Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica/Rede über die praktische Philosophie der Chinesen. Philosophische Bibliothek (in German). Hamburg, Germany: Felix Meiner Verlag. p. XXXIX.
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  16. ^ "Auditorium Maximum der Universität Halle" (in German). Rathausseite. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
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  19. ^ "Hübner Rudolf Julius Benno" (in German). Sächsische Biografie. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  20. ^ Kroll, Renate (1978). Schicksale deutscher Baudenkmale im zweiten Weltkrieg (in German). Vol. 2. Berlin: Henschelverlag. p. 385.
  21. ^ "Die Marienbibliothek in Halle" (in German). EKMD Online. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  22. ^ "Martin Luther's Death Mask on View at Museum in Halle, Germany". Art Daily. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

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