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Heiligengrabe, Kloster Stift zum Heiligengrabe, Stiftskirche -- 2017 -- 9969
Taken on 5 May 2017, 16:56
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About this work
Altar in the Collegiate church, Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, Heiligengrabe, Brandenburg, Germany The monastery was founded in 1287 by the Ascanian Margrave Otto IV as a Cistercian convent and shortly afterwards occupied by nuns from the Neuendorf (Altmark) monastery. The collegiate church is part of the original monastery complex and was built as a single-nave hall church with ribbed vaulting and a polygonal choir, probably as early as the 14th or 15th century. Parts of the church were damaged during the Thirty Years’ War and later in a fire in 1719. After the fire in the 18th century, the interior layout was changed. Restoration of the roof structure and other components were important construction measures in 1890 and 1904. The redesigned gable was modeled on the neighboring Holy Sepulcher Chapel and was given a relief depicting the Jerusalem Cross. In the 20th century, despite political upheavals (the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, and the GDR), the church remained a place of Protestant community life.
