Cathedral
852 |
Canoness foundation convent in Brunshausen by Count Liudolf of Saxony |
856 |
Start of Building of the first Cathedral by Hathumod, daughter of Liudolf(see family tree of Saxons). Also the following two canoness had been children of Liudolf. |
877 |
The chapter got the protection of the holy roman empire |
885 |
The Convent moves from Brunshausen to the new Cathetral (chapter church) |
919 |
Confirmation of empire's protection by Heinrich I. Gandersheim was the most important ottonian family chapter. Many kings and emperors stayed here. |
926 |
Consecration of the western tower |
935 -973 |
First German poetess lived, studied and wrote in the convent |
973 |
Big fire and new construction of the new western Cathedral |
1007 |
Consecration of the Ottonian chapter church |
1081 |
The Ottonian church burned, quickly afterwards rhe crypta was built |
1100 |
Begin of the construction of the cathedral as we know it |
1106 |
Pope Innozenz III frees the convent from the ppowerof the archbishop of Hildesheim. Abbesses get imperial princesses |
1125 |
Last Salien king dies. The importance of the convent declines. |
1159 |
Gandersheim first mentioned as town. |
1172 |
Consecration of the 4th late Romanesque chapter church. |
1275 |
Brunschwik dukes get mor and more power over the Chapter. |
1329 |
Gandersheim citizens buy their independence from the chapter AbbessFirst Town hall is built |
1402 |
First time a brunschwik princess get abbess (Sophia III.) |
1513 |
Oldest still maintained bell is casted |
1542 |
Convent gets protestant (Occupied by the Smalcaldian Alliance) |
1543 |
Iconoclsm by protestant evangelische fanatics (Pictures and altars are destroyed) |
1545 |
Duke Heinrich the younger takes back catholic faith Altars and Church is renovated |
1568 |
Reformation is introduced finally by Duke Julius of Brunschwik. |
1580 |
Large fire destroys more than one third of all buildings. Town Hall and Market church are damaged |
1583 |
Town Hall is rebuild in the Weser Renaissance style |
1693 |
Henriette Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel gets abbess. The convent flourishes a second time - now in Baroque style |
1695- 1707 |
Renovation of the dilapidated High Chorús of the cathedral |
1713-1766 |
Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie of Sachsen-Meiningen. Under her leadership the convent marks a second highlightt. She is said to be the most important postreformatoric abbess. Her sarcophag made of marble is in the cathedral. |
1810 |
Last abbess which was tolerated bei Napoleon I dies. The duke of Brunschwik doesn't restore the convent any more. |
since 1959 |
Cathedral every year is background for the festival at the cathedral |
1997 |
Parts of the old temple tresure are found with holy relics, textils and shrines. |
2006 |
Treasures are displayed in the exhibition "Portal to history" |
Today |
The convent is used by the ProtestantLutheran Regional Church. |
