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St Mary's Cathedral, Fürstenwalde

Fürstenwalde Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral
Dom St. Marien
Dom zu Fürstenwalde
Fuerstenwalde St Marien.jpg
St. Mary's Cathedral, seen from south
Fürstenwalde Cathedral is located in Brandenburg
Fürstenwalde Cathedral
Fürstenwalde Cathedral
Location within Brandenburg
52°21′29″N 14°03′55″E / 52.35806°N 14.06528°E / 52.35806; 14.06528Coordinates: 52°21′29″N 14°03′55″E / 52.35806°N 14.06528°E / 52.35806; 14.06528
Location Fürstenwalde upon Spree
Country Germany
Denomination United Protestant
Previous denomination Lutheran before 1817
Roman Catholic before 11 April 1557
Membership 3,500
Website Website (German)
History
Former name(s) Town Church of St. Mary's
Stadtkirche Sankt Marien
Authorising papal bull 1385 (as cathedral)
Dedicated 31 October 1995 (reconstr.)
Consecrated 1470 (2nd bldg)
Architecture
Status proto-cathedral
Functional status parish church
Style Gothic architecture
Groundbreaking 12 April 1446 (2nd bldg)
Completed 1230 (1st bldg)
1475 (2nd bldg)
Demolished 1432 (1st bldg)
16-18 April 1945 (2nd bldg)
Specifications
Nave height 38 metres (125 ft)
Spire height 68 metres (223 ft)
Materials brick
Bells 3 (1 of 1774, 2 of 1956)
Administration
Parish St. Marien-Domgemeinde
Deanery Fürstenwalde-Strausberg
Synod Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia
Clergy
Dean Superintendent Frank Schürer-Behrmann
Senior pastor(s) Martin Haupt (presbyterial executive)
Pastor(s) Jörg Hemmerling
Laity
Music group(s) Domkantorei


The St. Mary's Cathedral is a United Protestant church in the town of Fürstenwalde upon Spree, Brandenburg, Germany. It was formerly the cathedral of the Bishopric of Lebus, which was a Catholic diocese before the Protestant Reformation. The building is owned and used by the United Protestant St. Mary's Cathedral Congregation which forms a parish within the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, an umbrella comprising mostly Lutheran, but also Calvinist and united Protestant congregations.

In 1373 Fürstenwalde upon Spree became the new seat of the cathedral of the see of Lebus, one of the three medieval dioceses of the March of Brandenburg. The cathedral, which is dedicated to Our Lady, was raised to cathedral of the diocese. In 1446, the cathedral was ransacked by Hussites. The attack was aimed at bishop John V of Lebus (), a strong critic of Jan Hus. After the Hussites laid the cathedral to waste, work began on building it anew. In 1517, bishop Dietrich von Bülow () commissioned the sculptor Franz Maidburg () to build a sacrament house (Sakramentshaus), a type of freestanding tabernacle that emerged from the German Gothic architecture of the late 14th to early 15th century.

This part of the cathedral's history is controversial, as some believe that Maidburg did not work on this cathedral. The cathedral weathered another attack during World War II, when it was almost completely destroyed. It has been rebuilt since then, but the interior has suffered too much damage to allow for complete restoration.


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