St Andrew’s Collegiate Church

The Venerable Home of the City’s Museum 

The Romanesque basilica has three aisles and a straight (‘Worms’) chancel railing, but no cross aisle. Its was the collegiate church of St Andrew’s chapter. The first church was founded before AD1000 als a mountain convent off the city limits. In 1020 Bishop Burchard shifted the church to its present location. It was quite a penniless chapter and accordingly the building material was of poor quality.

Originally a Romanesque building, it was given Gothic windows after a fire in the year 1200. After being burnt down by the French army in 1689, reconstruction works began in 1761. In the wake of the secularisation under Napoleon St Andrew’s chapter was dissolved in 1800, and churches were used for worldly ends.

At that time, the windows in the basement were broken out to replace them by round arches. However, this was not done to let in more light, but to create a gateway for the fire brigade, which had their horse and cart sheltered in the former church. The municipal hearse also had its place there.

From 1930, the building has been the base of the Museum of the City of Worms and restored bit by bit since 2007.

text source: regionalgeschichte.net

Address

St Andrew’s collegiate church
Weckerlingplatz 7
67547 Worms

St Andrew’s collegiate church on the … city map (German).
 

Contact

Museum der Stadt Worms im Andreasstift
Weckerlingplatz 9
67547 Worms

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e-mail museum@worms.de
website www.museum.worms.de