The Erlöserkirche at Bad Homburg was built between 1903 and 1908 at the instigation of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It combines a neo-Romanesque exterior with Norman-Sicilian mosaics inside. Both were „Germanic“ to the emperor, and the church embodied his all encompassing claim to the tradition of the medieval Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Alternatively, the contemporary Byzantinist Ernst Gerland pointed to a Byzantine origin of the Norman-Sicilian models (and thus subtly contradicted the „pan-Germanic“ myth). This „Byzantine“ reading has prevailed ever since, but does not stand up to scrutiny. It only serves to obscure the „pan-Germanic“ concept of the church. This contribution restores the „Germanic“ understanding and makes the point that the latter must be acknowledged in order to make proper sense of the church’s art and architecture, but also in order to face (rather than to downplay and conveniently forget) the racist-chauvinist character of German imperialism.

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“拜占庭式”或“德国式”？巴特洪堡的Zup Ambivalenz wilhelminischer Mosaiken am Beispiel derErlöserkirche

巴特洪堡的圣母教堂建于1903年至1908年，是威廉二世（Kaiser Wilhelm II）发起的。它结合了新罗马式外观和内部的诺曼·西西里马赛克。两者对皇帝都是“德国人”，教堂体现了他对德国民族中世纪神圣罗马帝国传统的全部主张。另外，当代拜占庭主义者恩斯特·格兰德（Ernst Gerland）指出了诺曼-西西里模式的拜占庭起源（因此与“泛德国”神话有微妙的矛盾）。此后，这种“拜占庭式”的读法一直盛行，但经不起审查。它仅能掩盖教堂的“泛德”概念。这一贡献恢复了对“德语”的理解，并指出必须承认后者，以便正确理解教会的艺术和建筑，