Poor Clare Monastery Bamberg

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On an old illustration by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg

The Poor Clare Monastery in Bamberg was a monastery of the Poor Clares in Bamberg . It was located within the city walls on Nonnenwörth an der Regnitz . Only the nuns bridge built in 1876 and the former servants' house at the entrance gate to the parking lot at Schillerplatz are reminiscent of the monastery .

Foundation and early history

The monastery was founded in 1341 by the orphan Katharina Zollner, her aunt Kunigunde Hubwann and her uncle Friedrich Zollner with the support of Konrad Groß, mayor of Nuremberg. The foundation confirmed Prince-Bishop Leopold II von Egloffstein in 1340 . The monastery was initially founded by eight nuns from the Poor Clare Convent in Nuremberg , and the founders and three other relatives also joined. Seventeen-year-old Katharina Zollner succeeded the first abbess in 1342 . In the Middle Ages the monastery was important, many noble women from Franconia entered there. The Bohemian Hussites were in 1430, so the Poor Clares for the first time for the sisters a great danger exam left and fled to Nuremberg. From there they took over the strict observance on their return .

Nuns of the monastery left descriptions of events in the region during the Peasants' War and at the time of the State War .

Building history and handicrafts

The Gregorian chant Puer natus est (German: a boy is born ) of the Christmas mass in square notation with the magnificently decorated and decorated initial P from the chorale book of the Poor Clare Monastery in Bamberg

The foundation stone for the building was laid in 1341, and construction of the monastery church began the following year. The exam was completed at the end of 1343. The first monastery church was completed in 1346, but in 1373 the building collapsed in a storm. In 1379 the newly built church was consecrated.

The monastery buildings with the cloister were west of the church. In addition, the convent had a burial chapel and a sisters' choir with its own altar. Documents about construction work carried out indicate that in the 15th century the monastery had a dormitory , a chapter house , an infirmary and a brewery. A tracery from the cloister is exhibited in the Bamberg Historical Museum , which shows the prosperity of the monastery. In the Bamberg State Picture Gallery there are eight altar panels from the life of St. Clare of Assisi , made around 1460 . Four chorale books from around 1500 have been preserved and are kept in the Bamberg State Library .

Abolition and demolition of the monastery

The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The property was auctioned; the sisters left the monastery the day after the Clarah feast.

The monastery building served as barracks from 1805 . In 1868 and 1874 the facility was renovated and expanded, but in 1876 it burned down. Rental apartments were set up in the remains of the monastery buildings. The church was used as a hay and straw store and was demolished in 1939.

History of the site after 1945

The land consolidation office, today the Office for Rural Development Upper Franconia, has been on the site since the mid-1950s. A fountain with depictions of the history of the monastery was created as an entrance decoration. The agricultural school was also built on the site . The area of ​​the former church was used by the officials as a large car park. The Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Bamberg has also been located here since 2018 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid. 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , pp. 199-206.

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 '20.1 "  N , 10 ° 53' 27.7"  E