Agneskloster Mainz

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The Agneskloster in Mainz (No. 13) at “Diebsmarckt” (No. 24), today's Schillerplatz , Merian 1646; the view is west.
View of the monastery towards the end of the 18th century

The Agneskloster Mainz (also: Agnesenkloster , Agnetenkloster or St. Agnes Monastery ) was from 1259 to 1802 a monastery first of the Cistercian women , from 1605 of the Augustinian women on today's Schillerplatz in Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The Beguines who have been working at the Mainz Heilig-Geist-Spital since the beginning of the 13th century became Cistercian in 1259 (under the supervision of Eberbach Monastery ) and with the help of local donors built the monastery and church of St. Agnes on today's Schillerplatz (reference 1275). The church occupied the beginning of what is now Ludwigsstrasse and the monastery extended to the ball court and the rear Presence Alley. In the second half of the 16th century, these monastery rooms were only populated with a few Cistercian women and were even completely empty until 1582. Then the empty monastery was settled by Augustinian women from the Augustinian Choir Monastery of St. Peter in Kreuznach , who had to leave their monastery because of the Reformation. Archbishop Johann Schweikhard von Kronberg finally transferred the monastery to them in 1605. Among the Augustinians, the church was considered one of the most pleasant in the city. In the course of the secularization initiated by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the monastery was dissolved in 1802 and the church was demolished in 1809. The monastery buildings from 1716 were also lost due to renovations and the effects of the war (most recently in 1942). A replica of the foreign building forms the beginning of Ludwigsstraße today . The protective cloak Madonna , located in the church of St. Martin of Mainz-Finthen and attributed to the master with the bib , presumably comes from the monastery, as do the high altar figures in the parish church in Oppenheim . A late medieval Vesper picture burned on one of the first nights of bombing in St. Quintin.

literature

  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 C.
  • Sebastian Brunner (Ed.): A book of Cistercians . Woerl, Vienna 1881 / Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, p. 619.
  • Ernst Neeb : The art monuments of the city and the district of Mainz. Vol. 2: The ecclesiastical art monuments of the city of Mainz. Part II: Existing and missing Mainz churches. 1. Delivery: AG . Hessischer Staatsverlag, Darmstadt 1940, pp. 1–5.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 578.
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 410.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the daughter monasteries of Eberbach Monastery
  2. ↑ The traditional adoration and the former guardians of the painful Mother of God at St Quintin in Mainz. Reprint of the Catholic church newspaper. 1911.
  3. ↑ The traditional adoration and the former guardians of the painful Mother of God at St Quintin in Mainz. Reprint of the Catholic church newspaper. 1911.

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 5.4 ″  E