Agnetenkloster Würzburg

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The Agnetenkloster Würzburg is a former monastery of the Poor Clares in Würzburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .

history

The monastery consecrated to St. Agnes was founded in 1250. The Clariss Monastery of St. Agnes then emerged from a Bartholomäusklause located in the area of ​​today's Hofgarten . Some of the beguines who ran this were given to the Order of St. John by Pope Innocent IV in 1254. Damian, from which the Order of the Poor Clares arose in 1263. The Poor Clare Monastery was abolished in 1560 by Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Wirsberg . Jesuits received the building in 1567 . From 1765 to 1798 the St. Michaelskirche was built in place of the St. Agneskirche .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Kolb: The hospital and health system. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1, 2001, p 386-409 and 647-653, here: p. 400.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '25.79 "  N , 9 ° 56' 4.8"  E