Antoniterkloster Memmingen

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the main entrance of the Antoniterkloster Memmingen

The Antoniterkloster Memmingen (also Antonierkloster) is a former monastery of the Antonites in Memmingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg. It is the best-preserved four-winged Antonite monastery in the world.

history

Antoniterkloster inner courtyard, on the right the city library, on the left the café

The monastery, consecrated to St. Martin , was granted patronage rights to the Martinskirche , one of the two Memmingen parish churches, on April 21, 1214 by Emperor Friedrich II . The monastery received its first donations before 1235. The friars' first hospital in Memmingen was probably located between today 's teaching church for children and the St. Martin's church.

The Memmingen house was one of the financially weaker houses in the Holy Roman Empire , despite its considerable collection area, which reached as far as Moravia . As early as 1378 and 1379, plans were made to build their own chapel, but this could not be realized due to the poor financial situation of the monastery. It was not until 1391 that the order started building activity. Under the Preceptor Jean Barrucher from Crémieu , who had headed the General Preceptory Memmingen since 1382, a house was acquired on January 4, 1391, which was directly adjacent to his home, in order to create the Antonius Chapel from this building complex. At the same time, a new hospital was built on the site of today's Antoniterkloster. In the middle of the 15th century, the abbot Petrus Mitte de Caprariis (1439–1479) began building the four-wing complex that was still in existence.

From 1527 to 1549, due to the events of the Reformation , the Preceptory came under the administration of the City Council, and in 1562 it was finally handed over to the city. The well-preserved preceptor building, later called Zur Eintracht , was first used as an Evangelical Lutheran parsonage with a library, from 1804 to 1814 as a barracks and then went into private ownership. The monastery church was outside the monastery walls. It has historical paintings and frescoes and serves as a so-called children's teaching church.

The twelve-year renovation was completed in 1996. This had become necessary because the owner at the time let the former monastery deteriorate. Today the Antonier and Strigel museums , which are dedicated to the Strigel family of artists from Memmingen , the city library and a café are located in the rooms of the former monastery.

literature

The Antoniterkloster laterally out of town
  • Uli Braun, Adalbert Mischlewski, Andreas Schlank, Claus Giersch, Ingrid Stetter, Markus Weis, Hans Reuter, Dieter Schütz, Franz Debold, Michael Dapper, Hans-Wolfgang Bayer: The Antonierhaus in Memmingen - contributions to history and restoration . In: City of Memmingen and Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (ed.): Workbooks of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . tape 84 . Munich 1996, ISBN 3-87490-646-9 .

Web links

Commons : Antoniterkloster Memmingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of the museums in the Antoniterkloster. Retrieved April 11, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Engelhard: Antonier- und Kinderlehrkirche Memmingen . Introduction. Ed .: Historical Association Memmingen. Memmingen 2013, DNB  1043910638 , p. 7 .
  3. ↑ Uli Braun among others: The Antonierhaus in Memmingen. 1996, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Uli Braun among others: The Antonierhaus in Memmingen. 1996, p. 14.
  5. ↑ Uli Braun among others: The Antonierhaus in Memmingen. 1996, pp. 14-15.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 42.6 ″  E