Augustinian monastery in Koenigsberg
The Augustinian Monastery in Königsberg is a former monastery of the Thuringian-Saxon Order of the Augustinian Hermits in Königsberg in Bavaria in Bavaria in the Diocese of Würzburg .
history
The monastery consecrated to Saint Mary was founded in 1363 with the confirmation of Urban V by Kunigunde von Sternberg. In 1366, Sophia, the widowed Margravine of Brandenburg, waived all feudal obligations from the monastery, and she also donated an altar. The monastery received further funding from Sophia, Countess von Henneberg and widow of Burgrave Albrecht von Nürnberg. The construction of the church building was completed in 1391. The monastery received multiple rights and funds from noblemen from the vicinity of the monastery, including from the house of Truchseß von Wetzhausen , Kilian Truchsess and his wife and Hartung Truchsess zum Ebersberg. This also financed the expansion of the church.
In 1368 Heinrich de Augea (Aub) was elected first prior at a provincial chapter in Gotha. Most of the monks of the monastery were active in pastoral care in the vicinity. The convention committed itself to strict observance at an early stage, but the reform movement of the order remained controversial. Martin Luther is said to have visited the monastery in 1518. Last seven monks lived in Königsberg, their last prior Georg Büttner left the order in 1524 and became the first Protestant pastor of Rügheim . During the Peasants' War in 1525, the already dilapidated monastery was plundered, which probably also prompted most of the monks to leave it. The last resident of the monastery was the administrator Nikolaus Fleischmann in 1528, the year it was dissolved.
The building became the property of the Lords of Coburg and fell into disrepair over time, the cloister was still visible in 1610. Today only an old stone wall of the complex is preserved opposite the evangelical cemetery chapel St. Burkhard.
Web links
- Augustinian monastery Königsberg , basic data and history: Königsberg Augustinians - early partisans of Martin Luther (author: Erich Schneider) in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '2.4 " N , 10 ° 34' 5.5" E