Augustinian monastery in Würzburg

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The Augustinian monastery in Würzburg is a monastery of the Augustinian hermits in Würzburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .

history

The Augustinian monastery, consecrated to St. George, was founded in 1262 by Father Guido Salanus. One of the Augustinian hermits was a doctor named Heinrich, who after his death in 1381 was given a tombstone in the choir of the Augustinian church that existed until 1824 in today's Augustinerstraße.

The monastery of the Augustinian Hermits was not abolished in the course of secularization in 1803. This was probably not done because the Bavarian authorities feared that if the monastery was dissolved, its bank balance in Vienna could be confiscated by the Austrian authorities. (The Würzburg mendicant orders of the “Reuerer” Carmelites , the Franciscans and the Capuchins on the Käppele were also spared from the secularization .) Grand Duke Ferdinand , who had become Grand Duke of Würzburg in 1806 , confirmed the existence by decree of December 4, 1806 of the monastery.

In 1813 the building of the Augustinian monastery in today's Augustinerstraße was converted into a military hospital and also housed a teachers' seminar. The Augustinians had to vacate the building. They moved into the secularized, largely empty Dominican monastery on today's Dominikanerplatz. Antonius Lauck (1752–1827), the prior of the Augustinians, had requested it from Grand Duke Ferdinand. The former Dominican monastery was initially left to the Augustinians as temporary accommodation; later the convent was able to acquire the property. On October 1, 1813, the Augustinians held their first service in the newly occupied building.

After Würzburg fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria following a resolution by the Congress of Vienna , the Bavarian government had the Augustinian monastery closed in 1818. His fortune was added to the Augustinian monastery in Munich . The old Augustinian Church was demolished in 1824.

In 1828 the government approved an Augustinian hospice dependent on Münnerstadt, which in 1847 became an independent priory again.

In the years 1958/1959 Augustinians took over the pastoral care of the parish of St. Bruno in Steinbachtal. At that time, a new Augustinian monastery (St. Bruno) was established there, which also housed the Eastern Church Institute of the Augustinians and an Augustinian Institute.

literature

  • Wolfgang Weiß : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: pp. 430 and 435 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 1, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1967, pp. 38 and 96.
  2. ^ 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. 404.
  3. ^ Bruno Rottenbach: Würzburg street names. Volume 2, Franconian Society Printing Office, Würzburg 1969, p. 53 ( Antonius-Lauck-Straße ).
  4. Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 463–469: Under the sign of reconstruction - Julius Döpfner's time as Bishop of Würzburg (1948–1957). P. 466.

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '47.2 "  N , 9 ° 55' 54.8"  E