Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary

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St. Maria Monastery, Fulda
Monastery church St. Maria and monastery from Heertorplatz / Schloßstraße with monastery wall. To the left is the gable of the former state central bank Fulda, a three-storey building in the neo-Renaissance style from 1901/1902.
Monastery church St. Maria and monastery from Heertorplatz / Schloßstraße with monastery wall. To the left is the gable of the former state central bank Fulda, a three-storey building in the neo-Renaissance style from 1901/1902.
location Nonnengasse 16
Lies in the diocese Diocese of Fulda
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '10.8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 38.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '10.8 "  N , 9 ° 40' 38.3"  E
Patronage St. Mary
Mother of God
founding year 1626 by Benedictine nuns
Congregation Beuron Congregation since 1982
Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary (Latin Abbatia ad Sanctam Mariam Fuldensis ) is a monastery founded in 1626 by the Benedictine nuns in the city center of Fulda . The monastery buildings with the monastery shop are located at Nonnengasse 16.

The nuns run several handicraft workshops and a monastery shop . The 2000 square meter monastery garden, in which the nuns grow fruit, vegetables and herbs, is well known.

history

The foundation stone for the construction of the church and the monastery was laid in 1626 by the Fulda abbot Johann Bernhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg . The monastery was occupied in 1631 by four Benedictine women from the Kühbach Abbey near Augsburg. The first prioress was Salome von Pflaumern from 1631 . The early decades were marked by great hardship because of the Thirty Years' War ; the sisters had to flee from enemy troops several times, and the monastery was plundered again and again. It remained dependent on the Fulda Monastery until its secularization in 1802 .

The monastery was able to escape the threat of secularization in 1804 by taking over a girls' school. During the Kulturkampf , the sisters had to go into French exile from 1875 to 1887. After their return in 1898 the monastery was owned by Pope Leo XIII. raised to the abbey .

During the time of National Socialism in 1942, it was possible to prevent the sisters from being expelled again by making part of the buildings available to the Wehrmacht and later accommodating bombed out and war refugees from the Second World War in the monastery walls. A bomb hit in 1944 destroyed the roofs and windows. In the 1950s, new windows were installed and the interior of the church was modernized.

After a long period of rapprochement with the Beuron congregation , the abbey was finally accepted into the congregation in 1982. In the years 2007/2007 the facilities as well as the convent building were thoroughly renovated and on June 28, 2007 the newly built St. Lukas House was inaugurated.

Monastery church

The monastery church , which was built between 1629 and 1631 - popularly known as the "nuns' church" - was built in the late Gothic and Renaissance styles and has a striking west facade, which is characterized by large pointed arched windows and a Renaissance gable . Lioba Munz OSB , who was a nun of the abbey from 1934 until her death in 1997, designed the enamel altar in the choir apse , the triumphal cross and the right side altar. She also designed the glass windows.

Gallery:

  • Fulda - St. Maria Abbey, Schild.JPG

  • West view of the abbey

  • Abbey shop

  • Monastery garden of the abbey

  • Sanctuary

  • Gallery

literature

  • Candida Elvert: Fulda, St. Maria . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and others: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hessen (Germania Benedictina 7 Hessen), Eos, St. Ottilien 2004, pp. 480-511. ISBN 3-8306-7199-7 .
  • Conny Gies: Behind high monastery walls - Abbey of St. Maria . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0425-0 , pp. 77-81.

Web links

Commons : Abtei zur Hl. Maria (Fulda)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Conny Gies: Behind high monastery walls - Abbey of St. Mary . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, pp. 77–81. here p. 79.
  2. ↑ Conny Gies: Behind high monastery walls - Abbey of St. Mary . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, pp. 77–81. here p. 77.
  3. ↑ a b Conny Gies: Behind high monastery walls - Abbey of St. Mary . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, pp. 77–81. here p. 78.
  4. ^ Conny Gies: Lioba Munz - artist in religious dress . In: Susanne Bohl and others (ed.): Fulda. 50 treasures and specialties . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2016, pp. 82–85.