Brigittenkloster Stralsund

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The Marienkrone monastery was a monastery of the order of the Brigitten in Stralsund from 1421 to 1525.

location

The monastery was located at the chapel of St. Mary Magdalene in front of the Kniepertor. Today there is Mariakronstraße there . Remains of the foundations of the chapel have been preserved, otherwise no building remains are known.

history

In 1421 a new monastery was founded on the initiative of the City Council of Stralsund (after the Dominican and Franciscan monasteries ). For this purpose, nuns and monks were brought from the Brigittenkloster Marienwolde near Lübeck. They formed a double monastery in which they lived separately under one roof. In the following decades the monastery received extensive donations and foundations from citizens and the council.

In 1525 it was formally dissolved during the church breaking in Stralsund . The later mayor, Bartholomäus Sastrow, wrote around 1595 that when the closter was broken in the secret chambers and elsewhere, it was found that children's heads, even whole bodies, were stuck out and dug up .

In 1554, stones from the buildings were used to build the city's fortifications . In 1560, after the death of the last nun, the properties of the monastery were handed over to the Stralsund St. Annen-Stift, which was then called St. Annen und Brigitten .

In 1616 the last ruined building of the Brigittenkloster was demolished. New half-timbered houses were built there. There was still a Mariakronfriedhof in 1733 . In 1956, remains of the chapel's foundations were discovered during archaeological excavations.

literature

  • Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Volume 2. Stettin 1925. pp. 732-757 .
  • Ursula Creutz : Bibliography of the former monasteries and monasteries in the area of ​​the diocese of Berlin, the episcopal office of Schwerin and adjacent areas. 1988, pp. 207-209

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bartholomaeus Sastrow, ed. by Gottlieb Mohnike 1823, p. 52 .
  2. ↑ on a plan of Stralsund Fortress in the city archive, signature EI 12

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