Dominican convent of St. Ursula (Augsburg)

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The monastery of St. Ursula

The Dominican convent of St. Ursula is a convent of the Dominican sisters in Augsburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg . It was founded in 1335 and rebuilt in 1828 after secularization.

description

The monastery contains a girls' secondary school. To the east it borders on the Augsburg city wall , of which a 100 m long piece has been preserved. Immediately in front of the monastery, the Schwalllech is divided into the Hinteren and Mittlerer Lech.

history

In 1335 the cleric Berthold Rehm gave a house in Augsburg's Lechviertel to the Beguines , who called themselves "Sisters of Willing Poverty". They were given ample trousseau and had to make do with begging beforehand. In 1431 they submitted to the spiritual leadership of the neighboring Dominican monastery of St. Magdalena as regulated terziaresses . The monastery was consecrated to St. Ursula in 1432 .

The current monastery church of St. Ursula was built in 1520 and rebuilt in 1720/30. With the arrival of the Reformation in Augsburg, the convent lived in Dillingen from 1537 to 1548 . St. Ursula was subordinate to the sovereignty of the Hochstift Augsburg . The official introduction of the cloister took place in 1695 . In the 18th century the sisters devoted themselves to sewing and embroidery work as well as nursing.

As part of the secularization in Bavaria , the monastery was dissolved in 1803. The 21 remaining nuns were allowed to live in the monastery building for life. After the rebuilding in 1828, novices could again be admitted. Since then, the monastery has maintained a girls' school for members of the parish of St. Ulrich . In 1894 the monastery buildings could be bought back by the city and state. There were branches in Donauwörth and Landsberg . The Dominican Sisters owned a monastery in Gersthofen , which they lived in from 1935 to 1984.

The monastery was badly destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in a simplified manner in 1947 according to plans by Michael Kurz .

Partial building

  • Monastery church

  • Former school house

  • Monastery garden

See also

Web links

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 10.8 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph von Stadion, Bishop of Augsburg: a story from the times of the Reformation . Bey Orell, Füssli und Compagnie, 1799 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Jürgen Macha, Anna Maria Balbach, Sarah Horstkamp: Denomination and language in the early modern age: interdisciplinary perspectives . Waxmann Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-7636-3 ( google.de [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  3. ^ House of Bavarian History - Monasteries in Bavaria. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: From the monastery to the school house. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .