Dominican monastery in Landshut

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The former Dominican monastery

The Dominican monastery Landshut is a former convent of the Dominicans in Landshut in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . The buildings are protected cultural property according to the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict .

history

The monastery consecrated to St. Blasius was founded in 1271 by Duke Heinrich XIII. Founded by Lower Bavaria and soon populated by monks from Regensburg . The settlement took place - as was customary at the time - for financial reasons on the outskirts of the city. The building site was donated by the aristocratic family of Frauenberger zu Schloss Fraunberg in what is now the district of Erding .

The three-storey three-wing complex that still exists today was built in the baroque style from 1699 . In a northerly direction, the so-called Ursulinenflügel stretches along the Ursulinengässchen opposite the Ursuline monastery . This baroque building was also built around 1700. Also worth mentioning are the so-called garden building, a two-storey classicist hipped roof building , built between 1803 and 1804, and a defense tower of the former city fortifications of Landshut, which was redesigned as a palm house at the beginning of the 19th century. Both structures are located in the back yard of the Dominican monastery, which is now used as a parking lot.

The monastery came into the possession of the University of Landshut in 1800 , initially for the Georgianum seminary. From 1802, when the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization , general lectures at the university were relocated from the Jesuit college there. In 1826 the university moved to Munich . At that time, the royal appellate court of the Isarkkreis and the Landshut grammar school (from 1961 Hans Carossa grammar school ) were housed in the buildings. Since the new territorial division decreed by King Ludwig I in 1839, the former monastery - with an interruption from 1932 to 1956 - has exclusively been the official seat of the government of Lower Bavaria .

Former monastery church

The former Dominican monastery church connects to the south of the three-winged building and forms an inner courtyard with it. The church was only in 1386 and more than a hundred years after the founding of a monastery dedicated . From 1747 to 1749 the previously rather simple interior was redesigned in the Rococo style by Johann Baptist Zimmermann .

literature

  • Otto von Kissling: Dominican Church St. Blasius Landshut (= Small Art Guide No. 1333). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012. 2nd, completely revised edition. ISBN 978-3-7954-5040-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dominikanerkloster (Landshut)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto von Kissling: Dominican Church St. Blasius Landshut (= Small Art Guide No. 1333). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012. 2nd, completely revised edition. ISBN 978-3-7954-5040-3 .
  2. ^ Volker Liedke: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Landshut . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-1002-9 , p. 216ff.
  3. ↑ Parish Landshut-St. Jodok: Dominican Church of St. Blasius . Online at www.jodok-landshut.de. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
  4. ^ House of Bavarian History: Landshut, Dominican Monastery - History . Online at www.hdbg.eu. Retrieved December 20, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 21 ″  E