Dominican monastery Magdeburg

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Detail of the cityscape of Magdeburg by Matthäus Merian , printed in 1653, drawn for sure before the city was destroyed in 1631 ; the Dominican Church of St. Paul (No. 9) appears as a modest church of mendicants with a roof turret .

The Dominican Monastery in Magdeburg was a branch of the Dominican Order in Magdeburg . After his patron saint , the apostle Paul , the monastery church was called St. Pauli and the monastery was also called the Pauline monastery . It existed from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Nothing remains of the buildings.

history

Dominican Convention

The Dominicans came to Magdeburg as early as 1224, nine years after the order was founded. In the following year they began building the convent building and the monastery church on the property made available to them on the west side of the Breite Weg , not far from the collegiate church of St. Sebastian and the Domplatz across the street .

The monastery developed spiritual radiance in the 13th century. In addition to Erfurt , the general studies of the Saxon Dominican Province took place here . Under his influence was u. a. the Beginenkloster , to which Mechthild von Magdeburg belonged for over 30 years. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the monastery was affected by the general decline in spirituality and discipline, the main causes of which were the great plague epidemic , the Avignon papacy and the occidental schism . In 1456, several brothers opposed a monastery reform, so that they had to leave the monastery and were replaced by Nuremberg Dominicans .

The indulgence preacher Johann Tetzel († 1519) lived in Magdeburg's Dominican monastery during his stays in the city. When the city council introduced the Reformation against the Prince Archbishop in all parish churches in 1524 , the Dominican monastery and other monasteries and monasteries in the city offered resistance, but were dissolved in the following years. The last three Dominicans probably left the city in 1561.

The buildings after the Reformation

After the Dominican monastery was dissolved, the church and the convent building were used profanely. In the Thirty Years' War they fell victim to the devastating city destruction by the Catholic League in 1631. The St. Pauli Church was not restored until 1693 and handed over to the German Reformed community in 1698 , which used it for almost 200 years. In 1890 it was sold to the Reichspost , which tore it down and built a representative main post office in its place in the historicist style of the time. This building survived the Second World War and the GDR era and is now part of the Magdeburg Justice Center .

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg . City Planning Office Magdeburg, 2000. P. 64 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Paula Väth: The illuminated Latin manuscripts of German provenance in the Berlin State Library, Prussian Cultural Heritage 1200–1350. Part 1: Text. Wiesbaden 2001, p. 90
  2. ↑ The main training center was probably Erfurt: Andreas Speer, Lydia Wegener (eds.): Meister Eckhart in Erfurt . Berlin 2005, p. 91f.
  3. ↑ Ulrich Horst: On the history of the Dominican order . 1993, p. 7
  4. ^ Heinrich Rathmann : History of the City of Magdeburg from its first emergence up to the present times , Volume 3, Magdeburg 1803, p. 147
  5. ↑ kirchensprengung.de , section St. Pauli
  6. ↑ magdeburg.de

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 37.7 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 58.1 ″  E