Dominican monastery Pforzheim
The Dominican monastery in Pforzheim with the patronage of St. Stephan was a monastery of the Dominican order in Pforzheim in northern Baden . It was located south of the Schlossberg (today's address Ostliche Karl-Friedrich-Straße 4 ) and existed from the end of the 13th to the middle of the 16th century. There are no remains of the buildings.
history
The exact date of establishment of the mendicant order establishment is unknown. The foundation is associated with Margrave Hermann VII (r. 1288–1291). In 1294 the monastery is mentioned as existing. In the 14th century a Studium particulare (preparation for the Studium generale ) was established. The provincial chapter met in Pforzheim in 1382, 1414, 1488 and 1507 . Margrave Jacob I (r. 1431–1453) promoted construction work on the monastery and the transition to the reform movement . After that, monastic life took a temporary boom. Wendelin Fabri was an important conventual .
Georg Reuchlin, the father of Johannes Reuchlin , was the property manager of the monastery and his mother's epitaph was in the cloister until it was destroyed .
The advance of reformatory ideas led to the resignation of several brothers from 1520. Between 1555 and 1566 the monastery was abolished and confiscated under Margrave Karl II . St. Stephen's Church became the Lutheran town church, and the town's Latin school moved into the convent building .
After the Edict of Restitution , Dominicans returned to the monastery for 18 years (1631–1649). In 1689 St. Stephan was destroyed in the War of the Palatinate Succession . A successor building from 1711 was destroyed by fire in 1789. Thereafter, the Castle Church of St. Michael served as the Protestant town church until 1896–1899, a historicist new building was built further south at the confluence of the Nagold and Enz rivers .
A late Gothic crucifix from the cloister has been preserved from the furnishings of the Dominican monastery .
Web links
- Sven Rabeler: Dominican monastery Pforzheim - history (kloester-bw.de)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 28.5 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 14" E