Dominican monastery St. Pauli Leipzig

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The former monastery building with the Paulinerkirche around 1800

The Dominican Monastery of St. Pauli in Leipzig was a monastery of the Dominican Order , which existed from the first half of the 13th century until the Reformation .

history

After the order of the Dominicans was founded in Toulouse in 1215 , Dominican monks from Erfurt came to Leipzig in 1229 and received from the knight Heinrich von Wahren a piece of land south of the Grimma Gate on a former fortress of Margrave Dietrich that had been razed . The area comprised the area between Grimmaischer Strasse, Altes Neumarkt (today Universitätsstrasse) and the city wall, roughly corresponding to today's university campus .

The founding deed was signed in 1231 by the then 16-year-old Margrave Heinrich from Meissen . The monastery church was consecrated to the Apostle Paul as early as 1240 . From comparative studies it is assumed that it was a flat-roofed hall with a single-nave vaulted choir, according to the order's construction. The monastery was south of the church, the associated farmyard southwest of it.

When the German-speaking masters and scholars from Prague came to Leipzig in 1409 , they were initially accepted by the Dominicans.

In the last quarter of the 15th century the cloister and gardens, refectory, farm buildings, library and chapter house were rebuilt. On the north side of the church, starting as early as the 14th century, four chapels of the dead of important families ( Pflugk , Haugwitz , Leymbach and Thümmel) were added. Now the church has also been rebuilt. The nave was vaulted and the choir was built and extended with three aisles, so that it now reached beyond the city wall and into the moat. The latter was completed in 1521, but had to be dismantled in 1546 due to the need for city fortifications during the Schmalkaldic War, except for the escape from the city wall.

After the Reformation the monastery was closed. In 1539 the Dominicans had to leave Leipzig. The monastery was to be demolished in favor of a new district. In 1543, Elector Moritz transferred it with all goods to the University of Leipzig . It became the Collegium Paulinum . The church was used as an auditorium and worship room. In 1545 it was consecrated to Martin Luther as a Protestant church.

The most famous monk of the monastery was Johannes Tetzel, who went down in history through the sale of indulgences . He entered the Leipzig monastery in 1489 and, despite his frequent absence, was always a member of the monastery because of his indulgence preaching trips. In 1518 he returned to the monastery and died here in 1519.

The monks of the Dominican monastery in Leipzig were often incorrectly called Paulines because of the patron saint of their church , even though they did not belong to the order of that name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony (ed.): City of Leipzig - Die Sakralbauten , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 , pp. 487–495
  2. ↑ a b Leipzig Lexicon
  3. ↑ Stephanie von Aretin, Thomas Klemm, Nikolaus Müller: Leipzig und seine Kirchen , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-374-02366-5 , p. 35
  4. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. , PRO LEIPZIG 2005 ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 114

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 44.7 ″  E