Former Jesuit monastery Hadamar
The complex of the former Jesuit monastery Hadamar comprises a larger building complex in the core of the small town of Hadamar in Hesse . The ensemble from the 17th century shapes the cityscape. Today it contains, among other things, the city's Catholic parish church , which is dedicated to Johannes Nepomuk , the local public library and several administrative departments of the Limburg diocese .
description
The entire Jesuit branch consists of four building blocks: church, college and monastery complex, old rectory and the so-called "Jesuit hall". The group of buildings is shielded in the southwest with a wall; this is the oldest part of the complex.
Church of St. John Nepomuk
The church forms the northern end of the complex. The voluminous hall building is decorated on the outside with pilasters and a canopy roof turret. It has a hipped roof and arched windows. Inside, a mirrored ceiling with two large paintings of the martyrdom of John of Nepomuk and the Assumption of Mary dominates the room. Pilaster strips structure the outer walls. In addition to the two main paintings , the ceiling is adorned with a broad throat and stucco cartouches in the Rococo style.
The high altar and the two side altars are likely to be the original furnishings from the construction period. The high altar shows Saint Nepomuk as the patron of the church. It is flanked by statues of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francisco de Xavier . The high altar is crowned by the Agnus Dei , which is flanked by Saint Aloisius de Gonzaga and Saint Stanislaus Kostka . The left side altar is dedicated to Our Lady, who is accompanied by pictures of her mother and father . On the right there is a Joseph altar with figures depicting Saint Jean François Régis and Saint Francis of Borgia . The pulpit dates to 1762 and comes from the same workshop as the organ prospectus and the confessionals. The Jesuit crypt is located under the church.
In 1818 the Jesuit church became a parish church. In 1898 the gothic west tower was added and the choir enlarged and designed in neo-Gothic style.
The original organ was replaced by newer ones in 1875 and 1907. In 1963 the church was renovated, which included heating and new benches. In 1971 the present organ was installed. From 2004 to 2007 extensive renovation work took place on the roof of the church, which therefore could not be used for church services.
College
Adjacent to the church are two three-story wings of the former Jesuit college. They form the east and south flanks of a courtyard of honor that adjoins the church to the south. The roofs are designed as hipped mansard roofs. Arched segment windows structure the facade uniformly. The portal side of the east wing stands out with rounded corners, pilasters and a front staircase. Inside there is a largely preserved baroque staircase with a ceiling painting. A tower remnant is integrated into the masonry, which still comes from the noble court of the Langenbach family.
Old rectory
South of the actual three-wing complex is the old rectory, which adapts to the style of the actual Jesuit college. The quarry stone wall with a pointed arch gate that closes the courtyard between the college and the rectory may still come from the aristocratic court.
Jesuit Hall
Separated from the main building of the college by Johann-Ludwig-Straße is the so-called "Jesuitenaula". It was built in 1764 as an extension of the college. The plastered half-timbered building stands out due to its very high hipped mansard roof. The building was later divided into two houses inside. The baroque skylight door with a classical vestibule characterizes the northern front of the house.
history
In 1629 Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar converted to Catholicism and tried to settle several religious orders . In January 1630, the first Jesuits settled in the city to be the first to resume Catholic pastoral care. When a Swedish army approached, they fled to Koblenz at the end of 1631. The Jesuits returned at Christmas 1636.
In 1637 Prince Johann Ludwig designated the Church of Our Lady as a parish church. From 1639 to 1772 all pastors in Hadamar were Jesuits. Johann Ludwig tried several times to provide the Jesuits with the necessary money and sufficient property so that they could build a monastery and revive the Latin school, which had already existed before but had ceased operations during the war. However, it was not until 1641 that the Jesuits received a house from the Count as a gift, which bordered on the south of the castle grounds. They had previously lived in the castle itself. In 1650, the count bought the remains of the Beselich monastery and in the following year a larger farm belonging to the Langenbach family on the site of today's parish church. In 1652, the Jesuit branch and the associated grammar school were officially founded from the Beselich capital as well as substantial endowments and on the purchased city property and corresponding buildings were built on the site of the old noble court.
By the middle of the 18th century, however, the first monastery complex was already dilapidated. The Jesuits received the necessary capital for a new building from a foundation of Franz Josef von Hungrichhausen from Hadamar, canon in Speyer. The monastery and college building was completed in 1757, and the aula building on the opposite side of the street in 1764. On July 4, 1753, the foundation stone for today's parish church was laid. The church was consecrated on October 23, 1755. The builder was the Jesuit lay brother Franz Pfisterer, who came from Tyrol.
When the Jesuit order was dissolved in 1773, the two friars who had carried out the duties of the town pastor were allowed to remain in office. The remaining twelve members of the order had to leave the city. After that, Jesuits never settled in Hadamar again. The Jesuit church remained a parish church. Parts of the monastery complex were used by the Franciscan order. In the winter of 1813/14, both the former monastery and the grammar school were used as a Prussian military hospital during the wars of liberation .
In 2009 the city's Catholic public library was relocated to the Jesuit Hall.
Todays use
In the former Jesuit college, various administrative facilities of the Limburg diocese as well as assembly rooms of the parish are housed. The old rectory is used by the administration of the Limburg Catholic District Office. The auditorium contains the Catholic public library and private apartments. The courtyard between the monastery building and the old rectory is called the "Franziskanerhof".
Web links
- Literature about the former Jesuit monastery Hadamar in the Hessian Bibliography
- Archives about the Hadamar Jesuit monastery in the Hessian Main State Archives, Wiesbaden
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : 250 years pilgrimage chapel Maria Hilf Beselich . In: Yearbook for the Limburg-Weilburg district 2017 . The district committee of the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Limburg-Weilburg 2016, ISBN 3-927006-54-8 , p. 137-141 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '50.3 " N , 8 ° 2' 48.6" E