Franciscan convent Memmingen
The Franciscan convent Memmingen was a monastery in the Upper Swabian town of Memmingen . It was also called Maria Garden .
The monastery was founded by two sisters from the Leutkircher Klause in 1444. After their number grew to seven, the sisters bought a house across from the Frauenkirche . From 1467 to 1470 it was expanded as a monastery. It had its own chapel with a transition to the Frauenkirche, a small cloister, several cells and an inner courtyard. A nun from the monastery returned to Leutkirch in 1486 to revive the monastery there, which had since died out.
During the Reformation , the sisters refused to convert to the new denomination and fled the city. In the interim they came back and were given the monastery building again, which in the meantime had been used as the city's Latin school. In 1736 they bought an adjacent building (at the intersection of Pfluggasse and Rabengasse) from the Premonstratensian monastery in Ursberg . They leased this house as the Gasthaus Zum Roman König , later Zum Pflug , from which the Pfluggasse got its name.
The number of sisters, also known as the gray sisters because of their costume , remained relatively constant at around 20 until secularization . After the monastery was dissolved, the city bought the building and first used it as a hospital and from 1869 as a poor house and beneficiary institution. It is currently owned by the Unterhospitalstiftung in the Bürgerstift old people's home . Works of art from the time of the monastery have been preserved in the chapel.
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- ↑ Franziskanerinnenkloster Leutkirch on monasteries in Baden-Württemberg.de. Retrieved May 30, 2012 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '53.7 " N , 10 ° 10' 59.5" E