Franciscan convent St. Anna (Kempten)
The St. Anna Franciscan Monastery had many locations in Kempten (Allgäu) . The Franciscan Terziarinnen originally had their convent in the imperial city. After this became Lutheran in the course of the Reformation, they fled to the Kempten area. Their last convent was in the Kempten district of Lenzfried . According to Michael Petzet, the women's monastery would be "important as a type of German baroque monastery building after the Thirty Years 'War", since the Princely Residence is considered the first large monumental monastery complex in Germany after the Thirty Years' War , but only two years later (1651) after the Completion of the women's monastery (1649) was started. The Franciscan Monastery of St. Bernardine is on the other side of the street .
history
The first St. Anna monastery was located at the foot of the Freudenberg ⊙ , directly on the city wall . The church of this convent, which was built at Neustätter Tor in 1502, was consecrated in 1508 . In 1537 the sisters fled and temporarily took quarters at Schwabelsberg Castle at the Schwabelsberg ponds . The reason for the withdrawal of the sisters was their refusal to join the Reformation . After nine years (1546) they sold the monastery and church on Freudenberg to the council of the imperial city. The St. Anna Chapel was only demolished in 1815, and the cross from 1460 that came from there was then placed in the new cemetery chapel of the Catholic cemetery . In 2011, during construction work for the Suttschule located there, the remains of the monastery wall were excavated.
In 1548 the sisters moved into the Franciscan monastery of St. Bernardine in Lenzfried , after the brothers had been withdrawn in the same year due to the uncertain circumstances in connection with the Reformation. After they returned to Lenzfried in 1642, the Franciscans lived in the monastery at the same time for a few years until the Terziarinnen moved into the completed St. Anna monastery on the other side of the street in 1649 and founded a college for the training of Franciscan women. In 1805 the communities in Lenzfried were dissolved, but returned in 1810. From 1813 to 1815 the monastery buildings served as a military hospital. Two years later, the monastery was rebuilt by the state and sold to the Sankt Mang community in 1821 .
In 1857 the convent was revived by the poor school sisters of Our Lady , who set up an orphanage and a school for the education of neglected girls.
In the years 1882 to 1932, the institute Lenzfried advanced training school was set up in the monastery, in the meantime the last parts of the building complex were taken over by the municipality of Sankt Mang in 1927. In 1940 the monastery building was set up as a resettlement camp for "ethnic Germans", later it served as a home for the Hitler Youth for children from Bremen at risk from air and as a French camp . In 1943 an auxiliary hospital of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent furnished by Paul.
description
Monastery complex
The Franciscan convent in Lenzfried is a two-storey three-wing complex with mid-level buildings. The main building has a core from 1647/49 - the south wing was widened in 1899. The monastery ensemble includes a baroque monastery wall with blind arches in the north. The originally hoof-shaped building is one of the earliest monastery buildings of the 17th century, which was built before the end of the Thirty Years War .
chapel
The St. Anna monastery chapel, a small hall with a retracted apse and roof turret, was consecrated in 1648 and rebuilt to its present form in 1733. After the monastery was dissolved in 1805, the unused chapel served as a hayloft. In 1857, with the arrival of the poor school sisters, she was given back her destiny. The roof turret was renewed in 1894 and the entire structure was restored in 1927 and 1928. The ceiling pictures were renewed in the classical style and three new ones were designed. The high altar shows the childlike Maria with her parents Anna and Joachim . On the two sides of the altar there were statues of St. Antony and Francis . In the year of the restoration, the municipality of Sankt Mang , to which Lenzfried belonged, donated the chapel to the order with the intention of making it accessible to the public.
Individual evidence
- ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 112f.
- ^ Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 23.
- ↑ Remnants of the building of St. Anna Monastery - workers find walls from the Middle Ages. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: allin.de, July 20, 2011 (accessed October 30, 2013)
- ↑ Christine Tröger: Not allowed in Kempten. In: Kreisbote.de, November 14, 2011 (accessed October 21, 2013)
- ^ Alexander Duke of Württemberg: City of Kempten (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VII.85 ). Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich / Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , p. 118 .
- ^ Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 416.
literature
- Josef Rottenkolber : History of the former St. Anna convent in Lenzfried. Kösel-Verlag, 1929
- Memorial sheet of the women's monastery St. Anna zu Lenzfried. In: Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 415f.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 10 ° 20 ′ 18.1 ″ E