Franciscan Church (Miltenberg)
The former Franciscan Church of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is a Roman Catholic Baroque church in Miltenberg, Lower Franconia .
history
The Miltenberg Franciscan Convent was founded in 1630. The first decades were overshadowed by war and plague . After provisional housing, the monastery and chapel in the outer suburb - today the city center - was built in 1660–1662 , and in 1667 construction of the monastery church began . The architect was Antonio Petrini , who would later be the court architect of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg . After the completion of the nave in 1679, the choir followed in 1688 . In the same year the church was consecrated , at that time with the patronage of the Assumption . Up until 1705, the church was given a wealth of furnishings, including the organ from the organ builder P. Adam Öhninger (1681) who was a member of the convent . In 1707 the previously flat roofed church was vaulted.
The monastery flourished in the 18th century. In 1730 the brothers set up a monastery garden , and in 1735 the convent buildings were expanded. Philosophy and theology were taught in the monastery . Franciscans taught at the Miltenberger Gymnasium .
In 1803 Kurmainz was dissolved like all clerical principalities and the Franciscan monastery was secularized . The monks retained their right of residence until death. After the French era , Miltenberg became part of the Kingdom of Bavaria . The empty monastery was returned to the Bavarian Franciscan Province and repopulated from 1836. In 1843 the convent changed to the patronage of the Immaculate Conception of Mary according to the doctrine of Mary's freedom from original sin, which had been advocated for centuries by Franciscan theologians and which was raised to dogma in 1854 .
In the following three decades, beer brewing was an economic mainstay. In 1888-1893 the baroque shape of the church was replaced by furnishings in line with contemporary tastes.
From 1922 to 1931 Petrus Mangold was a member of the Miltenberg Convention and worked as a religion teacher and people's missionary ; he died in 1941 in Dachau concentration camp . The brothers ran a free food service for the destitute - 20,591 meals in 1932.
When the church was renovated in 1938, the figurative painting was painted over.
The Second World War brought no significant damage. In 1960 the convent consisted of four priests and four lay brothers.
In the years 1960 to 1964 the interior was redesigned and partly re-baroque. The Immaculata high altar was recreated in baroque forms, the two side altars came from the Laudenbach church. An interior renovation took place in 1977.
In 1983 the Franciscan convent was dissolved. Caritas moved into the convent buildings . Since 2012 there have been plans to use the church as a columbarium .
Building
The Franciscan Church is built on the model of the Gothic minorite churches. It is a simple, seven-bay hall church with two-bay, retracted choir and roof turret . The barrel vault is divided with belt arches .
The figurative pulpit and the prospectus of the Öhninger organ have been preserved from the original furnishings .
Web links
- Monastery church on the website of the parish of St. Jakobus , Miltenberg
- Chronicle of the monastery (Caritasverband Landkreis Miltenberg)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 5.1 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 27.2 ″ E