Franciscan monastery (Boppard)

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The former Franciscan monastery from the Rhine side
View of the entrance to the former monastery church

The Franciscan monastery in Boppard is a former monastery complex from the 17th or 19th century, which is used today as a seminar building by the Federal Academy for Public Administration together with the adjacent Ritter-Schwalbach-Haus .

location

The monastery is located within the fortifications of the upper town of Boppard, which were built in the 13th century . It is located directly on the Rheinallee, while the city wall that still exists in the east closes the area. To the south is the former land registry office and to the east is the Knights' Road.

history

The Franciscan order was already active in pastoral care from its Koblenz branch in Boppard at the beginning of the 17th century. The desire to build their own monastery in Boppard was supported by the local pastor and influential citizens and so the order received permission from Elector Lothar von Metternich von Trier to settle in Boppard in 1623 . They then settled in a residential building in Judengasse (today Eltzerhofstrasse) and were given the Walburgis Chapel by the Franciscan nuns who were already resident in St. Martin's monastery until they were able to move to a larger property in 1628, where they could do so to build a first own chapel. In 1660, the foundation stone for a separate monastery building was erected on the present site. Finally, between 1683 and 1686, with the support of the Cologne cathedral canon Georg von Eischen, the order was able to build a monastery church adjacent to the monastery.

In addition to its pastoral activities, the order founded in 1764 with the approval of the Trier Elector Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff founded the first Latin school in Boppard, at that time the convention usually had 18 members.

In the course of secularization in 1802, the Franciscan monastery was closed. The Latin school was moved to the Carmelite monastery , which had also been closed , and converted into a municipal school, from which today's Kant-Gymnasium emerged . The former monastery church became the property of the Catholic parish of St. Severus and was first used as a hospital and later as a wooden warehouse. The archive and the library of the monastery were lost during this time. The former monastery building, however, fell into private ownership and was acquired by the Prussian state in 1853 to set up a teachers' college. Since the adjacent church was also to be used for this purpose, the city and parish exchanged the Franciscan Church and the Carmelite Church in 1856 , although the parish stipulated that it was a Catholic teachers' college. While the former monastery church remained, new buildings were built between 1864 and 1868 in place of the previous monastery buildings, which then housed a Catholic teachers' college. From 1926 it was continued as a state teacher training institution and closed during the Second World War. In 1945 the facility was used for a short time by the NSDAP district administration.

After the Second World War, the facility was initially confiscated by French occupation troops, from 1954 to 1983 a state advanced high school was set up here and after extensive renovation measures, the former monastery including the former monastery church and the adjacent Ritter-Schwalbach-Haus has been a seminar building for the Federal Academy for Public administration.

Building description

The monastery church, which still exists today, was built in Gothic-style baroque style. It is an elongated, single-nave hall building with a three-sided end and stepped buttresses on the outside as well as tracery windows. The interior is characterized by a ribbed vault. There used to be a roof turret with a curved hood on the roof.

As part of the construction work in the middle of the 19th century, a false ceiling was added to the church, and a chapel was set up on the newly created upper floor.

Monument protection

The former monastery has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 . In addition, this building complex is protected as a registered cultural monument within the meaning of the Monument Protection and Maintenance Act (DSchG) of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

literature

  • Willi Nickenig: Monasteries and religious orders in Boppard , Boppard 2015.

Web links

Commons : Franciscan Monastery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Monasteries and religious orders in Boppard, accessed on January 9, 2018
  2. ^ A b Johann Josef Klein: History of Boppard . 1909, p. 255 ff ., urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-36929 .
  3. ↑ a b www.regionalgeschichte.net: Description of the Franciscan Monastery , accessed on April 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ www.klosterlexikon-rlp.de: History of the Franciscan Monastery , accessed on April 5, 2018.
  5. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 13 (PDF; 1.7 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 46.3 ″  E