Franciscan monastery Augsburg

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In Augsburg there were two Franciscan monasteries one after the other : a first from 1221 until the Reformation , a second from 1614 until the secularization of 1807.

history

Augsburg was the first German city in which the Franciscan Order, founded in 1210, established a branch. Within a few years, the order spread across the empire to the Baltic Sea. The monastery in Augsburg was probably founded in 1221 by Siegfried von Rechberg, Bishop of Augsburg; the bishop's nephew, a canon and vicedomus (administrator), initially made his office building available to the brothers temporarily. The monastery belonged to the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan Province ( Provincia Argentina ). When the order was divided into the observants and the conventuals at the end of the poverty dispute , the convention joined the conventuals who wanted to hold onto common property, pensions and real estate; the Augsburg Franciscans owned land and several foundations, and the monastic discipline was very relaxed. The monastery dissolved itself during the Reformation in 1526. The choir of the monastery church was preserved and is still part of the Protestant Barefoot Church today . The monastery was rebuilt and housed the Jakobsspital in it. Today the building is used as a retirement home. ( 48 ° 22 ′ 7 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 0.1 ″  E )

In 1614 a new monastery dedicated to the Holy Sepulcher of the Franciscan Observants of the Bavarian Franciscan Province was founded in Jakobervorstadt by Barons Georg, Johann, Hieronymus and Maximilian von Fugger together with the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter. From 1633 to 1635 the brothers were expelled; the monastery was dissolved in 1807 . At times the monastery buildings were used as a school, later the church and rectory of St. Maximilian were built here . ( 48 ° 22 ′ 25.2 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 16 ″  E )

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  1. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 19.
    Bernd Schmies: Structure and organization of the Saxon Franciscan Province and its Custody of Thuringia from the beginning to the Reformation. In: Thomas T. Müller, Bernd Schmies, Christian Loefke (Eds.): For God and the World. Franciscans in Thuringia. Paderborn u. a. 2008, pp. 38–49, here p. 39ff.
  2. ^ Lothar Hardick OFM: The development of the Order of Friars Minor north of the Alps. (Testament of St. Francis, no.7). In: Geistliches Vermächtnis IV. Study Day of the Franciscan Working Group 1977. Werl 1977 (Wandlung in Treue Vol. 20), pp. 18–29, now also in: Dieter Berg (Ed.): Spiritualität und Geschichte. Ceremony for Lothar Hardick OFM on his 80th birthday. , Werl 1993, ISBN 3-87163-195-7 , pp. 137-146, here p. 138.
  3. ↑ https://www.hdbg.eu/kloster/web/index.php/detail/geschichte?id=KS0023 hdbg.eu, history: Augsburg, Franziskanerkloster (OFMConv) ;
    Johannes Gatz: Alemania Franciscana Antiqua. Former Franciscan male and female monasteries in the Upper German or Strasbourg Franciscan Province with the exception of Bavaria; brief illustrated descriptions. Volume 2, Ulm 1958 (cards on the back cover).