Franciscan monastery Coburg
The Coburg Monastery is a former monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Coburg in Bavaria in the Diocese of Würzburg .
history
The monastery was founded in 1250 by the lords of Schaumburg and Coburg. Construction of the monastery began on January 21, 1250. The monastery and church were dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ). The monastery of the Franciscan Order, founded in 1210, was the second monastery in Coburg after the Benedictine provostry of St. Peter and Paul .
1432 a member of the Coburg convent , Hermann Bernhard, was appointed auxiliary bishop of Würzburg ; since 1415 he was titular bishop of Acre . Towards the end of the 15th century, the monastery took over the Martinian Constitutions and thus pursued a moderate interpretation of the Franciscan vow of poverty ; In 1489 the Guardian of the Coburg Monastery took part in the reform of the Wittenberg convent in accordance with these constitutions.
In 1525, as a result of the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved, the brothers handed over the buildings and the entire property to the mayor and city council of Coburg and moved to the Benedictine monastery Mönchröden , provided they did not leave the order. The monastery buildings have merged into parts of the old building of Ehrenburg Palace and are now used by the Coburg State Library as storage rooms. A stone holy water font from the time the monastery was founded can still be seen today as the last remnant.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 49. (Kirchbau), 159 (Bishop).
- ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 197.207.
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 58 ′ 2 ″ E