Franciscan monastery Ellingen

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Former Franciscan monastery in Ellingen
Franciscan Church

The Franciscan monastery Ellingen was a convent in the town of Ellingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .

history

Since 1660 the local tried Landkomture of the Teutonic Order , the establishment of a hospice of the Franciscan cause in Ellingen. Against the resistance of the Capuchins and the responsible bishop of Eichstätt , it was not until 1736 that the necessary permit was obtained from the German master and Cologne elector Clemens August I of Bavaria . The foundation stone was laid on April 29, 1738, and in 1740 the relatively simple construction of the monastery church in the style of a mendicant order church was consecrated. In 1769 the Bavarian Elector ordered the Bavarian Franciscans to give up all monasteries outside of Spa Bavaria . In 1773, the Ellingen monastery was returned to the Strasbourg order province , from which the Bavarian Franciscan province had emerged in 1625.

After the secularization and the demolition of the Heiligenblut monastery , the remaining Franciscans arrived in Ellingen on May 25, 1809 and brought the relics of St. Severin with himself. In 1818 , the Ellingen monastery was abolished at the instigation of Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede , who had received Ellingen as a feudal throne. Today the monastery building is used as a warehouse by the city of Ellingen.

Organ of the master organ builder Anton Bayr

The Franciscan monastery owned the first organ by Anton Bayr from Munich, a famous organ builder of the Rococo period. This organ was completed on September 24, 1745 and is now in the Altes Schloss Valley cultural and organ center .

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkirche (Ellingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian Franciscan Province (Ed.): 1625 - 2010. The Bavarian Franciscan Province. From its beginnings until today. MDV Maristen Druck & Verlag, Furth 2010, p. 20ff.

Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '38.6 "  N , 10 ° 58' 8.9"  E