Franciscan monastery Gransee

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East wing of the monastery with a remnant of the church wall and portal to the enclosure

The Franciscan Monastery Gransee was a convent of the Franciscan in the city Gransee and consisted of about 1280 to the mid-16th century. The eastern enclosure wing with the cloister, which was used as a school until the 1960s, is still preserved from the monastery buildings. It is located at today's Klosterplatz / Klosterstrasse and is entered in the list of monuments in Brandenburg as No. 09165333.

history

The Franciscan Order, founded in 1210, quickly spread to the Baltic Sea in Germany in the 13th century and preferred cities for its settlements. Around 1250 monasteries were founded in Berlin and Stralsund . In Gransee, which received town charter in 1262 , the Franciscans - also known as the "gray monks" because of the color of their habitats - built a church and a monastery in the north of the town around 1280. They are first mentioned in a document in 1302 as "Fratres minores in Granzoge" (Friars Minor in Gransee). The monastery was in the Diocese of Havelberg and belonged to the Brandenburg custody of the Saxon Franciscan Province . It enjoyed the support of the sovereigns, the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin , from whom they last received a donation of 20 guilders in 1524.

Interior of the preserved part of the building with ribbed vaults on round pillars (2012)

The church was built of bricks in the Gothic style. According to some experts, it was a single-nave church, according to others, a three-nave hall church with a single-nave long choir . The monastery initially connected with its east wing, an elongated two-story brick building with a gable roof, to the north of the church's choir. The sacristy was on the ground floor , and above it the dormitory . In the 14th century the east wing and also the west wing, connected with a cloister, were completed. Around 1330, the city wall was built north of the monastery. The convent with a large garden was now protected between the church and the city wall. The handsome property was later called "Prälathof".

When the Mark Brandenburg became Protestant as a result of the Reformation and the monasteries met with increasing rejection, the religious sold the monastery complex to the town of Gransee in 1541 - later than in other cities. The last Guardian died in 1561 and the monastery in Gransee became extinct. At the behest of Elector Joachim II , the buildings were preserved by the city and converted into a school that existed until 1963. Reformed church services were occasionally held in the “prince's hall” of the monastery, and the Protestant pastor temporarily lived in another part of the building.

A city fire destroyed the monastery church in 1604, another fire in 1711 the western wing and the cloister. The remains were used to build a new town hall, the less damaged east wing was restored and rebuilt as a school building. The garden area of ​​the monastery, called "Stadthof", was used for agriculture and livestock. Since the end of school operations in 1963, the preserved building has served as a warehouse and is only accessible to the public during guided tours and during occasional exhibitions.

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Gransee  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Holger Grönwald: Practical Medieval and Modern Archeology. The investigations in the Franciscan monastery Gransee and new views of the old monastery. [2]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , p. 205.
  2. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , pp. 205f. - Holger Grönwald: Practical Medieval and Modern Archeology The investigations in the Franciscan monastery Gransee and new views of the old monastery. [1] - Dehio Brandenburg, 2012, p. 406.
  3. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , pp. 206f.
  4. ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , p. 206.
  5. ↑ Franciscan Monastery Gransee on gransee.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 32.7 "  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 27.5"  E