Franciscan monastery Hachenburg

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Maria Himmelfahrt , the former Franciscan church on the old market in Hachenburg
Hachenburg, Maria Himmelfahrt, aerial photo (2016)

The Franciscan monastery Hachenburg was a monastery of the Franciscan order in Hachenburg in the Westerwaldkreis . The monastery fratrum minorum observantiae strictioris St. Francisci Seraphici ("Friars Minor of St. Francis Seraphicus of the Stricter Observance ") belonged to the Thuringian Franciscan Province of St. Elisabeth.

history

To reintroduce the Catholic denomination in the county of Sayn in 1637 the bishop of Osnabrück , who, enfeoffed by Kurköln, ruled over the county of Sayn-Hachenburg for 13 years , set up a monastery. The Franciscans quietly moved into an apartment in the castle there and gathered around them a Catholic community, which initially consisted mainly of soldiers from Osnabrück. A year later the parish had grown to 40 people and a petition was sent to the Bishop of Osnabrück to let the Franciscans take over the St. Catherine's Church; the Calvinists could be content with the parish church in the (later district) old town.

The brothers only got their own place of worship under the government of Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid-Blankenheim (1652–1705), who prompted an influx of Catholic citizens from Cologne into the county, which was depopulated as a result of the Thirty Years' War. In 1661 a donation was made that comprised two houses and a garden on the market. In 1664 the church was completed. However, due to undisciplined conditions such as an excessive lifestyle, the Franciscans in Hachenburg lost the favor of Count Georg Friedrich (1715–1749). When the old church building had become dilapidated and the brothers wanted to replace it with a new building, the mayor initially prevented this. Only the intervention of the new Provincial Angelicus Brinkmann made the construction possible. In 1734 the foundation stone for today's Franciscan Church was laid under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary . The Franciscan Church was consecrated in 1739 and the mighty high altar was donated by Johann Moritz Gustav von Manderscheid-Blankenheim , the Archbishop of Prague .

The monastery was abolished by the ducal Nassau government on March 18, 1813 during the French period . In 1906 the demolition of the convent building began, while the main and side aisles were extended to the east. In 1908 a baroque tower was added.

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literature

  • E. Heyn: The Westerwald . 1893. Niederwalluf, Martin Sendet, reprint 1970
  • Hermann Josef Roth: The Westerwald . Cologne, DuMont, 1981.
  • Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in plan , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreis Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74-80.
  • Bruno M. Struif: From the Franciscan monastery of Sancta Maria Regina Angelorum to the Catholic Church of Maria Himmelfahrt in Hachenburg, GeschichtsWerkstatt Hachenburg eV, 2010, 102 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On denominational development cf. Daniel Schneider: The development of denominations in the county of Sayn in the plan, pp. 74-80.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 26.7 ″  E