Franciscan monastery Halle

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Trinity Church Halle (Saale)

A Franciscan monastery in Halle (Saale) existed from the 13th to the 16th century and then again from 1920.

12th to 16th centuries

A first monastery of the Franciscan Order founded in 1210 on the Schulberg must have been built in Halle before 1247, maybe before 1240, since a provincial chapter of the expanding Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ) took place in Halle in 1247 ; In 1295 a provincial minister of Saxonia "Burkhard von Halle" is mentioned, who may have come from the city. In 1350, all but three members of the Halle convent died in a plague epidemic . In Konnern, the monastery had an appointment for collecting alms.

In 1456 the convent, which was one of the more important in Saxonia , first adopted the Martinian Constitutions on the instructions of Provincial Minister Matthias Döring , a moderate position in the poverty struggle within the order; the property was given to external procurators who administered it for the brothers. After disputes in the convent about the handling of money and property, 20 brothers came to Halle in 1461 who were part of the strict observance . The organ and a large number of books have been removed. The brothers who opposed reform of the monastery had to leave the convent. The Archbishop of Magdeburg , Friedrich III. von Beichlingen , implemented the reform, which was also welcomed by the citizens of Halle. Lawsuits and complaints from the defeated brothers remained inconclusive; in October 1461, Pope Pius II approved the takeover of the convent by the Observants in Halle and also in Magdeburg .

The Reformation reached the Franciscan monastery in Halle later than in other places. In January 1547, Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony moved into the city, and land servants together with citizens destroyed the monastery. However, the Franciscans were able to return in 1548 after the monastery had been restituted by an imperial mandate. It was the last still inhabited monastery in the city. In 1561 eight brothers lived there until the convent was abolished in 1564 by the Archbishop of Magdeburg, who had become Lutheran, Sigismund von Brandenburg . The brothers went to the convent in Halberstadt , which was the only monastery of Saxonia to survive. The monastery church later served as a place of worship for the University of Halle, which opened in 1694, and was demolished in 1828 to make way for a new main building of the university (today's " Lion Building "). A theater was opened in the converted convent building in 1811.

Start-ups

An attempt to settle again in Halle failed in 1631 when the Franciscan Juniperus Germen was murdered by Brunswick soldiers on the way from Halberstadt to Halle . In 1723 the Saxonia opened an outpost (" mission station ") in Halle , which took off in 1723 when 500 Catholic soldiers were stationed in the city. The station went out in the 1830s as a result of secularization .

On September 3, 1920, at the request of the local clergy, the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross founded a new branch in the south of Halle to support pastoral care in the growing residential and industrial areas in this district. The monastery was part of the Silesian Franciscan Province ( Silesia ) from 1946 to 1992 , today it is part of the German Franciscan Province , which was created through a merger in 2010 .

Today, four brothers belong to the Franciscan monastery, who, in addition to parish work, also provide hospital and school pastoral care . The parish uses the Trinity Church attached to the cloister of the monastery . The parish of the Holy Trinity, which is looked after by the monastery today and currently has 2,100 parish members, belongs to the parish of the Most Holy Trinity .

literature

  • Markus Hunecke OFM: The Friars Minor in Halle. In: Dieter Berg (ed.): Franciscan life in the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of the Rhenish and Saxon order provinces. Werl 1994, pp. 63-70.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Mindermann: The Franciscan appointment system. In: Volker Honemann (Ed.): From the beginnings to the Reformation. Paderborn 2015, pp. 195–263, here p. 250.
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 45.83.115.177.181.183.
    Founded before 1240: Bernd Schmies, Volker Honemann : The Franciscan Province of Saxonia from its beginnings to 1517: basic features and lines of development. In: Volker Honemann (Ed.): From the beginnings to the Reformation. Paderborn 2015, pp. 21–44, here p. 33.
    Implementation of observance: Volker Honemann: The reform movements of the 15th and early 16th centuries in Saxonia. In: Volker Honemann (Ed.): From the beginnings to the Reformation. Paderborn 2015, pp. 45–163, here p. 94ff.
  3. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 295.305.309.393.453.463.
  4. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 351.401.407.
  5. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 545.577.631.
    franziskaner.net: houses / hall

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 56.6 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 37.8"  E