Franciscan monastery Nuremberg

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The Nuremberg Franciscan Monastery was a monastery of the Franciscans and later the Franciscan Observanten in the Bavarian diocese of Bamberg .

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Franciscan monastery

Barfüßerkirch Nürnberg (engraving from the series "Alt-Nürnberg", 1846)
Peter Pfingstetter (1482–1562), the last Franciscan of Nuremberg
Rest of the Franciscan Church

The monastery of the Franciscan order founded in Italy in 1210 (also called Barefoot Monastery ) at the St. Pauls Chapel on the Pegnitz near the Lorenz Church was founded in 1224 by the burgraves of Nuremberg together with the patrician Konrad Waldstromer and others and settled from the Bamberg monastery. Construction of the Franciscan Church began as early as 1256. The Eichstatt Bishop Hildebrand von Möhren sponsored the building by granting an indulgence .

Within the Strasbourg order province, the monastery belonged to the Bavarian custody and was taken over in 1447 with the support of the patriciate by the observants, who mostly came from the Heidelberg monastery. The members of the monastery and confessors of the Poor Clares Heinrich Vigilis († 1499), Stephan Fridolin and Nikolaus Glasberger also took a decisive position in favor of the observance , although their validity in the Nuremberg Convention was not undisputed and was temporarily suspended.

During the term of office of Guardian Georg Büchelbach, a patron of art and science as well as organ builder, the Franciscan monastery Riedfeld was built in Neustadt an der Aisch as a further branch of the Strasbourg order province supported by Nuremberg.

After the Nuremberg Religious Discussion of 1525, at which Michael Fries appeared for the Old Believer party, the council forbade the monastery to accept novices and ordered the church to be closed for the time of the sermon. In 1529 it was completely closed. The last Franciscan of the doomed monastery, Peter Pfingstetter, died in 1562.

As early as 1557, the girls 'and boys' homes (Nuremberg foundling houses) moved into the monastery buildings as new uses, and in 1671 a women's penitentiary was added. In the same year a devastating fire broke out there, which destroyed the church and part of the monastery building. The reconstruction took place in 1682-89 in baroque form under the direction of the alms office builder Johann Trost . The architectural model is exhibited in the Germanic National Museum.

Franciscan Church

The monastery church was originally built in the form of an early Gothic basilica with a vaulted single-nave choir. The construction in today's Königstraße 3 probably took place from 1256, the consecration in 1278. In 1434 the church was consecrated again after renovation work.

One year after the death of the last Franciscan, the church was reopened in 1563 and used for Protestant services. Destruction by the fire of 1671 was followed by reconstruction in 1682–89.

Around 1797 there were plans to convert the Franciscan church into a theater. In 1807 it was sold into private ownership by the administrators of the Kingdom of Bavaria , the new city leaders. Many of the city's cultural assets were sold or destroyed during this period in order to pay off the city's debts.

The new owner, Georg Hieronymus Bestelmeyer , laid down parts of the church for the construction of a new warehouse. The remaining parts of the nave and the subsequent three choir bays were demolished in 1913.

The remainder of the choir was retained, modified by installing windows and storey ceilings and integrated into the current building of Hypo Vereinsbank AG. Only the grave slab of Anna Groß († 1294) of the formerly extensive equipment (including twelve altars!) Is preserved and can be seen in the Germanic National Museum.

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  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1950; Reprinted there in 1978, p. 674.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '7 "  N , 11 ° 4' 43"  E