Franciscan monastery Neuburg on the Danube
The Franciscan monastery in Neuburg an der Donau is a former Franciscan monastery in Neuburg an der Donau , which was founded by Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm von der Pfalz (ruled 1653–1690) as a result of a vow. It existed since 1656 and burned down in 1793. In 1803 the monastery was secularized .
history
A vow for building a monastery
A vow is the foundation stone for the Neuburg Franciscan monastery , from which today's priest hospice Anton von Padua St. Augustin emerged. Duke Philipp Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg's marriage remained childless and the first wife had died. Then in 1653 the regent vowed to build a church and a monastery for the Franciscan order in honor of St. Anthony of Padua if the blessing of children should occur in his second marriage.
The first child was born and the duke obtained permission to build a monastery in Augsburg . The foundation stone for the large building was laid on December 31, 1656, and on March 5, 1657, the experts pinned the place for the church. On August 26, 1657, Baron von Servi handed over the foundation stone for the Franciscan Church on behalf of the Duke. There were also many benefactors from the population.
After a construction period of three years, again on August 26th, in 1660, the solemn inauguration of the church and monastery by the Augsburg auxiliary bishop Caspar Zeiler took place. The Franciscans of the Bavarian Order Province came to Neuburg as early as 1656 and filled the new monastery with life. Only the brewery wasn't finished yet.
The great fire
At lunchtime on September 1, 1793, the church and monastery suddenly caught fire. Guardian Willibald Fanger saved the most important papers and jumped out of the window with them, injuring himself badly. A soldier took the ciborium and the monstrance from the tabernacle at risk of death . The fire brigades from Ingolstadt, Burgheim and Rain rushed to Neuburg to save what could be saved. The monastery and church were in ruins, as were some neighboring buildings.
The help from the population was great, there were many donations. Reconstruction started quickly. Just eleven months later, on July 30, 1794, Dean Holl of the Heilig Geist parish in Neuburg consecrated the new church. The 13 fathers and ten brothers moved into the rebuilt monastery building on November 6, 1794.
The secularization
Barely nine years later, the monastery was closed in the course of secularization . In 1804 the religious were deported to the closed Kaisheim Abbey and soon after came to Ingolstadt. The monastery was to be converted into a barracks for 900 men. But the renovation costs were disproportionate. Now the state has sold the property.
A porcelain factory was removed from the church, the church tower was dismantled, the side altars and the altar tables were smashed and the inventory was removed. In the church there was the glaze and the earth mill, in the presbytery the kiln. The upper part of the cells served as the factory owner's apartment and for storing dishes.
In 1854 there was a foreclosure auction. The Barmherzigen Brüder von Neuburg acquired the entire area and set up a priest hospice there. A renovation in 1857 gave the church its current appearance. Bishop Michael Deimlein consecrated the house of God to St. Augustine . Since then, the institution has been called the St. Augustine Priest Hospice, which is ecclesiastically assigned to the parish of St. Peter.
See also
literature
- Hermann Schefers: Neuburg on the Danube. A brief history of the city. Special print, Munich 1988.
- A. Horn and W. Meyer: Kunstdenkmälerband Neuburg an der Donau. Commission publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1956.
- Neuburger Kollektantenblatt 016 from 1850, pages 60–72, editor of the Historischer Heimatverein Neuburg
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 59.3 " N , 11 ° 10 ′ 41.5" E