Franciscan monastery Pfreimd
The Franciscan monastery Pfreimd is a former monastery of the Franciscan Reformats in Pfreimd in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg.
history
The monastery consecrated to St. Johannes Baptist was founded in 1596 by Landgrave Georg Ludwig von Leuchtenberg . Pfreimd was an island that remained Catholic and was surrounded by Protestant areas; the adjacent Parkstein-Weiden condominium had been Lutheran since 1542 and the Upper Palatinate areas followed in 1556. In 1574, the papal representative Felizian Ninguarda came to Pfreimd to get an idea of the religious conditions; Although many landgrave subjects attended church services in neighboring parishes that had become Protestant, the papal representative's impression was very positive, and he was particularly impressed by the Catholic way of life of the landgrave's family. It was difficult for the landgrave to provide priests, sometimes the landgrave had to make compromises and tolerate a "female priest" in Schirmitz . He received his first pastoral help from the Franciscans in Kelheim , but this was only provisional.
To alleviate the shortage of priests, the landgrave had the later monastery church built. On March 20, 1594, it was inaugurated by the auxiliary bishop Johann Baptist Pichlmair . In 1596 work began on the monastery, in 1599 the construction was almost finished and two Franciscans had already moved in. On June 3, 1600, the Regensburg auxiliary bishop consecrated the monastery chapel in honor of Saints Fabian and Sebastian . In 1601, the monastery of the Bavarian Custody of the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan Province ( Argentina ) was added, which in 1625 became an independent Bavarian Franciscan Province ( Bavaria ). In 1602 five priests and five lay brothers worked here. Since the parish in Pfreimd was not occupied at that time, the Franciscans took over pastoral care. They were also given the right to preach on pilgrimages to the Eixlberg to the pilgrimage church of St. Barbara and to Wernberg .
The Thirty Years War brought a turning point , in 1621 the Mansfeld troops conquered Pfreimd and destroyed the monastery. Although a reconstruction was first questioned, this could be accomplished with the help of Maximilian I. In the 18th century, casuistry and philosophy were taught in the monastery between 1717 and 1775 , which brought the monastery to a new bloom.
The monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . The church and monastery building were used as a depot, an inn, a secondary school and a teacher's apartment, but remained in state hands. In 1831 the monastery was rebuilt as a hospice, in 1870 Pfreimd became a convent again .
On September 1st, 1995 the activities of the Franciscans in Pfreimd came to an end. By resolution of the provincial leadership of the Bavarian Franciscans , the Upper Palatinate branch was canceled. In 1996 the Franziskus-Kindergarten opened in the former brewery. The other monastery buildings have been completely renovated since 2000.
Monastery church
The monastery church was consecrated on March 20, 1594 after a year of construction. After the destruction of the Mansfeld troops in 1621, it was rebuilt in 1630 by Landgrave Maximilian Adam. In 1744 the pointed tower dome was replaced by an " onion ". In 1802, all art objects were stolen during the secularization and the church was used as a warehouse. The residents of Pfreimd repaired the church and got most of the works of art back.
The richly furnished interior comes from the Pfreimde sculptor Anton Horchler. Particularly noteworthy are the twelve old apostle portraits (oil on canvas), the life-size Christ on the scourge column and the large crucifix of the cross altar.
Personalities
- The provisional provincial for the Sudeten German Franciscan monasteries, Father Petrus Karl Mangold (OFM), who died in the Dachau concentration camp on July 18, 1942, was guardian and director of the monastery’s drapery from 1931 . In 1939 he was elected as definitor to the provincial leadership of the Franciscans. His grave is in the cemetery of the Pfreimd monastery.
literature
- Josef Bauer: The Pfreimd Franciscan Monastery as an expression of Catholic reform in the early modern period. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate monastery landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 266-275. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .
Web links
- Franciscan monastery Pfreimd , basic data and history: Franciscan monastery Pfreimd - Pastoral care in the service of the Counter Reformation in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '42.7 " N , 12 ° 11' 4.6" E