Franciscan monastery Saalfeld (East Prussia)

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The Franciscan monastery in Saalfeld (East Prussia) was a branch of the Franciscan Observants in the town of Saalfeld in the Teutonic Order . It was founded in 1480 and abolished again in 1527 at the latest.

history

The monastery was founded by the order marshal Niklas von Gebsattel on February 22nd, 1480. In consultation with the mayor and council of the city of Saalfeld, he handed over a building plot to the fathers and brothers of the observance of the Barefoot Order of the Custody Livonia , which belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province , and on the same day laid the foundation stone for the monastery church.

Simon Grunau reports on the abolition of the monastery , the pastor of Saalfeld married in 1524 and celebrated the wedding in the monastery. The food for the wedding celebration was arranged on images of saints and the pastor and his wife had moved into the monastery building. The Franciscans had been expelled with the permission of the commandant of Saalfeld, a brother of Bishop Erhard von Queis . Ernst Deegen denies the veracity of this report.

The abolition of the monastery took place in 1524 or at the latest in 1527, when Bishop Erhard von Queis introduced the Reformation in his diocese of Pomesania .

Monastery building

City map of Saalfeld from 1833. The former monastery area is marked as a district justice square at the confluence of Baderstrasse and Klosterstrasse in the market square.

The building plot was on the northern city wall. It included the Baderturm and the Bottelturm of the city wall and was bordered in the west by Baderstrasse and in the south by Schuhstrasse (later Klosterstrasse).

The monastery consisted of the following buildings: the monastery church St. Leonhardi , the cloister and the cloister , as well as the brewery, the infirmary and the inn. One of the two towers of the city wall served as a library ( liberei ), the other as a granary.

The cloister contained the Guardian's apartment , the brothers' cells, the refectory , the kitchen, the pantry and the basement. There was a tree garden around the exam.

After the dissolution of the monastery, its buildings were given to the Pomesan consistory . After its dissolution (1751), the Judicial College in Saalfeld moved in . At the time, the main building was described as having a single story and 74 feet long and 35 feet wide. The property was used by the administration of justice until 1945. The district court was rebuilt in 1901 and was completely destroyed in 1945. In the post-war period the property was leveled and in the 1970s three multi-family houses ( prefabricated buildings ) were built on.

literature

  • Ernst Deegen: The former monastery of the barefoot or gray brothers (Franciscans). In: Kreisgemeinschaft Mohrungen eV (Ed.): Saalfeld: Destiny of a German city in East Prussia. Compiled by Hans Klein based on Justizrat Deegen u. a., Rautenberg, Leer 1989, ISBN 3-7921-0410-5 , pp. 233-238.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives Königsberg, Foliant No. 308, Sheet 1 ff .; see also Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 199.
  2. ↑ Ernst Deegen: The former monastery of the barefoot or gray brothers (Franciscans). In: Kreisgemeinschaft Mohrungen eV (Ed.): Saalfeld: Destiny of a German city in East Prussia. Compiled by Hans Klein based on Justizrat Deegen u. a., Rautenberg, Leer 1989, ISBN 3-7921-0410-5 , pp. 233-238.
  3. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 259.

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 48.2 ″  N , 19 ° 36 ′ 25.9 ″  E