Franciscan monastery Saalfeld (Thuringia)

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Franciscan Church of St. Andreas Saalfeld as a museum
Interior of the monastery church with baroque ceiling design
Cloister

The Franciscan monastery in Saalfeld , also known as Barefoot Monastery , in Saalfeld / Saale ( Thuringia ) existed from around 1250 to 1534.

In 1250 founded Brothers of 1210 created the Franciscan Order in Saalfeld a convent . They were supported by the Counts of Orlamünde and Schwarzburg . The monastery , which was part of the Saxon Franciscan Province, was first mentioned in a document on June 16, 1265. The monastery included a church built in 1293 in the style of a mendicant church , which bore the patronage of the Apostle Andrew . The complex was destroyed in a fire in 1432, but was immediately rebuilt. Landgrave Wilhelm III. , Duke of Saxony, tried to 1460, in Saalfeld Monastery as in the convents in Eisenach , Langensalza and Weimar the observance introduce and stricter compliance with the rules of the order, but this failed permanently in Saalfeld.

As a result of the Reformation , the Franciscans had to leave the monastery and town in 1534. Five brothers were able to stay in Saalfeld and received lifelong alimony. The church was initially used as a Lutheran house of worship and in 1724 received a baroque ceiling design by the Gotha court painter Johann Heinrich Ritter ; later it served profane purposes. A Latin school was set up in the monastery building and existed until 1914. Since 1999 it has exclusively housed the Saalfeld City Museum in the Franciscan monastery , which was initially founded in 1904 in a small part of the cloister.

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Saalfeld  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 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, pp. 49, 61, 159.
  2. 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, pp. 181, 203.
  3. ^ Luise Grundmann: Saalfeld and the Thuringian Slate Mountains . Cologne / Weimar 2001, p. 43
  4. 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. 277.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  E