Franciscan monastery St. Bernhardin (Kempten)

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St. Bernardine Monastery and St. Magnus Parish Church in Lenzfried

The Franciscan Monastery of St. Bernardine is a former monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Lenzfried , a district of Kempten (Allgäu) . The monastery, founded in 1461, is dedicated to St. Bernardine of Siena . The Franciscan convent of St. Anna is on the other side of the street .

history

In 1458 the parish priest Leonhard Märklin came up with the idea of ​​establishing a Franciscan convent , which was soon settled by five friars. The order quickly became popular with the population. In 1461, Ulrich Rist, a chaplain to St. Stephan, acquired an estate in Lenzfried to build a Franciscan monastery, which belonged to the Upper German or Strasbourg province ( Provincia Argentina ). In 1466 the first monastery church and the convent were consecrated to St. Bernard by the auxiliary bishop of Augsburg.

Because of the unrest of the Schmalkaldic and German Peasants' War , the Franciscans were withdrawn from the monastery in 1548. From then on, Franciscan nuns who had fled the imperial city lived in the convent building until 1643 . In 1649 a Franciscan convent with twelve brothers moved into the old monastery building. The friars were now active in pastoral care in the parish. In the same year the Franciscan Sisters, who shared the building with the brothers for a short time, moved to the Franciscan convent of St. Anna opposite.

In 1663 three new altars were consecrated in the monastery church. A conversion to a three-wing complex was built in 1683 by Hans Mayer. A new high altar was purchased from Lechfeld Monastery in 1748 . In the years 1765/67 the monastery was rebuilt under Joseph Galler. The monastery was finally abandoned in 1805 in the course of secularization . The church and monastery complex were preserved. The monastery church of St. Magnus became the parish church, the parsonage and in 1814 a military hospital moved into the earlier monastery buildings, later a school.

The church tower, actually unusual for Franciscan monasteries, was built by Hugo Höfl in the years 1892/3. A parish community has existed with the neighboring parish of Ortisei since 2002 .

description

Monastery complex

The three-story monastery building is a simple complex; it consists of a three-wing building attached to the church and a wing connecting to the south. Some of the buildings were changed in the 19th century. The monastery wall on the east side dates from the 18th century.

St. Magnus monastery and parish church

The Catholic parish church is essentially a late Gothic hall building with a polygonal choir closure and square tower. It was built between 1463 and 1466 and rebuilt in 1683. In 1688 the Joseph Chapel was attached to the main building. A special feature of the church is the two-storey gallery .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Schiedermair: Monastery Land Bavarian Swabia. In memory of the secularization of 1802/1803. Fink, ISBN 3898701271 , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2003, 1st edition, p. 280.

literature

  • Josef Rottenkolber: Contributions to the history of the former Franciscan monastery Lenzfried. In: Franziskanische Studien Aschendorff, Münster 1935, pp. 76-103.
  • Parish council of Sankt Magnus (Ed.): 350 years of the parish of St. Magnus in Lenzfried. Kempten 1992, Agrar Verlag Allgäu.
  • House memorial sheet of the Franciscan monastery in Lenzfried. In: Heinrich Uhlig: Sankt Mang. History of an Allgäu community. Verlag des Heimatpflegers von Schwaben, Kempten (Allgäu) 1955, p. 414.

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 38.4 "  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 21.8"  E