Franciscan monastery Tachov
The Franciscan monastery Tachov is a former monastery of the Franciscan Minorites in the district town of Tachov (German Tachau ) in the Czech Republic .
history
The Minorites settled in the west Bohemian town of Tachov (Tachau) on the Mies in the second half of the 15th century . They took over the hospital church, looted during the Hussite siege in 1421, the Gothic church of St. Maria Magdalena, and converted the buildings into a monastery. The Franciscan convent was built as the city's second monastery. The beginning of the Tachau Franciscan Monastery thus coincides with the successful missionary work of the Franciscan and preacher Johannes Capistranus . In 1451 he was sent to Bohemia and Silesia by Pope Nicholas V with the aim of re-Catholicizing the followers of Jan Hus (around 1369 to 1415).
Around 15 Franciscans lived in Tachau until the 17th century. Over the centuries, parts of the monastery repeatedly fell victim to flames and had to be rebuilt. A new church was built between 1689 and 1694 on the site of the former Gothic structure. After a devastating fire in 1748, the church was built in its current form. Next to the church is the baroque monastery building with four wings that are grouped around an inner courtyard.
In the 18th century the number of brothers rose to 30, but then decreased again in the course of the 19th century. According to the official house lists from the end of the 19th century until well into the 20th century, there were also some poor families living in the monastery (Tachau No. 447) who supported the friars with housework and gardening. Only four Franciscans lived in the Tachau Monastery until the Second World War , the last one left Tachov when the monastery was closed on April 14, 1950.
The monastery was damaged by American incendiary bombs at the end of World War II. The damage was only completely repaired a few years after the war. The Tachau District Museum (OKRESNÍ MUZEUM V TACHOVĚ) has been housed in the former monastery since 1959, with a predominantly local history collection. The building is now owned by the Franciscan Order again.
Furnishing
The courtyard of the monastery and the cloister decorated with old oil paintings were worth seeing . The most important jewel of the Franciscan monastery was a late Gothic crucifixion group attributed to Ulrich Creutz, which is now in the National Museum in Prague . The side altars of St. Antonius and Franziskus were donated by Baron Johann Philipp Husmann .
The former monastery church of St. Maria Magdalena has rococo furnishings from the years 1749–50 and a statue of St. Johannes Nepomuk , which is attributed to Johann Brokoff . The frescoes in the monastery were created in 1827 by Christoph Maurus Fuchs (1771–1848) from Tirschenreuth .
The main altar of the monastery church was decorated in 1874 with a painting of St. Maria Magdalena by the Tachau artist Franz Rumpler (1848–1922), who later headed the school for history painting at the Vienna Academy. Rumpler also captured the Tachau monastery church in an oil painting in 1895. From the second half of the 19th century the statues of St. Francis and John Capistranus .
literature
- Zdeněk Procházka : Tachov město, Historicko-turistický průvodce. 1997, ISBN 80-901877-4-9
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Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 40.2 " N , 12 ° 38 ′ 11.4" E