Franciscan monastery Tauberbischofsheim

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The Franciscan monastery Tauberbischofsheim (formerly Franziskanerkloster Bischofsheim ) was a monastery of the Franciscan order in Tauberbischofsheim in the Main-Tauber district from 1629 until its abolition in 1823 .

history

Franciscan monastery

In 1629, Father Adam Bürvenich (1603–1676) from the Cologne Franciscans (Order Province of Colonia ) helped out in Tauberbischofsheim. Thereupon the Tauberbischofsheim city council, the bailiff and the local pastor approved the establishment of a Franciscan settlement. The Franciscans first settled in the chaplain house at the Sebastian chapel .

From 1631 to 1635 Tauberbischofsheim was under Swedish occupation. The Franciscans were also active in Tauberbischofsheim during this time. In 1631 a primacy took place in the monastery church and in 1634 the Franciscans cared for plague sufferers.

The Liobakirche in Tauberbischofsheim (monastery church of the Franciscans), on the right the entrance to the monastery courtyard

On March 8, 1636, the Elector assigned part of the hospital to the Franciscans. They then moved from the chaplain’s house to the Tauberbischofsheimer Hospital with the adjacent Elisabeth chapel. Neighboring properties were acquired over time, and in 1655 the monastery was expanded. Just one year later, the foundation stone of the Lioba Church was laid . Main patron of the church was by a decision of the provincial chapter of Colonia the Holy Lioba of Tauberbischofsheim after the monastery founder, Father Adam Bürvenich, several relics of the saints did bring to Tauberbischofsheim and kept in a shrine of the church. The previous Elisabeth chapel was henceforth called the Liobakirche.

In 1665 Franciscans of the Thuringian Franciscan Province ( Thuringia ) took over the monastery Tauberbischofsheim. In 1702 there was an unsuccessful attempt by the Franciscans to expand the monastery, as the electoral officials refused a building site for a new building at the gates of the city. In the years 1719 to 1722, however, the monastery was further expanded. The monastery was built from scratch and laid out with four wings. The monastery church was also enlarged, and the previous sacristy became the church's choir. A new sacristy was built behind the choir. A flood in 1732 made it possible to expand the monastery garden, as the heavily damaged outbuildings had previously been demolished.

In November 1687, the Tauberbischofsheim Council asked the provincial chapter of Thuringia to employ a teacher who began teaching the three upper classes of the Tauberbischofsheimer Franziskanergymnasium, today's Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium, a year later. Secular teachers continued to teach in the lower grades.

In 1803 Tauberbischofsheim fell to the Principality of Leiningen . This had no impact on the Franciscan monastery. However, when the city belonged to the Grand Duchy of Baden from 1806 , the budget had to be cut drastically. In 1823 the monastery was finally dissolved. In 1862 part of the former building burned down, but was rebuilt, as the Tauberbischofsheimer Gymnasium was now housed there. In 1954 the former Franciscan high school was renamed "Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium".

Fields of activity

In the field of pastoral care , the Franciscans reintroduced processions at high feasts . In addition, they founded a Belt Brotherhood . As early as 1629, the Franciscans took over the chaplaincy and temporarily looked after the entire parish. High school classes were also an important area of ​​activity for the religious.

In addition to the grammar school lessons, there were repeatedly various branches of the order's own studies to train the offspring of the order province in the Bischofsheimer Konvent from 1677 to 1785 . In 1705 two theology editors of the Tauberbischofsheim Franciscans were invited to disputations at the University of Würzburg .

The Franciscans held early mass in the parish church on all Sundays and public holidays.

When the monastery was dissolved in 1823, the Franciscans also gave up their teaching activities.

Past and present usage

Benedictine convent

In 1968 excavations were carried out during a restoration of the former monastery church (initiated by the dean Ludwig Mönch of the Deanery Tauberbischofsheim ). Remnants of the wall of an earlier east-west church from presumably Carolingian times were found. In addition, graves were found under the organ gallery. Presumably these are the remains of the Benedictine or Lioba monastery from the 8th century.

City administration

Between 1982 and 1985 the monastery courtyard was renovated. After the renovation, the city administration of Tauberbischofsheim was housed in the cloister courtyard.

literature

  • J. Berberich: History of the city of Tauberbischofsheim and the district. M. Zöller, Tauberbischofsheim 1895, DNB 572234341 , pp. 192-194, 230-232.
  • Michael Bihl: History of the Franziskanergymnasium zu Tauberbischofsheim (Seraphisches St. Josephs-Kolleg zu Watersleyde, annual report for the school year 1906/07). Fulda 1907.
  • Gallus Haselbeck: The beginnings of the Franciscan monastery Tauberbischofsheim (1629–1649). In: Franciscan Studies. 2 (1915), ISSN  0016-0067 , pp. 386-417; 3, pp. 169-185 (1916).
  • Gallus Haselbeck: Registrum Thuringiae Franciscanae. Regesta on the history of the Thuringian Franciscan Province 1633–1874. Vol. 2, Fulda, n.J. [1941], OCLC 614087439 , pp. 148-177.
  • H. Schmid: Secularization of the monasteries in Baden 1802–1811. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive . Vol. 98 (1978), pp. 171-352 ( PDF; 45.0 MB ), and Vol. 99 (1979), pp. 173-375, here: pp. 271 f. ( PDF; 28.4 MB ).
  • Hermann Müller: The Franciscan monastery in Bischofsheim in the 17th century. On the history of the Bischofsheim Franciscans. In: 300 Years of the Tauberbischofsheim High School 1688–1988. Festival chronicle, annual report 1987/88. Edited by H. Müller, H. Schmidt, A. Wolfstädter. Tauberbischofsheim 1988, pp. 55-78.
  • Paul-Ludwig Weinacht : Beneficium Studii. The Franziskanergymnasium in Bischofsheim in the 17th and 18th centuries. A contribution to the educational history of Tauberbischofsheim. In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive. Vol. 108 (1988), pp. 397-411 ( PDF; 31.9 MB ); also in: 300 years of the Tauberbischofsheim high school 1688–1988. Festival chronicle, annual report 1987/88. Edited by H. Müller, H. Schmidt, A. Wolfstädter. Tauberbischofsheim 1988, pp. 35-47.
  • C. Plath: The teaching activities and the school theater of the Thuringian Franciscan Province in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Nassau Annals . Vol. 118 (2007), pp. 417-447.
  • Franz Gehrig , Hermann Müller: Tauberbischofsheim. Association of Tauberfränkische Heimatfreunde e. V., Tauberbischofsheim 1997, pp. 96-105 (III. Hospital and Franciscan Monastery).

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Tauberbischofsheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until the 19th century the name of the city was "Bischofsheim". In order to better distinguish between the towns of Bischofsheim am Neckar and Bischofsheim am Hohe Steg, however, the current name "Tauberbischofsheim" finally became established around 1850.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Franciscan monastery Tauberbischofsheim - history . In: kloester-bw.de, accessed on December 15, 2015.
  3. ^ A b c d e Franz Gehrig, Hermann Müller: Tauberbischofsheim. Association of Tauberfränkische Heimatfreunde e. V., Tauberbischofsheim 1997, pp. 101-102 (The Franciscan monastery at the hospital).
  4. ↑ a b City history of the city of Tauberbischofsheim. In: tauberbischofsheim.de. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium Tauberbischofsheim: History of the Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium Tauberbischofsheim. In: mgg-tbb.de, accessed on April 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ St. Lioba Church. (No longer available online.) In: fraenkisches-weinland.de. Fränkisches Weinland Tourismus GmbH, archived from the original on July 18, 2017 ; accessed on April 12, 2019 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 19.8 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 48.1 ″  E