Franciscan monastery in Würzburg

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Franciscan monastery in Würzburg
Monastery church
Monastery church
location Franziskanergasse 7, 97070 Würzburg
Lies in the diocese Diocese of Würzburg
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '27.9 "  N , 9 ° 55' 51.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '27.9 "  N , 9 ° 55' 51.3"  E
Patronage Finding the Cross
founding year 1221 under Bishop Hermann I of Lobdeburg by Franciscan Minorites
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1804 with the secularization no more novice admission
Year of repopulation from 1839 Franciscan Minorites

The Franciscan Monastery Wuerzburg is a monastery of the Franciscans - Friars Minor in Würzburg in the diocese of Wuerzburg .

The monastery church
Inside the church
Gothic cloister of the Franciscan monastery, built in the 13th and 14th centuries
Pietà from the Riemenschneider workshop

history

The monastery, consecrated to the finding of the cross , was founded in 1221 by Caesar von Speyer with the support of Otto I von Lobdeburg , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg , and was one of the first Franciscan monasteries north of the Alps with Augsburg, Regensburg and Strasbourg. At first it belonged to the only German order province of Teutonia , from 1230 to the Rhenish province of Provincia Rheni , after further division of the provinces in the strongly expanding order then from 1239 to the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan province of Argentina . The Franciscans have been in Würzburg without interruption since then, where they also worked as pastors (around the 14th century for the nuns of the St. Ulrich monastery). The construction of a church next to the monastery was completed in 1280. Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn had it rebuilt in the Renaissance style from 1611 to 1616 . The renaissance portal of the monastery with the relief of the stigmatization of Francis of Assisi was created in 1613 by the sculptor Michael Kern .

Since the division of the order into the Observants and Conventuals in 1517, the Würzburg Convention has belonged to the branch of the Conventuals or Minorites. In the course of secularization , the monastery was not immediately abolished in 1803 (like the monasteries of the three other male mendicant orders in Würzburg, who “could not yield a sufficient pension”), but the acceptance of novices was forbidden. In 1839 the acceptance of novices was allowed again, in 1840 the monastery was given permission to continue to exist and in 1841 it was first revived by religious priests from Italy and South Tyrol, but then again with local forces. In the middle of the 19th century there was a group of the Franciscan Third Order among the Würzburg Minorites . From November 13th to November 16th, 1848, the refectory of the Franciscans was the meeting place for the first German Bishops' Conference . In 1857 the monastery became the seat of the Provincialate , the head of the German Minorite Province. At the end of the Second World War , on March 3, 1945, the monastery and the monastery church were destroyed by an aerial bomb . They were rebuilt from a more modern point of view, but with Franciscan modesty. After another fire in 1986, the monastery church was rebuilt in the style of the 13th century.

The third branch of the Franciscan family in Würzburg ( Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis , OFS) meets regularly in the rooms of the monastery.

Works of art

On the south wall of the monastery church is a Pietà from the workshop of Tilman Riemenschneider , which was created around 1510.

For centuries the church served as the final resting place of the noble Würzburgers and therefore contains many important grave monuments . Some are from Tilman Riemenschneider's workshop or, like the face of Michael Truchsess von Wetzhausen, from the master himself. The tomb for Hans von Grumbach-Estenfeld is attributed to Riemenschneider's son Jörg.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Heeg-Engelhart: The women's monasteries. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume 1 (2001), Pp. 272-294 and 625-634, here: p. 278.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: pp. 430, 434 f. and 437.
  3. ^ OFS - Franciscan monastery Würzburg. In: www.franziskanerkloster-wuerzburg.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .