Franciscan monastery Wipperfürth

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The Franciscan monastery in Wipperfürth was a Franciscan branch in Wipperfürth from 1657 to 1818 .

history

Former monastery building

The construction of the Franciscan monastery in Wipperfürth began in 1657 and was completed in its present form around 1747.

The city council of Wipperfürth left the Krakenberg (also "Krankenberg", today Klosterberg), which they renamed "Kalvarienberg", for the purpose of building their own monastery and church. Earlier, the Franciscans inhabited the Saxon province of the order ( Saxonia ) , the house on the market , their services they held in the parish church of St. Nicholas from.

Five years later, the east wing of the monastery was completed. Before the monastery church, the Antoniuskirche Wipperfürth , could be completed (1670–1674), the services were held in a small chapel in the east wing, and later it was converted into a sacristy. The Franciscans maintained a high school in the building and were active as pastors in the area around Wipperfürth.

In 1747 the Franciscans received the approval of the city council to extend the west wing up to the city wall. Around 1780 there were usually twelve priests and eight lay brothers living in the monastery .

The Wipperfürth town fire of 1795 destroyed the monastery church down to the vault and the other monastery buildings down to the walls. Except for seven houses, the houses of the citizenry were also destroyed. However, the monastery and church were soon rebuilt.

On September 12, 1803, Elector Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria decreed the dissolution of all mendicant orders in his domain, which also included the Duchy of Berg and thus also Wipperfürth. The orders were no longer allowed to accept novices , the religious had to leave their monasteries. The facility in Wipperfürth still had the status of a central monastery (extinction monastery) until November 8, 1812 , and the high school ("Studentenschuhl") became a girls' school. Three Franciscans stayed in the monastery until 1818 and worked as teachers at the school, but in 1818 they left the monastery and worked as pastors and vicars at the Wipperfürth parish church of St. Nikolaus .

The monastery buildings fell to the Prussian state and were initially empty because no buyer could be found. In 1826 the Prussian king donated them to the city of Wipperfürth, which set up a prison for the justice of the peace and a middle school, later a grammar school again. She donated the monastery church, which was initially closed in 1822 due to dilapidation, to the Catholic parish. Today the monastery building houses the Catholic family education center Haus der Familie .

literature

  • Patricius Schlager : History of the Franciscan Monastery. In: Festschrift for the seven hundredth anniversary of the city of Wipperfürth, Wipperfürth o. J. (1917), pp. 21–26

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Opladen: The Deanery Wipperfürth. Siegburg 1955, p. 442; About the Order of St. Franciscus of Assisi, in particular about the Saxon province of the same, called the Holy Cross. (Author: Kreszens Schupmann) In: Athanasia, XI. Volume (1831), pp. 67–152, here p. 123
  2. ↑ Düsseldorfer Staatsarchiv, Duchy of Berg, Separate Commission, Generalia 13 I, 10a-15a
  3. ↑ Franz Jansen: Directory of monasteries of the Franciscan order in the Rhine province. In: Franziskanische Studien 13 (1926), pp. 5–32, here p. 30

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 49 ″  E