Women's College (Leipzig)
At the back left the Georgenpförtchen
The Frauenkolleg (more precisely Liebfrauenkolleg or Collegium Beatae Mariae Virginis ) was the fourth oldest of the colleges of the University of Leipzig and until 1856 the name of a building complex on the Brühl assigned to this college .
history
The women's college was created as a private foundation by some Silesian and Prussian masters at the University of Leipzig. Instrumental in this regard were Johannes Otto von Münsterberg , who possessed the Foundation in 1416 in his will, and Johannes Hoffmann von Schweidnitz as executor. Johannes Otto von Münsterberg was the founding rector of Leipzig University. In 1422 the foundation was granted full college rights by Margrave Friedrich IV . After Hoffmann von Schweidnitz had previously made his private house available, the foundation has now acquired a house on the south side at the eastern end of the Brühl opposite a Marienkapelle, from which the name derives from “ Our Lady ”.
The women's college served to provide for and accommodation for five Silesian and one Prussian masters. The college, with communal and other living spaces, was the center of the natio Polonorum (the Polish nation ), one of the four regional corporations of the university, which referred to Silesia and Prussia. The premises of the college grew, among other things, because Johannes Hoffmann von Schweidnitz, who had meanwhile become Bishop of Meissen , gave his house next to the women's college in 1440.
From 1510 to 1513 one of the two main houses was converted into a three-story house. In 1613 three stone rear buildings were renewed on the area of the college. Further modifications followed. In 1817 a new rear building was built.
In 1856 the city council bought the site and had the college buildings torn down for the construction of the Georgenhalle . The Georgenhalle housed the meat banks on the ground floor and the newly founded Imperial Court from 1879 to 1895 .
literature
- Senate Commission for Research into the History of Leipzig University and Science (Ed.): History of the University of Leipzig 1409–2009 , Volume 5 History of Leipzig University Buildings in an Urban Context , Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-305-1
- Ernst Müller: The house names of old Leipzig . (Writings of the Association for the History of Leipzig, Volume 15). Leipzig 1931, reprint Ferdinand Hirt 1990, ISBN 3-7470-0001-0 , p. 12
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 31 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 50 ″ E