Jesuit monastery Thorn

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The Jesuit monastery was a settlement of the Jesuits in Toruń , today Toruń, in Pomerania from 1593 to 1773.

location

The monastery buildings were located at the Johanniskirche in the old town on the later Jesuit alley .

history

In 1593 a Jesuit monastery was founded by Bishop Peter Tynicki von Kulm as the first new Catholic monastery after the Reformation in the predominantly Protestant city. A grammar school was set up with him. The monastery was a center of the Catholic population and therefore had the support of the Polish state. In 1699 new buildings were built.

In 1724 there were clashes between Protestant and Catholic high school students, as a result of which the monastery and school were devastated by an angry crowd. On the initiative of the Jesuits, the mayor Rösner and nine other citizens were sentenced to death and executed by the Warsaw court.

After the Jesuit Order was dissolved in 1773, the buildings became the property of the Polish state and were used as artillery barracks in the 19th century by the new Prussian rule.

literature

  • Julius Emil Wernicke (Ed.): Karl Gotthelf Praetorius: Topographical-historical-statistical description of the city of Thorn. Volume 1. Thorn 1832. pp. 96-98

Remarks

  1. ↑ Presentation of the events in
    • Franz Jacobi:  Rösner, Johann Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 501-504.
    • Johann Theodor Jablonski : Das Betrübte Thorn, Or the story as it turns out to Thorn From July 11th, 1724. bit up to the present time: Carefully collected from reliable news, and communicated to the right- and truth-loving world for judgment. Haude, Berlin 1725. ( Digitized BSB , Google book )
    • Authentic news of the uproar that was aroused at gates and tightened according to the requirements of justice ... Regensburg 1725 ( Google Book )