Jesuit College Eichstätt
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The Jesuit College Eichstätt in Eichstätt existed from 1614 to 1773. The college founded as Collegium Willibaldinum in 1564 was handed over to the Jesuits in 1614, but continued to exist as a seminar even after the dissolution of the Jesuit order and formed the nucleus of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .
history
On November 16, 1564, the Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Martin von Schaumberg founded the Collegium Willibaldinum as the first seminary for priestly education north of the Alps. In the course of the Catholic reform , Prince-Bishop Johann Christoph von Westerstetten (1612–1636) called the Jesuits to Eichstätt in 1614 and left them - whether from the Graubünden master builder Hans Alberthal and / and from the Jesuit brother Jakob Kurrer , is controversial - in the years 1617 to 1620 Build a spacious pillar church with barrel vaults on Jesuitenplatz, today's Leonrodplatz . It was destroyed by the Sweden Tower in 1634, with the exception of the surrounding walls, the choir vault and the 52 meter high tower, as was the neighboring Jesuit college , which was built as a successor to the “ Collegium Willibaldinum ” from 1624 to 1626.
The completion of the reconstruction of the college took place in 1665. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, Bishop Johann Anton III succeeded exactly 10 years later . von Zehmen to reopen the Willibaldinum until it lost its importance after secularization in Bavaria in 1806. In 1838 the boys' seminary was reopened by Bishop Karl August von Reisach , and in 1843 a lyceum was established . In 1924 this lyceum was converted into a philosophy-theological university , and since 1980 the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt .
building
The Jesuit College with Guardian Angel Church is a listed building (number D-1-76-123-96). The complex includes:
- Catholic Guardian Angel Church (Jesuit Church), wall pillar construction with retracted choir, facade with curved gable, tower set back to the south, probably built by Hans Alberthal in 1617–1620. After a fire from 1634 to 1661 (re-vaulting), rebuilt by Brother Oswald Kaiser, redesign of the interior in 1717 with rococo stucco by Franz de Gabrieli and frescoes by Johann Michael Rosner, renovation 1961–1964.
- former Jesuit college, now episcopal seminary: complex of the 17th century, extensions with two inner courtyards in 1772 and 1930, new construction and renovation 1981–1984 by Karljosef Schattner .
literature
- Rainer A. Müller: Eichstatt's higher education system in the Middle Ages and early modern times. In: Rainer A. Müller (Ed.): Veritati et Vitae. P. 20.
- Bruno Lengenfelder: The Eichstätt Diocese between Enlightenment and Restoration, Church and State 1773–1821. Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 1990, ISBN 3-7917-1216-0 .
- Wilhelm Neu, Volker Liedke: Upper Bavaria . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52392-9 .
