Jesuit College Erfurt
The Jesuit college was a college of the Jesuits in Erfurt . The building still exists today on Anger , at the beginning of Schlösserstraße .
history
The Jesuits founded a Jesuit college in Erfurt in 1611 , which took over the building of the former regulator monastery in 1615. The school initially has five classes, received an upper class in 1618 and was formally recognized in 1619. Before the Swedish occupation of the city , the Jesuits left the city in 1631. In 1658 the Jesuits returned to Erfurt and intensified their work. At that time the college had 12 members: six priests engaged in pastoral care, two masters and four brothers. A new college building was built in 1737 and was inhabited by them until the Jesuits were banned in 1773 . From 1822 the building was used as a school building. It is one of the most important baroque buildings in Erfurt and has a representative facade on Schlösserstraße. The now more dominant east facade of the Anger only came into focus in 1977 after the houses in front of it were demolished. It is not very decorated, as it originally only bordered a narrow alley. Today the Jesuit college serves as a commercial building.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 35 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ E