Jesuit College Landshut

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The Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius in the foreground with the former Jesuit college (right)
View of the former Jesuit college

The Jesuit College in Landshut was a college of the Jesuits in Landshut , which existed from 1629 to 1774. Today the Landshut police station is housed in the listed building complex. The former Jesuit church of St. Ignatius belongs to the parish of St. Martin . The buildings are a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention .

history

Jesuit missions took place in Landshut as early as 1571, then probably 1604 and 1617. In 1627/28 the Jesuits came to Landshut on behalf of Elector Maximilian . They were financially endowed with foundation capital by Countess Magdalena von Haunsperg . The building of the college was initiated from mid-1630. The foundation stone for the college church, which was given a size commensurate with the importance of the branch, was laid on July 31, 1631. Despite the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, the church was completed ten years later. The convent buildings that still exist today were erected between 1665 and 1691, after the priests had previously been housed in church and private buildings. The Jesuits looked after the church and college of St. Ignatius until the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773. At the time of the Landshut University , the premises were used by the Georgianum seminary . Later, from 1828 to 1919, it was used as a barracks ; Today the Landshut Police Station is located there, which is subordinate to the Lower Bavaria Police Headquarters.

description

The baroque college building is a three-storey four-wing complex with a closed inner courtyard, built from 1665 to 1691 by Michael Beer and Michael Thumb . The former refectory is on the first floor of the south wing. The stucco is from around 1720. The library may have been in a room in the north wing.

Former Jesuit church

The builder of the single-nave sacred building with side chapels on the nave was Frater Johannes Holl, SJ. The Munich Jesuit Church of St. Michael served as a model . The Landshut Jesuit Church emphasizes its individuality through its own structural accents and compositions. These relate to the lack of a transept as well as to the impressive lighting of the entire room. What is unusual about St. Ignatius is the orientation of the altar towards the west and not, as usual, towards the east. The foundation stone of the church was laid in 1631. The vaulting of the nave in 1641 marks the preliminary completion of the church building, with the church inauguration already taking place in 1640. The high altar was not erected until 1663.

literature

  • Volker Liedke: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Landshut . Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7954-1002-9 , pp. 270f.
  • Erich Stahleder: Jesuit Church St. Ignatius Landshut (= Small Art Guide No. 1200). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 1999, 3rd edition. ISBN 3-7954-4922-7 .
  • Wolfgang W. Scheibel: Order colleges of the Society of Jesus under Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria (1598-1651). Research on college architecture in the 17th century. Dissertation University of Marburg 1999, p.?.

Web links

Commons : Jesuit College Landshut  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Liedke p. 270f.
  2. ↑ Stahleder p. 3f., P. 9.

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 3 "  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 14.8"  E