Jesuit College Straubing
The Jesuit College in Straubing was a college of the Jesuits in Straubing that existed from 1650 to 1774. Today the Straubing police station is housed in the listed building complex. The former Jesuit church is a subsidiary church to the parish of St. Jakob .
history
In 1631 Jesuits came to Straubing, commissioned and financially supported by Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria to build a church and a college. The city gave them the “chapels of our dear women at the upper thor” with the associated income as a collegiate church. This women's chapel was first mentioned in a document in 1368. In 1646 the Jesuits acquired the new religious house west of the Church of Our Lady, the so-called Kastenhof. In 1650 the Jesuit branch in Straubing received the legal title of college. In 1731, a large, claim-raising wing was added to the west with the new college, the barrack-like character of which was distinctly different from the bourgeois character of the town square. The Jesuits looked after the church and college until the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773. The Jesuit church with the patronage of Mary's Assumption into Heaven was a subsidiary church to the parish of St. Jacob. The college buildings were used after 1773 by the Bavarian tongue of the Order of Malta , which owned the buildings until secularization . Another renovation as an official building for the regional court took place after the middle of the 19th century.
Building description
The listed building complex consists of the following parts:
- Former college buildings, reconstruction after 1773 as a religious building for the Maltese, further reconstruction after the middle of the 19th century as an official building, four-storey, with paired segmental arched windows; Rest of the city walls
- Former Jesuit grammar school, three-storey hipped roof building, the core of the 18th century, exterior in the style of the Maximilian era, with segmented arched windows, around the middle of the 19th century.
- Former Jesuit church, late Gothic core, from 1680 conversion to a single-nave room with two tower-like chapel extensions; with equipment.
Web links
- Wolfgang W. Scheibel: History of the College Straubing
- List of monuments for Straubing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
literature
- Wolfgang W. Scheibel: Jesuits at schools and universities. Dissertation, archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de .
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '52.3 " N , 12 ° 33' 55.3" E