Jesuit novice (Mainz)

The former Jesuit novitiate , a college for teaching Jesuit students , was built between 1701 and 1719 and was located in the old town of Mainz . In 1953 it was almost completely demolished by the Mainz city administration and replaced by a new building, which today serves as a municipal retirement home. Today only the St. Joseph's Chapel, built between 1715 and 1719, remains.

history

On December 9, 1561, the “Electoral College” of the Society of Jesus in Mainz was founded by Elector Daniel Brendel von Homburg . The Burse "Zum Algesheimer" served as a building for teaching and accommodation at the same time. The number of students grew to 700 by 1580. As early as 1568 there were several hundred members at the college, which was officially recognized as part of the Electoral University . This is reported in the oldest Mainz city map from 1568.

St. Joseph's Chapel

The buildings of the Jesuit novitiate were built from 1701. St. Joseph's Chapel was built between 1715 and 1719 as the novitiate's house chapel. Auxiliary Bishop Johann Edmund Gedult von Jungsfeld inaugurated the chapel on June 21, 1719, the feast of St. Aloysius from the Jesuit order.

Until the expulsion of the Jesuits from the city on September 8, 1773, this novice house of the Upper Rhine province of the Jesuit order was on the site. Today only a lintel of the building, marked 1716, indicates the former purpose. The building was then used as an archiepiscopal seminary in 1773 . The most radical enlightener in German Catholicism Felix Anton Blau was buried in what was then the seminary courtyard. After the end of the old Electorate of Mainz and the beginning of the special administration, the buildings were used as a French central school ( École centrale ) from 1798 and as a lyceum from 1803 according to the instructions of Commissioner Joseph Lakanal . During the Wars of Liberation , they served as a hospital from 1813 and then became part of a barracks. Karl Anton Schaab reports in volume 1 of his history of the city of Mainz

“To make them more leisurely, the Jesuits had an arch lead across the street from their college to the school building: as early as 1798 the French turned the school building into a barracks and it is still an emperor. Austrian barracks. "

- KA Schaab, 1841

In 1848 the site was acquired by the city of Mainz through the bourgeois hospice fund to accommodate the needy. In the course of the air raids on Mainz , the “Invalidenhaus” was badly destroyed in 1942. On January 6, 1956, Lord Mayor Franz Stein opened the new “urban retirement home”.

Well-known graduates

Heinrich Kilber , theologian, co-author of Theologia Wirceburgensis
Ulrich Munier , theologian, co-author of Theologia Wirceburgensis
Friedrich Spee , critic of the witch trials and hymn poet

literature

Fritz Arens : The Mainz Jesuit novitiate: (former house of invalids) , 1954

Web links

Wikisource: The Merciless Merciful - Sources and full texts

Collège de Mayence, Germany : plan montrant la superficie du nouveau bâtiment des classes suivant les prescriptions du P. Ziegler on Gallica

Individual evidence

^ Annette von Berlepsch: Overview of the history of the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium. (No longer available online.) Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium , archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; Retrieved April 7, 2012 .
↑ http://www.alte-uni-mainz.de/geschichte-der-alten-kurfuerstlichen-universitaet/gebaeude-der-universitaet.html
^ Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Volume 55 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08176-4 , pp. 142 .
↑ 1803 Establishment of the Mainz Lyceum (Ouverture du Lycée Impérial de Mayence) according to the guidelines of the French administration
↑ Thierry Choffat: L'instruction publique sous le consulat et l'empire. Le 10 décembre 1802. (No longer available online.) Lycée Henri Poincaré, Nancy , archived from the original on October 12, 2005 ; Retrieved April 15, 2012 .
↑ Tradition of social responsibility preserved - Mainz retirement home 50 years. From the handicapped house to the modern retirement and nursing home. Mainze city press office, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved April 7, 2012 .

[1] Annette von Berlepsch: Overview of the history of the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium. (No longer available online.) Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium , archived from the original on September 21, 2011 ; Retrieved April 7, 2012 .

[2] ttp://www.alte-uni-mainz.de/geschichte-der-alten-kurfuerstlichen-universitaet/gebaeude-der-universitaet.html

[3] Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Volume 55 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08176-4 , pp. 142 .

[4] 1803 Establishment of the Mainz Lyceum (Ouverture du Lycée Impérial de Mayence) according to the guidelines of the French administration

[5] Thierry Choffat: L'instruction publique sous le consulat et l'empire. Le 10 décembre 1802. (No longer available online.) Lycée Henri Poincaré, Nancy , archived from the original on October 12, 2005 ; Retrieved April 15, 2012 .

[6] Tradition of social responsibility preserved - Mainz retirement home 50 years. From the handicapped house to the modern retirement and nursing home. Mainze city press office, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved April 7, 2012 .