Jesuit residence Kastl

The Jesuit residence Kastl in place of the former monastery castle Kastl was a branch of the Jesuit order in Kastl in the Upper Palatinate ( Diocese of Eichstätt ) in the 17th century .

The monastery castle Kastl, which served the Jesuits as a residence from 1636 to 1773.

history

After Elector Friedrich V of the Palatinate was defeated by the Habsburgs allied with Maximilian of Bavaria in the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 , he lost his hereditary lands and with them the Upper Palatinate. This was re-Catholicized from 1624 by Maximilian . In the course of this counter-Reformation measure, the Jesuits in Amberg received pastoral care in Kastl, Pfaffenhofen (here only until 1629) and Götzendorf on November 9, 1627 . The Jesuits usually did missionary work in pairs. On January 9, 1636, the Bavarian elector assigned them the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, which had been closed since the Reformation , as their residence. The Jesuits stayed here until the order was banned in 1773. Among them, a controversial renovation and refurbishment of the monastery church took place in 1715.

literature

• Ignaz Brunner: The strangest thing about the Kastel rule in the rain district of Bavaria. Seidel, Sulzbach 1830, p. 4ff.
• Bernhard Duhr : History of the Jesuits in the countries of the German tongue. Volume II. Part 2. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1913, pp. 341–343, in particular footnote 6 on p. 341.
• Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt. 11, 1896, p. 84; 30, 1915, p. 62.

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  E