Capuchin convent Bonn

The Capuchin Monastery in Bonn was a monastery of the Capuchin tertiary nuns in Bonn . It existed from 1629 to 1802 and belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne .

history

The monastery was founded in the course of the Counter-Reformation by the Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand of Bavaria . In 1629 three sisters from the Capuchin convent of St. Anna am Kreuzberg in Cologne moved into a house on Wenzelgasse in Bonn that had been given up by the Ludolphskonvent beguinage . After two years, they moved into a house on Kölnstrasse . The patroness of the monastery was Saint Anne. After returning to Cologne temporarily because of the events of the Thirty Years' War, the convent already consisted of 18 sisters in 1638. Against the resistance of Bonn citizens, a new building was built on Kölnstrasse in 1644, which was completed in 1646 and seven sisters could move into it. An associated church was consecrated in 1647 by the Osnabrück Prince-Bishop Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg in the presence of the Archbishop of Cologne, Ferdinand , and a small cemetery also belonged to the complex. The income of the monastery came mainly from bonds from Bonn citizens and the surrounding towns, the cathedral chapter and the electoral state , plus income from customs duties in Bonn and Andernach . In the later years the sisters often belonged to middle-class families from the Bonn area, in 1798 the convent consisted of 13 choir sisters and four lay sisters. In 1802 the monastery was secularized , the monastery complex sold and demolished a short time later.

literature

• Joachim Oepen: Bonn - Kapuzinerterziarinnen In: Manfred Groten (Hrsg.), Georg Mölich (Hrsg.), Gisela Muschiol (Hrsg.), Joachim Oepen (Hrsg.), Wolfgang Rosen (Red.): Nordrheinisches Klosterbuch. Lexicon of monasteries and monasteries until 1815. Part 1: Aachen to Düren. Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-87710-453-8 , pp. 358-359 ( Word document ; 165 kB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 6 ″  E