Capuchin monastery in Kitzingen

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Capuchin Church of St. Mary of the Assumption from the north-west

The Kapuzinerkloster Kitzingen is a former monastery of the Capuchins in Kitzingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .

history

The monastery was founded in 1630 by Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg , Bishop of Würzburg, and the foundation stone for the monastery buildings was laid in the following year. During the Thirty Years' War , when Kitzingen was briefly under Swedish administration, the Capuchins were expelled and could not return until 1649. In 1652, the simple church typical of the mendicant order was inaugurated. The monastery was in 1828 dissolved , 1831-1902 it served as a hospital. After the end of the Second World War, the Protestant parish of Kitzingen held its services in the church for a while, as the town church had been damaged by bombs. In 1983 the former monastery buildings were largely demolished and replaced by the Caritas St. Elisabeth retirement home, only the church and part of the western wall remained. Today the church is used by the Catholic parish of St. Johannes as a branch church, and services are held regularly.

Monastery church

The church is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and St. Francis Seraphicus. It is oriented to the south and presents itself as a simple hall building with a retracted rectangular choir, above which the small roof turret with a pyramid helmet rises. In the roof turret hangs a four-part ringing made of bronze and cast steel bells, of which - curiously - two are tuned to the same note c sharp 3 . On the west side, a chapel extension protrudes from the line of the nave wall. The nave is cross-vaulted , the choir is spanned by a barrel vault. The interior today has one of the best preserved furnishings from the 17th century in the Main Franconian area. In addition to the high altar, which takes up the entire width of the choir and separates the sacristy from the church interior, the side altars and the large-format Baroque station pictures on the walls also deserve special attention. The high altar painting with the motif of the Assumption of Mary was created in 1679 by the Flemish painter Oswald Onghers . In the anteroom of the church is the weathered original of a Gothic wayside shrine. A copy was placed at its previous location in front of the south wall of the parish church of St. John. Except for church services, the church is usually not open to the public and can therefore only be visited on request.

See also

Web links

Commons : Kapuzinerkloster (Kitzingen)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 10.3 "  N , 10 ° 9 ′ 45.4"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Bauer: Art and culture guide through the district of Kitzingen . Market wide 1986.