Capuchin monastery in Landshut

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The Kapuzinerkloster Landshut is a former monastery of the Capuchins in Landshut in Lower Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

history

The monastery consecrated to the Assumption of Mary was founded in 1610 and dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization .

It was the fourth branch of the Capuchin Order in Bavaria after Munich (1600), Augsburg (1601) and Rosenheim (1606). Duke Maximilian von Bayern donated the monastery and largely financed the construction of the building. On April 24, 1611 the new monastery church was consecrated to the Assumption of Mary, the simple side chapel to the founder of the order Francis and the two side altars to Saint Anthony of Padua and Saint Felix of Cantalice . The latter in particular was venerated by the Landshutern and received numerous votive tablets in the period that followed . The church also had a particle of the blood of Christ as a relic .

When Landshut was attacked by the Swedes during the Thirty Years War in 1634, the monastery was completely devastated. During the second invasion of Sweden in 1648, all Landshut monasteries except for the Capuchin monastery were occupied. Thus, the then steadfast friars escaped the renewed destruction of their monastery.

From the beginning, the monastery had a novitiate , and since the expansion in 1667 it has also been a college for philosophy and theology . There is a copper engraving by Michael Wening from 1723 which shows the condition of the monastery buildings at that time. It is known from 1788 that 38 Capuchins lived in the monastery at that time, including 27 priests, five students and six lay brothers. At this point in time, her pastoral work extended to no fewer than 33 churches.

Despite the urgent requests of the city council and the city pastor, the Capuchin monastery was closed in the course of secularization in 1802. The church was demolished a few years later and the building material was used to build the Maxwehr on the Isar . The monastery buildings had been owned by the city of Landshut since 1839 and were used as a municipal building yard for a long time. After a long period of vacancy, the convent buildings were demolished in 1995 and 1996 and gave way to a new district center “Am Alten Viehmarkt” in the following years - consisting of the new Sparkasse building and the City Center Landshut (CCL).

Trivia

Today only the name Kapuzinerweg for a footpath along the west side of the City Center Landshut indicates the former monastery.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d House of Bavarian History: Landshut, Capuchin Monastery - History . Online at www.hdbg.eu. Retrieved December 18, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 21.9 ″  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 21 ″  E