Capuchin monastery Merano
The Capuchin Monastery of Merano was consecrated in 1617 and still exists today.
history
The Bishop of Chur, Johannes Flugi , supported the Capuchin Order in 1610 in its plan to found two more monasteries in Tyrol , one in Meran and the other in Mals .
He had an important supporter in the Prince of Tyrol, Archduke Maximilian , an advocate of the Counter Reformation .
Although the Merano magistrate was against a Capuchin monastery ( that there were a lot of poor people here anyway and that the Capuchins were not needed to increase them ), they were urged to contribute 300 pounds to the construction of the monastery. These costs were collected through a special tax on meat.
Construction began in 1616 and the monastery was consecrated to St. Maximilian in 1617 . It was rebuilt and expanded between 1715 and 1717.
During the Bavarian occupation of Tyrol, the monastery was dissolved and auctioned in 1808, but soon afterwards it was again run as a monastery.
Today the Capuchins of Merano are mainly active in hospital pastoral care, the Capuchin Foundation Liebeswerk maintains a dormitory for young people and runs an organic restaurant.
literature
- Published by the Capuchin Province of Bressanone: 400 years of Capuchins in Meran - 400 anni Cappucini a Merano , Bressanone 2017.
- Agapit Hohenegger: The Capuchin = Monastery of Meran, Innsbruck 1898 (online)
- Cölestin Stampfer: History of Meran , Innsbruck 1889.
Web links
- Entry on the Capuchin Monastery of Merano in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stampfer p. 114
Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 11 ° 9 ′ 33.5 ″ E