Capuchin monastery Obernai
| Capuchin monastery Obernai | |||
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| medal | Capuchin | ||
| founding year | 1626 | ||
| Cancellation / year | 1791 | ||
| Start-up | 1666 | ||
| Patronage | Anthony of Padua | ||
| - | location | ||
| country | France | ||
| region | Grand Est | ||
| place | Obernai | ||
| Geographical location | 48 ° 28 ' N , 7 ° 29' E | ||
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The Capuchin Monastery Oberehnheim was a monastery of the Capuchin Order in the city of Obernai in France, which was dissolved in 1791 . The foundation stone was laid in 1626. The monastery burned down in 1636 during the second siege by the Swedes and was rebuilt from 1666 to 1669.
history
founding
In 1625 the Magistrate of Oberehnheim turned to the Capuchins of Kientzheim and offered a branch of the order in the city, the fifth in Alsace . In 1627, the first Capuchins moved into temporary accommodation in the suburbs near the St. Wendelin Chapel. On May 5, 1627 the foundation stone was laid, a cross was erected and consecrated by the Abbot of Altorf. The Rector of the Jesuit College of Molsheim and other representatives of the regional clergy were present. The first monastery complex was built from 1629 according to the model plan of the Capuchin monastery in Breisach and consecrated on October 20, 1630. As early as 1636, the first monastery complex burned down during the siege by the Swedes. The location is no longer known.
Reconstruction of the monastery
The Capuchins exiled in the nearby Bernardswiller tried unsuccessfully to return to the city from the 1640s. In 1655 a new building site was determined and a cross was erected. The foundation stone for the new building was not laid until May 23, 1666. In June 1670 the Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg consecrated the monastery to the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua . After the brewing of the Capuchin order, the lay church had its own patronage. After the crack in 1827, the lay church was joined to the west by a chapel dedicated to St. Fidelis, a Capuchin. This chapel was later demolished. Under her there was probably a crypt for receiving the deceased brothers. In 1685 the garden was enlarged by a donation from the city council. Between 1730 and 1770 a wing with a new refectory was added. During the first months of the revolution the city remained royalist. On July 15, 1791, 2000 men from the National Guard and line troops from Strasbourg took over the city. Immediately after the takeover, the monastery was closed, the celebration of services forbidden and the remaining Capuchins were taken to Strasbourg, where they were interned three times from 1791. The Capuchins in particular were accused of rioting against the new republic. In 1794 some brothers exiled in German branches of the order. In 1794 Obernai's last Guardian met P. Adelbert and two confreres in the Capuchin monastery in Engen . Items made of precious metal have been confiscated by the Barr Directory. The bell of the Capuchin Church was sent to Strasbourg for the recovery of the metal. The altars of the lay church in the style of the 17th and 18th centuries are documented by photos from the first half of the 20th century. Their whereabouts are uncertain.
Legends
An incomprehensible text by Johann Gottfried Schweighäusers claims that the monastery and church were demolished in 1656 because the brothers succumbed to the evil that nested itself in the shape of a snake in the right column of the altar.
Tasks and activities of the monastery
The Capuchin priests took over the pastoral care of the city. They held a mass in front of the audiences of the magistrate, which brought them an income of 34 guilders a year. The pastoral care of the sick and dying was, according to the custom of the time, almost exclusively entrusted to the Capuchins. Capuchins took special care of inmates and convicts in prisons and accompanied those condemned to death on their last walk. The Capuchin Order did a great job in caring for the plague sufferers in the epidemics of the 16th and early 17th centuries. Pastoral care and nursing went into one another.
location
The monastery grounds were within the city walls in the east of the city.
Later use
In 1794 a military hospital was set up in the evacuated monastery buildings. The monastery complex survived the following years through the purchase of the canon François-Louis Rumpler. A school was established in the building between 1827 and 1883. Rooms were temporarily used for the production of cigars and canteens. At the beginning of the 1960s, the side chapel, the psalm choir, the presbytery and the convent wing were demolished. The former lay church was used as the ballroom for the neighboring school in the following years. The monastery church, which was currently unused after the school was closed in 2006, is now located at 12, Rue des Capucins. Efforts are currently underway to reuse the area, taking into account the historical development.
literature
- Blumstein: L'Ancien Couvent des capucins d'Obernai, simple notes adressées à MM. Les membres du Conseil municipal de la ville d'Obernai par la fabrique paroissiale sur l'avis d'un ancien avocat du barreau d'Alsace . Imprimérie de Huder, Strasbourg ?, 1871
- Archangelus Sieffert: On the history of the Capuchin monastery Oberehnheim . In: Archive for Alsatian Church History , 16, 1943, pp. 273–300
- Xavier Ohresser: Le Couvent des capucins d'Obernai . In: Obernai, Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Dambach-la-Ville . Barr, pp. 339-341
Web links
- Notices-patrimoine sur le Ancien Couvent des Capucins à Obernai . ( Memento from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) With a crack of the system from 1827.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Meinrad Gyss: Histoire de la ville d'Obernai et environs, Salomon, 1866, p 172ff.
- ^ Adam Walther Strobel: Patriotic history of Alsace . Schmidt and Grucker, 1846, p. 521 f.
- ^ Archives for Alsatian Church History , Volume 7. Herder 1933, p. 331
- ↑ Archive for Alsatian Church History , Volume 7, Herder 1933, p. 388
- ↑ Joseph Meinrad Gyss: Histoire de la ville d'Obernai et environs . Salomon, 1866, p. 370 ff.
- ^ Timotheus Wilhelm Röhrich: Mittheilungen from the history of the Protestant Church of Alsace . Treuttel and Würtz, 1833, note 1 on p. 223
- ↑ Benda Mayer: Helvetia Franciscana , Volume 12, Issue 6, 1977, p. 149.
- ↑ Joseph Meinrad Gyss: Histoire de la ville d'Obernai et environs, Salomon, 1866, p 370ff.