Capuchin monastery Schwäbisch Gmünd

The Capuchin Monastery of St. Ulrich is a former monastery of the Capuchin Order in the southern old town of Schwäbisch Gmünd . It was canceled in 1810.

history

In 1644 the city called the Capuchins to Schwäbisch Gmünd because they were supposed to take over pastoral care on the pilgrimage mountain St. Salvator on the outskirts of the city. Thereupon three Capuchins came to Gmünd with the provincial in the same year . The Capuchins were initially housed in town houses. The Capuchins quickly gained great popularity among the citizens because of their pastoral skills. So she protested against the plan to accommodate the Capuchins outside the city wall under St. Salvator. They were offered a place in the southern old town, right next to the monastery of the Franciscan Sisters on the city wall, which was bought in 1649. It was not until 1651 that the construction of the monastery was approved by the Augsburg bishop Sigismund Franz von Habsburg , which enabled the laying of the foundation stone on June 2, 1652. Two years later, on September 29, 1654, the monastery was consecrated to St. Ulrich .

In 1734 parts of the monastery were increased. Like the Franciscan monastery in Gmünd , the Capuchin monastery survived the abolition of the monasteries in the course of secularization in 1803, and the Capuchin monastery because of its poverty.

In 1810 this monastery was also closed, whereupon a Gmünd citizen bought the property and had the monastery demolished. In 1863 the construction of the insane asylum St. Vincent, today's St. Loreto, began on part of the site .

literature

Richard Strobel, State Monuments Office Baden Württemberg: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Volume 2: Churches in the old town without the Holy Cross Cathedral. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00569-2 .

Capuchin monastery Schwäbisch Gmünd

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