Capuchin monastery of Solothurn

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Main building from the south, 2010

The Capuchin Monastery Solothurn is a former monastery of the Capuchin order in the city of Solothurn in the diocese of Basel , Switzerland . It was founded in 1588 and for centuries served as a study monastery where Swiss Capuchins received their theological training. The Franciscan, modest artistic furnishings, which also include a well-known altar painting by Gerard Seghers , and the extensive library were never affected by looting or the liquidation of the monastery. In the first half of the 20th century the monastery experienced a strong growth of its community, but had to be given up in 2003 due to a lack of members. The future use of the building, which is owned by the canton of Solothurn , is still open.

history

Location of the monastery in the "Gritten" quarter
Gate, 2010

founding

In the federal state of Solothurn , the Reformation first spread . After the Second Kappeler Landfrieden in 1531, however, a re-Catholicization began, which covered the entire canton except for the Bucheggberg . As a Catholic old town , Solothurn found itself in a difficult position between the Reformed towns of Basel and Bern . The left bank part of the city on the Aare belonged to the diocese of Lausanne , the right bank part to the diocese of Constance .

In this situation, Karl Borromeo made the proposal in 1584 to found a Capuchin monastery in Solothurn, but initially without success. On May 29, 1588, two Capuchins, Alexius del Bene from Milan and Ludwig von Einsiedel (or Einsidl) from Saxony, were in Solothurn on their way from Pruntrut to Lucerne . At the request of the Apostolic Nuncio Octavius ​​Paravicini , they contacted the Solothurn Council. They were received by three respected councilors: Schultheiss Stephan Schwaller , Venner Lorenz Aregger and town clerk Hans Jakob vom Staal (the elder) . These leading personalities of the city gave the fathers to understand that a settlement of the Capuchins would be welcome in Solothurn and showed them a piece of land near the manor at Blumenstein , which they saw as a suitable place for a small religious house.

In July 1588, Father Stephan of Milan, General Commissioner of the Swiss Capuchins, traveled to Pruntrut, where he wanted to discuss the establishment of a monastery with the Bishop of Basel , Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee . On July 8, he appeared before the Solothurn council and asked whether the council still wanted the Capuchins to settle. There was disagreement in the council; The original promises of the three councilors were abandoned, but the Capuchins were offered the prospect of being able to use the St. Stephan chapel on Friedhofplatz (in today's old town). Colonel Wilhelm Tugginer wanted to find accommodation for the Capuchins. The council did not want to have a monastery built yet, but agreed to a hospice, a small religious house with a few monks. Stephan of Milan chose Fathers Georg of Venice and Andreas Meier of Sursee for this. They arrived in Solothurn in September 1588 and were finally housed in the doctor's house on Klosterplatz; St. Peter's Chapel there was assigned to them for the service. In addition to the recommendation of the nuncio and the good impression that the Capuchins left in Solothurn, this decision is also due to the desire to strengthen solidarity with the five Catholic cantons of Central Switzerland.

With their zeal for faith, the Capuchins quickly gained influence in Solothurn. As early as their Advent sermons in 1588, many people from Solothurn are said to have made confession. Even reformed Bernese are of Capuchins in Solothurn for conversion have been brought. Above all, Father Fabritius von Lugano, who headed the Solothurn Capuchins from 1589 to 1591, was able to strongly influence the Solothurn Council in terms of the strict beliefs of the Capuchins. Among other things, evening dances were forbidden, harsh punishments were imposed against swearing and swearing , and books regarded by the Capuchins as anti-religious were burned .

Inner choir and roof turret of the church of the Capuchin monastery, 2010

In order to replace the temporary hospice, the construction of an actual monastery began in November 1590. The Council of Solothurn provided the Capuchins with a piece of land in the Greiben northwest of today's old town. The monastery was completed at the end of 1592, the associated church in the summer of 1593. The church could only be consecrated after a long delay. The bishops of the dioceses of Lausanne, Basel and Constance had sought consecration through inquiries, but no suitable date could be found. Efforts to consecrate the church were also suspended between 1594 and 1596 because the plague broke out in 1594 . The Capuchin Church was consecrated on May 4, 1597 by the Apostolic Nuncio Giovanni della Torre , Bishop of the diocese of Veglia in today's Croatia . The church was consecrated in honor of the Annunciation , with two altars, one of them in a side chapel in honor of St. Francis of Assisi . Relics of the martyr Ursus and his companions of the Thebaic Legion were enclosed in the altars .

The town clerk and chronicler Franz Haffner writes in his Solothurn Schaw-Platz (1666) that the "Vättern Capuciners" the first monastery and the church were "very bad and simple-minded" . According to the language used at the time, this is to be understood as "plain and simple". The monastery building was two-storey (ground floor with an upper floor) and its layout followed the uniformly applied model for Capuchin monasteries. The statutes of the order stipulated that the premises should be "small, humble, poor, plain and simple" .

Expansion of the monastery and development of the monastery community

Cloister 2010
Courtyard cloister 2010

The Solothurn monastery quickly developed into a "study monastery", in which clerics of the Capuchin order pursued higher studies. In his commemorative publication for the 350th anniversary of the monastery in 1938, Siegfried Wind suspects that clerics who were sent away from Solothurn to be consecrated in 1594 and 1597 completed their studies in Solothurn. For 1603 there is already certainty that Solothurn served as a study monastery , since the sick Guardian has been replaced by his successor not only in his function as monastery head , but also as "lector of logic". An almost complete list of the Solothurn professors for philosophy and theology since 1624 is in the archive of the Swiss Capuchin Province in Lucerne .

Like the other early Capuchin monasteries in Switzerland, the building soon proved to be too small and had to be enlarged. As early as 1617, the building was expanded to include an extension for the library and a few cells. From 1629 to 1630 the monastery church was significantly enlarged. Between 1664 and 1665 the monastery was enlarged again and the garden was enlarged. In 1716 a chapel was consecrated in honor of the Capuchin Felix of Cantalice, who was canonized in 1712 .

Although there was a monastery garden , due to the Franciscan self- image of the Capuchins as begging and wandering orders, there was no actual self-sufficiency ; Citizens of Solothurn regularly sent food to the monastery.

The Capuchin Monastery of Solothurn survived the French Revolution as well as the Helvetic (1798–1803) and the Kulturkampf (1871–1874) unscathed. It was never secularized , in contrast to many other Swiss monasteries, including the Solothurn Benedictine monastery in Mariastein .

During the Helvetic era, like almost all Swiss monasteries, the monastery was banned from accepting novices from 1799 onwards. The Solothurn Grand Council lifted this ban on the Capuchin Order by resolution of October 29, 1803 at the request of the Small Council . The decree places all Capuchin monasteries in the canton “under the direct protection of the government” and solemnly guarantees them their existence. It is still legally binding (as of 2018).

The Solothurn monastery experienced strong growth in its Capuchin community in the first half of the 20th century. From 1927 to 1929 it was rebuilt and increased, and in 1932 the east wing was expanded. Since the theological studies of the Swiss Capuchins in Solothurn were concentrated in 1931, a total of around 70 brothers lived in the monastery, around 40 of them each being theology students. In 1953/1954 a north wing was added.

Dissolution of the monastery

In 1981, a sharp decline in religious admissions meant that the Swiss Capuchins had to give up their own theological training. The few remaining theology students switched to the theological faculty of Lucerne . In order to continue the tradition of the training monastery , the novitiate of the Swiss Capuchin Province was moved to Solothurn. Nevertheless, in 1988, when the 400th anniversary of the monastery was celebrated, the monastery community had shrunk to just 26 Capuchins. At that time the Capuchins still had 15 monasteries in German-speaking Switzerland , several of which had to be closed in the following years due to the fact that admissions to religious orders became increasingly rare. After the Capuchin monastery in Dornach in the canton of Solothurn was closed in 1990 , the monastery in Solothurn finally also hit in 2003. A plan to turn the Solothurn monastery into a joint training center for novices from all over the German-speaking area from 1998 onwards could not be carried out because the German candidates for the order had to stay in an EU state for social security reasons . The last Capuchins left the Solothurn monastery on March 31, 2003. In the end there were six brothers left, who were spread over the monasteries in Olten , Lucerne, Rapperswil and Wil SG .

Future use of the building

Linden trees in front of the monastery church, 2010

The buildings of the Solothurn Monastery, as well as the Capuchin monasteries in Olten and Dornach , have always been owned by the Canton of Solothurn , in contrast to other cantons, in which the Swiss Capuchin Province is mostly the owner of the facilities. Following the abandonment of the monastery by the Capuchins, the question arose for the canton of Solothurn about the further use of the large monastery, the church and the extensive monastery garden. No solution has yet been found for this (as of autumn 2018). In 2004 a project was developed under the name “Denkklause Solothurn”, the “a meeting zone with church uses as well as a health, social, educational and cultural area”, a gastronomic offer in the refectory and the construction of age-appropriate residential buildings in the southern part of the monastery garden would have provided. Due to "significant changes in the framework conditions", however, it was decided in 2007 not to implement the project in this form. For the time being, the canton of Solothurn is renting out parts of the monastery complex (refectory, church, garden) for events on a day or weekend basis. At the end of 2009, the canton's structural engineering department was in talks with two new interested parties, and one of the driving forces behind the “Denkklause” project said that it should be pursued further. In April 2011 it became known that the canton was still negotiating with two teams, who were required to nominate investors within a year. Dozens of millions of francs would have to be invested. The monastery was not supposed to be sold, but given in the building rights. At the end of 2012 it was reported that even after an extension of the deadline, both project groups were unable to provide “proof of being able to make the necessary investments of 30 to 40 million francs”. As of 2018, there is still no definitive project. The temporary use includes a gastronomic offer called Chloschterchuchi .

Library

As a study monastery, the Capuchin monastery in Solothurn had an important library of around 35,000 volumes, including over 120 incunabula . Since the monastery had not suffered any looting in its history and was never lifted, the book inventory was continuously maintained until the monastery was abandoned and thus includes works from the 15th century to 2003, with just under a third published before 1900. The Swiss Capuchin Province donated the library to the Canton of Solothurn, which has committed itself to its integral maintenance and professional care. The holdings of the Capuchin Library in Solothurn can be researched online using the digitized central card catalog of the Swiss Capuchins ( code SO).

In the meantime the library has become the property of the Solothurn Central Library . In 2015 the entire inventory was cleaned, packed and initially deposited in an interim storage facility. The catalog data was retro-converted by an external company and has since been available in the association catalog of the IDS Basel Bern . The specimen-specific cataloging of the incunabula was completed in 2017.

Artistic furnishings and church treasures

Altarpiece by Gerard Seghers

According to the ideal of poverty of the Capuchins as mendicant orders , their monasteries should not be representative buildings, but simply functional buildings; In principle, Solothurn also adhered to this. For the sacred implements , liturgical vestments and other components of a church treasure, the Capuchin monastic statutes also require a pronounced modesty. However, the solothurn patrician families' willingness to donate soon resulted in furnishings and church treasures in the Capuchin Church that were of excessive wealth from the point of view of the monarchs, which led to a reprimand following a visitation trip by the general in 1646. At the insistence of the superiors, four golden reliquary tablets were returned to the founding family, who then gave the monastery the name of Jesus of the Capuchin Sisters. In connection with the reprimand, the image of the proclamation of the high altar was expressly mentioned but not removed .

This picture of the Annunciation is a painting by the Flemish painter Gerard Seghers (1591–1651). It was painted in 1624 and donated to the monastery by Ludwig von Roll in 1643 . The “Solothurn Annunciation”, created under the influence of Caravaggio and Rubens , shows Maria in dialogue with the Archangel Gabriel . The art historian Georg Carlen writes in the commemorative publication for the 400th anniversary of the monastery: “The picture unites Nordic intimacy in the domestic scene with the Baroque impetus of Rubian character in the heavenly fruity. An Italian feature manifests itself in the raffaelesque angel. ” The high appreciation of the picture among the Swiss Capuchins is shown in the fact that three copies have been preserved, which were made around 1650 as side altar paintings of Capuchin churches.

The side altar paintings of the Capuchin Church in Solothurn were created in the second half of the 18th century by the Schwyz painter Joseph Felix Triner (* 1743). They show Saint Anthony of Padua and Mary as well as Saint Francis of Assisi under the cross.

The Franciscan demand for modesty is limited in the case of sacred utensils, as Francis of Assisi himself, out of reverence for the “most holy body of Christ ”, urgently asked for worthy, precious implements for the storage of consecrated hosts and for “everything that belongs to the sacrifice”. However, this did not actually mean ostentatious objects, so that in the Solothurn monastery there were not ostentatious goblets with gemstones, but rather simple so-called "Capuchin goblets", whose jewelry is limited to some driving work and engraving .

The historical church treasure of the Capuchin Monastery of Solothurn was given to the Historical Museum of the City of Solothurn, the Museum Blumenstein .

description

The first monastery building

The monastery on a stained glass from 1659

There is no plan or detailed description of the original monastery building from 1590/1592. According to the general model that was then used for all Capuchin monasteries to be built, the complex can nevertheless be described, even if not in detail. The church was on one side of the cloister , opposite the main wing of the monastery. As is still the case today, the refectory with the adjacent kitchen was located on the ground floor . On the upper floor the monk cells were in two rows with a corridor between them. Two side wings connected the main wing with the church. The rooms on the ground floor of the side wing included the porter's room , reception room, a wafer bakery and the pantry. The library, hospital and guest rooms as well as rooms for storing laundry and clothes were housed on the upper floor of the side wing.

The ordinances of 1575 in force at the time stipulated that the cells were no longer and no wider than 9 spans (2.34 m) and no higher than 10 spans (2.6 m). The refectory could not be higher than 13 spans (3.38 m). "Only where there is bad air, 1 margin more can be added." Siegfried Wind assumes in his description of the first 80 years of the Capuchin monastery in Solothurn that the premises in Solothurn were also adhered to.

Today's plant

View inside the church
refectory
kitchen

The building complex clearly illustrates the evolved structure of the monastery, which has been repeatedly rebuilt and expanded over the course of its existence. This is particularly visible in the many different roof sections of the north wing. The approximately 1.1 hectare monastery grounds are enclosed by a wall, the crown of which is covered with red roof tiles.

The core of the complex is a closed four-wing building, the wings of which are grouped around a rectangular inner courtyard measuring around 22.5 × 17.5 meters. As is customary in monasteries, this is surrounded by a cloister, the oak posts of which support a flat wooden ceiling. In the middle of the courtyard is a stone statue of the Virgin Mary.

The majority of the 88 meter long north wing is taken up by the monastery church, an east-facing hall church . When the original church, completed in 1593, was enlarged in 1629, its two choirs were merged to form the new monk's choir at the eastern end of the wing, one square of the nave was converted into a lay choir and a new nave was built. The monk's choir, closed on three sides, has parquet flooring and ribbed and ridge vaults, while the ceiling of the antechamber (former nave) is barrel vaulted. The coffered ceiling and the granite slabs as the flooring in the nave go back to a renovation in 1947, as does the gallery . This so far last far-reaching renovation of the church, accompanied by the preservationists Gottlieb Loertscher and Linus Birchler , should follow the "ideal of the greatest possible Capuchin simplicity". It was associated with the removal of furnishings from the second half of the 19th century and rich decorative paintings by Josef Heimgartner (1902). The entrance to the crypt , which had not been used for burials since 1926, was also closed at that time . Since 1932 there was a monastery cemetery northwest of the church.

The exterior of the church shows post-Gothic elements. In addition to arched windows with slug panes, this also includes the roof turret with a slim, very high helmet on the roof of the monk's choir. The bell in the wooden bell cage of the roof ridge was cast in 1927 by the Aarau bell foundry H. Rüetschi (original bell from 1790). The outside walls of the church are plastered and have corner blocks. In its western front wall, which is clad with small facade panels made of clay , there is the ogival church entrance with house border and a small porch, whose flat pyramid roof is supported by two Tuscan columns . On the north side of the nave there is a three-sided closed chapel in honor of Felix von Cantalices, the construction of which the council approved in 1712 and which was consecrated in 1716 by Jacques Duding (Jakob Düding), Bishop of Lausanne .

On the south side of the monastery church, facing the inner courtyard, is a narrow, three-story building, the upper floor of which was built in half-timbered construction and dates from 1953/54. The north wing is connected to the south wing via two four-story side wings at right angles. Its elongated south facade, measuring around 109 meters, looks to the observer as if it were “made of one piece”, but in fact it is the facades of two buildings from different eras, because the eastern part of the south wing was not built until 1927. The three-storey brickwork is lightly plastered and divided into 22 axes by windows with light-colored house surrounds  . On the upper floors, the windows can be closed with green shutters . The wing has a pan-covered hip roof with small dormers . Inside, the southern wing of the monastery houses the refectory with paneling about head- high , beamed ceiling and parquet that was laid using the herringbone technique. The spacious monastery kitchen adjoins the refectory. A narrow rear exit leads from the south wing into the large monastery garden, the area of ​​which is now largely taken up by lawn. The strictly symmetrical garden paths still show the former beds of the monastery garden very well .

On the second floor of the south wing has in the 2 and 21 axis rather than window polygonal turrets with copper-covered onion dome and arched frieze above the lintels . The frieze motif is repeated in the eaves cornice of a polygonal tower in the south-east corner of the courtyard as well as in the cordon cornice between the first and second floors on the northern end of the east wing. This is a right-angled extension at the eastern end of the south wing, which is parallel to the two connecting wings. Its eastern facade has an archway with Tuscan columns on the ground floor .

The two large linden trees in front of the entrance to the church are said to have been planted around 1809 according to oral tradition, making them one of the oldest trees in the city of Solothurn. During the renovation work around the middle of the 20th century, it was found that its roots extend to the altar.

literature

  • Siegfried Wind: On the history of the Capuchin monastery in Solothurn . History of the foundation and history of the monastery during the first eighty years of its existence. Self-published by the Capuchin Monastery, Solothurn 1938.
  • Beda Mayer: Solothurn Monastery . In: Helvetia Sacra . Dept. V, Vol. 2, Part 1: The Capuchins in Switzerland. Francke, Bern 1974, p. 625-650 .
  • Sigisbert Regli et al .: 400 years of the Capuchin Monastery in Solothurn, 1588–1988 . Habegger, Derendingen 1988 (special print from: Jurablätter; 1988, No. 8/9).
  • Hanspeter Marti: Library of the former Capuchin monastery in Solothurn . In: Handbook of the historical book collections in Switzerland . 2nd Edition. tape 2 . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-487-30030-6 , pp. 340-347 .
  • Christine Zürcher: Capuchin monastery . In: The art monuments of the Canton of Solothurn (=  The art monuments of Switzerland . Volume 134 ). IV, The City of Solothurn III, Sacred Buildings, 2017, ISBN 978-3-03797-289-2 , p. 350-381 .

Web links

Commons : Kapuzinerkloster Solothurn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '40.2 "  N , 7 ° 31' 58.1"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and seven thousand one hundred thirty-four  /  228918

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