Capuchin monastery St. Anna Burghausen

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The former Capuchin monastery of St. Anna

The former Capuchin monastery St. Anna was a monastery of the Capuchins in Burghausen . It also housed the former St. Konrad study seminar. It is now used as a municipal music school and youth hostel .

history

In 1618 came at the suggestion of the Elector Maximilian of mendicant orders of the Capuchins in the town of Burghausen. In 1649, after the end of the Thirty Years' War , the order looked after people suffering from the plague in the city. The convent was not established until 1654. In 1754 the Capuchin monastery celebrated the centenary of its existence. The Capuchin monastery was secularized at the beginning of 1802 , that is, declared state property. However, it continued to exist as the central monastery of the Capuchin order and thus survived the secularization in Bavaria . The holy brother Konrad worked here as a novice in 1851 . On July 13, 1877, Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler died in the monastery. Since 1892 the monastery has also been a seminary for the next generation of religious priests . The students attended the Kurfürst-Maximilian-Gymnasium in the old town. The abbey and seminary were dissolved in 1994 due to a lack of young people. In 2010, allegations of abuse against a former director of the seminar were publicly discussed. The attacks are said to have occurred in the 1984/85 school year.

Convention and seminar building

The former convent building (now a music school) is a one-and-a-half-storey wing building along Kapuzinergasse, probably 17th century, with later remodeling. Above the entrance is an epitaph for Bishop Baron von Ketteler , set in 1927. The former seminar building (south-west wing), now a youth hostel, is an unplastered tuff block building with a neo-baroque decorative gable , this one from 1923/24. To the west, a three-storey building with a mansard roof and a small chapel on the southeast edge of the seminar garden. This with larch shingle cladding, renewed in the 19th century, restored in 1977. The former monastery wall serves as the southern and western boundary of the monastery garden.

Church of St. Anna

Church of St. Anna

The Capuchin Church of St. Anna from 1656 is a barrel-vaulted hall building of great simplicity, which was redesigned in a new Romanesque style around 1865 and redesigned from 1965–1967 according to plans by Karl-Heinz Limpert (Burghausen) and Toni Rückel (Munich). The large crucifix in the choir was created by Johann Georg Lindt . The tabernacle , made of bronze, gilded, shows symbolic figures on the front and the stigmatization of St. Francis . The saints Fidelis , Franziskus and Brother Konrad are depicted on Toni Rückel's ambo . The 300 year old red marble slab of the earlier baroque altar was used for the altar . On the walls there are two former side altar pictures by Johann Nepomuk della Croce from 1781, which depict St. Anthony with donkey and St. Show Felix von Cantalice . Above them are the religious saints Laurentius of Brindisi and Seraphin of Montegranaro. A marble slab on the wall is reminiscent of a Pater Pacificus from Munich , who came here in 1648 from the Braunau monastery and who lost his life as a pastor and carer for those suffering from the plague. From the south there is the seminary chapel and the cemetery with a memorial plaque made of red marble for the deceased Capuchin Fathers of the first half of the 19th century. The side chapel, accessible through a small door, is dedicated to St. Brother Konrad consecrated.

literature

  • Eva Gilch, Josef Schneider: The Burghausen Capuchin Monastery: 1654 - 1994. Exhibition in the Burghausen City Museum at the castle from April 29 to November 1, 1998; Catalog ed. from the city of Burghausen.
  • List of monuments for Burghausen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  • Alois Buchleitner: Burghausen city - castle - history . In: Heimatverein and Stadtarchiv Burghausen (ed.): Burghauser Geschichtsblätter . Volume 33, 5th edition. Burghausen 2001.

Web links

Commons : Former capuchin monastery in Burghausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suspicion of abuse also with Regensburger Domspatzen. In: SpiegelOnline. March 4, 2010, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Jungbauer: The dark past. In: Mainpost. March 8, 2010, accessed January 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The Capuchin Father draws conclusions from the cover-up of abuse. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. March 5, 2010, accessed January 3, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '14.3 "  N , 12 ° 49' 36.1"  E