Capuchin monastery St. Anton

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East wing with the Sorrowful Chapel

The Capuchin Monastery of St. Anton is a monastery of the Capuchin Order in Munich . The monastery buildings are registered as architectural monuments in the Bavarian list of monuments.

location

The monastery is located in the Isarvorstadt district south of Kapuzinerstraße across from the Altes Südfriedhof , in the east it extends to Isartalstraße.

history

Old Capuchin monastery

Around 1600, Elector Maximilian I had brought the Capuchins to Munich. Their monastery stood outside the former city ​​wall on the site of today's Lenbachplatz . When Maximilian had the wall fortifications built, part of the outside facilities of the monastery was included in a bastion , which was therefore given the name Capuchin Bastion . The moat between the monastery and what was then Schwabinger Tor got the name Kapuzinergraben among the population. In 1802 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . Since the fortress was also razed at this time to create a spacious area, the monastery buildings were demolished.

It was only in 1845 that King Ludwig I brought the Capuchin Order back to Munich. He assigned them an area south of the Old Southern Cemetery next to the Painful Chapel, which was built as a rotunda in 1702, for the construction of their monastery. From 1846 to 1856 the monastery was built in the form of a four-wing complex. The existing chapel was integrated into the east wing of the monastery, which was expanded into a monastery church. The wing north of the chapel served as the nave of the monastery church, while the chancel was in the rotunda. Since the Capuchins also took care of the local population, the monastery church soon became too small. Therefore, from 1893–95, the new St. Anton Church was built west of the monastery .

In the years 2006 to 2009 the monastery buildings were extensively renovated and rebuilt. The nave was also separated from the painful chapel.

description

patio

The core of the monastery building is a two-storey four-wing complex with a gable roof. The rotunda of the Sorrowful Chapel with a tent roof and lantern protrudes over the east wing. Inside the four-wing complex there is a roughly square courtyard with a fountain in the middle. Additions to the four-wing complex extend the east wing to the south and the south wing to the west to the church of St. Anton.

The monastery wall is still preserved on Isartalstrasse in the east and Kapuzinerstrasse in the north of the monastery. The cemetery of the monastery is located between the east wing and the wall on Isartalstrasse.

use

The former monastery buildings have been used by three organizations since autumn 2008:

  • The central four-wing complex is the seat of the Catholic School of Journalism ifp , the former institute for the promotion of young journalists, the journalism school of the Catholic Church in Germany.
  • The connecting building between the four-wing complex and the church of St. Anton and a free-standing building between the monastery and church serve the parish of St. Anton as a parish hall and office.
  • The Capuchins only live in the former rectory at Isartalstrasse 4, which is an extension of the east wing to the south. The Provincialate of the German Capuchin Province is also housed here.

literature

  • Denis A. Chevalley, Timm Weski: State Capital Munich - Southwest (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.2 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-87490-584-5 , p. 341 .
  • P. Angelikus Aberl: History of the Capuchin monastery at the painful chapel and at St. Anton in Munich from 1847 to 1897. Stahl, Lentner, Munich 1897.
  • Schnell and Steiner: St. Anton parish church - Munich. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1939.
  • City Parish Office St. Anton: Parish Leader St. Anton Munich. Bergmiller, Munich 1959.

Web links

Commons : Kapuzinerkloster (Munich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • St. Anton Monastery Munich. In: Kapuziner Munich. German Capuchin Province, accessed on September 6, 2018 .
  • Katharina Zeckau: The Capuchins. In: The ifp in the Isarvorstadt. Institute for the Promotion of Young Journalists (ifp), accessed on October 14, 2011 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kapuzinerkloster St. Anton ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geodaten.bayern.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '27.2 "  N , 11 ° 33' 48.1"  E