Carmelite Monastery of St. Oswald (Regensburg)

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St. Oswald (Regensburg)

The Carmelite Monastery of St. Oswald is a former Carmelite monastery in the diocese of Regensburg . It was founded in 1290. In 1367 the convent moved to Straubing . The building became the property of the city, whereupon a hospital was set up. From 1553 Protestant services were held in the former monastery church.

founding

The oldest Carmelite monastery in the diocese of Regensburg was founded around 1290. The Regensburg Convention was located near St. Oswald at the confluence of the Weißgerbergraben in the Danube . Around 1290, the brothers Friedrich Auer and Karl Prager, whose coat of arms can be seen on the buttresses of the choir, founded the so-called “New Hospital”, whose pastoral care was entrusted to the Carmelites. This was a hospital for 12 beneficiaries and, since the 15th century, served to support religious sisters who carried out outpatient nursing care in the patients' homes. The building of the church in the early 14th century, which was probably completed around 1325, can also be seen in connection with the establishment of the hospital. In 1319 Pope John XXII. and in 1330 Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian put the Carmelites under their protection.

The Carmelites move to Straubing

In 1367, however, the Carmelites moved to Straubing ( Straubing Carmelite Monastery ), where the convent still exists today as the only German Carmelite monastery that has never been dissolved. Disputes with the Regensburg Bishop Konrad IV von Haimberg are said to have been the reason for the relocation of the convent from Regensburg to Straubing. A Carmelite is said to have spoken out from the pulpit against the expansion of the cathedral church. However, economic reasons and the location on the Danube, which exposed the monastery to the constant risk of flooding, are much more likely reasons for the Carmelites to move. Most likely, however, the assumption seems to be correct that there were no monastic settlements in Straubing, while in Regensburg at that time, with the Dominicans , the Franciscans and the Augustinian hermits, there were already five convents of mendicant orders . The city resisted the creation of another one and in 1306 even threatened all artisans with severe penalties if they were to work for the Carmelites: "Whoever carpenters or masons the white brothers [...] has to give 5 pounds or 5 pounds year from the city of seyn. "

literature

  • Exhibition catalog Ratisbona Sacra. The diocese of Regensburg in the Middle Ages . Munich-Zurich 1989, p. 282 (P. Morsbach).
  • Adalbert Deckert: The Upper German Province of the Carmelites according to the acts of their chapters from 1421-1529 . Rome 1961, p. 24 f.
  • Artur Dirmeier, Peter Morsbach: Hospitals in Regensburg (Great Art Guide 192). Regensburg 1994, p. 27 ff.
  • Peter Morsbach: Protestant churches in Regensburg (large art guide 176). Munich-Zurich 1991, p. 25 ff.
  • Joachim Smet: The Carmelites . Vol. 1, Freiburg-Basel-Vienna 1981.
  • Brielmeier, Peter / Moosburger, Uwe (eds.): Regensburg. Metropolis in the Middle Ages, Regensburg 2007.

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 4.6 ″  E