Carmelite Monastery Gdansk
The monastery of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel was a convent of the Carmelites in Gdansk in today's Poland from the 14th to the 19th centuries.
location
The monastery was first located in the young town at the local Marienkirche. Since 1464 it was located in the old town by the church of St. Elias and Elisäus (today Joseph's Church ) on Weißmönchen-Kirchgasse ( ulica Bielańska ), southeast of the main train station.
history
Carmelites were first mentioned in Gdansk in 1397, and in 1422 the St. Mary's monastery church was completed in the young town. During the Hussite siege in 1433 and in the Thirteen Years War, the monastery was probably affected, in 1455 it was closed in the young town.
In 1464 the monks were assigned the St. Georgen hospital chapel in the old town, where they began building the church of St. Elias and Elias in 1467, which was only completed in the choir. During the unrest in 1525 and after the introduction of the Reformation from 1577, the monastery remained Catholic. In 1593 he and the other monasteries in the city received a letter of protection from the Polish King Sigismund III. Wasa issued. When the monks were attacked during a procession in 1678 and the monastery was stormed, they were offered protection in the neighboring Evangelical Reformed Elisabeth Church .
After Danzig was taken over by Prussia in 1810, the monastery was not allowed to accept any new applicants. In 1828 five conventuals lived there, in 1835 the complex was partly taken over by the military. Since 1840 the Josephskirche was a Catholic parish church.
In 1947 the remaining facilities and the Joseph Church were handed over to the Order of the Oblates , and Carmelites from the former Polish eastern areas around Lwów were able to settle at the Katharinenkirche .
literature
- Theodor Hirsch : The upper parish church of St. Marien in Danzig: in its monuments and in its relationship to the church life of Danzig in general. Volume 1. Anhuth, Danzig 1843. pp. 141f.
Web links
- History of the Carmelite Monastery of Gdańsk Encyklopedia Gdańska (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Letter from Commander in Danzig to Grand Master of the Teutonic Order regarding a new site for the Carmelite monastery destroyed by enemies, in: Erich Joachim, Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Regesta historico-diplomatica Ordinis S. Mariae Theutonicorum 1198–1525. Volume 1. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973. p. 502 No. 28294 (LX 81, no year)
- ^ Elisabeth Church in Gdańsk
- ^ Leopold von Zedlitz: The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III. Second volume. Berlin 1828. p. 51