Carmelite Monastery of Szczecin
The monastery of St. Anna (also White Monastery ) was a monastery of Carmelite in Stettin , now Szczecin, in Pomerania in the 15th and 16th centuries.
location
The monastery was located in the old town on a small hill ( Mount Karmel ) in the later Mönchenstrasse between Wollweberstrasse and Roßmarkt. In the 16th century it consisted of the choir of St. Anne's Church, three stone booths, a poor convent building and a garden that was surrounded by a wall. Nothing is left of this system today. For a while the monks lived in front of the gates of the medieval city at the St. Gertraudenkirche.
history
When the monastery was founded is unknown. In 1441 the monks requested that their area could be expanded. After complaints from the city to the Pope, they received an offer in 1469 to build a monastery in front of the city. Because the location was too humid and low, the monks soon returned to the old location. In 1509 the choir of St. Anne's Church was completed.
It is unclear whether the monastery was secularized after 1535. In 1541 six monks gave two booths at the monastery to the city council.
In 1550, a city school was opened in the former monastery, which later became the council lyceum. In 1839 this was closed.
literature
- Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania . Volume 2. Stettin 1925. pp. 626-629.
- Ewa Gwiazdowska: Representations of the monastery complex in the iconography of Szczecin from the 16th to the 19th century. In: Claudia Kimminus-Schneider (Ed.): Monasteries and monastic culture in Hanseatic cities: Contributions to the 4th scientific colloquium in Stralsund December 12-15, 2001. Leidorf 2003. pp. 205–224, here pp. 212f. ( PDF ).
- Johann Joachim Steinbrück: History of the monasteries in Pomerania and the neighboring provinces . Stettin 1796. pp. 134f.
Web links
- Zakon karmelitów w Szczecinie (Order of the Carmelites in Stettin) , Encyclopedia Szczecin
Remarks
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 31.4 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 13 ″ E