Klösterle (Schwäbisch Gmünd)

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The monastery from the southeast

The Klösterle in Schwäbisch Gmünd housed the monastery of the Franciscan Tertian Sisters of St. Ludwig in the neighborhood of the Capuchin monastery and today serves as a schoolhouse for a primary school and the adult education center . It was the smallest monastery in town.

history

The foundation of today's Klösterle took place on December 15, 1445 by the Gmünder widow Anna Hammerstätter , but already around 1400 there was a lake house in the area of ​​the Klösterle . The Sisters of the Soul quickly adapted their way of life, allegedly as early as 1447, but certainly since 1476, to the rules of the Third Order of Francis of Assisi . In 1658 a reconstruction of the Klösterle is notarized, shortly afterwards, from 1684 onwards, there were disputes between the Sisters of the Sea and the City Council, as they found that the Sisters' House had become an elegant monastery. The neighboring parish also did not agree with the development of the sister house, but concluded a contract with the sisters in 1700, according to which the sisters were allowed to build a chapel, but without an entrance to the city. The first holy mass in this chapel was celebrated as early as 1701. Despite the different contract, this chapel had an entrance facing the city and even a roof turret with a bell.

Since the city feared an expansion of the monastery, the monastery had to undertake in 1756 not to convert the barn adjoining the monastery into apartments. Less than ten years later, in 1765, the foundation stone for a new monastery building with a monastery church was laid. The new building was built by the city master builder Johann Michael Keller .

In addition to nursing and schooling girls, the community of the sisters of the monastery earned their own livelihood. They sold baked goods as well as fruit and vegetables from the monastery garden. The banking business also served as an economic branch of the monastery. Citizens of Gmünd could invest their money at the monastery for interest.

In 1803 the monastery was closed in the course of secularization and valuables such as church treasures were removed from the monastery. But the sisters were allowed to return after a short time. The Klösterle became a girls' school. In the years 1816 to 1820, the Klösterle was gradually transferred to the city. The church became a gymnasium, the upper floors a Latin school . In 1825 the era of the sisters in the Klösterle ended for good . In 1909 the building was redesigned for school use under Mayor Paul Möhler . Since then the Klösterle has housed many types of schools, today the premises are used by the Klösterle elementary school and the Gmünder Volkshochschule .

  • Only a few parts of the building are reminiscent of the historical structure

  • Church wing adapted to today's use

  • Memorial for senior teacher Z. Steidle

literature

  • Richard Strobel, State Monuments Office Baden Württemberg: The art monuments of the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd . Volume 2, churches in the old town without the Holy Cross Cathedral; Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-00569-2 .
  • Elisabeth Heise: The Franciscan Monastery of St. Ludwig , in Einhorn Jahrbuch Schwäbisch Gmünd 2012, Einhorn-Verlag Schwäbisch Gmünd 2012, ISBN 978-3-936373-84-4 ; Pp. 217-229.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '51.8 "  N , 9 ° 47' 46"  E