Poor Clare Monastery Merano
The Poor Clare Monastery in Merano , founded in 1309, was the oldest monastery in Merano .
The monastery was owned by Duchess Euphemia (1281-1347), wife of Otto III. , the Count of Tyrol , and was located with his Marienkirche on Kornplatz, the market at that time, and bordered the Rennweg .
The Katharinenkapelle on the opposite side of the Rennweg also belonged to the monastery. So that the nuns could go there while maintaining the enclosure , a flying buttress was built in 1603 , which connected the monastery with the chapel.
During the Peasant Wars , the monastery was looted in 1525.
As part of the Josephine church reform , the monastery was secularized in 1781 and the buildings torn down or sold. The Marienkirche was first adapted as a residential building in 1794 and converted into a bank in 1921 by Adalbert Wietek . Remnants of wall paintings from the church were put back in here. The Katharinenkapelle was converted into a residential building, remains of the chapel can still be seen at Rennweg 70-72. Two cloisters have also been preserved. In one of these, part of the frescoes in St. Mary's Church were transferred by Cassian Dapoz .
The remains of the monastery have been a listed building since 1960.
literature
- Cölestin Stampfer : History of Meran . Innsbruck 1889
- Josef Weingartner : The Art Monuments of South Tyrol II . 5th edition, 1973, p. 262ff
- Elisabeth Stampfer: The medieval furnishings of the former Clarisse Church in Merano . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, 2011
- Decree on the abolition of the monastery in The Collector 1906/07
Individual evidence
- ^ Daughter of Duke Heinrich V.
- ↑ Elisabeth Stampfer p. 1
Web links
- Entry on the Clariss Monastery of Merano in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Coordinates: 46 ° 40 ′ 21.7 " N , 11 ° 9 ′ 32.4" E