Poor Clare Monastery of St. Magdalena (Regensburg)

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Pillar fragment from the monastery church of St. Magdalena

The Poor Clare Monastery of St. Magdalena was a monastery of the Poor Clares in Regensburg .

location

The church of the Poor Clare Monastery took up the center of today's Dachauplatz . Today the Dachauplatz car park is located there (D.-Martin-Luther-Straße 2). The area of ​​the monastery included the area of ​​the Dachauplatz, the western front of the D.-Martin-Luther-Straße up to the confluence of the little street Am Königshof. The property opposite at the confluence of the Minoritenweg also belonged to the monastery.

history

The Poor Clare Monastery was built before 1233 by Rudolf, a priest from Worms and founder of the Order of Magdalene gutters . The monastery already existed in 1228, during the lifetime of St. Clare . Cared for by the nearby Minorites , the Magdalen nuns joined the Poor Clares in 1286 .

Around 1327 the monastery burned down completely, but was immediately rebuilt on the Roman foundation wall. As a result of the Reformation it was almost abandoned around 1580, only four choir sisters still lived there. Later the convent flourished again. In 1783 Joseph August von Toerring asked the Poor Clares to set up a girls' school, which resulted in long negotiations regarding the compatibility of the school with the nature of the contemplative order, which went as far as Rome . Through the mediation of the Cardinal Protector Salviati , the monastery could refuse to take over the teaching. The situation changed, however, and in 1803 the convent was about to be abolished if the nuns were not to take over nursing or schooling. The convent decided to take over the girls' school in the lower town and thus avoided secularization .

In the Fifth Coalition War , in the Battle of Regensburg on April 23, 1809, the monastery burned down in front of the Black Castle Gate (today Dachauplatz) when Napoleon was bombarded after French soldiers had looted the monastery . The abbess at the time , Maria Aloysia Kerschensteiner, described this event:

“After four o'clock the French came in the storm, blew the church door down and immediately pushed through the sacristy, where they cut the iron door, towards the cellar. At that hour they also pushed through the great gate, everything towards the cellar. Since we brought everything in food and drink, beer and wine, so that we had nothing left, they asked for money. The French became more and more numerous, and they were already beginning to plunder the dormitory. Then the confessor said: 'Now we have to go.' I said, 'Where are you going?' He replied: 'To the hospital that was in the Minorite Monastery.' We quickly went out with him and left the monastery with a thousand French people who looted everything. "

All that remained of the destroyed monastery were the cemetery chapel , the archive and the vaults under the pharmacy. A relic of St. Blood, a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary (now in the side chapel of the monastery church) and an oil painting of St. Klara (right at the high altar of the monastery church).

Since the convent was not abolished during the period of secularization , the Poor Clares looked for new and permanent accommodation after the destruction of the monastery, and finally found it with the permission of King Maximilian I. Joseph 1810-11 in the former Capuchin monastery in Ostengasse, where the Convention was closed in 1974.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monuments in Bavaria, Volume III.37: City of Regensburg , Ensembles - Baudenkmäler, Archäologische Denkmäler , Regensburg 1997, p. 134.
  2. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg. Art, culture and everyday history , Regensburg 1997, pp. 35–36.
  3. ^ The Poor Clare Monastery in Regensburg. 1228-1811-1961 , Regensburg 1961, pp. 5-6.
  4. ↑ ibid., Pp. 7–8.
  5. ↑ ibid., P. 11.
  6. ^ Christian Forneck: Regensburg Studies. The Regensburg residents in the 15th century , Regensburg 2000, pp. 149–150.

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 '4.3 "  N , 12 ° 6' 6.3"  E