Allerheiligen Monastery (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Floor plan of the monastery in the 18th century

The Allerheiligen Abbey is a former canon monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Freiburg im Breisgau .

history

Knight Johannes Amann von Waldkirch founded the monastery in 1302 and built it on the site of a former mendicant monastery . Bishop Heinrich von Konstanz and city lord Count Konrad von Freiburg confirmed the foundation. The first residents came from Marbach , an Augustinian canon monastery in Alsace near Colmar . The holdings of the Freiburg monastery were mainly in the area of Endingen , Riegel and Ihringen am Kaiserstuhl . Initially, many members came from the nobility with family ties to the Abbot of Tennenbach and the founder; later they were exclusively middle-class.

In 1370, after the resignation of the St. Märgener Abbot Werner von Weiswill on November 14th, Bertold Schultheiss, a canon of All Saints, was elected provost . Afterwards, the two monasteries were under joint management. After the fire of the St. Märgen convent , the local canons moved to Freiburg in the 60s of the 15th century. The resulting lack of space in the church led to an expansion of the choir and the acquisition of adjacent buildings in 1495. From 1500 the provost also used the designation Abbot of All Saints . After a fire in the monastery complex in 1518, only the church remained, the other buildings were rebuilt. From 1540 the importance of the Freiburg institution decreased. The canons began resettling in St. Märgen. From 1672 choir prayer in Freiburg had to be stopped because there were no longer enough canons. An administrator ran the monastery from 1713. There was no longer a provost.

When the French fortress builder Vauban re-fortified Freiburg, he had the monastery buildings demolished in 1677. The bones of the provosts Jakob and Christoph found a new resting place in the church of the Augustinian hermits , the bell of the collegiate church went to the Münsterbauhütte , while the miraculous image also first came to the Augustinian hermits, before it was relocated in 1723, after another stopover in 1700 established monastery in Herrenstrasse, was brought to St. Märgen.

In the secularization of 1806, the Freiburg Canons' Monastery was dissolved at a time when three canons still lived there. The buildings became part of the new building of the Ordinariate . The church served as a place of worship for the evangelical community of Freiburg from 1806 to 1851, until the newly built Ludwigskirche took over this task. The church organ was acquired by the Hartheim community in 1808 .

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Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 16.8 ″  E