Old town monastery

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The monastery church with portal.
Choir
inside view

The old town monastery (also called Hammelburg monastery ) was a monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Hammelburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .

geography

Altstadt Kloster is located southwest of the city of Hammelburg, halfway up the Saaleck mountain.

history

The monastery consecrated to Maria Immaculata was founded on July 19, 1649 by Prince Abbot Joachim von Gravenegg von Fulda . It was first a hospice and from 1655 a convent of the Thuringian observant province of St. Elisabeth . Wolfgang Quast († 1674), one of the founding fathers, wrote, later supplemented by Father Caspar Liebler, a chronicle of the first decades of the monastery. Construction of the convent was completed in 1664 and the monastery church was inaugurated in 1670. The church was only 28 years old when it burned down on December 18, 1698, when it was set on fire by lightning. A new church was quickly built. Today's church was inaugurated by the Mainz auxiliary bishop in Erfurt, Jakobus Sennft, on Annatay 1700. The architect and builder was the Franciscan brother Anthonius Peyer, who came from Tyrol, who was valued in the Fulda region. Peyer was the builder of the new monastery church in Hammelburg in 1699, in 1700 he also worked at the provost's office in Blankenau, 1701 at the provost's office in Thulba and 1702–1704 at the cathedral mechanic's office in Fulda, before he died on October 25, 1704 at the age of only 31 years. The old town monastery was spared from secularization . In 1837 it passed to the Bavarian Franciscan Province . From 1926 to 1971 a Franciscan boys' seminar was housed in the monastery buildings, and then a police school until July 1976. The Bavarian Music Academy has been using part of the monastery rooms since 1980 . The Franciscans left Hammelburg in November 2014 due to a lack of staff.

Library

The monastery library currently consists of around 7000 volumes, including 87 incunabula and numerous early prints. It goes back to a church library from the 16th century. The book inventory survived fires and looting, including secularization. Because of this unbroken tradition, the library is of great value as an ensemble. The Franciscans therefore agreed with the Diocese of Würzburg to transfer the holdings to the diocesan library. The transfer took place in 2012. As part of the DFG funding program “Scientific Literature and Information Systems”, a three-year project was set up in the diocesan library in 2014, the aim of which is to catalog the holdings and thus make them accessible to the public. The exhibition "Globetrotters" from October 10 to December 22, 2016 gave an insight into the history and composition of the old town monastery library as well as the ongoing work on the restoration and development.

Attractions

Chapel Way of the Cross

In addition to the monastery itself, the Chapel Way of the Cross around the monastery is worth seeing. The Way of the Cross with its 14 station houses, laid out in 1733, was a specialty in the Fulda Monastery and soon served as a model for other sacred landscapes in the Thuringian province, on the Volkersberg and on the Frauenberg and Kalvarienberg in Fulda. The same artists worked there as in Hammelburg: Johann Jakob Faulstieg (1697–1768), a sculptor from Hammelburg and his assistant, Frater Wenzeslaus Marx (1708–1773) from Leitmeritz.

literature

  • Old town monastery near Hammelburg. Schnell and Steiner, Munich 1988
  • Wolfgang Quast: Ortus et progressus conventus Palaeopolitani 1649–1672 (edited by Hartwig Gerhard), Mainfränkische Studien Vol. 51, Würzburg 1991.
  • Gerhard, Hartwig: Fate of the old Hammelburg libraries from the 16th century to the present. Investigations on the basis of the incunabula and early printed stocks of the Hessian State Library in Fulda and the library of the Franciscan monastery Altstadt . Main Franconian Studies, Vol. 57, Würzburg 1995
  • Hartwig Gerhard, Hans-Joachim Raab (Ed.): 350 years of the Franciscan monastery Hammelburg-Altstadt. Kaiser, Hammelburg 1999
  • Reiner Baden, Hartwig Gerhard, Astrid Hedrich-Scherpf: The Chapel Cross of the Franciscan Monastery Old Town near Hammelburg - an inventory of the work of art. Walz / Franciscan monastery old town, Hammelburg 2002

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Gerhard: The miracle stories in the chronicle of the Franciscan Monastery Old Town. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 9, 1991, pp. 259-290.
  2. ^ BR.de, November 24, 2014 ( Memento from September 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Nikola Willner: Exhibition "Weltenbummler" in the diocesan library [1]

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 41.8 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 34.9 ″  E