Mariae Magdalenae Monastery (Magdeburg)
The Mariae Magdalenae monastery was a monastery in Magdeburg's old town . It was dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene .
It was located near the Magdalenenkapelle, which still exists today .
history
The monastery was founded around 1230 by Archbishop Albrecht I von Käfernburg , who had the monastery built next to an old tower of the Burggrafenburg . The monastery was later used by Augustinian hermits .
A Corpus Christi chapel, today's Magdalenenkapelle, was built next to the monastery in 1315 . In 1337 the monastery was given patronage over the chapel.
In the course of the Reformation in 1524 the nuns turned to the new Protestant teaching. During the 16th century and the progress of the Reformation, the nuns left the monastery. The facility fell into disrepair and then became the property of the city. When Magdeburg was stormed in the Thirty Years War on May 10th, July. / May 20, 1631 greg. the remaining buildings and the monastery church were severely damaged.
When the plague broke out in 1680, the city designated the former monastery as the seat of the plague doctor in the plague order .
In 1687 the city of Magdeburg established a women's monastery in the monastery . A higher daughter school was also temporarily located in the monastery complex. On July 15, 1705, the foundation of the Magdalenenkloster was merged with the foundation of the St. Augustini Monastery to the north , in which a penitentiary had been housed since March 7, 1705 .
In 1722, the governor of Magdeburg, Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau, arranged for a hospital to be set up in the old monastery church, which was later moved to Domplatz 6.
In 1848 the monastery complex was demolished.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and monasteries in Magdeburg. State capital Magdeburg, Urban Planning Office 2000, p. 74.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Joachim Krenzke: Churches and Monasteries in Magdeburg , State Capital Magdeburg, City Planning Office 2000, page 74
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Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 58.7 " N , 11 ° 38 ′ 41.7" E