Beilngries Monastery
The Beilngries monastery was a branch of the Franciscans in Beilngries ( Diocese of Eichstätt ).
history
The monastery was a foundation of the Berching citizen Rumpf, which he made with the permission of the Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen . On April 29, 1723, four Franciscans were solemnly introduced to Beilngries. The Lederer Schattenhofer had made his newly built house available to them as their first branch. On August 23, 1723 the foundation stone for a hospice was laid . Four days later the work had to be stopped due to a threat from the Eichstätter cathedral chapter ; the Eichstätter bishop had violated the regulation of the election surrender, without the approval of the cathedral chapter not to allow a monastery to be founded. The neighboring Benedictine monastery Plankstetten also objected, as the abbey held the patronage rights for the parish of Beilngries. The matter was pending before the Rota in Rome . Finally, at the instigation of the Franciscans, the opponents of the trial were reconciled. In 1736, therefore, the bishop gave another permission to settle, which the Plankstetten monastery now also approved. Under the Plankstetter abbot Father Maurus Xaverius Herbst (r. 1742–1757) the relationship between the two monasteries finally improved.
Around 1800 four to five priests and one or two lay brothers lived in the monastery, which was abolished in the course of secularization in Bavaria in 1806.
Further use
A boys' school was housed in the former monastery, now owned by the city. Today the toy and figure museum "back then" is located here. In 2010, a "mosaic of egg donation" by Berching artist Franz-Xaver Lindl (* 1897, † 1970) from the 1950s was attached to the former monastery from the northern outer wall of the old schoolhouse . The Beilngrieser Tafel also has rooms here.
Former monastery church of St. Trinitas
The construction of the church, which began in 1723, could only be consecrated in 1736 by the Eichstatt Auxiliary Bishop Johann Adam Nieberlein "with an enormous influx of people" (Bauer, p. 69). The spacious building with a turret over the choir made "a pretty sober impression because it was completely unadorned" (Hofmann / Mader, p. 16). In 1908 there were four altars from the first half of the 18th century and the pulpit erected in 1742. A crescent moon Madonna from the beginning of the 16th century stood in a niche on the west wall. Since 1961 the secular church has served as a parish and youth home for the Catholic parish of St. Walburga .
literature
- (JC Bundschuh): Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia. Volume I. Ulm: Stettinische Buchhandlung 1799, column 330
- The former Franciscan hospice in Beilngries . In: Sulzbacher Calendar for Catholic Christians 1887, pp. 83–88
- Friedrich Hermann Hofmann a. Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg. XIII District Office Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries. Munich 1908, reprint Munich, Vienna 1982, p. 15f.
- Franz Sales Romstöck: The founders and monasteries of the Diocese of Eichstätt up to 1806 . In: Collection sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 30 (1915), Eichstätt 1916, p. 23f. (with bibliography)
- Petrus Bauer: The great trial 1723–1736 . In: The same: The Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey in the past and present . Plankstetten: Benediktinerabtei 1979, pp. 68-70
- The Eichstätter area past and present . Eichstätt: Sparkasse 1984, p. 160
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Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 28 ′ 14 ″ E