Berching Abbey

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The Berching monastery was a Franciscan settlement in Berching ( Diocese of Eichstätt ).

The profaned monastery church of St. Trinitas

history

In Berching, the wine merchant and mayor Johann Georg Pettenkhover (Pettenkofer) († around 1740) founded a Capuchin hospice in 1721 , which was given to the Franciscans in 1738 as a monastery including the monastery church of St. Trinitas .

As a result of secularization in Bavaria , the Franciscans left the monastery on September 1, 1806. Thereupon the city of Berching asked the royal government to let the monastery continue as a Franciscan hospital, which was approved. On December 22nd, 1806 four Franciscan Fathers came from Beilngries to Berching. In 1818 the last two fathers of the dissolved Franciscan monastery in Ellingen strengthened the Berching convent.

In 1969 the Franciscans sold the monastery to the Caritas Association of the Diocese of Eichstätt . He redesigned the former monastery into a retirement home with a new building, which was managed by the Niederbronn sisters until 2001 .

Mount of Olives Games

From 1854 to 1967 the Ölbergspiele took place in the monastery church , either as pure devotion or as a game with an angel figure. From 1929 the games were performed with live actors. Since 1982 they have been taking place in the parish church of St. Lorenz.

literature

  • (JC Bundschuh): Geographical Statistical-Topographical Lexicon of Franconia. Volume I . Ulm: Stettinische Buchhandlung 1799, column 348f.
  • Johannes Nepomuk von Loewenthal: History of the mayor's office and the city of Neumarkt on the Nordgau or in today's Upper Palatinate. Munich 1805, p. 102
  • The Franciscan Hospitium in Berching . In: Sulzbach Calendar for Catholic Christians 1858, pp. 66–71
  • 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. 24
  • Friedrich Hermann Hofmann a. Felix Mader (arrangement): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries. Munich 1908, reprint Munich, Vienna 1982, p. 47f.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 25 ″  N , 11 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  E