Holy Cross Monastery (Mindelheim)

The Holy Cross Monastery was a monastery of the Terziarinnen of the Franciscan Observants in Mindelheim in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .

history

The monastery, consecrated to the Holy Cross since 1623 , was founded in 1456 by Anna Kautin, Barbara Baderin, Elisabetha Deschlerin, Afra Weylerin, Anna Fingerlin and Anna Schneiderin ("6 pious virgins"). The monastery was not abolished in the course of secularization in Bavaria. In 1802 the admission of novices was temporarily prohibited.

In 2018 the monastery was dissolved, the last three Franciscan Sisters moved to the Ursberg monastery for health reasons . The Foundation for the Holy Cross, founded in 2010, oversees the construction of the monastery. The spiritual life is carried on by the sisters of the community of the redeeming love of Christ eV.

literature

Franz Xaver Schuster: History of the women's monastery "Heilig Kreuz" in Mindelheim . Kempten 1901 Internet Archive .
Bernardin Lins: The Terziarinnen from Mindelheim to St. Cross . In: Bavaria Franciscana antiqua vol. 2, Munich 1955, pp. 137–146 (not viewed).
Erwin Holzbaur: The Holy Cross Monastery in Mindelheim, Unterallgäu district . In: Werner Schiedermair (Ed.): Klosterland Bavarian Swabia . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2003, pp. 288–289.

Web links

Heilig Kreuz Monastery (Mindelheim) , basic data in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History

Commons : Kloster Heilig Kreuz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ When exactly the canonical dissolution decree of 2016 was implemented, says the announcement of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art on orders and church associations with the status of a corporation under public law of December 27, 2017 ( KWMBl. 2018 p. 62 ) Not. The legal dissolution took place in 2017 at the latest.
↑ https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/mindelheim/Mindelheimer-Franziskanerinnen-Orden-ist-aufgeloest-id51229691.html erloest-leben.de (note: only the free text beginning was used).

48.0474 10.4892Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 50.6 ″ N , 10 ° 29 ′ 21.1 ″ E

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