Herz Jesu Monastery (Eichstätt)
It is a former women's monastery of the Augustinian Choir Women BMV of the Order of Regulated Choir Women of St. Augustine in Eichstätt in Bavaria .
history
The monastery was consecrated to the heart of Jesus and therefore had the additional designation "du Sacré Cœur". It was founded in 1711 under Prince Bishop Johann Anton I. Knebel von Katzenelnbogen by his niece Maria Anna Charlotte Knebel von Katzenelnbogen (* 1685, † 1755). As a child, she spent some time in the boarding school of the Mainz Congrégration de Notre Dame . She (since 1710 Freiin) became the third superior of the monastery and stood before him 1716-30 and again 1733-55.
On July 6, 1712 the foundation stone was laid for the monastery, which progressed only slowly in the years that followed. In 1716 they moved into the unfinished house on the Graben.
The monastery church, one of the most outstanding architectural achievements of the Baroque era in Bavaria, was built in 1719-22 by Gabriel de Gabrieli as a central building with a convex facade and dome, stuccoed by Franz de Gabrieli and frescoed by Johann Georg Bergmüller . With the consecration of the church on June 3, 1723, the founding phase of the monastery was completed. In 1730 the convent should have reached the highest number of members with 33 people, including 22 women choirs.
According to the order of the order, the nuns ran two schools from the beginning. In the "outer school" they taught city students (1713: over 120), in the "inner", the "boarding school", which was directly connected to the monastery, the "boarders" (1731: over 60; 1777: 36 ; 1806: 27), who came from Bavaria , Franconia , Swabia and Austria , but also from the Hochstift itself and were mostly aristocrats. In 1724 the nuns built a new schoolhouse for the city girls near the monastery (today the 2nd Evangelical rectory), and in 1727 a boarding school wing was added to the monastery. The lessons in the outer school included prayer and spiritual songs, catechism , reading, writing, arithmetic and handicrafts, in the inner school German and French language, catechism, holy scriptures, religious songs, a little geography and arithmetic and also handicrafts. Similar to the Eichstätter Jesuit College, plays were performed.
During the period of upheaval of secularization 1802-08, the monastery was the only Eichstätter monastery not to be abolished because of the two schools. However, novices could no longer be admitted, and the schools were given state superiors. It was not until October 22, 1809 that King Maximilian I Joseph ordered the dissolution of the Congrégation de Notre Dame. The sisters moved to a house provided by the bishop; the last died in 1868.
In 1810/11 the small monastic property, the external school and the monastery buildings were sold. The side altars were sold to the pilgrimage church of St. Sebastian in Arnsberg . They are still there today. From 1814 the church served as a magazine. 1912-20 the city maintained a museum there. In 1984–89 the church and parts of the former monastery were renovated and transformed into an information center for the Altmühltal Nature Park .
literature
- Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. I Stadt Eichstätt , Munich 1924 (reprint 1981), pp. 361-369
- Karl Ried: The Notre Dame Monastery in Eichstätt. In: Collective sheet of the Historisches Verein Eichstätt , 59 (1961/62), pp. 61–87
- Christian Baur and others: The restoration of the former Notre-Dame monastery church in Eichstätt. In: Yearbook of Bavarian Monument Preservation 41 (1987), pp. 68–76
- Documentation on the renovation of the former Notre Dame monastery church in Eichstätt and on the establishment of the Altmühltal Nature Park information center . Collective sheet for the Historical Association of Eichstätt 81/82 (1988/89), Eichstätt 1989
- Max Pfister: Master builder from Graubünden - pioneer of the baroque . Chur: Verlag Bündner Monatsblatt 1993, especially pp. 96–99
Web links
- Monasteries in Bavaria: Herz Jesu Monastery, Eichstätt (House of Bavarian History)
- History abstract and photo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pilgrimage Church of St. Sebastian Arnsberg , at www.pfarrverbund-guschawa.de , accessed on January 1, 2017
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 29.9 " N , 11 ° 11 ′ 16.2" E