Ingolstadt Monastery

The Ingolstadt monastery is a former monastery of the Franciscan Reformates in Ingolstadt in Bavaria in the diocese of Eichstätt . It has been used by the Capuchins since 2006 .

history

The monastery consecrated to the Assumption of Mary was founded in 1275 by Ludwig II the Strict , Duke of Upper Bavaria; it was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . At first the monastery served as a central or extinction monastery , from 1827 it was empty and was looted. The Franciscans moved to a house in the city center on today's Viktualienmarkt ( monastery ob der Schutter Ingolstadt ). In 1837 the building became the property of the fortress construction department. a. Rented out to the NSDAP in 1943 . In 1945 the complex with the Franciscan Church, which was used at times as a garrison church, was given back to the Franciscans because their previous monastery in the city center had been destroyed. From September 1998 the model of a Franciscan fraternal community was implemented in the monastery for a few years . At the end of 2005 the Franciscans left the monastery and the Capuchins have been here since the beginning of 2006 .

Web links

• Information about the Capuchin Monastery in Ingolstadt on the Capuchin website
• Ingolstadt, Franciscan monastery , basic data and history:
  Laura Scherr / Christian Lankes:  The old Franciscan monastery in Ingolstadt in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press service diocese Eichstätt from July 18, 2005
2. ↑ Press service diocese Eichstätt from December 27, 2005

Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 57 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 27"  E