Kelheim Monastery
The Kelheim Monastery is a former monastery of the Franciscan Reformates on Michelsberg in Kelheim in Bavaria in the Diocese of Regensburg .
architecture
The monastery was baroque in the 18th century. The two-storey hipped roof building forms a three-wing complex around a cloister, only the vaulted ground floor rooms in the west wing (stable building) and north wing as well as the farm buildings with vaults from the 18th century are preserved of the monastery complex.
history
The Franciscan monastery consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in 1461 and 1471 respectively by Johann IV and Sigmund together with the citizens of Kelheim. Around 1635 it was a hospice , otherwise a convent . It was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . A brewery and an inn were set up in the monastery complex. The monastery church has been used again for church services since 1878.
Organ museum
An organ museum , which was opened in 2006, is located in the church building . The sponsor is the Förderverein Orgelmuseum Franziskanerkirche Kelheim e. V. The museum exhibits pneumatic and mechanical organs from the region. Functional organ models are on display in the former monastery wing. These illustrate the functionality of the mechanical grinding and cone drawer , the pneumatic and electro-pneumatic cone and membrane drawer . The visitor gets to know the connections between the shape of the organ pipes and the sound produced in each case
Web links
- Monasteries in Bavaria: The Franciscans in Kelheim - "For the benefit and edification of the people" (House of Bavarian History)
- www.orgelmuseum-kelheim.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.orgelmuseum-kelheim.de History of the museum. Accessed March 29, 2014.
- ↑ www.orgelmuseum-kelheim.de http://s319649134.website-start.de/verein/ . Accessed March 29, 2014.
- ↑ www.orgelmuseum-kelheim.de http://s319649134.website-start.de/verein/ . Accessed March 29, 2014.
Coordinates: 48 ° 55 '3.4 " N , 11 ° 51" 57.2 " E