Landsberg am Lech Monastery
The Monastery Landsberg is a former convent of the Ursuline and jetziges Dominican Monastery. The monastery, located in the Upper Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech , belongs to the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The monastery, consecrated to St. Ursula, St. Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary Dolorosa, was founded by J. Heilberger, Mayor of Landsberg, in 1719 for the purpose of creating a training center for young women. First, the Ursulines acquired some town houses in the old town in order to temporarily set up a monastery church for the Holy Trinity, which was created in 1724/25 according to plans by the master builder and stucco maker Dominikus Zimmermann . In 1764/1765 a wing of the monastery with a new church was built on Leonhardiplatz according to plans by the Munich court architect Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer . The monastery was dissolved in 1809 in the course of secularization . The school institute was continued secularly. In 1845 Dominicans from Augsburg took over the monastery as the monastery of the Dominican nuns. Trinity .
literature
- Karl Gattinger, Grietje Suhr: Landsberg am Lech, city and district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.14 ). Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7917-2449-2 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 12.5 ″ E