Lechfeld Monastery
The Lechfeld Monastery is a former monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Klosterlechfeld in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg.
history
The monastery was founded in 1624 by Regina Imhof on the site of a pilgrimage chapel built in 1602. It initially belonged to the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan Province; Initially a hospice , it was elevated to a convent in 1668 . In 1715 it became a study monastery for the next generation of the order.
In 1803 the Teutonic Order took over the monastery and set up a central or extinction monastery for the Franciscans of the abolished monasteries; it was not allowed to accept novices , and services were only allowed in the monastery church. In 1806 the monastery passed to the Kingdom of Bavaria as part of secularization .
On June 18, 1830, King Ludwig I of Bavaria allowed the Franciscan convent to continue to exist, in which four religious priests and a lay brother still lived. The Franciscans stayed in it until 1993.
The former library of the monastery is now part of the holdings of the Franciscan monastery in Bolzano .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ hdbg.eu: Monasteries In Bavaria: Lechfeld.
- ↑ Manfred Schmidt: The Franciscan Libraries Kaltern, Innichen, Signat and Klosterlechfeld / Le biblioteche francescane di Caldaro, San Candido, Signato e Klosterlechfeld. Brixen: Provinz Verl. 2007. ISBN 978-88-88118-45-1
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ E