Mödingen Monastery
The Mödingen Monastery (also Maria Medingen Monastery ) is a former Dominican monastery and today a branch of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters in Mödingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The Dominican monastery, consecrated to the mother of Jesus, Mary, was founded in 1246 according to the house tradition (in fact probably before 1239 ) by Count Hartmann IV. Von Dillingen and his wife Willibirgis. The mystic Margareta Ebner lived here from 1291 to 1351.
Today's monastery and the monastery church Maria Medingen are the first work of Dominikus Zimmermann , who erected the building between 1716 and 1721. The stucco and the frescoes of the church are by Johann Baptist Zimmermann . The monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . After the secularization, the convent was allowed to stay in the monastery. After 1806 the property belonged to the Barons von Gravenreuth . The Mack family from Dillingen bought it in 1824. In 1843 Mödingen was settled by Dillinger Franciscan Sisters. Maria Medingen is today the provincial house of one of the three German provinces of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters. They set up a girls' middle school and boarding school there. Today a Montessori kindergarten is housed in an adjoining building.
On July 5, 2015, a fire broke out in the monastery in which a nun was killed. The Margareta Ebner Chapel (Margarethenkapelle) and the sacristy of the monastery church were destroyed. The monastery church was able to reopen after a year. The restoration of the Margareta Ebner Chapel, which was not completed until 2021, was far more complex.
Web links
- Mödingen Monastery , basic data and history: Maria Medingen in Mödingen - Dominicans and Franciscan Sisters in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
- Maria Medingen Monastery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simone Bronnhuber / Berthold Veh: Sister dies in monastery fire: It was a "nightmare night" . Augsburger Allgemeine from 6 July 2015
- ↑ Chapel in Maria Medingen Monastery reopened , Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 10, 2021.
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 54 ″ N , 10 ° 26 ′ 11 ″ E