Möningerberg Monastery

The monastery Möningerberg is a former convent of the Franciscan Observant in Freystadt in Bavaria in the diocese of Eichstaett .

history

The monastery consecrated to Our Lady was founded in 1452 by St. Johannes Capistran and Count Palatine Otto I founded, first a hospice, later it was a convent in the Strasbourg (Upper German) Franciscan Province. It was dissolved in 1556 during the Reformation . Only traces of the monastery are left. A chicken farm was built on the former monastery grounds. Today there is a chapel of the 14 helpers on the mountain.

Web links

• Möningerberg Monastery , basic data in the Monasteries in Bavaria database in the House of Bavarian History

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '52 "  N , 11 ° 19' 9.8"  E