Münnerstadt Monastery

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Augustinian monastery church
East choir and pulpit
The organ

The Münnerstadt Monastery is an Augustinian monastery (former name Augustinian Hermits) in Münnerstadt in Bavaria in the Diocese of Würzburg .

history

The monastery , consecrated to St. Michael and St. Augustine , was founded in 1279 by the city of Münnerstadt. After severe devastation in the Peasant Wars, the monks had to flee to Würzburg, the monastery stood empty until 1652. In the course of secularization there was no repeal. The high school , closed in 1803, was reopened in 1806. In 1895, the convent became the starting point for the reorganization of the German Augustinian province by Father Pius Keller . Together with the Münnerstadt Juliusspital, a wing for assisted living was built in 2002 in an empty part of the monastery.

The Münnerstadt monastery library has one of the largest collections of works of Christian content in German , Latin and Greek in the world. It contains around 70,000 volumes of ecclesiastical and secular literature, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's “ The Sorrows of Young Werther ” from 1775 - therefore “only” a pirated print - a first edition of Friedrich Schiller's “ Jungfrau von Orleans ”, original editions by Martin Luther Pamphlets or the oldest parchment from 1240 in Alemannic . From 1995, Father Leonhard Lochner was responsible for the reorganization of today's modern library.

Johann Philipp Seuffert built a new organ in 1756 , the interior of which was replaced by Otto Hochrein in 1900. In 1936 Michael Weise built a new factory behind the Rococo prospectus using older parts. In 1979, Horst Hoffmann rebuilt the building .

Web links

Commons : Augustinian Monastery Münnerstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Organ in Münnerstadt , accessed on June 26, 2020.

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 10 ° 11 ′ 36.2 ″  E