Maria Loreto Monastery (Landshut)
The Maria Loreto Monastery is a former monastery of the Capuchin Sisters and later the Franciscans on Marienplatz in Landshut in Lower Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising . The former monastery church of the Annunciation has been used by the Romanian Orthodox Church since 2002 .
history
In 1623 Friedrich Ecker von Kapfing had a small castle with a Baroque Loreto chapel built in front of the eastern city gate of Landshut . In 1627, the noble widow Elisabeth Thumer von Bruckberg founded a monastery for twelve Capuchin women on the property , which she also entered as a religious sister. Only a little later, the nuns had to flee to Salzburg because of the Thirty Years' War , where they found the Loreto monastery there .
Since the Capuchin nuns in Landshut enjoyed a brisk influx, the chapel had to be enlarged as early as 1671. In 1731 the convent building was rebuilt as the number of nuns had meanwhile risen to over 30. In 1802 the monastery, which was still inhabited by 19 sisters, was dissolved in the course of secularization in Bavaria .
In 1835 the Franciscans moved into the monastery, whose original convent in Landshut, the monastery of St. Peter and Paul , was also dissolved in 1802. A large neo-Romanesque church was built around the Loreto chapel in 1840 and 1841 , and the small chapel was integrated into the choir . New convent buildings and a brewery were also built around this time. In 1918 the monastery church was enlarged again. After the almost complete destruction in World War II, the church and monastery building were rebuilt in the Romanesque style. During the air raid on Landshut on March 19, 1945, the church and monastery building were badly damaged. As a result, it was rebuilt in a modern, but Romanizing style. Only the surrounding walls of the historic monastery are preserved. Only one portrait of the founder of the Loreto Chapel survived the chaos of war.
In 2002 the Franciscans left Landshut for good. The city's Romanian Orthodox community has been celebrating its services in the former monastery church since autumn 2002.
Web links
- Maria Loreto Monastery (Landshut) , basic data and history: Maria Loretto in Landshut - a Lower Bavarian variant of "casa santa" in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c House of Bavarian History: Landshut, Maria Loreto Monastery - History . Online at www.hdbg.eu. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
- ^ Romanian-Orthodox community Landshut: Parish Landshut . Online at parohie.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 11.3 " N , 12 ° 9 ′ 43.3" E