Marienweiher Monastery

Monastery Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The Marienweiher Monastery is a monastery of the Franciscan Observants in Marienweiher, a district of Marktleugast in Upper Franconia , and belongs to the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

history

The monastery consecrated to BV Maria Miraculosa was founded in 1646 by Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg , Bishop of Bamberg . It was first a hospice and from 1699 a convent .

The baroque pilgrimage basilica Marienweiher was built between 1718 and 1721 .

In the course of secularization in Bavaria, the monastery was taken over civilly on December 17, 1802, but there was no official suspension. The monastery was temporarily doomed, but on July 18, 1828 it was officially rebuilt. The Bavarian Franciscans received a contractually guaranteed right to use the monastery from the state. The Silesian Order Province of the Franciscans has been looking after the monastery since 1984.

On June 25, 1993 Pope John Paul II elevated the monastery church to a minor basilica through the Apostolic Letter Celebratum templum .

The monastery is owned by the Bavarian state real estate management, which began considering sales in 2007. At the beginning of 2009 the monastery was offered to the district of Kulmbach for one euro in search of "exploitation possibilities for the monastery" , which triggered violent protests on site. The former Bavarian Finance Minister Georg Fahrenschon had stated that he expressly distanced himself from the plans to sell the monastery. Corresponding plans were "in no way" coordinated with him. He stopped this process.

literature

• Karl-Ludwig Lippert : Stadtsteinach district . The art monuments of Bavaria , brief inventories, XX. Band . German art publisher . Munich 1964. p. 62f.

Web links

• Monasteries in Bavaria: Marienweiher Monastery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frankenpost of March 20, 2009: "I'll punch this guy in"
2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 28, 2009: The Marienweiher Fall of Sins ( Memento of the original of March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 27.7 ″  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 10 ″  E