Neunkirchen am Brand monastery

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The St. Michaelskirche of the former monastery
The old monastery school, in which the new town hall is located today, on the right in the picture the monastery courtyard gate

The Neunkirchen am Brand Monastery is a former monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Neunkirchen am Brand in the Diocese of Bamberg .

history

The monastery consecrated to St. Michael was founded in 1313 by Leopold von Hirschberg, a scholastic at the collegiate monastery of St. Gangolph in Bamberg.

In 1555 the prince-bishop's court chamber moved in after the last canons left the monastery after the Reformation. From 1642 the monastery property was used to maintain the Bamberg seminary . In contrast to other monasteries in the Prince Diocese of Bamberg , the monastery was not abolished. In 1803 Neunkirchen and the Bamberg Monastery fell to Bavaria. The church and monastery building were preserved. The monastery church of St. Michael is today the center of the Catholic parish. The administration building, designed by Balthasar Neumann , serves social institutions. The majority of the remaining monastery buildings that have been preserved are used by the market town of Neunkirchen am Brand .

Choir of the monastery church and Augustine's chapel
Catherine Chapel
Balthasar Neumann's administration building

Monastery building

Monastery church

The former monastery church is a two-aisled, asymmetrical Gothic church with a main choir and a chapel adjoining it to the north with a small choir.

Rectory

The rectory is a two-storey building with a hipped roof, in which the chapter house building from the late 14th century has merged in the north and part of the cloister in the west. The chapter house, today's Augustinus chapel, is provided with ribbed vaults, a choir with five-eighth end and a two-bay chapel extension on the south side. In the hall there are forest paintings from the early 15th century with depictions from the life of St. Augustine, the similar hall on the upper floor presumably used to contain the library.

Catherine Chapel

To the north-east of the church is the profaned Katharinenkapelle, a Gothic building with a choir that ends at five-eighth.

Monastery and market fortifications

The monastery and its surroundings include wall remains that have been preserved along long stretches of the wall ring, as well as four gates:

  • Monastery gate around 1600,
  • Erlanger Gate from 1497,
  • Erleinhofer Gate with a relief of the coat of arms from 1502,
  • Forchheimer Tor with the year 1582 and with coat of arms from 1503.

See also

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I. The administrative districts of Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia and Lower Franconia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03051-4 , pp. 663–664.
  • Horst Miekisch: The Augustinian Canons Neunkirchen am Brand. Its history and its importance for the spread of the Raudnitzer reform . Dissertation, University of Bamberg 2005 ( full text )
  • The Augustinian Canons' Monastery in Neunkirchen am Brand. 1314 Foundation of the Augustinian Canon Monastery. 2014 - 700 years. Neunkirchen am Brand 2014 (Festschrift, 64 pages)

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '45.4 "  N , 11 ° 7' 48.4"  E