Pfaffenmünster Monastery

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The former collegiate church of St. Tiburtius

The Pfaffenmünster Monastery is a former collegiate monastery in Münster , Steinach municipality in Bavaria in the Regensburg diocese .

history

The monastery of St. Tiburtius was founded by members of the Agilolfinger , a local aristocratic family, in the 8th century, but it went under again during the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century. The monastery was not repopulated until 1157, when Duke Heinrich (Jasomirgott) resettled the Metten monastery, which is located further down the Danube, with Benedictine monks and moved the canons who had lived there for a good 100 years to Pfaffenmünster.

Pfaffenmünster was henceforth a collegiate monastery (Canon monastery), d. H. a community of world priests (canons) who dedicated themselves to pastoral care. The preserved Romanesque collegiate church dates from the period of resettlement. In 1581, at the instigation of Wilhelm V the Pious , Duke of Bavaria, the monastery was transferred to the Church of St. Jakob in Straubing , where it was secularized in 1803 .

building

Former collegiate church of St. Tiburtius

According to stylistic findings, the three-aisled Romanesque pillar basilica was built in the late 12th century, i.e. immediately after the canons had settled. The collegiate church has largely retained its Romanesque character to this day. During the restrained Baroque style in 1739, the previously flat-roofed crossing was given a monastery vault, a gallery for the organ was built in to the west, the interior was decorated with frescoes and new altars were set up.

The Church of St. Martin

The very good frescoes with scenes from the life of St. Tiburtius probably come from the Cologne court painter Johann Adam Schöpf . Worth mentioning is the Pietà from around 1765 on the altar of the south aisle; the excellent sculpture is attributed to Mathias Obermayr from Straubing .

St. Martin Church

The small Romanesque church stands opposite the west facade of the collegiate church and originally served as a parish church for the employees and residents of the monastery. The church, also built in the late 12th century, was renovated in the 18th century. Inside it received a new main altar (around 1710) and ceiling frescoes (before 1750). The frescoes are by the Straubing painter Joseph Anton Merz .

Rectory

The late Gothic building probably served as a provost's office before the monastery was moved to the Jakobskirche in Straubing.

literature

  • Hans Agsteiner, Abbey relocated in 1581, Pfaffmünster-Straubing , Straubing 1981.
  • Norbert Backmund, Die Kollegiat- und Kanonissenstifte in Bayern , Windberg 1973, p. 103f.
  • Karl Böhm, In search of the priests of Münster. Critical views of the research literature on the beginnings of the monastery , in: Annual report of the Historical Association for Straubing and the surrounding area 107. 2005 (2006), pp. 57–72.
  • Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria II: Lower Bavaria , edited by Michael Brix , with contributions by Franz Bischoff, Gerhard Hackl and Volker Liedke, Munich / Berlin 1988, 415f.
  • Michael Hartig , Die Niederbayerischen Stifte , Munich 1939, pp. 287–290 and pp. 306 f.
  • Josef Hemmerle , The Benedictine monasteries in Bavaria (= Germania Benedictina Bd. 2), Munich 1970, p. 222.
  • Art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, Niederbayern administrative region , vol. 12: Straubing district office , edit. by Karl Gröber, Munich and Vienna 1925, pp. 93f.
  • Michael Prinz, Zur Frühgeschichte des Kollegiatstifts Pfaffmünster , in: Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte 70 (2007), pp. 373–388.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 14 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 19.2"  E