Pleystein Monastery
The Pleystein monastery is located on the Kreuzberg in the Upper Palatinate town of Pleystein ; it was built in 1901/1902 and handed over to the Augustinian order in 1903, and Salesians moved here in 1965 .
history
The later Benedictine Father Ildephons Lehner (born October 31, 1813, † February 10, 1899), who was later born in Pleystein, endeavored to found a monastery in his native town. When the early Mass benefit became vacant in 1858 , the city's magistrate only had it temporarily occupied and it was agreed with Father Ildephons to use this benefit as the basis for a monastery to be founded. First of all, negotiations were carried out with the Capuchins about founding the monastery, as this also meant the assignment of the Holy Cross Church and the like. a. m. demanded, the negotiations fell apart. The first construction work had already begun and still exist today as enclosing walls for a garden. Contact with other orders ( Franciscans , Servites , Redemptorists ) was not positive either, since the early Mass beneficence was considered to be too small a financial basis for a religious establishment. A change occurred when Johann Kam, a citizen of Pleystein who emigrated to Buffalo in the USA, offered a donation of 20,000 marks for the building of the monastery in 1896 , which he later increased to 30,000 marks; the other donor Kunigunde Schrobenhauser from Munich promised 10,000 marks and a further series of donors raised further significant amounts. On this basis, the magistrate started negotiations with the Augustinian order and on August 8, 1898, their provincial Pius Keller agreed to take over a future monastery.
The building permit for the construction of the monastery was only granted on February 8, 1901. In the meantime, on July 10, 1901, the Kreuzbergkirche had been destroyed in the great fire of Pleystein, and rebuilding began in the same year in the Baroque style . The shell for the monastery was completed in 1902 and the interior was finished in 1903. As for the Kreuzbergkirche, the plans for the monastery were drawn up by the company Joseph Koch and Heinrich Hauberrisser , the stucco work was carried out by the sculptor Jakob Grau. A special feature planned by Hauberrisser was a baroque corner tower and volutes for the building. On August 29, 1903, the building of the monastery was handed over to the Augustinians, who moved here with four members ( prior was Pater Marianus Eder). The maintenance of the monastery community came from the Early Mass Foundation, many anniversary foundations and numerous Mass intentions ; the relationship to the population is described as very good, members of the monastery wrote important writings about the castle and churches of Pleystein, participated in the renovation of the Kreuzbergkirche and had the free altar built on the way to the monastery. In 1965 the monastery had to be closed due to a lack of young people and the last four priests left Pleystein.
Immediately afterwards, pastor Wittmann started negotiations with other orders to reoccupy the monastery; after several unsuccessful attempts, the Provincial of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. This order occupied the monastery on May 25, 1965 with twelve members of the order. Thanks to donations from the population, the monastery was able to be expanded to accommodate the large number of religious members. In 1966 the Salesians also took over the parish of Pleystein.
Construction
The monastery is a multi-wing, two-storey complex with hipped roofs and a neo-baroque structure. The round corner tower facing south is covered with a bell dome. The arched portal has a tail gable . The monastery was renovated in 2015/2016.
literature
- Siegfried Poblotzki : 175 years of Kreuzberg-Kirche Pleystein: texts and documents on the history of the pilgrimage church and the monastery on the Kreuzberg; [1814-1989]. Verlag Pfarrei Pleystein, Pleystein 1989.
- Georg Schmidbauer: Sacred buildings in the city of Pleystein after the great city fire of 1901 by the architect Heinrich Hauberrisser. Waldthurn 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monastery before the renovation. Onetz from February 26, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 45.4 " N , 12 ° 24 ′ 41" E