St. Augustine Monastery (Amberg)
The St. Augustine convent is a former convent of the Salesian Sisters in Amberg in the Upper Palatinate ( Bavaria ). It lies in the area of the diocese of Regensburg .
history
At the request of Henriette Adelaide of Savoy , the wife of Elector Ferdinand Maria , Pope Alexander VII granted the establishment of two monasteries in Munich and Amberg on March 24, 1667 . While the monastery in the state capital was founded as early as 1671, Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel of Bavaria did not comply with an application by the Amberg magistrate until January 18, 1692, to settle religious who were women “in decent, artistic work, good virtues and in the Fear of God ” . On April 25, 1692, seven sisters from the Munich motherhouse moved into provisional accommodation in Amberg, and they were allocated the income from the Gnadenberg and Seligenporten monasteries, which were not restituted after the Reformation . From 1693 to 1696 a convent building was built according to plans by Wolfgang Dientzenhofer . The equipment was taken over by plasterers from the staff of Giovanni Battista Carlone . The monastery church of St. Augustine, built from 1697 onwards, was consecrated in 1699 by Auxiliary Bishop Albert Ernst von Wartenberg . Under Superior Viktoria von Orban, the church was extensively redesigned by local artists. Mention should be made of the Wessobrunn plasterer Paul Anton Landes and the Augsburg court painter Gottfried Bernhard Götz .
The monastery was well equipped financially and personally, so in 1753 it was possible to set up a branch monastery in Sulzbach , which was settled by six nuns two years later. After secularization , this monastery became a refuge for the Amberg Salesian women in 1804. At the end of the 18th century there were 22 conventuals and 6 lay sisters in the Amberg monastery. Her main task was teaching girls, teaching was free. In 1782, 147 girls were taught here in two classes.
End of the monastery
The monastery was founded on March 2, 1804 resolved . The nuns got accommodation in the branch monastery in Sulzbach ad this vitae . Some conventuals who were ready to enter the secular school service were able to continue teaching at the girls' school. The monastery was initially used as a school building and from 1805 as a provincial library. The confessor's house and the monastery pharmacy were auctioned off. In 1839 the other monastery buildings were given to the poor school sisters who bought them in 1849. The building now houses the Dr. Johanna Decker Schools .
The monastery buildings adjoin the choir of the school church with two irregular, three-storey wings with a plaster frame structure . In some rooms, stucco work from the Carlone d'Allio workshop has been preserved.
See also
literature
- Karl Hausberger: The monastery landscape of Amberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate monastery landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 215-226. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .
Web links
- St. Augustine Monastery (Amberg) , basic data and history: Sense of art and girls' education in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria V: Regensburg and the Upper Palatinate. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03118-0 , p. 33.
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 44.4 " N , 11 ° 51 ′ 19.6" E