St. Kassian Monastery (Stadtamhof)

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The St. Kassian Monastery is a former monastery of the Franciscan Reformates in the Stadtamhof district of the city of Regensburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg . The construction of the monastery began in 1650 at the suggestion of the Regensburg Bishop Cardinal Wilhelm von Wartenberg and ended in 1652. In 1653 the monastery church was built under the master builder Frater Hugolin Partenhauser.

Building of the former district court Stadtamhof Franziskanerplatz 10

Building history

The single-nave church with a retracted choir had an eastern side chapel, seven altars and two large tombs for burials in the basement. Numerous Bavarian aristocratic families were buried in the tombs. The church, which was expanded in 1744, was considered to be one of the most glamorous in the order province. In the course of secularization , the monastery was one of the first monasteries to be dissolved very hastily in 1802, with the loss of many works of art and furnishings. The relatives also had to clear the private graves very quickly and the bones of the deceased monks were placed in a collective grave on the Trinity Mountain, the location of which has not been recorded.

After the abbey was dissolved, the north and south wings of the convent building came into private ownership. The west wing remained state-owned and served as a prison for a long time. These buildings were badly damaged during the Battle of Regensburg in 1809 when Stadtamhof burned down and were demolished in 1891. In their place, a new building was built in 1893 for the Stadtamhof Royal District Court in the Stadtamhof district. Today the Regensburg Land Surveying Office is located here at No. 10 Franziskanerplatz.

Former Official residence for the neighboring former courthouse

The monastery church was initially preserved and initially served as a storage room for several decades. In 1909 the church was also demolished. In its place, on the foundation walls of the church, the residential building Franziskanerplatz No. 8 was built, a four-storey, gable-independent mansard roof building with an advance gable. The northern enclosure of the area describes the outline of the choir of the former church.

Order history in Regensburg

In 1620, Father Antonio von Galbiato asked Emperor Ferdinand II to promote the settlement of the order of the Franciscan Reformates in the imperial city of Regensburg. The Bavarian Elector Maximilian I supported the project to strengthen the Counter Reformation in the city ruled by Protestants. The Regensburg Bishop Albert IV Baron von Törring also gave his approval. A building belonging to the cathedral district was made available to the dispossessed Franciscan brothers as accommodation, and the collegiate monastery of Our Lady of the Old Chapel gave the brothers the parish church of St. Kassian as a preaching church that they could use together. At the end of 1633 the Franciscans, who belonged to the Bavarian Franciscan Province , had to leave Regensburg again, because after the conquest of Regensburg by the Evangelical Lutheran Swedes, all Catholic priests and members of the order were expelled from the city.

In July 1634 Regensburg could be recaptured by imperial and Bavarian troops, so that a return of the religious was possible. Your supporter, Elector Maximilian I, arranged for the Franciscans to find new accommodation in a rectory in Stadtamhof and to use the local hospital church as a preaching church. In the peace treaty of Westphalia , however, the evacuation of the Katharinenspital had been agreed, and therefore the Franciscans soon had to give way again. Thereupon the Regensburg Bishop Cardinal Franz Wilhelm von Wartenberg sponsored the construction of his own monastery in the Regensburg district of Stadtamhof, and on September 16, 1650, construction work began on the convent building , which could be used from 1652. In 1653 the monastery church of St. Franciscus Stigmaticus was built. At that time there were twenty fathers, four clergy and six lay brothers in the convent.

From 1716 to 1802 the monastery was used as a study house for the offspring of the order province, where philosophy , casuistry and canon studies were studied.

On April 28, 1802, the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . The library was largely destroyed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Karl Bauer: Regensburg art, culture and everyday history . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 715 ff .
  2. ↑ hdbg.eu: History KS0341.
  3. ^ Diethard Schmid: The smashing of the Franciscan library of Stadtamhof (1802-1805). In: Karl Hausberger : Kulturarbeit und Kirche , Verlag des Verein für Regensburg Bishopric History 2005, pp. 461–470.

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 41.3 ″  E