St. Maria Monastery (Neuburg an der Donau)
The monastery Sankt Maria in Neuburg is a former monastery of the Ursulines in Neuburg an der Donau in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The monastery consecrated to Saint Mary was founded around 1700 by Elector Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg , Elector of the Palatinate. The monastery received its own church of St. Ursula and was an educational institution for girls of all classes. It became the mother monastery of the Ursulines in southern Germany.
The monastery was converted into a central monastery in 1809 in the course of secularization in Bavaria and dissolved in 1813. In 1816 a study seminar and a grammar school were housed in the rooms of the monastery . The monastery church became the study church of St. Ursula . The Catholic college was later housed here. The antependia made in silk with gold and silver threads (so-called needle painting ), which are among the most valuable preserved textile works of this epoch, are presented in an exhibition there at the beginning of the 18th century in the Neuburg Ursuline monastery .
See also
Web links
- St. Maria Monastery (Neuburg an der Donau) , basic data and history: Mother Monastery of the Ursulines in southern Germany in the database of Monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 7.8 " N , 11 ° 10 ′ 33.2" E