Former Dominican monastery in Mainz

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Merian Mainz: No. 20 denotes the Dominican Church
The monastery ruins around 1800, watercolor by JCA Dillenius

The Dominican monastery in Mainz was a Dominican monastery complex in Mainz . In 1789 the monastery was closed and the remaining Dominicans emeritus . During the siege of Mainz in 1793 , the Dominican monastery and its church burned down on the night of July 20th to 21st. The church was demolished in 1816 without leaving any traces.

history

In the middle to the end of the 13th and 14th centuries, when Mainz was a free city , many monasteries were built in Mainz. The Dominicans probably settled in 1256/1257. On November 14, 1257, the papal confirmation was given by Alexander IV of the admission of the Dominicans to the city of Mainz by Archbishop Gerhard I of Dhaun of Mainz. Arnold Walpod is said to have supported the construction of the monastery building through donations and because of this commitment he was buried together with his wife in front of the angelic altar of the monastery church. Between 1269 and 1289 the Mainz branch of the order was favored with 16 episcopal and archbishop indulgence letters. The monastery church was built between 1275 and 1314 in the form of a three-aisled basilica with an elongated choir. The cloister of the monastery complex connected to the north side of the choir. Under Werner von Eppstein , the Dominicans were allowed to preach throughout the archdiocese . In the context of the capture of the city as part of the Mainz collegiate feud , the original monastery buildings burned down on October 28, 1462. The novitiate of the province "Teutonia" (founded in 1221) was settled in Mainz in 1608. From 1620 to 1624 the ecclesiastical writer Johann Andreas Coppenstein officiated here as prior († 1638).

The Fruchthalle , designed by the architect Franz Geier, was built on the former monastery grounds from 1837 to 1839 .

In his book on medieval religious buildings in Mainz, Friedrich Schneider describes numerous grave monuments of the Mainz noble families of the time. A drawing of the tombstone of the patrician Johann zum Junge has been preserved.

literature

  • Klaus-Bernward Springer, Thomas Berger: History of the Dominican monastery in Mainz. Professor Dr. Isnard W. Frank OP on his 65th birthday on September 25, 1995. In: Mainzer Zeitschrift 90/91, 1995/96, pp. 59–87
  • Friedrich Schneider : Medieval religious buildings in Mainz. The Churches of the Dominicans and Carmelites Verlag Johann Falk III., Mainz 1879 ( en ligne )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Martina Rommel: Mainz - Dominican monastery. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ^ A b c Stefan Grathoff: The Mainz Dominican Monastery website of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies
  3. ^ Karl Georg Bockenheimer : Mainz and surroundings ; Verlag von J. Diemer, Mainz 1880, p. 74
  4. ↑ a b c Joachim Glatz: Romanesque and Gothic in Mainz , in: Mainz - The history of the city , p. 1061 and 1077
  5. ↑ a b Ludwig Falck: The free city in its heyday 1244-1328 in: Ed .: Franz Dumont , Ferdinand Scherf , Friedrich Schütz : Mainz - The history of the city . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998.
  6. ^ Isnard W. Frank: The Book of the Dead of the Dominican Monastery in Mainz: Commentary and Edition , Sources and Research on the History of the Dominican Order - New Volume 3, Berlin, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1993, p. 102, ISBN 9783050047348 ; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Dobras: The electoral city (1462-1648) in: Ed .: Franz Dumont, Ferdinand Scherf, Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998 (p. 233).


Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '57.4 "  N , 8 ° 16'11.3"  E