St. Peter and Paul Monastery (Landshut)

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Exterior view of the former Franciscan monastery

The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Apostles Saint Peter and Paul is a former Franciscan monastery in Landshut in Lower Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising . It was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization in Bavaria .

history

The monastery was founded in 1280 by Duke Heinrich XIII. Donated by Lower Bavaria and belonged to the Strasbourg (Upper German) order province of Argentina . Since the city was expanded in 1338, the monastery was located within the city. Well-preserved, five to six meter high remains of the city fortifications to the south and east of the monastery buildings are evidence of this. The model of the city of Landshut by Jakob Sandtner around 1570 gives an authentic picture of the appearance of the monastery in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period .

The monastery achieved a certain level of prosperity over the years thanks to the favor of the nobility and the rich bourgeoisie, but this contradicts the Franciscan ideal. The strictly Franciscan observants , however, had won the favor of Duke Louis the Rich . Therefore, in 1466, the monastery introduced strict obeservance with stricter adherence to the vow of poverty ; Brothers who did not join had to leave the monastery. In the course of an order reform, the monastery was converted into one of the first Reformate monasteries in Bavaria in 1620 by Duke Maximilian , who later became the Bavarian elector . It had to take over the Italian reform within the order and, together with the conventions in Munich and Freising, became the nucleus of the Bavarian order province of the Reformates.

After the monastery was dissolved in 1802, the convent building was originally intended to house several faculties of the university , which was moved from Ingolstadt to Landshut in 1800 . However, the premises turned out to be unsuitable for this. Instead, a fencing school for students was set up in 1803 before the building was sold to an innkeeper in 1812 .

From 1835 to 2002 the Franciscans were again based in Landshut, namely in the Maria Loreto monastery on Marienplatz, which was inhabited by Capuchin women before the secularization .

description

The early Gothic monastery church was a three-aisled basilica . The church, renovated in the late Rococo style in 1782, was demolished in 1808, a few years after the monastery was dissolved, and the stones were used to build the so-called Maxwehr . Only a fragment of the portal remains, which is dated to the end of the 13th century. The inner cloister also fell victim to the demolition, although the east wing is still preserved. The outer cloister with its late Gothic vault from the 14th and 15th centuries is very well preserved. It surrounds the so-called Kreuzgarten and the late Gothic plank chapel, which was built in 1495. Some of the convent buildings are still preserved.

Today's use of the monastery

Since 1999 the city of Landshut has been running the museum in the cloister in parts of the former Franciscan monastery with changing exhibitions, the focus of which is on art and culture from the city and the surrounding area. In 2012, the city then acquired the entire monastery building. On August 8, 2015 the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Landshut City Museum, which is to be significantly larger than the previous museum, was made. On October 20, 2015, a construction crane fell on the roof of the monastery building during the renovation work; there was a damage of 50,000 €.

Web links

Commons : Former Franziskanerkloster Landshut  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c House of Bavarian History: Landshut, St. Peter and Paul Monastery - History . Online at www.hdbg.eu. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Volker Liedke: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Landshut, p. 164ff. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-7954-1002-9 .
  3. ↑ City of Landshut: Museum im Kreuzgang ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.landshut.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.landshut.de
  4. ^ City of Landshut: City of Landshut acquires a Franciscan monastery . Online at www.landshut.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ Landshuter Zeitung of August 10, 2015, p. 27: A large joint effort - Landshuter Museum Festival with many activities and groundbreaking
  6. ↑ News portal idowa: Not because of "All good things come from above" - ​​construction crane falls on the Franciscan monastery in Landshut . Online at www.idowa.de. Retrieved December 20, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 32 '2.8 "  N , 12 ° 9' 18.4"  E