St. Sebastian Monastery (Augsburg)

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St. Sebastian
St. Sebastian

The monastery of St. Sebastian was until 2008 a Capuchin monastery in Augsburg-Oberhausen right of Wertach ( diocese of Augsburg , Bavaria ). It is enclosed on three sides by the MAN company premises, on the fourth side it borders on Sebastianstrasse.

The church of St. Sebastian, which used to belong to this monastery, is one of the few churches in Augsburg that survived the Second World War undamaged. It is under monument protection (file number D-7-61-000-941).

history

Predecessor monastery of St. Francis and Blessed Gualfardus

The first Capuchin monastery in Augsburg was located in today's Kapuzinergasse, a western side street of Maximilianstrasse . It was founded in 1601 by Max Fugger and his brothers, the barons of Kirchberg and Weißenhorn . In 1602 the church and monastery were inaugurated in honor of St. Francis and St. Wolfhard (Latin: Gualfardus) by Bishop Heinrich V. von Knöringen . In 1809, during the secularization in Bavaria , this monastery was dissolved and demolished. At the end of the 19th century , Hasen-Bräu built a new production facility on the former monastery grounds .

Church and Monastery of St. Sebastian

In the north of Augsburg, outside the city walls, there was a hospital . There in front of the Stephingertor , not far from the Lueginsland bastion or "between the Wertachbrucker- and Stephingertor, not far from the hospital," a church consecrated to St. Sebastian was built as a chapel by the city council between 1611 and 1612 , as well as "a house for Catholic clergy who had to look after the hospital during the plague ”. The builder of this St. Sebastian's Chapel was Elias Holl . This church was destroyed by the Swedes in 1632 and replaced several times by successor buildings. After 1724 St. Sebastian was a church with baroque furnishings.

In 1843 the Capuchins came back to Augsburg. Since their previous monastery no longer existed, they moved to St. Sebastian and founded a new infirmary ( hospice ) there. In 1908 it was made a convent . In the years 1907–1909 the monastery was expanded and today's church of St. Sebastian was built in the neo-Romanesque style. From 1966 the Capuchin monastery was called the "Franciscan Center St. Sebastian". The Franciscan community of around 80 lay people, who orient their lives on the example of St. Francis of Assisi , was closely connected with the Capuchins.

In 1996 the Capuchin monastery was extensively restored. It was disbanded on October 26, 2008.

church

The church of St. Sebastian is a three-aisled pillar basilica in strict neo-Romanesque forms with a retracted choir and roof turret . The interior is frescoed in Art Nouveau decorated.

Particularly noteworthy pieces of the furnishings of the church are a Mother of God by Hans Degler as well as the bones of St. Wolfhard of Augsburg and St. Lucius of Chur . These relics had already been brought to the Capuchin Church by Bishop Heinrich from Chur in 1602. When the monastery was abolished in 1809, they ended up in the central monastery of the Capuchins in Dillingen on the Danube ; In 1858 they were brought to the new Capuchin monastery in Augsburg.

Today St. Sebastian is also looked after by the parish of St. Georg and also serves as a meeting place for the Croatian parish . Church services in the Slavic-Byzantine rite (in German) also take place there once a month.

organ

Organ in St. Sebastian

The organ was built in 1912 by H. Koulen & Sohn . In 1965 Orgelbau Max Offner (Augsburg) converted from a purely pneumatic to an electric action . In 1996 the instrument was restored by Max Offner. The organ is the largest still in service by the Alsatian organ builder Heinrich Koulen.

See also

literature

  • St. Sebastians Brotherhood Booklet - at the same time the history of the Capuchin Monastery of St. Sebastian in Augsburg . 12th edition, issue 48, Verlag der St. Sebastian Brotherhood, Augsburg 1963.
  • Johanna Schmid : Augsburg. Capuchin Church and St. Sebastian Church. Small art guide No. 470, 2nd edition, 20 pages, Schnell & Steiner Verlag, Munich 2001. ISBN 978-3-7954-6353-3 .

Web links

Commons : St. Sebastian (Augsburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Placidus Braun , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 48 f .
  2. ↑ Placidus Braun , in: Ed. Egino Weidenhiller, Anton Uhl, Bernhard Weisshaar: Ad Sanctum Stephanum 969-1969. Commemoration for the millennium celebration of St. Stephan in Augsburg. 1st edition. Self-published by St. Stephan, Augsburg 1969, p. 48 f .
  3. ↑ gerlinde Knoller: Capuchins say goodbye with a heavy heart . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . Augsburg September 24, 2008 ( augsburger-allgemeine.de ).
  4. ↑ Zeno: Gualfardus, S. In: zeno.org. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 53.1 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 45.3 ″  E