Schongau Monastery
The Schongau Monastery is a former monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Schongau in Bavaria in the Diocese of Augsburg . It was founded around 1719. A retirement home is now housed in the restored former building.
history
Since 1705 the brothers ran the Latin school founded around 1500. The monastery church, consecrated to the Holy Spirit , was designed by the Wessobrunn artist Joseph Schmuzer from 1720 to 1725 . It is a church with six side altars; the altarpiece on the main altar is by Gottfried Göz . The organ dates from 1725.
The Carmelite monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization and the convent moved to Reisach . In 1812 the building was bought by the city, which then moved the headquarters of the Heiliggeist Hospital Foundation there.
literature
- Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 , pp. 399 .
Web links
- Schongau Monastery , basic data and history: Schongau - a Karmel am Lech (author: Laura Scherr) in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
- Illustration of the interior of the monastery church on schongau.de
- Schongau retirement home
Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 40.7 " N , 10 ° 53 ′ 55.7" E