Schwarzenberg Monastery

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Pilgrimage Church and Schwarzenberg Monastery, view from the east (2019)

The Schwarzenberg Monastery is a monastery of the Franciscan Minorites in Scheinfeld in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Bamberg .

history

The monastery of the Franciscan recollects , consecrated to the patronage of Mary, Help of Christians , was founded in 1702 by the Thuringian province of the order as a hospice, in 1732 it received the status of a convent . After 1769, Franciscans from Schwarzenberg were occasionally asked for pastoral care by Catholic soldiers who were staying in the Lutheran Neustadt an der Aisch, where the ruling margrave allowed the Franciscans in 1705 to collect alms twice a year. In 1751 14 fathers and 4 brothers lived in the Schwarzenberg monastery; with the permission of the diocesan bishop they founded a belt brotherhood of St. Francis at the monastery that year . The work of the Franciscans consisted in the pastoral care of some mission stations , curaties and parishes and pastoral care for the Catholic soldiers of the Prince of Ansbach . In 1761 a study seminar was established in the monastery , and in 1802 the Franciscans took over a Latin school.

In 1807 the areas of Schwarzenberg came under the royal Bavarian rule. As a result, work in the monastery and the Latin school was stopped. The Franciscan settlement was not abolished at the beginning of the 19th century; from 1828 to 1836 it belonged to the Franconian Franciscan Province ( Provincia nova Bavarica ), which was incorporated into the Bavarian Franciscan Province in 1837 . However, due to a lack of young people, the last Franciscan died in 1864. In 1866 the Franciscan Minorites moved into the preserved monastery buildings .

The altar of grace in the chapel by the choir was created by the sculptor Reiner Wirl in 1746. Some frescoes on the life of St. Francis by Rudolf and Matthäus Schiestl date from 1898 . They could be seen in the refectory until the fire in 1960 . There are now photographs of them hanging in the cloister.

From 1940 to 1945 the monastery, confiscated by the National Socialists, was a resettler camp .

On the night of June 22nd to 23rd, 1960, a major fire destroyed the monastery church and part of the adjacent buildings; the monastery library was largely saved.

Since the end of the 1960s, the monastery has been an educational center by resolution of the German Order Province .

The church and the monastery village are protected as architectural monuments.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828-1978. ), P. 414 .
  2. ↑ Bavarian Franciscan Province (Ed.): 1625-2010. The Bavarian Franciscan Province. From its beginnings until today. Furth 2010, p. 159.
  3. ^ House of Bavarian History, Monasteries in Bavaria: Schwarzenberg
  4. ↑ Schiestl frescoes. In: www.kloster-schwarzenberg.de. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .
  5. ^ NN: Fire accident in the Franciscan Minorite monastery "Maria Hilf", Schwarzenberg. In: Weiß-Blaue Blätter VIII. Vol. (1960), Heft 3, pp. 25-26
  6. ↑ LfD list for Scheinfeld (.pdf)

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 20.6 ″  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 50.5 ″  E