St. Jürgen Monastery on the beach

The "Monastery of St. Jürgen am Strande" (2012)

The St. Jürgen am Strande monastery is a listed building in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund . It is located at Mönchstrasse 41.

The St. Jürgen am Strande monastery was originally a hospital that housed people with infectious diseases. It was originally located outside the Stralsund city fortifications in front of the Kniepertor and was dedicated to Saint George (in northern Germany: Jürgen).

In preparation for the siege of Stralsund by imperial troops during the Thirty Years War , the city had the hospital with the associated church demolished in 1626/1627. The facility moved to a new location on Mönchstrasse in 1632. The “old syndicate house” was replaced by a three-storey new building in 1753/1754. From then on, elderly people in need were taken in here. These secured a lifelong right of residence for a small fee.

Around 1830, the nine-axis building received its plastered, late classicist facade design with floral stucco ornamentation and cornices. In 1998/1999 the house was renovated, whereby the original room structure was retained. Small residential units that are rented to students branch off from the central corridor.

The courtyard of the building houses two outbuildings that date from the second half of the 18th century and enclose a garden courtyard.

The St. Jürgen am Strande monastery is located in the core area of the “ Historic Old Towns of Stralsund and Wismar ” recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site .

literature

Friederike Thomas, Dietmar Volksdorf: The old town island Stralsund - Illustrated list of monuments. The architectural monuments of the old town in text and images. Edited by the building authority of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Self-published, Stralsund 1999, DNB 987697757 .

Web links

Literature about St. Jürgen's monastery on the beach in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Petersohn : Stralsund as a Swedish fortress. II. On the history of the Stralsund fortress construction in Swedish times . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 45, von der Ropp, Hamburg 1958, p. 118 ( digitized version ).

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[1] Jürgen Petersohn : Stralsund as a Swedish fortress. II. On the history of the Stralsund fortress construction in Swedish times . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 45, von der Ropp, Hamburg 1958, p. 118 ( digitized version ).