St. Lucia Monastery (Cologne)
St. Lucia was a Servite convent in Cologne's Rheinvorstadt district .
history
The circumstances of the establishment of the Servitinnenkloster in Cologne are not known. In 1629 they left their house on Marzellenstrasse opposite the Church of St. Achatius to the Jesuits in exchange for a plot of land at Unter Goldschmied 32/34, where construction work can be verified in 1632. In 1639, however, they acquired the monastery at Filzengraben from the Poor Clares , who moved to Neumarkt. The commissioner of the Archbishop of Cologne, to whom the Servites were subordinate, introduced the cloister in the monastery on January 15, 1641, after which the convent flourished.
The St. Lucia Chapel, taken over by the Poor Clares, was a hall building built in 1612/13, which was exposed to the street through five pointed-arched tracery windows and oval windows above. The chapel hall was 18 meters long and eight meters wide.
In 1802, in the course of secularization, the monastery was abolished and in 1805 the chapel was closed. A wool factory was set up in the monastery buildings, but the chapel continued to be used as a private chapel by the Hirn family who owned it. The Hirn family secretly hid Trappists from Darfeld here until 1814 . In 1857 the St. Lucia Chapel and the monastery buildings were closed and the Evangelical Trinity Church was built in their place .
literature
- Colonia Romanica XI (1996), p. 44.
- Paul Clemen (Ed.): The former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne , Düsseldorf 1937.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 57 ′ 38 ″ E