St. Peter Monastery (Regensburg)

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The Weih Sankt Peter monastery is a former Benedictine monastery in Regensburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg .

history

The monastery consecrated to St. Peter was founded in Regensburg under Marianus Scottus , an Irish monk, around 1070 on the site south of what is now Regensburg Central Station . Marianus was on a pilgrimage to Rome with two companions and stopped in Regensburg, where his compatriot Mercherdach had lived as an inclusion in a cell at Obermünster Abbey since around 1050 . As a legend reports, Marianus met the little church of St. Peter, consecrated to St. Peter, in front of the southern Arnulfingian city wall at that time, on the way to the onward journey , which he had been assigned as a permanent place of residence in a nightly dream. The abbess of Obermünster Abbey left the church to him. With the support of wealthy citizens of the city, Marianus built a small monastery of the same name, which they moved into in 1075 and became a starting point for Irish Benedictine monasteries on German soil. Marianus died after 1080; His reputation had reached Ireland, from where many monks left for Germany, so that the new construction of the Benedictine monastery of St. Jakob (Regensburg) had to start in Regensburg . The Schottenkloster Eichstätt was also settled from there. In Regensburg, the old monastery building Weih St. Peter was demolished in 1552 in preparation for expected armed conflicts in the Schmalkaldic War , in order not to offer cover and refuge for enemy troops in front of the city wall. All remains of the building were removed so that the former structure of the monastery is no longer tangible. The memory of the monastery was preserved in the names of Petersweg, Peterstor , (formerly Weih-St.-Peters-Tor), Peterskirchlein and the former Petersfriedhof.

Priorities

Irish period (1075-1515):

  • Deocarus: 1140
  • Gerhard: 1150
  • Gerhard: 1194
  • Finan: 1204
  • Felix: 1212
  • Thaddaeus: 1216
  • Deocarus: 1243
  • Dominellus: around 1260
  • Donellus: 1279
  • Dominellus: 1282, 1284
  • Macrobius: 1294, 1295
  • David: 1311
  • John: 1315
  • Peter: 1318
  • Gilbert: 1322
  • John: 1327-1330
  • David: 1339-1339
  • David: 1349
  • Matthew: 1350, 1363
  • Peter: 1364
  • Matthew: 1366-1369
  • Eugene: 1373-1396
  • Wilhelm: 1408, 1410
  • Philip: 1319
  • Squidward Orygayn: 1422-1439
  • Otto: 1439-1442
  • Carl: 1444
  • Thaddäus Oemaerkaechaen: 1449
  • Otto: 1459
  • Mauritius: 1461-1462
  • Cornelius: 1474, 1479
  • Edmund: 1482
  • Matthew: 1482
  • Thomas: 1482-1483
  • Donatus: 1486, 1491
  • Nicholas: 1493
  • Philip: 1494-1498
  • Cornelius: 1498
  • Donatus: 1501-1503
  • Alban: 1503
  • John: 1504-1511
  • Richard: 1514

Scottish Period (1515–1552):

  • Johannes Denys: 1515-1520
  • Andreas Ruthven: 1520–1523
  • Wilhelm Purves: 1523-1530
  • Hieronymus Scott: 1530-1531
  • Marianus Barclay: 1531-1540
  • Hieronymus Scott: 1540-1546
  • Alexander Bog: 1546-1550
  • Balthasar Dawson: 1550-1552

literature

  • Romuald Bauerreiß , On the founding history of Weih-Sankt-Peter in Regensburg , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, Volume 56, 1938, pp. 104-108
  • Helmut Flachenecker : Schottenklöster. Irish Benedictine convents in high medieval Germany (= sources and research from the field of history. NF Vol. 18). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 1995, ISBN 3-506-73268-4 (Eichstätt, University, habilitation thesis, 1992).
  • Seminary St. Wolfgang Regensburg (ed.): Scoti peregrini in Sankt Jakob. 800 years of Irish-Scottish culture in Regensburg; Exhibition in the Priesterseminar St. Wolfgang Regensburg, November 16, 2005 to February 2, 2006 , Regensburg 2005, p. 14, ISBN 3-7954-1775-9 .
  • Stefan Weber : Irish on the continent. The life of Marianus Scottus of Regensburg and the beginnings of the Irish “Schottenklöster” , Heidelberg 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 417 f .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 9 ″  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 52 ″  E