Carmelite Church (Weißenburg)

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The Carmelite Church of Weißenburg Monastery is the church of the former Carmelite monastery in the Eichstätt diocese . The monastery stands in the middle of the northern old town of today's large district town Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It was placed in the northern long side of the wall of the former wood market , today's Luitpoldstrasse . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-177-240 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. In addition, the building is registered as a ground monument (number: D-5-6931-0400). The monastery church with the address Luitpoldstraße 9 serves today as a cultural center together with the other monastery buildings .

History and architecture

The monastery was founded in 1325 by Heinrich, Herr zu Heideck , with the assistance of Count Gebhard III. von Graisbach , Bishop of Eichstätt and donated by King Ludwig the Bavarian . In 1544, after the Reformation , the monastery buildings came into the possession of the imperial city of Weißenburg . As early as September 19, 1526 the prior had submitted the proposal to the council of the city of Weißenburg to take over the entire monastery with all income. The choir and nave of the hall church were built after 1325. The north aisle was later expanded. In 1670 a renovation took place, in 1729 it was baroque . The nave was further modified in the course of the 18th century. The sacristy is from the 15th century. In the choir on the north side there is a famous Volto Santo painting from the early 15th century, the organ front is from the year 1712. The east wing of the monastery is a two-storey steep roof building from the 14th century with a two-storey extension at the rear (1470 / 1471). The transformation into a cultural center took place in the period from 1981 to 1983. The former garden of the monastery is used as a public park after it was bought by the city in 1991.

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: City of Weißenburg i. Bay. (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-582-9 .

Web links

Commons : Karmeliterkirche Weißenburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Former Carmelite Monastery , Bavarian Monument List, Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (pdf)
  2. ↑ Müller, Arndt: The Volto Santo mural in the Carmelite Church in Weißenburg i. Bay. In: Weißenburger Blätter H. 1/2012. Weißenburg i. Bay. 2011, pp. 5 - 23. Text also digital: [1]
  3. ^ Karmeliterkirche cultural center , City of Weißenburg in Bavaria, accessed on April 3, 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 51.5 ″  N , 10 ° 58 ′ 24.6 ″  E