Monastery in the Au (Bamberg)

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The monastery in der Au is a former Carmelite monastery in Bamberg in Bavaria in the diocese of Bamberg .

history

The St. Laurentius monastery was founded at the request of King Rudolf I of Habsburg and his wife Anna von Hohenberg by Berthold von Leiningen , Bishop of Bamberg. When the convent only had a few monks left, Bishop Ernst von Mengersdorf had the seminary Ernestinum set up as a seminary in the monastery in 1585 . In 1589 the Carmelites moved from the Au to the Kaulberg to the Cistercian monastery of St. Maria and Theodor, which was closed in 1554 , where they lived until the secularization of 1803.

In 1611 the Jesuits took over the existing buildings in the Au. Since 1686 they had a new church built in place of the old monastery church. This took over the patronage and the parish of the demolished St. Martin Church in 1806 and is still today as Martinskirche on the Green Market.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 37 ″  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 18 ″  E