Marienmünster (Kempten)

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Depiction of the Marien Minster on a cityscape from 1569

The Marienmünster (also St. Marien or St. Maria ) in Kempten (Allgäu) was a Romanesque monastery and collegiate church of the prince monastery of Kempten . A detailed history of the building is unknown, and little is known about the appearance of the minster . The Hildegard Chapel was located as a side chapel in the church or nearby . To the east of the monastery church, the Nikolauskapelle is visible on old city views .

The minster attached to the eastern front of the monastery had three aisles with a western transept and a pair of towers in the east. A Romanesque cloister was attached to the south of the Marienmünster.

history

The monastery church was consecrated by the Augsburg Bishop Wikterp . In 1026 a fire in the monastery is reported that also damaged the church. The double-towered church is also depicted on Stiftkemptic coins from the period 1170/80. The Gothic helmets of the pair of towers were probably created by a new building or renovation in 1382 after a fire in 1361. During the Thirty Years' War , the church was destroyed in 1632 and never rebuilt.

The prince-abbot's residence was then built on the site of the destroyed church, and in 1959 the remains of the east choir were discovered on the foundation walls of the residence. In the area of ​​the old monastery church, numerous graves, some of them early medieval stone box graves, were discovered.

A chronicle of consecration by Pope Hadrian I in the year 777 is considered to be refuted or a forgery, since this Pope never stayed north of the Alps .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Bavaria III - Swabia . 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich-Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-03116-6 , pp. 559 f .
  2. ↑ Birgit Kata, Gerhard Weber: The archaeological findings in the area of ​​the Kempten residence and its surroundings. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and relinquishment 752 - 1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history, No. 1. Likias, Kempten 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 , p. 68.
  3. ^ Rolf Kießling: Monastery, town and region in the 'Old Kingdom' - Kempten as a 'suburb' of the Allgäu. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and relinquishment 752 - 1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history , No. 1. Likias, Kempten 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 . P. 17.
  4. ^ A b c Michael Petzet : City and district of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 5.
  5. ↑ Birgit Kata, Gerhard Weber: The archaeological findings in the area of ​​the Kempten residence and its surroundings. In: Birgit Kata u. a. (Ed.): More than 1000 years: The Kempten Abbey between founding and relinquishment 752 - 1802. Allgäu research on archeology and history, No. 1. Likias, Kempten 2006, ISBN 3-980-76286-6 , p. 72.

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 50.5 ″  E