Paulan monastery Amberg
The Paulaner monastery in Amberg is a former monastery of the Paulaner , originally consecrated to St. Joseph , in Amberg in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg .
history
At the request of Elector Maximilian, the Paulans first arrived in Munich or Neudeck an der Au in 1627 . In 1638 some of them took over pastoral care in Neunburg vorm Wald by order of the prince . Here there were soon complaints about their conduct of life and office and on the initiative of the prince-elector widow Maria Anna , the translation of the first three fathers to Amberg could be achieved. In 1652 a monastery was founded in Amberg; Here they were able to purchase the so-called Metzberger'sche House as accommodation, they also got fishing water and a water pipe from the castle. It was not recognized as a monastery until 1671. It was not until 1692 that the construction of monastery buildings could begin after the acquisition of some town houses. The management of the construction activity was entrusted to the builder Wolfgang Dientzenhofer (1648–1706) from Amberg . The stucco in the refractory was created by Paul d'Aglio . Probably according to his plans, the church was built from 1717 to 1719 using the baroque wall pillar system; the foundations for the church had already been laid in 1709, the destruction during the War of the Spanish Succession delayed construction. The solemn consecration of the church did not take place until August 29, 1729 by the Regensburg auxiliary bishop Gottfried Langwerth von Simmern . On August 1, 1759, at the instigation of their vicar Father Ivo Markels, the Paulans began to add two towers to the church.
The pastoral focus of the Paulans' activities was on military chaplaincy . In addition, a monastery brewery was operated, which led to great upheavals with the city of Amberg. The master brewer Valentin Stephan Still , who entered the Amberg convent as a lay brother in 1773 , but moved to the Neudeck monastery in Munich the following year, was of particular importance . He devised a strong beer there , which was first brewed under the name Heilig-Vater-Bier and today as Salvator by the Munich Paulaner brewery. The memory of the capable master brewer lives on in the figure of Brother Barnabas , the keynote speaker at the strong beer tasting on the Nockherberg .
In 1803 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . At that time there were only three priests and one lay brother in the monastery; the ex-conventuals stayed in Amberg and continued to devote themselves to military chaplaincy. The library was auctioned immediately. The monastery brewery was taken over in 1803 by an Amberg master brewer Wingershof and continued privately; from 1856 it acted as the municipal brewery . The monastery buildings were used as a hospital. The monastery church served as a garrison church until 1812 , after which it was profaned and the building was used as a salt store. The two church towers were demolished in 1819. In 1850 a false ceiling was installed in the church and the upper part was given to the Protestant community as a place of worship. In 1862 the Protestant community was able to purchase the entire church for 12,000 guilders as a parish church. The other monastery complexes housed a military hospital after the secularization . In 1925 the buildings were converted into the district court , which is still housed here today.
organ
In 1739 there is a report of an organ in the church, which was shipped to Dietkirchen as a result of the secularization in 1813 and has not been preserved there. In 1860 an organ with 11 registers was reported by Ludwig Weineck (Bayreuth), and in 1889 it was sold to the prison. In the same year, Opus 378 is acquired by GF Steinmeyer & Co. (20 / II / P), a movement with a mechanical cone chest. The classicistic case has been preserved to this day. In 1988 a new organ was purchased from Hey Orgelbau (Urspringen / Rhön), it had mechanical slide chests and electrical register actuation. 2010 new stop action, small change of position in the pedal, new there trumpet 8 ', re-intonation ( Munich organ builder Johannes Führer ).
The disposition of the Hey organ:
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literature
- Karl Hausberger: The monastery landscape of Amberg in the 17th and 18th centuries. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate monastery landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 215-226. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .
- Johannes Laschinger: Paulaner In Amberg. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (ed.): Upper Palatinate monastery landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 278-285. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .
- Rainer Kilbert , The organs of the city of Amberg. In: Oberpfalz, p. 240ff, Laßleben Kallmünz 1991
Web links
- Evangelical Luth. Paulanerkirche Amberg
- Paulaner monastery Amberg , basic data and history: The Paulaner in Amberg - military chaplains and beer brewers in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 51 ′ 37 ″ E