Dominican monastery Nuremberg

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The Nuremberg Dominican Monastery was a Dominican monastery in the Bavarian diocese of Bamberg .

history

Dominican monastery

The Dominican Monastery (also known as the Preacher Monastery ) was founded in 1234 or 1248. The monastery church was built in 1275, while the monastery buildings were completed around 1288 and the cloister was not completed until 1328. From the beginning, the church and monastery were located on Burgstrasse at the corner of Dielinggasse (since 1833: Theresienstrasse).

The monastery soon gained a respected position within the order: the Dominican General Convention met here in 1316, 1361 and 1393. There was a lively exchange with the scholastics at the University of Paris . At the instigation of the Inner Council , observance was introduced in February 1396 from the Colmar religious house under Vicar Johannes Mulberg from Kleinbasel (* around 1350; † 1414 in Maulbronn Monastery ); the Colmar prior Konrad de Prussia (Konrad de Grossis; † 1426) took over the Nuremberg priory. Master of the order Raimund von Capua , an avid reformer, died in 1399 on a visitation trip in the Nuremberg monastery and was buried in the monastery church (later transferred to Naples). The observance movement, for which the multiple prior Konrad von Zenn († 1460) advocated, started from Nuremberg in Franconia , Saxony and Upper Germany. The known about the monastery addition Convention members were of as a writer, reformer and preacher against the Hussite forth came Johannes Nider , Prior 1427/29 († 1438 in Nuremberg), which became known as the sermon writer Georg hatred (1575), John Herolt († 1468 ) and Peter Kirchschlag († 1483), Konrad Forster († after 1459), who entered the prehistory of printing, and finally the humanist Johannes Cuno (1462 / 1463–1513). Prior Eberhard Mardach († 1428) wrote a German book of edification about prayer. At the Dominican monastery there was also a men's congregation for the Madonna in a protective cloak.

At the Nuremberg Religious Discussion in March 1525, the prior Konrad Pflüger appeared with the prior of the Carmelite monastery and the guardian of the Franciscan monastery on behalf of the old believers. The Reformation was initially hesitant to take up. At the end of 1525, the majority of the convent made themselves available for the new church service, in accordance with the wishes of the council. It was not until 1543 that the convent, which had shrunk to five inmates and which had long since stopped living according to the rules of the order, transferred the monastery with all its income to the council in favor of the great alms of the Georg Keyper Foundation. The monastery was thus dissolved and the council library (forerunner of the city library) and official apartments were housed in it. The first history of the monastery was probably written by Hartmann Schedel , whose brother Johannes († 1505) was a member of the convent. Around 180 manuscripts from the important library of the monastery have been transferred to the city library.

Parts of the monastery building still exist at Burgstrasse 6. Today it is the seat of the Protestant city dean.

Place of the former Dominican church

Dominican Church of St. Mary

The monastery church of St. Marien was built around 1275 as a simple church in Gothic style. A fire made it necessary to rebuild as early as 1396. After the dissolution of the monastery, the renaissance organ of the Dominican Church was transferred to the Lorenz Church around 1550 and only demolished there in 1831.

In 1696 the outside of the church was renovated and, due to the fire damage to the Egidien Church, it was made available to the Aegidianum (also: Egidiengymnasium, Melanchthon-Gymnasium since 1933 ). After a partial collapse, the Dominican Church was sold for demolition in 1807. The corner plot was built by the seed dealer Hofmann. 1907-10 an office building was built on the same site as an extension of the town hall according to plans by the builder Heinrich Wallraff.

Former furnishings of the monastery church

The current storage location is given in brackets.

Altars

From the former furnishings of the Dominican Church are known and preserved:

Epitaphs

From the series of epitaphs have come down to us:

painting
Carvings
  • Raphael Tobias Group by Veit Stoss, 1516 ( Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Jakobskirche)
  • so-called "Nuremberg Madonna" (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)

Known order members

  • Johannes Nider (* around 1380, † 1438), famous pulpit preacher, witch theorist.

Works

  • Dominican monastery Nuremberg: Prosalegendar of the holy life . The most widespread collection of vernacular legends of the European Middle Ages, 1400, 640 pages, ISBN 3-484360-44-5

See also

literature

  • Angelus Walz: Dominicans in southern Germany. See PDF ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  • The Order of Preachers in Nuremberg. In: Hans Roser: Monasteries in Franconia. Freiburg i. Br .: Eulen Verlag 1988, p. 270
  • Alfred Wendehorst : Dominican monastery . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
  • Eike Oellermann: The Nuremberg Dominican Church and its furnishings. In: Journal of the German Association for Art Research 59 / 60.2005 / 06 (2007), 181-218.
  • Gerhard Weilandt, Location Studies I. The "Nuremberg Madonna" in the Church - A New Find on the Original Installation Site and Iconographic Context, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 62 (1999), pp. 494–511.
  • Stefan Roller / Gerhard Weilandt, The Three Kings Altar in St. Lorenz and Hans Pleydenwurff, in: Hundred Years Association for the Preservation of St. Lorenz Church 1903-2003. Anthology of the presentations of the colloquium on the occasion of the association's anniversary, ed. v. Christian Schmidt and Georg Stolz (series of publications by the Association for the Preservation of St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg eV 2), Nuremberg 2004, pp. 35–44.
  • Gerhard Weilandt, the prince at prayer. The first portrait of Frederick the Wise by Lucas Cranach in a sacred and political context (Location Studies IV), in: Lucas Cranach 1553/2003. Wittenberg conference contributions on the occasion of the 450th year of death of Lucas Cranach the Elder, ed. v. Andreas Tacke (Writings of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt 7), Leipzig 2007, pp. 43–74.
  • Gerhard Weilandt, Burkard Kunkel, The family table in Flemendorf. A painting of the succession of Dürer in Western Pomerania, in: Kunstchronik 64 (2011), pp. 435–440.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walz, p. 12
  2. ↑ Kraus / Spindler, p. 313
  3. ↑ Roser, p. 270
  4. ↑ Walz, p. 49
  5. ↑ Hans Rupprich
  6. ↑ Walz, p. 64

Web links

Commons : Burgstraße 6, Dominikanerkloster Nürnberg (Nuremberg-Sankt Sebald)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 40 ″  E