St. Anne's Monastery (Lübeck)

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View of St.-Annen-Strasse from the north (1900)

The St. Anne's Monastery in Luebeck is a former convent of the Augustinian nuns , which today as the Museum Quarter St. Annen one of the sites of the Lübeck Museum of Art and Cultural History is. It is not far from the Aegidienkirche in the south-east of Lübeck's old town, next to the synagogue .

history

Fire at St. Anne's Monastery in 1843

The monastery and the associated church, which has an independent architectural style due to the limited space available, were built from 1502 to 1515 in the late Gothic style. The builder was Sisinnius Hesse from Braunschweig.

The monastery mainly served to accommodate unmarried daughters of Lübeck citizens. The community followed the Augustinian rule and was initially founded with Augustinian choir women from Steterburg Abbey . At the suggestion of the Bishop of Lübeck, the monastery and church were consecrated to St. Anne . Only a few years later the monastery was closed again in the course of the Reformation . In 1532 the nuns were brought back to Steterburg from the mother monastery, but it was not until 1542 that the last Lübeck nuns left the monastery. In 1601 a poor house was built in the rooms , later other parts were used as a penitentiary , for which a further wing, the spinning house , was built in 1778 . Poor care and the penal system were under one roof. Preceptors such as Nathanael Schlott and Johann Nicolaus Pouget were in charge of management .

In 1843 parts of the monastery and the church burned down. While the monastery buildings were being restored, the church was demolished except for fragments that remained in ruins .

Most of the rooms on the ground floor of the monastery are still original from the time it was built: the cloister , the refectories , the remter (the largest room in the monastery, probably the nuns' work and day room, since 1733 the dining room of the poor house), the chapter house and the sacristy the monastery church. In the southwest corner of the cloister, the heating chamber, which is Kalefaktorium .

Before the First World War, the conversion to the St. Anne's Museum began, which was opened in 1915.

  • gallery

  • The choir of the church ruin, 1843

  • The interior of the church ruins, around 1870

  • The facade of the church ruin, before 1875

  • The surgeon's house belonging to the facility, built around 1800 , around 1900

  • Floor plan of the ground floor of the facility, 1733

  • Floor plan of the ground floor of the facility, 1883

literature

  • Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , pp. 281-345.
  • Heinrich Dormeier: Foundation and early history of the Lübeck St. Anne's Monastery as reflected in the testamentary tradition . ZVLGA 91 (2011) ( digitized version), pp. 29-69.
  • Karl Schaefer : Guide through the Museum for Art and Cultural History in Lübeck . 1915.
  • Thorsten Rodiek : St. Annen Art Gallery in Lübeck . Edited by Herbert Perl, Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-88506-537-1

Web links

Commons : St.-Annen-Kloster Lübeck  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dormeyer: Foundation and early history of the Lübeck St. Anne's Monastery as reflected in the testamentary tradition . ZVLGA 2011, pp. 29-69; P. 68.

Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '44.6 "  N , 10 ° 41' 22.7"  E