St. Apern Monastery
| Cistercian convent of St. Apern | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St. Apern 1571 |
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| location | Germany Cologne |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 56 '19.5 " N , 6 ° 56' 42.7" E |
| Patronage | St. Aper by Toul St. Bartholomew |
| founding year | after 1169 by Franciscan Sisters |
| Cistercian since | 1477 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1802 |
| Mother monastery | Altenberg Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
St. Apern was a Cistercian convent in Cologne .
history
A chapel dedicated to Saint Aper of Toul was built before 1169 on today's St. Apern Street . Later a hospital and a hermitage of Franciscan nuns were attached here.
In 1477, Cistercian women from the monastery of St. Mechtern settled in St. Apern and had to give up their convent at the gates of the city. From 1477 to 1487 a new monastery church was built, which was consecrated to St. Bartholomew. From 1621 to 1625 this was replaced by a new building. The official name of the monastery was monasterium s. Bartholomaei Colon. As before the resettlement, it was subordinate to the Cistercian Abbey of Altenberg , which represented the monastery to the city and the courts. Altenberg monks worked as confessors and chaplains at the monastery church . The monastery finally went under in the course of secularization in 1802, which also resulted in the demolition of the monastery church.
literature
- Paul Clemen (Ed.): The former churches, monasteries, hospitals and school buildings of the city of Cologne , Düsseldorf 1937.