St. John's Monastery (Bremen)

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Model of St. Johannis and the monastery building before demolition ( Dom-Museum )

The former St. John's monastery of the Franciscans in Bremen has not been preserved. It existed from 1258 to 1528.

The Franciscans probably also settled in Bremen in 1225. The monastery was in the old town . The St. Johann monastery church, Klosterkirchenstraße and Klosterortstraße are reminiscent of the monastery.

The construction of the monastery began around 1258. It consisted of the three-aisled Gothic church of St. Johann from the 14th century in the style of a mendicant order church , which was enlarged into a hall church in the 15th century . Added to this were the monastery buildings and courtyards on the south side, which have not been preserved today.

Around 20 to 30 Franciscans - also known as "barefoot" - lived in the monastery as mendicant monks in the 14th to 16th centuries . They belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ). Around 1300 the monastery in Bremen was the main monastery of the "Kustodie Bremen" , a sub-organization of Saxonia .

The monastery was closed in 1529 after the Reformation and the building was used as a municipal hospital from 1531. With the establishment of a new hospital in the new town in 1691, the former monastery was used to house the mentally weak (madhouse). The church was u. a. Hospital church and until 1801 the church of the Reformed (“French”) parishes.

In 1834 the now dilapidated monastery building was torn down. After that, residential buildings were built on the site. In 1965, a series of two-storey red-stone-faced houses were built for the St. Johannis Provostry at Hohe Strasse 2-3 / Franziskanerstrasse 7 , based on plans by Bernhard Wessel . The buildings have been a listed building since 1973 (see here ).

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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 25.2 "  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 29.4"  E