St. Katharina (Augsburg)

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The former Dominican convent church of St. Katharina , also called Katharinenkirche , in downtown Augsburg was built in 1516/17. After extensive renovations in 1834/35, it has housed the State Gallery of Old German Masters since 1835 . As an architectural monument , it is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

Former chapter house

The St. Katharina women's monastery in Augsburg was founded in 1251 and was subordinate to the Dominican monastery of St. Magdalena. The first Dominican monastery church was built between 1251 and 1259.

After the previous building was largely demolished, today's two-aisled hall church was built between 1516 and 1517 according to plans by Hans Engelberg. The model was the Dominican Church of St. Magdalena . The nuns raised the cost of 1,355 guilders themselves. Another 1000 guilders came from Felicitas Fugger, Ulrich Fugger's daughter , for which the latter was allowed to put her coat of arms in the choir vault.

In 1534 the church was closed by the city council during the Reformation . A new, still preserved high altar was donated in 1613 by the prioress Barbara Welser. The altarpiece of St. Katharina painted Johann Matthias Kager . In 1670 it was redesigned in the Baroque style . At the instigation of the prioress Maximiliana Countess Rupp von Falkenstein, the church interior was given new stucco in 1726 , as well as a ceiling fresco by Johann Georg Bergmüller, which is no longer preserved . With the secularization the convent was abolished in 1802 and finally evacuated in 1807. The church was then used as a warehouse for a long time.

In 1835 the State Gallery of Old German Masters moved into St. Katharina. The structure of the late Gothic hall church was fundamentally changed for this. The plans were made by Johann Michael Voits in 1827 and carried out by Joseph Pertsch. The building was divided into three large halls and an upper floor was added. The north side received classicist wooden windows. The choir was integrated from the outside by a high wall and has since appeared box-shaped. During the work on the foundation in 1834, fragments of a Roman temple were unearthed. The inauguration took place on the day of the silver wedding anniversary of the Bavarian royal couple Ludwig I and Therese on October 12, 1835. The building survived the Second World War unscathed.

During a renovation on the upper floor in 1960, a Gothic fresco cycle on the history of Magdalena and the legend of Antonius Abbas was discovered by chance . Ulrich Walter donated the wall paintings in 1470. The nave wall, which leaned against the north wing of the monastery, came from the previous church. In 1990 the exterior facade was renovated.

literature

  • Hanneliese Haffner: The Dominican convent of St. Katharina in Augsburg in the 18th century , 1938

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-7-61-000-537
  2. ↑ Götz Freiherr von Pölnitz: Jakob Fugger: Sources and explanations . Mohr Siebeck, 1951, ISBN 978-3-16-814572-1 ( google.de [accessed on August 20, 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '54 "  N , 10 ° 53' 49.6"  E