St. Ursula (Augsburg)

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St. Ursula Monastery Church

The Dominican convent church of St. Ursula in Augsburg was built in 1516 and expanded in 1720. As an architectural monument, it is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

history

After the monastery was founded, the sisters built a chapel in 1335 and expanded it in 1420. After the previous building was demolished, the construction of today's late Gothic church began in 1516 and was consecrated in 1519/1520. A separate chaplain held mass there every day. In 1677 a crypt was built into the church. The church was given its current size in 1720 by an extension of the nave according to plans by Georg Paulus. The interior was also redesigned in the baroque style. The two-part ceiling fresco, which is no longer preserved today, was created by Johann Rieger around 1725; the stucco work was done by Matthias Lotter. The former altarpiece, The Torture of St. Ursula , was painted by Jacopo Amigoni in 1728. In 1796/97 the monastery church served as a hospital. In the course of secularization, the church remained open.

On the night of the bombing from February 25th to 26th, 1944, the church burned down to the outer walls and was then rebuilt in a simplified form in 1947 according to plans by Michael Kurz while maintaining the external character. In 1975 the interior was redesigned.

See also

literature

  • Helmut Rößle: Houses of God in the Bomb War - The Destruction of Augsburg Churches in the Second World War. Regio Akademica Verlag, Augsburg 2004, p. 57.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-7-61-000-1678
  2. ↑ Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft: Publications . M. Hueber, 1986 ( google.de [accessed on August 22, 2018]).

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '56.4 "  N , 10 ° 54' 10.9"  E