St. Viktor Abbey in front of Mainz

Mainz and its churches in the late Roman and Franconian times - The St. Viktor monastery was located in the southeast of Weisenau (SE of St. Alban outside the map).

The St. Viktor Abbey in Mainz was founded in 994 or 995. The namesake is controversial. The new church was in the presence of Otto III. inaugurated by Archbishop Willigis . The monastery was located southeast of Mainz near Weisenau .

St. Viktor was plundered and destroyed on the evening of August 28, 1552 in the Second Margrave War by Margrave Albrecht Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach . The collegiate church was not rebuilt afterwards. On October 21, 1552 the monastery was transferred to the St. Johannes monastery within the walls of Mainz.

From mid-December 1792, worship was no longer possible in the Johanniskirche, as it was used as a warehouse and a. was filled with grain. During the French siege , the canons left the city for a short time. Later they were only able to hold their services under difficult conditions in the chapel of the Malteserhaus and then in the choir of the Weißfrauen-Nonnenkirche. On June 9, 1802, the St. Viktor monastery was finally abolished under Napoleon . At an "auction of national goods " in 1804, two buildings within the city of Mainz that belonged to the Viktorstift were put up for auction. Nassauer and Hesse shared the land outside of it.

In memory of the monastery, a Weisenauer Strasse was named Am Viktorstift .

49.983888888889 8.2975Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 2 " N , 8 ° 17 ′ 51" E

literature

Klaus Hansel: The St. Victor Abbey in front of Mainz (Diss. Phil.), Mainz 1952 (Masch.).
Klaus Hansel: The history of the St. Victor monastery in front of Mainz ; in: Mainz magazine ; 1959 ; 54 ; Pp. 1-11.

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notes

↑ Felix Rütten : The Victor Adoration in Christian Antiquity. A cultural-historical and hagiographic study. Series: Studies on the history and culture of antiquity, 20, Teilbd. 1. Paderborn 1936. (Review: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein , 134, 1939, p. 137 f. By Histermann). Rütten assumes that the places of worship for Viktor an der Rheinschiene (also Xanten, Cologne; also Trier) arose independently of one another and that the patronage was established early on; Eugen Ewig, on the other hand, refers to older references from Mainz to Burgundy, which would point to Victor von Solothurn as the namesake. In: The oldest patronage of Mainz. 1979, p. 163 (first 1962)

[1] Felix Rütten : The Victor Adoration in Christian Antiquity. A cultural-historical and hagiographic study. Series: Studies on the history and culture of antiquity, 20, Teilbd. 1. Paderborn 1936. (Review: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein , 134, 1939, p. 137 f. By Histermann). Rütten assumes that the places of worship for Viktor an der Rheinschiene (also Xanten, Cologne; also Trier) arose independently of one another and that the patronage was established early on; Eugen Ewig, on the other hand, refers to older references from Mainz to Burgundy, which would point to Victor von Solothurn as the namesake. In: The oldest patronage of Mainz. 1979, p. 163 (first 1962)