Ursuline Monastery Erfurt
The Ursulinenkloster is adjacent to the Augustinerkloster the second still existing convent in Erfurt . It is right on the Anger in the center of the old town.
history
The monastery was founded around 1136 with a Romanesque church and a foreign hospice for Augustinian choir women. In 1183, Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa issued a letter of protection for the Angerkloster, which is preserved in the Erfurt city archive. Around 1200 Magdalenerinnen , also known as white women, took over the monastery. From 1667 until today it has been used by the Ursulines , who saw and still see their main task in the education and upbringing of young girls, and later also children and adults. Their activities in this regard were restricted or canceled during the “ Kulturkampf ” from 1879 to 1887, during the Nazi regime and during the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR.
The current monastery church was built in Gothic style in the second half of the 13th century after the previous church burned down. From 1895 to 1897 the church was “thoroughly renovated”. The grave slabs of Erfurt patrician families were detached from the floor of the church and placed in the Kleiner Angerfriedhof . In 1935 the monastery church was thoroughly renovated again. It then burned out completely in a bombing raid on July 20, 1944. During the reconstruction, the room and furnishings were redesigned and all stucco decorations were omitted. Pictures and sculptures came from other Catholic institutions. From 1950 church services could take place again. The reconstruction work lasted until 1958. After the fall of the Wall , the church was thoroughly restored.
The rubble stone wall of the convent building dates back to the time the monastery was founded around 1136. After that, numerous new buildings and extensions were built over the centuries. In 1672 and 1712/13 the monastery rooms were decorated in the baroque style. As the only monastery in Erfurt, the Ursuline monastery was not abolished during the secularization in Prussia in 1821. A new school building was erected in 1854, and another large one in Trommsdorfstrasse from 1904 to 1906. This served as a hospital from 1914 to 1919. Today it houses the Catholic Edith Stein School . In 1939 the monastery took in refugees from the Saar region, and from 1944 to 1946 from the eastern regions. In the air raid in 1944, the monastery buildings were also badly damaged, and in the GDR era - sometimes in danger of collapsing - "preserved in tedious, tedious detail work". In 1967 the city administration of Erfurt planned to remove the monastery and build school buildings on this site. In the years 2004 to 2008 a generous external and internal renovation of all monastery buildings took place. This achievement was awarded the Thuringian Monument Preservation Prize and made possible, among other things, by a sponsoring association of the Ursuline Monastery, the Bonifatiuswerk of German Catholics and donations from former students. The grave slabs are now in the courtyard of the monastery.
In October 1978 the religious philosopher Tomáš Halík celebrated his first mass in the monastery chapel .
literature
- Sr. Clothilde Müller (Red.): Ursuline Monastery Erfurt . Ursuline Convent Erfurt, Erfurt 1992.
- Andrea Wittkampf: "As is also known, various Jewish women belong to the school." The Erfurt Ursuline School 1933 to 1938 and Hanna Herzberg's review of the Shoah . Vopelius, Jena 2019, ISBN 978-3-947303-08-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Zießler: Erfurt : In fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War . Edited by Götz Eckardt. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1978. Volume 2, pp. 480-481
- ↑ Homepage of the Ursuline Monastery
- ↑ https://www.katholisch.de/aktuelles/aktuelle-artikel/versteckt-auf-dem-rucksitz-eines-autos-zum-haus-des-bischofs
Aegidia Church | Albanikirche (†) | All Saints Church | Andreas Church | Augustinian Church | Barefoot Church | Bartholomäuskirche (T) | Benedictine Church (†) | Brunnenkirche | St. Mary's Cathedral | Gangolfi Church (†) | George's Church (T) | Gotthardt Church (†) | Hospital Church | Johanneskirche (T) | Carthusian Church | Merchant Church | Leonhardskirche (†) | Lorenz Church | Magdalenenkapelle | Outer Martini Church | Inner Martinikirche (†) | Matthias Church (†) | Michaeliskirche | Moritzkirche (†) | Neuwerkskirche | Nikolaikirche (T) | Paulskirche (T) | Peterskirche | Preacher Church | Reglerkirche | Schottenkirche | Servatius Church (†) | Severikirche | Old Thomaskirche (†) | Ursuline Church | Vitic Church (†) | Wigbertikirche
(†): Church no longer exists | (T): only the church tower still exists
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 37 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 10 ″ E