Ursuline monastery Kitzingen
The Ursuline convent Kitzingen is a former monastery of the Ursulines in Kitzingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .
history
The monastery consecrated to Saint Mary was founded in 1660 by Johann Philipp von Schönborn , Bishop of Würzburg, at the request of Countess Maria Hatzfeld. The nuns, who initially moved from Metz, were supposed to teach at a new Catholic girls' school. They lived temporarily in a now dilapidated Benedictine monastery , which had served as a Protestant women's monastery from 1558 . A new monastery and a new church were built on this site between 1686 and 1693 according to plans by Antonio Petrini , which the nuns used from 1693 and was consecrated to Mary, the Mother of God by Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau on August 9, 1699 .
The monastery was dissolved in 1804 in the course of secularization . In 1817 the Protestants acquired the church as their new town church and provided it with larger windows during renovation work on the south side of the nave. Schools and teachers' apartments were housed in the monastery buildings. The buildings, which were heavily damaged during a bombing raid in 1945, were largely restored by 1950.
Web links
- Ursuline Monastery Kitzingen , basic data and history: The Ursulines in Kitzingen (author: Erich Schneider) in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 24 " N , 10 ° 9 ′ 41.8" E