Welschnonnen Church (Mainz)

The Welschnonnen Church in Mainz was a monastery church of the Augustinian choir women (also Welschnonnen or Lotharinger choir women) in today's Welschnonnengasse . During his tenure, Elector Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg brought the Welschnonnen from Luxembourg to Mainz to improve the school system.

The church was consecrated in 1699 and renovated in 1762. At the school of the Welschnonnen belonging to the monastery, the painter and lady-in-waiting Marianne Kraus (1765-1838) was taught.

After the monastery was closed in 1802, the buildings were first given to the municipal school fund, then in 1805 to the newly founded Protestant congregation, after the Altmünster church, which had previously been used by them, was assigned to military purposes. On the second Sunday after Easter 1808, an evangelical church service took place here for the first time. Instead of the Welschnonnenkloster, the building of an École spéciale de médicine in Mayence was to stand at the beginning of the 19th century , which was to complement the "Hospice Josephine". Saint-Far planned a classicist new building, but it was never realized.

However, the church was too small for the growing evangelical community. Therefore it was negotiated with the fortress government that the St. John's Church should be the new home of the community. A corresponding contract was signed on May 1, 1828. After 1829 the Welschnonnen Church served as a fruit store until its front walls were demolished in October 1833 and converted into apartments.

The Wegmann organ from 1762 including the original organ parapet was moved to the Martinskirche in Jugenheim . The pulpit and altar table of the Welschnonnen Church from 1808 are now in the Evangelical Gustav Adolf Church in Nieder-Olm .

literature

Elisabeth Darapsky : History of the Welschnonnen in Mainz. The regulated women choirs of St. Augustine and their schools ( Contributions to the History of the City of Mainz, Vol. 25), Mainz 1980

Individual evidence

^ Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . tape 55 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08176-4 , p. 142 .

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[1] Christiane Reves: Building blocks for the history of the city of Mainz: Mainz Colloquium 2000 . tape 55 . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-08176-4 , p. 142 .