Franciscan monastery Ulm – Wikipedia

A Franciscan monastery in Ulm consisted of 13th century to 1531 on Münsterplatz. In the course of the Reformation, which also joined the free imperial city of Ulm, the monastery was lifted. The church and monastery were canceled in 1879. The Franciscan resettlement in the city occurred in 1920; This monastery existed until 2009.

The Franciscan monastery in Ulm was allegedly donated in 1229, three years after the death of the founder of the order Franz von Assisi, by Frommen Ulm citizens and was at the Löwentor, d. H.an the southwest corner of today’s Münsterplatz, located, where the town house is now. It belonged to the Upper German (Strasbourg) religious province Argentina And belonged to the Swabian curtain.

The Ulm citizens are said to have cultivated an intimate relationship with the monastery and donated many goods to their salvation and often chose it to their final resting place. It was a spiritual-religious center of the city. The fact that court hearings also took place in the rooms there showed the importance of the fact that the emperor Sigismund even took in 1434 during a visits to Ulm’s quarters.

The Franciscans were committed to a vow of poverty. But after the accumulation of wealth through the many foundations, compliance with this vow was increasingly difficult. In the 15th century, this gave rise to an internal demand for strict compliance with these order rule. The Ulm monastery was also confronted with this claim without complying with it. It was not until 1484 that the monastery was able to reform the monastery with urban military tutoring. You should not enjoy your success for a long time, because even one of your own fathers, Johann Eberlin from Günzburg, soon joined Martin Luther’s new teaching and therefore had to leave the monastery in 1521. The restrictions imposed on the monastery such as sermon ban, determination of a maximum number of 13 brothers etc. meant that the remaining brothers left the city in 1531 and withdrawn into the Klarissenkloster Söflingen, where the Franciscan had until this monastery in the fake of the Reichsdeputeputation final was secured in 1803 .

The monastery building in Ulm was rededicated and served the city as a Latin school, which became a high school from 1622. In 1879, the buildings that had become useless after the construction of a new high school and the church were broken off to “release” Münsterplatz. The goal was to achieve a clear view of the church tower of the Ulm Münster, which is just before the completion.

A resettlement of Franciscans of the Thuringian Franciscan province ( Thuringia ) in Ulm ^[first] began in 1919 with the approval of the Episcopal Ordinariat Rottenburg. In 1920 the House Glöcklerstraße 10 was acquired, which the provincial management had previously been a hospice for St. Johannes von Capestrano had determined the order. Father Paulus special money was appointed upper of this house. Since a rental agreement continued until 1923, the house was not related. That is why Father Paul first moved into the Good shepherd , The asylum of the Ulm rescue association at Friedensstraße 38. From there Paul acted as a home priest. He also re -founded the Franciscan third order and struggled to spread. In 1920 he introduced the Catholic Academics Association with the Ulm district court council in Lehner in 1920.

After several intermediate stations, in Haßlerstrasse 11 in 1926, according to the plans of the then Eugen Eger building council ^[2] from the railway building authority under the construction management of architect P. Lämmle with the construction of the Franciscan monastery, which one began Franziskusheim called. The branch was raised to a convent in 1928. Father Athanasius Hank became the first Guardian in Ulm. During the Third Reich’s anti -church measures, the house was faced several times before its state cancellation. In 1944 the house was participated. Apart from a few fire bombs, the Franciscan church was the only church spared by the bombs next to the St. George Church.

In 1942 the provincial chapter of the Thuringia – This for the first time in the Ulm area since 1692. In 1945, a circle of politically committed and responsible parties collected by the former Member of the Reichstag, Franz Wiedemeier, met in the refectory of the monastery. Christian-social union founded. The Ulm CDU started in the Franciscan monastery on Hasslerstrasse (in the “Klösterle”).

The church and monastery building still show up to the plans of 1926. A larger intervention happened during the last church renovation in 1975. The four consecutive chapels created by architect Eger on the left were the first two to one in 1975 larger chapel united. ^[3]

The monastery was sold to the Catholic Free School of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in 2005, but the Franciscan church and monastery were still able to use. Due to the shortage of staff among the Franciscans, the Franciscan monastery was lifted on October 11, 2009 with a solemn farewell service. However, the former monastery church will continue to be used for services of the Catholic “pastoral unit Ulm West”.

• Isnard W. Frank: Franciscan and Dominican in the pre -formation Ulm . The church buildings in Ulm from the beginning to the present. In: Hans Eugen Specker/Hermann Tüchle (ed.): Churches and monasteries in Ulm. A contribution to Catholic life in Ulm and Neu-Ulm from the beginning to the present. Ulm 1979, S. 103–147.
• Karl Suso Frank: Franciscan monastery and “Klösterle. In: Churches and monasteries in Ulm 1979. (1979), S. 457–469.
• Franciscan convention Ulm/Donau (ed.): Leader through the Franciscan monastery Ulm Donau. Beuron 1992.
• Kurt Füller: The Ulm monasteries over time. In: quarterly magazine, ed. from the University of Ulm and Ulm University Society e. V., the city of Ulm and the Ulm University Society, No. 27/1973, pp. 46–51.
• Johannes Gatz: Ulm. Franciscan Oberterrihroster. In: Johannes Gatz (ed.): Alemania Franciscana Antiqua. Former Franciscan men’s and women’s monasteries in the area of ​​Upper German or Strasbourg Franciscan province with the exception of Bavaria. Second volume. Come from August Späth, Ulm/Donau 1958, pp. 5–40.
• Hartmut Scholz: Wall painting from the workshop Hans Multschers: the rediscovered baptism of Christ from the Ulm Barfüßerkloster. In: German Association for Art Science 49/50.1959/96, pp. 89-102.
• Reinhard Wortmann: The church buildings in Ulm from the beginning to the present . In: Hans Eugen Specker/Hermann Tüchle (ed.): Churches and monasteries in Ulm. A contribution to Catholic life in Ulm and Neu-Ulm from the beginning to the present. Ulm 1979, S. 513–515; 522–526.

1. ↑ Franciscan convention Ulm/Donau (ed.): Leader through the Franciscan monastery Ulm Donau . Beuroner artworks, Beuron 1992, S. 20–24 .
2. ↑ Franciscan convention Ulm/Donau (ed.): Leader through the Franciscan monastery Ulm Donau . Beuroner artworks, 1992, S. 22–23 .
3. ↑ Franciscan convention Ulm/Donau (ed.): Leader through the Franciscan monastery Ulm/Donau . Beurons artworks, beuron, S. 24–29 .

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