Nuremberg Charterhouse

The buildings of the Carthusian monastery in Nuremberg are now part of the Germanic National Museum.

History

The monastery was founded in 1380 by the merchant Marquard Mendel the Carthusian Order. The expansive facility took place in the southern suburbs, outside of the first city wall between the Poor Clare Monastery and the former German Order of St. James' Church. The foundation stone of the church was on February 16, 1381st In this event, and the papal legate Cardinal Pileus was King Wenceslas (?) Present. The first monks are already attested in 1382 and already in 1383 (or 1387 ) to the church have been ordained. 1385 of founder Marquard Mendel was buried in the church choir.

At the buildings of the monastery was up in the middle of the 15th century continued to work ( sacristy, cloister with the cells of the monks, as well as community and farm buildings ).

The repealed during the Reformation in 1525 the monastery was used profane in the sequence. However, the church since 1615 served at least temporarily, again the service ( first evangelical, then from 1784 temporarily Catholic). 1857 finally the seriously affected stem plant was the Germanic ( National ) Museum pass.

Architectural History

After the groundbreaking ceremony ( February 16, 1381 ) the church was built in two phases: the eastern parts up to 1383/87 and the western extension to 1405 ( according to dendrochronological investigation was in this year the rafters like ). At the same time with the church and sacristy, the chapter house was built, so that a cross shape for the floor plan revealed. Well shortly after 1459 the chapter house was a recessed chancel with three other broken financial statements and the entire component was completed with a net vault upward.

The little cloister was completed already in 1405.

Considerable destruction in World War 2: then went among other things, lost the signal at the south side of the Church Chapter House.

In 1998, the former chapter house be investigated archaeologically.

Building

Aisled building of the Gothic.

Set around the church buildings of the monastery some complexes are still present or rebuilt strongly reshaped: Small and Large parts of the cloister with arched cloisters and to the north cloister wing monastic houses.