Prüll Charterhouse

The monastery Prüll is a former Carthusian monastery in the village of Karthaus - Prüll the independent city of Regensburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg.

History

The St. Vitus consecrated monastery was founded in 997 by Bishop Gebhard I of Regensburg and his brother Rapoto. The monastery name derived from the word Prüll, this meant swampy terrain. The monastery was a so-called double monastery, the monks and nuns lived in the same place, the part convents, however, were strictly separated. After the monastery was often visited by pilgrims since 1130, members of the Order built a poorhouse and a Xenodochium. After the monastery ever fell, the Bavarian Duke Albrecht the monastery of the Carthusian decided to leave. The Order members went their separate Klausen from up to three meters high walls, each monk tending his own garden. All members of the Order were together only in the monastery church during prayer. With the conquest of the city of Regensburg with the Swedish members of the Order for one year had to leave the city. Only after the re-conquest of Bavaria, the monks were able to return again. The monastery was plundered by the Swedes, however partially. It was dissolved in 1803 in the wake of secularization.

In 1809 Napoleon Bonaparte stayed in the monastery building, as he had been injured. In 1835 the Bavarian Oberpfalz district purchased the monastery. Subsequently, the Royal District Mental Hospital was established in 1852 in the monastery building set. It now houses the District Hospital Regensburg with a small museum about its history.

Monastery Church of St. Vitus

Around 1100 built in place of the Ottonian previous building a Romanesque hall church, the first of its kind in Bavaria. The church consisted of three equal-sized ships. The two slender towers are octagonal and was built in 1451 later. North of the church is a cloister.

The interior is decorated in the style of the Renaissance. The walls of the chancel and choir stalls are decorated with oil paintings. On the reachable by a staircase gallery was created in 1200 Romanesque fresco. It depicts the Annunciation, in the haloes of the figures formerly gems were installed. There is an extensive exhibition in the glass windows on the history of the Order, among other things displayed on the side of the church. In addition, archaeological finds of the craft and the remains of a tiled stove are shown.

Deconsecrated former parish church of St. Vitus

The north of the monastery church located St. Vitus parish church was deconsecrated as a result of secularization in the 19th century and converted into a residence, which presents itself as a three-storey Walmdachbau. This House, Ludwig- Thoma-Straße No. 16 is to read his history only on the on the east side still recognizable three- choir. In the basement is the source version of the Vitus creek.

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Monastery Church of St. Vitus with hermits Klausen

Ehem. Parish Church of St. Vitus