Its foundation can be traced back to the institution by the citizen Franz Münzmeister in 1352. The completion of the convent finally took place in 1356. Since the convent was placed outside the city fortifications, it always belonged to those parts of Bamberg which particularly suffered from attacks and looting. So it was victim of the Hussite invasion of 1430, in 1525 suffered damage during the peasant wars and was not spared by the Thirty Years’ War.
All this was not enough to make Dominican women abandon their home. This happened in 1806 as a result of the abolition of the convent by the Bavarian military administration. Actually, the Order did not give up the Church completely – 120 years after secularization, in 1926, the nuns succeeded in repurchasing the convent and confiscating it. Dominican women still live, pray and work within the walls of the convent, making them one of the last active religious orders in Bamberg.
