It was not until 1589 that the diocese decided to hand over the orphaned monastery to the Order of the Carmelites.
Monks today still live in parts of the complex, but the majority of the monastery now belongs to a hotel.
The church was baroqueized between 1692 and 1701 by the Archbishop architect Leonhard Dientzenhofer. He carried out a liturgical rotation of the church, in which its altar moved from the east to the west side and its main portal from the west to the east side. The reason for this effort was Dientzenhofer’s wish to make the magnificent portal accessible to the public.
18. April 2018
It was not until 1589 that the diocese decided to hand over the orphaned monastery to the Order of the Carmelites. Monks today still live in parts […]
18. April 2018
Particularly admirable here is the so-called portico. This is a traditional colonnade designed to commemorate the Roman temples. In the architecture of the 19th century such […]
18. April 2018
Adjacent to this square Roman Boxberger erected in 1906 an impressive monumental building in the style of the German Renaissance. This building was to serve as […]
18. April 2018
At today’s Pfahlplätzchen, the former Judenhof, there were not only Jewish houses, but also the first Bamberg synagogue, a Jewish school and the Judentanzhaus, which served […]
18. April 2018
As a result of the Reich Progrom Night on 9 November 1938, the National Socialists destroyed the synagogue and almost completely wiped out Bamberg’s Jewish community. […]
18. April 2018
The new branch was completed in 1910 by the architect Johannes Kronfuß in the neo-baroque style and with its sculptural elements it artfully takes up the […]
18. April 2018
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. […]
