The order could really gain a foothold with the construction of its institute house in 1717. The church was completed almost twenty years later, in 1737. In fact, the international religious community was active in Bamberg until 2001 and ran a secondary school for girls.
For financial reasons, in 2002 the Archbishopric of Bamberg took over the sponsorship of the church. In memory of the English Miss, it was decided to change the name of the school to Maria Ward School.
18. April 2018
The order could really gain a foothold with the construction of its institute house in 1717. The church was completed almost twenty years later, in 1737. […]
18. April 2018
The building itself is a post-classical town house built in 1871, which was rebuilt in 1906 to serve as an official bank house. The company history […]
18. April 2018
Exceptional are the portraits of Prince Rupprecht and Princess Marie Gabriele, who married in 1900 and thus became the last Bavarian Crown Couple, as well as […]
18. April 2018
Until the 18th century, the monastery served the Bamberg Dominicans as a religious house and for representative purposes. With the secularization the Franciscans also lost their […]
18. April 2018
Until the middle of the 19th century, the area of today’s square was considered as a flood area and therefore contained only comparatively simple houses. Rifle […]
18. April 2018
Apparently the rise of the groundwater had caused the coffins to stand in the water and the deceased did not rot properly as a result. Due […]
18. April 2018
An example of this is the 1717 baroque “Haus zum Saal”, with its striking red stepped gable. Better known by the Bambergers as the Wallenstein House, […]
18. April 2018
Towards the end of the 17th century, Prince-Bishop Lothar Franz von Schönborn decided to modernize the fountain and in 1697 commissioned the sculptor Casper Metzner to […]
18. April 2018
Place for citizenship This decision was made due to the early modern tradition of increasingly celebrating festivities in public. The size of family celebrations, such as […]
