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St. Johannis Monastery Ruins (Stralsund)

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St. Johannis Monastery Ruins (Stralsund)

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    November 22, 2016

    "One of the oldest buildings in Stralsund with a historically grown juxtaposition and interweaving of different architectural epochs, the individual phases of the dominant Gothic, Baroque and Classicism.
    In 1254, the Franciscan order was allowed to found the monastery of St. John in the north of the old town. It is a large building complex grouped around two courtyards from the 13th to the 14th century. From the monastery church, originally a three-aisled brick hall church, only remains are left today.
    A major fire destroyed in 1624, the 77 -meter-long Gothic hall church, which was then not rebuilt. Instead, around the middle of the 17th century, a sort of walkway was laid in the perimeter walls, and the choir was preserved as a church. After the Reformation, the city used the monastery as a poorhouse. Both components sank by the American bombardment in 1944 to rubble and ashes. The careful restoration of the monastery from 1963 to 1986 and the endeavor to restore the building as much as possible in its original architecture and old beauty, created here in the Schillstraße a popular residence for Stralsunder and visitors. The Räucherboden on the upper floor represents a cultural historical rarity. This is extended in its entire length on both sides of the central aisle with tiny flats whose smoke fumes end in the open roof truss. "Www.stralsundtourismus.de

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      February 21, 2018

      "One of the oldest buildings in Stralsund with a historically grown juxtaposition and interweaving of different architectural epochs, the individual phases of the dominant Gothic, Baroque and Classicism.

      In 1254, the Franciscan order was allowed to found the monastery of St. John in the north of the old town. It is a large building complex grouped around two courtyards from the 13th to the 14th century. From the monastery church, originally a three-aisled brick hall church, only remains are left today.

      A major fire destroyed in 1624, the 77 -meter-long Gothic hall church, which was then not rebuilt. Instead, around the middle of the 17th century, a sort of walkway was laid in the perimeter walls, and the choir was preserved as a church. After the Reformation, the city used the monastery as a poorhouse. Both components sank by the American bombardment in 1944 to rubble and ashes. The careful restoration of the monastery from 1963 to 1986 and the endeavor to restore the building as much as possible in its original architecture and old beauty, created here in the Schillstraße a popular residence for Stralsunder and visitors.

      Source & more information: stralsundtourismus.de/de/eine-stadt-aus-backstein/kirchen-und-kloester/st.- johanniskloster

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        April 6, 2022

        In 1254, the St. Johannis monastery was founded by the Franciscan monks with the permission of the Rügen prince Jaromar II and is therefore one of the oldest buildings in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. Unfortunately destroyed in World War II.

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          Location: Stralsund, Hither Pomerania Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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