Augustiner Abbey

The Augustinian Monastery in Würzburg is a monastery of the Augustinian Order in Würzburg, Bavaria, in the Diocese of Würzburg.

The Augustinian Monastery, dedicated to St. George, was founded in 1262 by Father Guido Salanus. Among the Augustinian Hermits was a physician named Heinrich, who, after his death in 1381, received a tombstone in the choir of the then Augustinian Church, which existed until 1824, on today's Augustinerstraße. The monastery of the Augustinian Hermits was not dissolved during the secularization of 1803. This was probably because the Bavarian authorities feared that if the monastery were dissolved, its bank deposits in Vienna could be seized by the Austrian authorities. (The Würzburg mendicant monasteries of the "Reuerer" Carmelites, the Franciscans, and the Capuchins on the Käppele were also spared from secularization.) Grand Duke Ferdinand, who had become Grand Duke of Würzburg in 1806, confirmed the existence of the monastery by decree on December 4, 1806. In 1813, the building of the Augustinian Monastery on today's Augustinerstraße was converted into a military hospital, and a teacher training college was also housed there. The Augustinians had to vacate the building. They moved into the secularized, largely empty Dominican Monastery on today's Dominikanerplatz. Antonius Lauck (1752–1827), the Prior of the Augustinians, had requested it from Grand Duke Ferdinand.