Bamberg - Church and parish of St. Getreu

The former Benedictine priory of Saint Getreu was founded by Bishop Otto I around 1123 as a cell for women's monasteries and belonged to the former Benedictine monastery of Saint Michael.

The church of St. Getreu in its present form was built between 1652 and 1733, and rebuilt in 1733 according to a design by Justus Heinrich Dientzenhofer. The presbytery building adjacent to the church dates from 1733-35 and was built according to the project of Justus Heinrich Dientznehofer.

After secularization in 1803, the buildings were handed over to the hospital commission to establish a "madhouse", which was founded by the famous Bamberg physician Adalbert Friedrich Marcus and was one of the first in Bavaria and Germany when it opened in 1805.

After it was transferred to the municipal administration in 1819, extensive building work began on the site: in 1898 a pavilion for women was built, in 1899 a director's villa and in 1907 a pavilion for men, which are independently listed. A steam laundry with a ballroom was also built in 1907. All the sub-structures are listed.

Facing east and northeast, the church is a plastered, four-part, towerless Baroque massed building with a simple Tuscan pilaster structure consisting of a transept, nave, chancel and choir. On the roof of the choir is a bell-crested tower with an onion banjo. The church was built between 1652 and 1733.

On the east, perpendicular to the church is the presbytery building, which with its eastern facade is in harmony with the mother monastery of St. Michael. It is a two-storey building made of sandstone blocks with a mansard hipped roof built over a high plinth, which has a simply articulated Baroque façade with a central buttress. The chancel was built between 1733 and 1735, and the chancel was extended on both sides in 1738-40.

The former Benedictine priory of St. Getreu is now part of the Klinikum on Michelsberg (st. Getreu Straße 18).