Category:St. Johanniskloster (Hamburg-Altstadt)

English: The Ss. John's Monastery was founded in 1236 by Count Adolphus IV of Holstein (House of Schauenburg) as a Dominican monastery consecrated to the saint patrons of John the Evangelist and John the Baptist. After a fire in 1314 the monastery had to be constructed completely new. In 1529, following the Protestant Reformation by Johannes Bugenhagen, the monastery was dissolved and the school of the Johanneum, newly founded by Bugenhagen, moved into parts of the monastery. In 1531 the inhabitants of the Herwardeshude nunnery, having become homeless by the closure of the monasteries, were housed by the Senate of Hamburg in the other part of the monastery, after having converted as Lutheran conventuals. The monastic church was transformed into a Lutheran church, later secualarised during the French (Napoleonic) annexation. The monastery and its church were demolished in 1840. Johanneum school and the Lutheran damsels convent moved into new buildings (St. John's Convent).