Kapuzinerkloster Engen

The initiative for the monastery's establishment came from Bishop Jakob Fugger of Konstanz and local authorities in Engen, who expressed a desire for a Capuchin settlement in 1616. After repeated requests, the Provincial Chapter of the Swiss Capuchin Province approved the project in September 1618. The foundation stone for the monastery building was laid in October 1618 by the Abbot of Rheinau Monastery, Eberhard III von Bernhausen-Kempten. Funding was provided by donations from the citizenry and Mayor Christophor Vogler. In August 1620, the lay church, dedicated to St. Mary of the Angels, was consecrated by the Auxiliary Bishop of Konstanz, Johann Anton Tritt von Wilderen. During the plague epidemic of 1635 and a typhus epidemic in 1771, the Capuchins were actively involved in nursing the sick, with several friars losing their lives. In 1668, the Outer Austrian Capuchin Province separated from the Swiss Province. In 1725, a chapel in honor of St. Felix of Cantalice, including an underground crypt, was added to the lay church. During the Coalition Wars, the monastery was repeatedly used as quarters and plundered. Secularization occurred in 1820, after which the building was converted into a hospital by 1825. This hospital burned down in 1883. The lay church was rebuilt as a hospital church on its original foundations in 1887. The underground Capuchin crypt remains preserved to this day.

The former Capuchin Monastery is located in the town of Engen in the district of Konstanz, a region in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Of the original monastery complex, the underground Capuchin crypt has been preserved. The former lay church was rebuilt as a hospital church after a fire in the 19th century.

• Palais Reischach (residence, approx. 150 m away)
• Krenkinger Castle (castle, approx. 250 m away)
• Hohenhewen Castle Ruin (castle, approx. 2575 m away)
• Bittelbrunn Castle (castle, approx. 3489 m away)