St.-Annen-Museum
A 16th-century convent originally housed nuns, who came here (and to other medieval convents) not necessarily with a religious calling but out of practicality—the surroundings provided a home to unmarried women whose families could not afford dowries to marry off their daughters. They enjoyed a fair amount of freedom in these common rooms, cloisters, and refrectories that later served simultaneously as a prison and almshouse. They now house religious art, including several altar pieces and, quite appropriately, five sculptures of the wise virgins of biblical parable who had the foresight to be prepared when some fellows arrived looking for wives and hence got their men—a medieval warning to be prepared for the Day of Judgement.
A 16th-century convent originally housed nuns, who came here (and to other medieval convents) not necessarily with a religious calling but out of practicality—the surroundings provided a home to unmarried women whose families could not afford dowries to marry off their daughters. They enjoyed a fair amount of freedom in these common rooms, cloisters, and refrectories that later served simultaneously as a prison and almshouse. They now house religious art, including several altar pieces and, quite appropriately, five sculptures of the wise virgins of biblical parable who had the foresight to be prepared when some fellows arrived looking for wives and hence got their men—a medieval warning to be prepared for the Day of Judgement.
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