Karlmann donation
The term Karlmann donation describes the donation of land from Hausmeier Karlmann to Winfried Bonifatius in 747. Bonifatius used it to furnish his Fulda monastery , which was founded in 744 . The original deed of donation from Karlmann no longer exists. The donation has not been preserved in the original, but has only been handed down in literary form and mentioned in later documents. The earliest evidence is the Vita Sturmi primi abbatis et fundatoris Fuldensis coenobii of the Eigil of Fulda (cap. 12).
Karlmann, the brother of the later Frankish King Pippin the Younger , handed over the aristocratic court Eiloha in Buchonia, which was probably in ruins at that time, including the surrounding area within a radius of 4000 paces (about 8 to 9 kilometers) to Boniface to equip his monastery. On March 12, 744 , Sturmius founded the Benedictine monastery in Fulda here on behalf of Boniface . The area west of the Fulda previously belonged ecclesiastically to the diocese of Mainz , and east of the Fulda - except for the actual exemten monastery area - to the diocese of Würzburg .
With the Karlmann donation, the monastery had acquired a closed property around the monastery. In addition to the exemption of Pope Zacharias in 751 and the immunity conferred by Charlemagne in 774, this was the basis for the Bishopric of Fulda to become the Diocese of Fulda in 1752 . With the immunity, the Fulda convent also received the right to elect an abbot .
Immunity was also the prerequisite for the Fulda Imperial Abbey to become an independent prince abbey within the Roman-German Empire in 1220 . The abbey became the prince abbey of Fulda. Emperor Friedrich II . at that time gave many bishops, abbots and abbesses in the empire political sovereignty , so that they now held secular territorial rule in addition to their spiritual office.
source
- Edmund E. Stengel : Document book of the Fulda monastery (publications of the historical commission for Hesse and Waldeck 10, 1), Bd. 1, 1 The time of the abbot Sturmi. Elwert, Marburg 1958, No. 4, pp. 1-6.
- Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger, Friedhelm Juergensmeier, Franziskus Büll: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hesse ( Germania Benedictina , vol. 7). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2004, ISBN 3-8306-7199-7 , p. 214.