Söflingen Monastery
The Reichsstift Söflingen ( Söflingen is now a district of Ulm ) was a Poor Clare nunnery that was founded in 1258 by the Count of Dillingen and abolished in 1803 by Bavaria , to which it fell as a result of the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss . It was the oldest and probably the most important monastery of the Poor Clares in Germany.
history
Most likely the monastery was the successor to the nunnery of St. Damian in Ulm (Elisabetherinnen auf dem Gries), which was founded by Pope Gregory IX in 1229 . had been taken into papal protection. In addition to a citizen of Ulm called Krafft, called von Naw, many nobles contributed to the economic boom of the monastery with considerable donations. A considerable donation from Count Hartmann III. von Dillingen in the place "Sevelingen" from the year 1258 led to the fact that the seat of the monastery was relocated there. In 1270 the "Veste Sevelingen" was bought by the monastery, and the entire town was soon in their possession. In 1359, Emperor Charles IV recommended the monastery to protect the imperial city of Ulm, on the other hand, in 1368, he confirmed many freedoms ("inviolability"). With the Reformation at the latest , the monastery got tired of this protectorate and tried for a long time to get rid of it (see above).
Söflingen was repeatedly exposed to billeting and arson. In 1552 the Federal Princes set up their headquarters there, in 1628, 1643 and 1647 the Swedish troops resided there, so that the nuns had to seek refuge in Ulm; In 1702/1703 the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel , in 1704 the English Duke of Marlborough , and in 1805 the French Marshal Ney moved into his headquarters.
The Söflingen monastery included the villages of Söflingen, Harthausen (with Ehrenstein) and Schaffelkingen, shares in Bettingen, Burlafingen and Eckingen as well as slopes and goods in many other places, mostly belonging to the imperial city of Ulm, with a total of around four thousand inhabitants. In a settlement from 1773, the monastery had given Ulm its ownership rights in Mähringen, Lehr, Jungingen, Breitingen, Holzkirch, Lonsee, Langenau, Weidenstetten, Söglingen and Bermaringen and in return the dismissal from the protection and patronage as well as the territorial rule and jurisdiction of these in the Reformation became a Protestant imperial city. It became a direct imperial monastery and the abbess got a seat and vote in the district and imperial diets.
After 1803 his not insignificant possessions were mostly sold into private hands, the monastery buildings partly demolished or designated as the seat of a royal Bavarian regional court, the monastery church continued to exist as the parish church of the community of Söflingen. In 1810, on the basis of a border treaty, the area around Söflingen, together with Ulm, came under royal Württemberg rule.
Abbesses
- 1319 Mia from Kemnat
- 1342/1343 Mye of Westerstetten
- around 1351 Ymag (ina), who on May 1st, 1366 was called Sister Ymagina Trühendinger (= Countess of Truhendingen)
- 1366 Margret
- around 1482 Cristina Strönlerin
- around 1567 Regina von Rorpach zu Edelstetten
- around 1597–1603? Anna Starin von Osternach
- 1716–1739 Anna-Maria Cleopha Hunger (1674–1739)
- 1768–1774 Johanna Miller
- 1801–1802 Bonaventura Seelinger (last abbess; † 1807)
Todays use
The former residence of the abbess, built around 1492, has served as a parsonage for the Catholic parish of the Assumption since 1810. The Ulm City Music School operates a branch in the Klostermühle. The brewery of the former monastery brewery became an apartment building. The enclosure , i.e. the actual monastery building, was demolished in 1818.
literature
- Karl Suso Frank : The Poor Clare Monastery Söflingen. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-17-005129-6 . (= Research on the history of the city of Ulm 20)
- Karl Suso Frank : The Klarissenkloster Söflingen until it was abolished in 1803. In: HE Specker (ed.), Churches and monasteries in Ulm, Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Ulm 1979, 163–199.
Individual evidence
- ^ State archive Ludwigsburg B 509 U 228
- ↑ State Archives Ludwigsburg B 509 U 269, 270, 274
- ↑ Ulmisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 2, Ulm 1898–1900, Part 1, No. 375 and Part 2, No. 718
- ↑ Ulmisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 2, Ulm 1898–1900, Part 2, No. 718
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Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '51.7 " N , 9 ° 57' 12.2" E