Schottenkloster Memmingen
In the former Schottenkloster St. Nikolaus in Memmingen , Irish monks originally lived according to the Benedictine rule , later the affairs were directed from the Benedictine monastery Ottobeuren . It is therefore also the former Benedictine monastery in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
Before Welf VI. On his second journey to the Holy Land from his city of Memmingen in 1167, he founded a new monastic settlement eastwards on the site of today's Old Cemetery. This was on the old Salzstrasse, today's Augsburger Strasse. It was the seventh and penultimate Guelph monastery and foundation founded. He had the monks come from the Schottenkloster St. Jakob Regensburg .
The abbey was equipped with only 8 Jauchert land (the Schottenholz at Geißhof, the Schottenbrühl - the later upper Bleiche - and the hamlet of Eichholz near Dietmannsried) and must have remained extremely meaningless and poor. Only a few documents are known and only three of the abbots have survived by name. Another problem that later affected the sister settlements was the problem of the offspring, as fewer and fewer monks wanted to live in “ascetic homelessness” in their Irish homeland. In 1332 the Schottenbrühl had to be sold to the city of Memmingen.
A letter from the city of Memmingen dated November 16, 1345 indicates that the monastery walls are threatened with decay and that there are no books, goblets and church vestments . At that time there was obviously no more convention. The city demolished unconsecrated monastery buildings in 1388 (in order to strengthen its city walls) and the pastoral care of St. Nicholas was downright leased, in 1401 for life to the Augustinian and honorary chaplain Boniface IX, Heinrich Symonis.
Before that, the priest Heinrich Lumen was the caretaker and caretaker of St. Nikolaus, who is known as the founder of the large donation care ( foundations of the city of Memmingen ).
From 1435, after bad experiences with secular priests, the management of the probably unoccupied monastery was again transferred to Benedictines. The Ottobeurer Konventuale Jos Niederhof (a native of Memmingen) was appointed the first provost. He was followed by several provosts, probably all from Memmingen and belonging to the Ottobeurer convent.
After many disputes and lawsuits, the city of Memmingen - even with the involvement of the Swabian Federation - ensured that St. Nikolaus was incorporated into the Augustinian monastery. On June 22, 1498, Alexander VI spoke . the desired incorporation .
In 1512 the monastery buildings and in 1529 the church were demolished.
literature
- Helmut Flachenecker : Schottenklöster. Irish Benedictine convents in high medieval Germany (sources and research from the field of history NS 18), Paderborn et al. 1995.
- Adalbert Mischlewski - MEMMINGER HISTORY SHEETS - Annual issue 1963 - The Ottobeuren Abbey and the Memmingen Schottenkloster St. Nikolaus
- Stefan Weber : Irish on the continent. The life of Marianus Scottus of Regensburg and the beginnings of the Irish “Schottenklöster” , Heidelberg 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ HStA Munich, Memmingen monastery documents No. 700.
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 17.6 " N , 10 ° 11 ′ 20.4" E