Thyrnau Monastery

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Thyrnau Monastery
Cistercian Abbey of Thyrnau
Cistercian Abbey of Thyrnau
location Thyrnau ,
Bavaria
Lies in the diocese Passau
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '52 "  N , 13 ° 32' 9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '52 "  N , 13 ° 32' 9"  E
Patronage Assumption Day
founding year 1902
Mother monastery Town Hall
Congregation Mehrerauer Congregation

Daughter monasteries

Apolo

Chancel of the monastery church at Christmas time

The monastery Thyrnau (lat. Abbatia BMV et Sancti Iosephi ) is an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Thyrnau in Bavaria in the diocese of Passau .

Passau ministries had their seat in Thyrnau as early as the Middle Ages . Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Lamberg acquired the building in 1692 for 46,000 guilders from Freiherr Schätzl of Watzmannsdorf and Hörmannsberg. Lamberg's successor had the building torn down in 1714 and a new castle built by master builder Domenico d'Angeli . In 1763, under Prince-Bishop Leopold Ernst von Firmian, it received further extensions, in particular an additional attic was built in and the clock gable and a turret were added. In addition, the prince-bishop had an 85- day deer garden laid out. After secularization in Bavaria , the castle fell to the Bavarian state, which sold it to Johann Lorenz Freiherr von Schaezler in 1822 .

In 1902 the former hunting lodge was acquired and settled by Cistercian women from the Capuchin monastery in Vézelise (France). The sisters come from the Cistercian abbey Rathausen near Lucerne, which was founded in 1245 and dissolved in 1848 .

In the years 1910 to 1914 the monastery was expanded to include a church, living quarters for the sisters and guest rooms. It has had the status of an abbey since May 20, 1925 . Today the monastery houses u. a. a parament embroidery known in many places .

In 1929 the convent was able to found the subsidiary Apolo in Bolivia .

A temporarily existing monastery of the Capuchins in Thyrnau was founded in 1689 and dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization .

Abbesses

  • Salome Suter (1529–?)
  • (41.) Benedikta Muff (1844–?)
  • (43.) Juliana Füglister (1890–1919), first prioress of Thyrnau
  • (44.) Juliana Meier (1919–1949)
  • (45.) Ludwigis Baumgartner (1949–1970)
  • (46.) Mechtildis Wieth (1970–1982)
  • (47.) Caritas Baumgartner (1982-2002)
  • (48.) Mechthild Bernart (since 2002)

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