Istein Benedictine Provostry

Istein Benedictine Provostry
Istein Monastery 1646
medal	Benedictine
founding year	before 1264
Cancellation / year	1525/29
Patronage	Maria
location
country	Germany
region	Baden-Württemberg
place	Is a
Geographical location	47 ° 40 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '47 "  N , 7 ° 31' 51"  E
Istein Monastery
Location in Baden-Württemberg

The Benedictine Propstei Istein in what is now the Istein district of the Baden-Württemberg community of Efringen-Kirchen was founded around the 12th century and dissolved in 1529.

House monastery of the Lords of Rötteln

Istein Monastery, memorial plaque

When and by whom the monastery was founded is not documented. A Berain from 1610 mentions 1105 as the year of foundation. At that time a Dietrich von Rötteln was Vogt of the right bank of the Rhine of the Basel monastery of St. Alban . Since St. Alban received the right to appoint the Prior of Istein in 1356 ( collature ), it is assumed that the Cluniac Priory Istein was under the influence of St. Alban from the beginning and the Lords of Rötteln - who later became important patrons of the Istein monastery - probably also its founder. The large number of Röttel foundations for Istein led to the conclusion that the Röttlers viewed the monastery as a home monastery. The Röttler also exercised the bailiwick over the monastery until they died out in the male line in 1315. The Margraves of Hachberg-Sausenberg also took over the inheritance in this bailiwick .

Women's or men's monastery?

From the visitation protocols it is concluded that Istein was originally a women's convent of about eight nuns, headed by a male prior. In 1365 the General Chapter of the Cluniacians decided to convert the Istein priory into a male monastery. Nevertheless, new nuns continued to be accepted and Istein was not a male monastery until around 1450.

In 1387 the monastery was largely destroyed in a fire and was only rebuilt at the end of the 16th century. While the monastery church could still be used, the convent lived in the White House between the village of Istein and Isteiner Klotz .

After the Reformation

In 1529 the city of Basel joined the Reformation movement and also dissolved the St. Alban's monastery, whose rights were thus passed to the city council of Basel. This also included the collature , the right to fill the Istein priory office. The mixed situation of various rights of the city of Basel, the bishops of Basel (sovereignty) and Constance (responsible diocesan bishop) as well as the Cluniacians led to constant conflicts. Since 1629 the provost's office has been assigned to Basel cathedral capitulars, which is why in 1802 when the parts of the Principality of Basel on the right bank of the Rhine were secularized , the provost's office and thus the former monastery properties were also confiscated from the margraviate of Baden .

The provost building and the church of the monastery were demolished in 1783 with the approval of the City Council of Basel, with the title of the church being transferred to the altar of the Istein parish church.

literature

• Otto Konrad Roller : The history of the noble lords of Rötteln. In: Blätter from the Margraviate of Schopfheim , born 1927, Schopfheim 1927, pp. 1-49
• Erich Dietschi: History of the villages Istein and Huttingen . Basel 1930
• Fritz Schülin: The monastery "our dear Frowen zu Istein" and his Fronhof zu Huttingen. In: Fritz Schülin, Hermann Schäfer, Pius Schwanz: Istein and the Isteiner Klotz. Contributions to local, landscape and military history. 3. Edition. Istein 1994, pp. 258-264.
• Florian Lamke: Cluniac on the Upper Rhine. Conflict resolution and aristocratic group formation in the time of the investiture dispute. Verlag Karl Alber, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-495-49954-2 , pp. 345-354

Web links

• Benedictine Propstei Istein in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
• Geometrical plan partly controversial, partly uncontroversial ban borders and ban stones between the communities of Huttingen et Jgstein ; Map from 1773 with the monastery on discover geography online - leobw

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see also Landvogtei Schliengen #Die secularization
2. ↑ see Benedictine Propstei Istein in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives