Canon Monastery of St. Johann
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The Canons' Monastery of St. Johann was a secular collegiate monastery in the German city of Konstanz . It was founded in 1266/1267 and repealed in 1807.
Bishop Konrad (934–975) founded the Church of St. Johann in the Niederburg . In 1266/1267 the Canons' Monastery was built with the dual patronage of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist , and a Gothic long choir was attached to the old nave . The Stiftsgut was acquired for the most part at the beginning of the 14th century and was in and around Konstanz, on the Bodanrück and in Thurgau , Hegau and Linzgau . The only closed domain was the village of Lipperswil in Thurgau. Almost all the collegiate curia were right next to the church.
Numerous clerics trained in canonical law were affirmed at the St. Johann monastery . The cathedral chapter regarded St. Johann as one of its four subsidiary monasteries, which often led to disputes about the occupation of the provost's office . The right to institute the pleban was mostly unchallenged with the provost of the cathedral . After the middle of the 14th century there were first signs of a decline in the monastery and the number of canons steadily decreased. At the beginning of the 15th century a three-aisled pillar basilica was built , which was completed in 1434 with the construction of the tower.
The Reformation in the city of Constance came from the pastor of the Church of St. Johann, Jakob Windner. On Palm Sunday 1525 the Lord's Supper was celebrated for the first time in St. Johann ; the interior of the church was destroyed in an iconoclasm in 1530 . From 1550 the city, which had meanwhile become a Habsburg, had to allow the resumption of services and the return of the canons. However, only part of the monastery property was actually restituted and the collegiate monastery remained extremely financially weak. After the Thirty Years War St. Johann experienced a great boom.
In the course of secularization , negotiations began in 1803 with the Baden government about the abolition of the monastery, which ended in 1807. The parish was abolished in 1813. On August 13, 1816, the church was excreted and the tower was demolished in 1830. The church inventory came to the cathedral in 1813 . The high altar from 1735 and two side altars are now in Murg am Hochrhein.
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- Collegiate monastery St. Johann Konstanz. On: LEO-BW , accessed on February 1, 2020
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 51.3 " N , 9 ° 10 ′ 32.2" E