Franciscan monastery in Oeffingen
Between 1773 and 1805 consisted today to the city Fellbach in Rems-Murr-Kreis belonging Oeffingen a small Franciscan monastery with three priests and a lay brother .
Motivation for the establishment of the monastery
The Augsburg religious peace only leads to a continuation of the territorial rulers, not to a disentanglement of their spiritual and secular rights. The Protestant Duke of Württemberg acquired during the Reformation the monastery Adelberg and also received the Monastery Adelberg entitled patronage of the Catholic parish Oeffingen. However, the Duke could not reform the Oeffingen enclave because of the territorial principle, so that Catholic pastoral care had to continue there. In 1771 he proposed a court chaplain as pastor to the diocesan bishop of Constance , who wanted to be represented by a vicar in Oeffingen on a permanent basis. The diocesan bishop was not aware of this intention and installed the proposed court chaplain as pastor in the parish of Oeffingen. The deceived diocesan bishop did not get involved in a canonical dispute. The Obervogt Joseph Grünstiesser, appointed by the cathedral chapter of Augsburg, proposed to the landlord, the cathedral chapter, to build a Franciscan hospital in Oeffingen .
Legal disputes between landlord and church patron
The Upper German (Strasbourg) order province of the Franciscan order applied to the cathedral chapter of Augsburg and the diocesan bishop of Constance for permission to set up a small branch, a hospice . The diocesan bishop granted this request in 1772, and the Franciscans began construction in 1772. However, Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg instructed his Vogt in Waiblingen to stop construction. It turned out that the construction began on a plot of land worth 100 guilders (silver equivalent 1200 grams), which the parish of Oeffingen was liable for. By claiming the property, the Duchy of Württemberg ran the risk that its maintenance burdens for the parish of Oeffingen would increase because the church tithing could no longer be paid.
The Franciscans continued to build on a replacement piece of land. The hospice was almost complete when the ducal government forbade further construction in November 1774. The Strasbourg Franciscans complained against this, and in 1775 the Reichshofrat , based in Vienna, allowed the building to continue. In the same year, the simple and modest Franciscan church was completed in the style of a mendicant order church .
Abolition of the Franciscan monastery
Due to the main conclusion of the Imperial Deputation , the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter fell to Bavaria in 1803 . The kingdom instructed the former Augsburg Obervogt Bobinger, who was still in office, in 1805 to dissolve the monastery. The superior of the monastery was allowed to stay as a temporary worker in the Oeffingen rectory; the other relatives were sent to the central monastery in Lechfeld .
The building, church and inventory of the monastery were sold. Ten citizens of Oeffingen bought the church and building and had to pass both on in 1810 because they could not afford the purchase price. A cotton factory was set up and moved to Esslingen in 1813 . In 1834 they tried a tobacco factory, which was shut down that same year.
In 1835 the Franciscan hospice was sold for 4,700 guilders (silver equivalent 44, 880 thousand grams) and then canceled.
The names Klosterstraße, Klosterplatz, Klostergarten and Klostermauer are still reminiscent of the hospice. Parts of the monastery cellar and the monastery wall are still present in the Hofener Strasse 9 property. The altars of the monastery church and the way of the cross were acquired in 1810 by the curator of the saints of St. Barbara in the neighboring Stuttgart-Hofen . In 2010 the altars were restored. The organ of the monastery church is also still there; it is used in the parish church of St. Urban and Vitus in Neuhausen near Pforzheim .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 22, 2010, No. 116
- ^ Anton Plappert, Oeffingen im Wandel, Oeffingen 1952, 97-110
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 33.7 " N , 9 ° 15 ′ 41.5" E