Fraueninsel
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| Waters | Chiemsee | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 52 '25 " N , 12 ° 25' 35" E | |
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| length | 620 m | |
| width | 300 m | |
| surface | 15.5 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 527 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents | 300 (2008) 1935 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Frauenchiemsee | |
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The Fraueninsel is the second largest of the three islands in the Chiemsee after the Herreninsel . It belongs to the municipality of Chiemsee in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim , the smallest political municipality in Bavaria . On the 15.5 hectare, car-free Fraueninsel, around 50 houses consistently live around 300 residents (for comparison: on the 238 hectare Herreninsel, only a few people live all year round). This settlement on the island forms the place Frauenchiemsee, which is why the two terms Fraueninsel (= island) and Frauenchiemsee (= place) are often used synonymously.
There is a 1.5 km long footpath around the island. Cycling is not permitted on the island. Motor vehicle use is also prohibited on the island. Delivery vehicles are only allowed to enter the island from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m.
The island is open all year round with the liner of the Chiemsee boat trip to reach, mainly from Gstadt in 10 minutes and from Prien in 30 minutes, partly also from other places around the lake and from the Lord Island.
The monastery Frauenwörth shapes the character of Frauenchiemsee, it is a place of pilgrimage for the Blessed Irmengard , the patron saint of the Chiemgau . The pilgrimage and the island's scenic location attract a large number of visitors every day. The Chiemsee artists' colony , to which Max Haushofer belonged , has also contributed to the island's popularity since 1820 .
History of the monastery
782 founded Duke Tassilo III. of Bavaria the Frauenwörth monastery . After the devastation of the Hungarian invasions, it flourished between the 11th and 15th centuries. The monastery buildings were rebuilt in 1728 and 1732. In the course of secularization , the monastery was closed from 1803 to 1835, but the convent continued. In 1836, King Ludwig I of Bavaria rebuilt the monastery for the Benedictine nuns on the condition that they create their livelihood by opening schools. The Benedictine Sisters dedicated themselves to the education of girls since 1837, among other things through their Irmengard-Gymnasium with boarding school (until 1982) and (from 1983) in the Irmengard-Berufsfachschule (formerly pre-seminar for social women's professions ), which was operated until 1995.
Currently (2007) 30 sisters live in the monastery, the 56th abbess has been Johanna Mayer since 2006.
Attractions
The Inselmünster stands on Carolingian foundations, the current church building of the Sacrifice of the Virgin dates back to the 11th century. Between 1468 and 1476 a ribbed vault was drawn in . From 1688 to 1702 it was equipped with the baroque altars that have survived to this day. The campanile to the northwest in front of the church , a free-standing bell tower , is one of the Chiemgau's landmarks and probably originally dates from the 12th century; his baroque onion hood was put on him in 1626.
Many artists and scholars are buried in the Inselfriedhof north of the monastery church, as well as the Chiemsee painter Max Haushofer, the writers Wilhelm Jensen and Felix Schlagintweit . The latter gave a literary description of the cemetery in his 1943 novel A Life in Love . In addition, some members of the von Eichendorff family also rest there .
The so-called Carolingian gate hall from the early days of the monastery, which is dated to the year 850, is worth seeing . It is a rectangular building made of tuff stone with a square extension on the east side. Its ground floor once housed a small St. Nicholas' Chapel, and its upper floor was the apse of the St. Michael's Chapel . During restoration work, almost life-size depictions of angels were exposed here. Of these originally six red outline drawings, which are impressive in their simplicity, two are still almost completely preserved. It was dated earlier to the 9th century, but later today. A large, barrel-vaulted passage runs through the gate hall in the middle of the ground floor , which is bordered on both sides by an open row of arcades with three arches each. The baroque vicars house connects to the west .
A war memorial chapel was built in the linden grove in the middle of the island after the First World War . A large picture by the painter Hiasl Maier-Erding adorns the front wall, it shows an old fishing couple praying against the backdrop of the Chiemsee with the Fraueninsel. The chapel stands on the site of the Martinskirche mentioned in 1393 and demolished after the secularization . At the center of the linden grove, however, are two trees that are probably more than 1000 years old: the Tassilolinde and the Marienlinde.
Personalities
- Herbert Baer (1881–1954), Prof. Dr. Ing., Engineer and university professor (grave)
- Wilhelm Brünings (1876–1958), doctor (grave)
- Fritz Caspari (1883–1964), natural scientist (grave)
- Eugen Croissant (1898–1976), painter (grave)
- Heinrich Düll (1867–1956), sculptor (grave)
- Karl von Eichendorff (1863–1934), Prussian officer, genealogist, publicist and grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff (grave)
- Hans A. Engelhard (1934–2008), Federal Minister of Justice (grave)
- Theodor von Gosen (1873–1943), sculptor (grave)
- Hans Haffenrichter (1897–1981), painter (grave)
- Norbert Hauner (1743–1827), Augustinian canon and famous church composer, lived for many years on Frauenchiemsee and is buried there.
- Emma Haushofer (1854–1925), writer (grave)
- Max Haushofer Jr. (1840–1907), poet (grave)
- Irmgard von Chiemsee (831 / 833–866) abbess (grave)
- Josef Holzmaier (1809-1859), history painter (birth)
- Hildegard Hofinger (1906–1986), writer (grave)
- Wilhelm Jensen (1837–1911), writer (grave)
- Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), Colonel General of the Wehrmacht ( cenotaph on the grave of his two wives. The family grave is expected to be closed in the first half of 2018.) [obsolete]
- Ferdinand Jodl (1896–1956), general of the mountain troops of the Wehrmacht (grave)
- Heinrich Kirchner (1902–1984), sculptor (grave)
- Emil Lugo (1840–1902), painter (grave)
- Franz Roubaud (1856–1928), painter (grave)
- Christian Christoph Ruben (1805–1875), painter (grave)
- Felix Schlagintweit (1868–1950), writer (grave)
- Elisabeth Schmidt-Pauli (1882–1950), writer (grave)
literature
- Alois J. Weichslgartner, Wilfried Bahnmüller: Frauenchiemsee. 3. Edition. Pannonia-Verlag, Raubling 1998, ISBN 3-7897-0207-2 .
- Walter Brugger, Manfred Weitlauff (Ed.): Frauenchiemsee Monastery 782–2003. History, art, economy and culture of an old Bavarian Benedictine abbey. Weißenhorn / Bavaria 2003.
- Hermann Dannheimer: Frauenwörth. Duke Tassilo's monastery in Chiemsee. Abbey - Church - Gate Hall. Weißenhorn 2008.
Web links
- Chiemsee architectural monuments. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, April 14, 2014, accessed on May 18, 2014 .
- Benedictine Abbey Frauenwörth in Chiemsee (accessed on August 26, 2013)
- The Chiemseeinseln site of the Chiemsee municipality and the Breitbrunn administrative community (accessed on August 26, 2013)
- Report on the conference nuns, canons, beguines and mystics. Women's communities in southern Germany 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourismus, accessed on May 28, 2020
- ↑ Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourismus: Chiemsee-Schifffahrt . In: Chiemsee-Alpenland Tourism . ( chiemsee-alpenland.de [accessed on May 28, 2020]).
- ↑ Dogs & Bikes - Chiemsee Shipping. Chiemsee Schifffahrt, accessed on March 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk, accessed on November 9, 2018
- ↑ Munich Highlights - Fraueninsel (Chiemsee). Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Sights of the Fraueninsel. Chiemgau guide, accessed on May 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Nazi memorial in a dollhouse idyll . on sueddeutsche.de
- ↑ Passauer Neue Presse: The Jodl cross on the Fraueninsel is being removed - the grave remains . In: Bavaria - Upper Bavaria - Lower Bavaria - newspaper - news . ( pnp.de [accessed on March 22, 2018]).
