Hartwig (Megingaudshausen)

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Hartwig († August 10, 892 ) was abbot of the Steigerwaldkloster Megingaudshausen from 857 to 892 . He also appears in the line of abbots from Münsterschwarzach , because the monastery is considered the predecessor abbey.

The monastery in front of Hartwig

For the monastery chroniclers, Abbot Hartwig was the third head of the Megingaudshausen Abbey. It was donated at the beginning of the 9th century by the East Franconian Count Megingaud and his wife Imma and was supposed to serve the noble family of Mattones , to which Megingaud belonged, as a pension institution for their second-born sons. At the site of today's Münsterschwarzach Abbey there was a women's monastery, which was, however, already in the process of being dissolved.

Life

Very little is known about the life of Abbot Hartwig. The year in which he took office is controversial. Should he have succeeded his predecessor Madalbertus , he must have become abbot at the end of the year 857. Allegedly the document was drawn up in his time, which contained the relapse of the Schwarzach women's abbey to the diocese of Würzburg . However, Hartwig is not mentioned in the diploma itself. After Wagner, the date of death is also controversial: Hartwig probably died on August 10, 892.

literature

  • Johannes Mahr: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . Münsterschwarzach 2002.
  • Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach. A comparative overview . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey Church 1938-1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1988.
  • Gabriel Vogt: On the early history of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey . Volkach 1980.
  • Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Megingaudshausen and Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey Church 1938-1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Wagner (p. 84) gives the date, but assumes a forgery in the text.
  2. ↑ Mahr, Johannes: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . P. 10.
  3. ^ Wagner, Heinrich: The Abbots of Megingaudshausen . P. 84.
predecessor Office successor
Madalbertus Abbot of Megingaudshausen (Münsterschwarzach)
857–892 		Ebbo
personal data
SURNAME Hartwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 892