Hofen (Friedrichshafen)

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Hofen
Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 13 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 400 m above sea level NHN
former monastery with monastery church, today castle and castle church
former monastery with monastery church, today castle and castle church

Hofen is a district of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance , which is part of the core city.

history

Hofen appears as a name for a hamlet on Lake Constance as early as the 13th century. Presumably there was already a nunnery around 1085, which came to the Guelph house monastery and later imperial monastery Weingarten around 1100 and took over the name of the hamlet Hofen. The neighboring parish church of St. Andreas and Pantaleon of the Counts of Buchhorn was subordinated to the monastery. In 1215 the church was rebuilt. In 1419 the Hofen monastery was closed, but remained the provost office . The monastery district originally formed a judicial district with the village of the same name. In the 13th century this district was under the taverns of Schmalegg - Ittendorf until 1524 by Ueberlingen was sold to the city Buchhorn, which it sold to the convent Weingarten turn 1548th In addition to Hofen, Untermeckenbeuren and Waggershausen also belonged to the district.

During the Thirty Years War the monastery was destroyed and from 1695 to 1702 rebuilt including the church. In 1803 the imperial monastery Weingarten was secularized and came to Orange-Nassau , together with the monastery and village of Hofen. In 1804 it was confiscated by Austria and in the Peace of Pressburg by Napoleon in 1806 transferred to Württemberg . The village of Hofen was combined with the city of Buchhorn to form the city of Friedrichshafen in 1811. The monastery complex was assigned to the Württemberg court domain chamber, the church made available to the newly founded Protestant parish Friedrichshafen. From 1824 the monastery complex was converted into a summer residence for the kings of Württemberg. Since then the Hofen monastery has been referred to as Friedrichshafen Castle and the church as the Castle Church. To this day it is managed as a private property by the House of Württemberg.

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