Amtenhausen Monastery

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The Benedictine Abbey of Amtenhausen

The Amtenhausen Monastery is a former Benedictine abbey on the Baar near Zimmer (Immendingen) . It existed from before 1107 to 1802/08 and was a priory of the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest until 1682, and from 1682 an independent abbey . The place is first mentioned as Amptenhusen in the year 973. The patronage was consecrated to St. Sebastian .

history

In the founding phase of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest, a double monastery , that is to say a male and a female monastery , may have existed on the "apex of Alemannia" , typical of the Hirsau reform . The existence of the double monastery, if it did exist, will not have survived the first few years after the monastery was founded. It is conceivable that the nuns who may have been settled in Amtenhausen, which was founded at that time, will soon be relocated. Amtenhausen, the monastery on the Baar and St. Georgen's daughter monastery or priory, was founded by St. Georgen's abbot Theoger (1088–1119), which was set up before 1107. The nunnery was of considerable size. The Vita Theogeri According, one in the 12th century monastery Prüfening written biography of the abbot should there about a hundred nuns have lived. The ideal focus of the community was the “holiest” Beatrix, who was worshiped just after her death. Due to its size could range from office Hausen from Sanktimonialen , founded after 1123 Monastery Friedenweiler have settled. Amtenhausen nuns are also said to have settled the Admont women's monastery. The same applies to the St. Georgen Priory from Ursprung .

Amtenhausen Abbey in the 18th century

End of the monastery

In the course of secularization, the monastery fell to the princes of Fürstenberg and was under the administration of the Rappenegger gt. Rappenherre von Wyl and Phorzhaim , who acted as the princes' secret court and chamber councilors. The convent building, newly built from 1786 to 1791, and the outbuildings were preserved until 1842 and then demolished. The church with the organ of Johann Andreas Silbermann , which had been installed under the abbess Maria Mechtildis Guggenmoos of Bernbeuren, was also demolished. The church furnishings were scattered to the wind. The high altar, created by Johann Pöllandt in 1688 , was brought to Emmingen from Egg to the newly built parish church of St. Sylvester , along with two side altars , further side altars came to Immendingen , Zimmer and Aasen . The Silbermann organ was given to Neudingen , where it later burned. Sculptures and liturgical implements made it to Villingen , Rottweil , Engen , Immendingen and Zimmer.

Only the former priory building - today privately owned - and a memorial cross with a wayside shrine erected in 1960 remind of the Benedictine convent in Amtenhausen. In 1802/1808 the convent was secularized .

List of masters and abbesses

Kunigunde Schilling von Hintschingen, the last abbess of Amtenhausen, ruled from 1796 to 1808.

Masters

  • that of Beringen April 14, 1307
  • Adelhaidis 1307
  • Gutta Reckhenbächin (after May 10, 1451)
  • Anna Starkkin
  • Magdalena Fürstenberger elected May 14, 1514
  • Anna Marnerin 1523
  • Lucia Silberer March 7, 1533
  • (?) Schellhorn August 23, 1533
  • Dorothea von Sunthusen 1562
  • Helena Schmid November 27, 1565
  • Maria Anna Seitz 1557–1597
  • Maria Mayer von Schaffhausen October 8, 1598 to March 31, 1619 (electoral reverse from October 18, 1593)
  • Catharina Meisin von Fürstenberg May 13, 1619 to 1629 (resigned; † 1633)
  • Maria Anna Heubler January 1, 1629 to February 21, 1651
  • Anna Scholastica Zoller von Villingen April 18, 1652 to March 12, 1682

Abbesses

  • Maria Gertrudis Weißmann von Donaueschingen March 12, 1682 to January 13, 1727
  • Maria Josepha Boland von Schongau al. Wessobrunn January 17, 1727 to May 18, 1738
  • Maria Anna Muckensturm von Odenheim June 1, 1738 to 1747 (resigned; † November 23, 1768)
  • Maria Magdalene Bürckhofer von Königseggwald October 5, 1747 to March 15, 1749
  • Maria Mechtildis Guggenmoos von Bernbeuren March 19, 1749 to May 10, 1767
  • Maria Gertrudis Schwarz von Elchenreute May 18, 1767 to May 11, 1796
  • Kunigunde Schilling von Hintschingen 23 May 1796 to † 20 March 1808

(Oil painting of the abbesses in the archive of the Donaueschingen court library )

literature

  • KS Bader: Amtenhausen Monastery in the Baar. Legal and economic history studies. (= Publications from the Princely Fürstenberg Archives. H.7). Donaueschingen 1940.
  • M. Buhlmann: Inclusions in the Amtenhausen monastery (12th-16th centuries?). In: The Heimatbote. Volume 14, 2003, pp. 37-48.
  • W. Meder: Amtenhausen, a daughter monastery of St. Georgen. In: The Heimatbote. Volume 13, 2002, pp. 2-20.
  • H.-J. Wollasch: The beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical uniqueness of a monastery within the Hirsau reform. (= Research on the history of the Upper Rhine region. Volume 14). Freiburg i.Br. 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KA Barack (ed.); Gallus uncle: Chronicle of Reichenau. DNB 361979673 , p. 19.
  2. ^ Daniel Wesely: Tax reform and cadastral cartography in the Principality of Fürstenberg in the 18th century. Lang, 1995, ISBN 3-631-48333-3 , p. 78.

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '51.6 "  N , 8 ° 41' 3.3"  E

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