Anhausen Monastery on the Brenz
Anhausen Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey on the Brenz in Bolheim , a district of Herbrechtingen in the Heidenheim district , Baden-Württemberg, founded in 1125 .
history
In 1095 four sons of the Count Palatine Manegold the Elder founded a monastery in Langenau . It was moved to Anhausen, then called Hauhisin , in 1125 , because it is said to have been too loud for the monks on the Nau. In a document from 1143 Anhausen was named Ahusiani and later Ahusen . From 1287 the Counts of Helfenstein were bailiffs of the monastery. The monastery complex was equipped with considerable property. In 1320 the Lorch Monastery sold its property in Bolheim and parts of Mergelstetten to the monastery. In the course of the 14th century Gussenstadt, Dettingen, parts of Heuchlingen and vineyards in Fellbach, Cannstatt and the Heilbronn area were added. From this time on, the monks produced beer in addition to their agriculture and winery.
Built in the Romanesque style, the complex was renovated in the late Gothic style in 1448 after it was severely damaged in the war between the imperial cities against Count Ulrich V of Württemberg and renewed looting in 1462 .
The monastery, now called Anhausen , was abolished for the first time by Duke Ulrich von Württemberg in 1536 and rededicated into one of thirteen Württemberg monastery schools. During the Thirty Years' War the monastery school was occupied by imperial troops in 1630 and returned to the Catholic Church. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the monastery was owned by Duke Eberhard III. definitely repealed by Württemberg .
A total of 31 evangelical abbots and prelates resided in the newly founded country and monastery school until it was repealed by the secularization in 1806 under Napoleon . On the tower of the former prelature building a memorial plaque has been commemorating the prelate Magnus Friedrich Roos , who worked here from 1784 to 1803 and whose Christian books are partly still read today.
The Württemberg state no longer needed the system from 1806, sold parts and let the rest of it fall into disrepair. The church was demolished between 1831 and 1835, presumably at the same time as the chapel, which was removed about 0.4 km to the southeast and was probably built around 1400. A cotton mill and a beer brewery were temporarily housed in the former monastery. Johann Georg Langenbucher was Anhausen's last master brewer and received a gold medal in Paris in 1906 for his Anhausen monastery beer.
Initially the monastery was assigned to the diocese of Augsburg , from 1821 Rottenburg-Stuttgart . Benedictine order rules existed 1125–1536, 1548–1558 and 1630–1648.
The prelature building from the 16th to 17th centuries, the buildings of the former winter church and the brewery from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the monastery tavern (until 2017 Gasthaus zum Tor - now closed. The building was converted and rented out as a residential building. ) are still preserved. The former monastery complex is now used as a residential building, as a warehouse and by a farm. It is no longer publicly accessible.
Anhausen Monastery has been a sight on the Staufer road since 1997 . It lies at the beginning of the Eselsburger valley , a nature reserve with a river bend in the Brenz valley , which is one of the most important tourist attractions of the Swabian Alb .
Personalities
- Prelate Magnus Friedrich Roos (1727–1803)
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ The table refers to Dan 12.3 EU . There it says: But the teachers will shine like the shine of heaven, and those who point so many to righteousness like the stars always and forever.
- ↑ Straße der Staufer on stauferstelen.de. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
Coordinates: 48 ° 37 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 1.5 ″ E