Baumerlenbach Monastery

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The Baumerlenbach monastery was probably a monastery in Baumerlenbach , a district of Öhringen in the Hohenlohe district in Baden-Württemberg . The deed of donation from the year 788 contains the first documentary mention of the place. It is a matter of dispute whether the documented monastery was really a monastery or just the local church.

history

Baumerlenbach was first mentioned in 788 in the Lorsch Codex . On June 7th, 788 Abbess Hiltisnot donated her Baumerlenbach monastery, which was consecrated to the Redeemer, Mary and all saints, together with the property and accessories, to Lorsch Monastery . The property was leased back for further usufruct for one “Sarcile” per year (that is about 12 cubits ) of heavy canvas. The management of the monastery remained with Hiltisnot and a successor from the same noble family. The document laments the death of Swabuled, father of Hiltisnot. Her brother Count Maorlach and another brother, named Anto, witnessed the logging.

Count Maorlach is likely to be the successor of his father Swabuled, who can be classified as Westheimer Gaugraf. Thus Anto also comes from this count's house. According to the main name theory, the abbess Aba of the Rotaha monastery in Rodgau, daughter of the Carolingian nobleman Theodo, was married to an ado.

Aba transferred her monastery to Lorsch Monastery in 786, and Hiltisnot followed her example two years later. As with Rotaha Monastery, the reason for the transfer is likely to lie in the following advantages:

The Reichskloster Lorsch becomes the new owner of the church through the takeover. As such, he is responsible for the administration and legal affairs of Baumerlenbach Abbey. Through the association of the Baumerlenbach monastery with the imperial Lorsch monastery , it enjoys the immediate military protection of the king. The owner of the church now has to ensure the constant church supply of the Baumerlenbach monastery. Count Maorlach, as a previous private church lord and witness, agreed to the transfer agreement. The tasks of the private church lords were put into law at the synod in Frankfurt am Main in 794 and were made compulsory for the private church lords. After 786 the Rotaha Monastery came (possibly by inheritance) into the possession of land in the area of ​​Westheim, which in 903 was also transferred to Lorsch Monastery by the abbess Kunigunde at the time.

It remains to be seen whether the documented monastery in Baumerlenbach was really a monastery, or not just the local church. According to legend, a monastery is said to have been located about 600 meters northeast of the church on the steep slope of the Kocher mountain. There are no structural remains, however. The Baumerlenbacher church, however, came into the possession of the family of the Regensburg bishop Gebhard, who donated it and the property to the Öhringen monastery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 13, June 7, 788 - Reg. 2037. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 69 , accessed on September 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Gerhard Fritz, Hans Peter Müller, Rolf Schweizer, Andreas Zieger: 1200 years of Oberrot. Wegra Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-921546-25-7 , p. 26.
  3. ↑ p. 149.
  4. ↑ Codex Lorsch, Certificate 12 of February 25, 786
  5. ^ The Frankfurt chapter of 794. In: 794, Charlemagne in Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 3-7995-1204-7 .
  6. ↑ Codex Lorsch, Certificate 58 of November 21, 903. The place belonged to the founding equipment of the monastery Öhringen

literature

  • Jürgen Hermann Rauser: From the local history of Baumerlenbach , in: Ohrntaler Heimatbuch XI , Weinsberg 1982, pp. 157–170.
  • Wolfgang Hartmann: Machesbach monastery and early medieval nobility in Bachgau. In: Aschaffenburg yearbook. Vol. 16, 1993, ISBN 3-87965-065-9 .
  • Karl Pohl: The abbesses Aba and Hiltisnot and their Carolingian Rotaha. Grin Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-83469-3 .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 19.6 "  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 25.3"  E