Mount Tabor Monastery

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The Berg Tabor monastery was a monastery in Jestetten Castle in Klettgau during the Schwarzenberg rule (today: Waldshut district ). After it was founded by Father Josef Helg (1721–1787), who derived the name from Mount Tabor , it housed a number of Premonstratensian women from 1774 to 1802 as a convent .

From 1803 to 1805 there was a religious settlement of the Redemptorists under the direction of Klemens Maria Hofbauer . The monastery was dissolved in 1806.

history

In 1687, Jestetten Castle became part of the Schwarzenberg rule .

Foundation and first decline

“In 1772, the ideally-minded, pious priest Josef Helg from St. Gallen came to Jestetten to look for a place for a monastery of Perpetual Adoration. He had already founded similar branches in Switzerland, of which Berg Sion near Uznach / SG still exists today. "

“With the permission of Prince von Schwarzenberg ( Johann I. (Schwarzenberg) ), he and twelve sisters moved into the makeshift castle in 1774, and Perpetual Adoration began on August 15th . Helg's foundings lacked the necessary economic basis. In Jestetten there was great poverty from the beginning, albeit at first with a lot of idealism and spirit of sacrifice, and after a short time several sisters died as a result of the hardships and were buried in the St. Hixta Chapel. "

- PJ Isele / Matran: Religious and church life in Klettgau , 1971, p. 309.

Undeterred, Helg set out to lay the foundations for a new church. "The government in Tiengen stopped the construction, but after a trip to Rome, from which he brought home papal approval, Helg continued until the government and the diocese let him hire again."

An episcopal visitation commission withdrew Helg's management of the monastery in 1780. "Helg sold part of the property to the Prince of Schwarzenberg for 3000 florins and died in April 1787."

“The sisters helped each other poorly from year to year”.

Klemens Maria Hofbauer (painting by P. Rinn)

Rescue attempt and start-up

In 1798, Klemens Maria Hofbauer , priest of the Redemptorist Order, came to Jestetten to find a place of work in Germany, "perhaps inspired by his friend HR Rigolet, who was the long-time companion of the founder of 'Berg Tabor'."

The place seemed suitable to him and “the Prince of Schwarzenberg ( Joseph II. (Schwarzenberg) ) was suited to him. Friends warned. Among them Canon Josef von Berolingen ": With the regional clergy and the pastor of the place" a good understanding [...] would be quite impossible. "

The war campaigns of that time initially prevented any plans from being carried out. "With the Peace of Lunéville [1801] times seemed more favorable."

Hofbauer and P. Hübl, the rector of St. Benno (Hofbauer's Center for Church and School in Warsaw) were "warmly welcomed on December 27, 1802 by the Vicar General of the Diocese of Constance, Baron von Wessenberg ."

Together with Father Thaddäus Hübl, the student Franz Hofbauer, his nephew, and the novice Johannes Sabelli, Hofbauer arrived in Jestetten on December 30th to set up his monastery.

Catastrophic conditions
"Hofbauer was horrified when he overlooked the situation that he now found." He would not have started this trip if he had known exactly what the situation was; only “the good spirit of the sisters”, who “could hardly do more than pray”, moved him to “partially repay the huge debts from the assets of his order and to take over the administration on behalf of Wessenberg.” The structural condition was also disastrous.

He tried to keep the adjoining chancellery building, but the royal officials “pulled out all the stops to get Hofbauer and his companions to Tiengen [...] There he was supposed to 'build the novitiate, [...] provide the trivial schools, a grammar school staff with teachers, set up a music school, then train secular village school teachers for the Landgraviate and also maintain missionaries and helpers. ' [...] The women's institute would have been dissolved or moved to Tiengen. "

“Hofbauer couldn't make up his mind. First he needed a quiet place and time to train the required forces. ”He sought contact with Schaffhausen, found approval there, but on July 1, 1803 in Jestetten“ his well-meaning chief bailiff ”was replaced. The successor, Franz Teufel, described Hofbauer as "a dangerously crawling snake that undeservedly crept into the German fatherland and the local rulership under the mask of piety." The slanderer found help from the pastor of Jestetten from Rheinau and from other confreres of the local monastery.

"The situation on 'Berg Tabor' became hopeless when Wessenberg, who had previously stood in front of the Fathers in a protective manner, became their relentless opponent." Hofbauer had also invoked papal privileges and Wessenberg saw "his model of a national church profoundly contradicted . From now on he thought about driving the Romlings out of the area of ​​his diocese [...] He closed the school on Tabor. "

Dissolution of the community and monastery

Hofbauer did not lead his congregation, which had "grown to 16 members" in the meantime, and - as vicar general of his order on a trip - gave his superior "on October 25, 1805 the instruction to give up Mount Tabor. He had found a new home for his community under the patronage of Prince Fugger . ”On November 7, 1805, the community - including four people from Klettgau - left Jestetten.

The monastery was formally dissolved in 1806, "the two professed sisters received a small pension." The Schwarzenberg government bought the building back, and church equipment was auctioned. "Today only the statue of the Virgin Mary in the chapel of the district care facility reminds us of the former little monastery 'Berg Tabor'."

Aftermath

“The memory of St. Klemens M. Hofbauer, who was an Obervogt Teufel in 1812 in a report to the Great Council of Freiburg / Ue. Tried to blacken, although he only earned laughter there, was held in high esteem by the Jestettors. District Judge Jo. Koller wrote on October 30, 1818: Certificate. From our dear gentlemen, who we lost in Jestetten, on the Tapor mountain […] they had a nice order in the service of God, and in the classroom in front of the youngsters and in the studing and teaching day and night. Briefly from them to rescue all people, had a special joy in seeing this Dear Lord. "

- J. Isele: Religious and Church Life in Klettgau , 1971, p. 314.

A memorial plaque in the courtyard in Jestetten today commemorates Klemens Maria Hofbauer.

From 1830 the building was the seat of the Jestetten district office, then the district court and district court prison.

District nursing home for those in need

In 1878, the nursing home for the district of Waldshut was set up in the castle ; when the district of Waldshut was founded in 1939, it was called the district nursing home for those in need of both sexes . In 1940 more than 200 residents of the district care facility were transported to the Grafeneck killing facility and murdered there with gas. From 1942 to 1975 Jestetten Castle served as a lung sanatorium.

District elderly and care home Jestetten

Today the Jestetten district old people's and nursing home is located here .

literature

  • Father Josef Isele, Matran (CH): The religious and ecclesiastical life in Klettgau in: Franz Schmidt, Mayor, City of Tiengen / Hochrhein: Der Klettgau , Tiengen 1971.
  • Karl-Hellmuth Jahnke and Erich Danner (eds.): The Jestetter village book, Altenburg and Jestetten in past and present , Jestetten municipality, Jestetten 2001. ISBN 3-89870-039-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quotes in the chapter: Father Josef Isele, Matran (CH): The religious and church life in Klettgau , in: Franz Schmidt, Mayor, on behalf of the city of Tiengen / Hochrhein: Der Klettgau , Tiengen 1971, p. 309.
  2. ↑ J. Isele: Religiöses und ecclesiastical life , in :. Franz Schmidt: The Klettgau , p. 310.
  3. ^ Karl-Hellmuth Jahnke and Erich Danner (eds.): The Jestetter village book, Altenburg and Jestetten in past and present , Jestetten 2001, p. 349. ISBN 3-89870-039-9 .
  4. ↑ Further quotations in the previous two sections: J. Isele: Religiöses und kirchliches Leben , in :. Franz Schmidt: Der Klettgau , p. 310 to 314.
  5. ↑ Municipality of Jestetten: The Upper Castle.
  6. ↑ Berthold Danner, A look after yesterday, old pictures from Jestetten and Altenburg , Chapter 7, 1992 In: The Jestetter village book

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 56.9"  E