Berg Monastery in the Donaugau

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The Berg monastery in the Donaugau is a former Benedictine monastery . The monastery is well documented under the name monasterium ad Perge , but it is not known for sure where it was, mostly the Bogenberg is assumed.

history

The monastery, consecrated to St. Salvator , was founded as a private monastery between 768 and 772 by a Bavarian nobleman named Wolchanhard . This Wolchanhard was given by his father, the vir nobilis Isinhart, to the Salzburg Cathedral for spiritual education. At the same time, an estate on Wallersee was given to the cathedral church, probably as a benefit for his son's education and livelihood. After the Breves Notitiae , Wolchanhard appears with his brother Gumpold in the tradition of ownership in Anthering and Berg am Wallersee (today part of Henndorf am Wallersee ) to the diocese of Salzburg . Wolchanhard also appears in the list of participating abbots at the Synod of Dingolfing around 770 .

He presumably handed over his monastery to Charlemagne after 788 (the time of the overthrow of Duke Tassilo III ) and received immunity and kingly cheer in return . This handover enabled the founding clan to emphasize their closeness to the ruler, while the monastery was withdrawn from the diocesan bishop's control. In 815, Louis the Pious confirmed this immunity to Abbot Sigihard ( auctoritatem et mundeburdium) .

From May 18, 875 a document has been handed down in which King Ludwig the German handed over the Berg monastery with all its pertinances to the collegiate church built by him for the old chapel in Regensburg . In 885, Emperor Karl the Fat gave Berg to Abbot Engilmar from the old chapel for life. Berg Abbey came to Sighard I von Ebersberg via King Arnulf .

In 1019 Emperor Heinrich II. , Who had already given the old chapel to the Bamberg diocese in 1009 , also donated Berg to the Bamberg diocese. At that time the monastery no longer existed, according to the handover document the locus Berga in the Danube region is still called abbatia .

With the Hungarian invasions in the 10th century, the abbey apparently perished; in 1019 Berg was only attested as an ordinary manor.

Abbots of the Berg monastery

  • Wolchanhard (around 768)
  • Sigihard (815)
  • Sigismund
  • Appolonius (826-830)

literature

  • Wilhelm Störmer: Nobility groups in early and high medieval Bavaria (= studies on the Bavarian constitutional and social history). Cape. IV / 3: Abbot Wolchanhard, the founder of the Berg monastery in the Donaugau, and his clan, pp. 148–156. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1972. ISBN 3-7696-9877-7 .