Bernried Monastery

Bernried Monastery

Bernried Abbey from the lake side

The Bernried Abbey is a former Augustinian Canons - monastery and today's monastery of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters in Bernried in Bavaria in the Diocese of Augsburg .

history

Engraving around 1700

The monastery consecrated to St. Martin was founded in 1121 by Count Otto I von Dachau-Valley and his wife Adelheid von Weilheim . The monastery experienced a boom under Provost Mansuetus Resch (1723–41), who had all the monastery buildings restored and promoted science, art and culture. In 1803 it was dissolved in the course of secularization .

In 1810, Count Ignaz Arco acquired the entire estate. August Freiherr von Wendland bought the monastery and land in 1852. He had the east and west wings of the monastery torn down, and the south wing was redesigned into a palace ( neo-renaissance ).

In 1941, the Reich Ministry of the Interior bought the palace and its park. From 1942 to 1948 - due to the war - the orthopedic clinic was relocated from Munich to Bernried Castle.

In 1949 the secularized Augustinian Canons' Abbey became a monastery again: the Missionary Benedictine Sisters from nearby Tutzing acquired the old facility and soon founded a housekeeping school with boarding school in the buildings , which in the course of the following years became a pre-seminar for women's social professions (with a technical college qualification ) has been expanded. From 1953 to 1995 the novitiate of the Mission Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing was in Bernried Monastery , which was then moved to Tutzing.

In 1972 the school was given up and the house was converted into an educational center for church adult education.

Row of chiefs

Provosts of the Augustinian Canons:

1. Sigeboto, 1120, 1123
2. Otto I., 1135
3. Hermann, † around 1167
4. Heinrich I, † around 1190
5. Rapoto
6. Eberhard, 1202
7. Otto II.
8. Otto III.
9. Conrad, around 1270
10. Hertrich, 1278, 1291
11. Seyfrid von Wall, around 1305
12. Reimboto, 1316
13. Ulrich I. Saller, 1336, 1356
14. Johann I.
15. Ulrich II., † around 1390
16. Johann II Stainger, † 1400
17. Johann III. Gruenpacher, † 1415
18. Johann IV. Aichhorn, † around 1420
19. Ulrich III. Masterlin, † 1433
20. Johann V, 1441, 1459
21. Bernhard, † 1462
22. Johann VI. Keller, † 1472
23. Heinrich II. Erengrieß, 1477, † 1487
24. Georg Müller (Molitor), † 1497
25. Peter Streitl, † 1520
26. Johann VII. Tutzinger, † 1535
27. Johann VIII. Faber (Schmid), † 1541
28. Franz Griemold, 1541–1572
29. Kaspar I. Weiss, † 1592
30. Wolfgang Scriba (scribe), † 1621
31. Kaspar II. Zeller, 1621-1638
32. Johann IX. Riedl, 1638-1675
33. Martin Holl, 1675-1680
34. Otto IV Landus, 1680–1693
35. Johann X. Doll, 1693-1722
36. Zacharias Hueber, 1722-1723
37. Mansuet Resch, 1723-1741
38. Gilbert Koechl, 1742–1762
39. Benno Proske, 1762–1787
40. Albert Faber, 1787–1803, † 1808

Superior of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters (incomplete):

• Columbana, 1979
• Elisabeth-Magdalena Zehe, 2013
• Hedwig Willenbrink, since 2014

Attractions

• Catholic parish church of St. Martin : From 1122 to 1803 it was the collegiate church of the Augustinian canons of Bernried, parish church since 1803. From 1659 to 1663 it was baroque after being destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1734 the tower was destroyed by lightning and was rebuilt in 1873.
• Baroque hall of the monastery
• Klosterhof: Around 1860, August Frhr. von Wendland created a round castle with plane trees (exotic for the time) .
• Archway building: Former home of the "goalkeeper". From 1806 to 1825 it served as a school house. On the other side of the archway were the stables and carriage shed.

In the immediate vicinity:

• Wilhelmina-Busch-Woods-Stiftungspark : The Bernried Park belonged to the Augustinian Canons of the Bernried Monastery from the 11th century until the secularization. Then it was laid out in its northern area in the middle of the 19th century by the royal court gardener Carl and his son Carl Josepf von Effner in the manner of an English park; with a delightful alternation of meadows, bushes and solitary trees.

literature

• Georg Paula , Stefanie Berg-Hobohm : District Weilheim-Schongau (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume I.23 ). Lipp, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-87490-585-3 .

Web links

Commons : Kloster Bernried  - Collection of images

• Bernried monastery , basic data and history:
  Christine Riedl-Valder:  Bernried - a center of clergy reform in the 12th century in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
• Manuela Warkocz: Bernried Monastery - A meeting place for 900 years In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Online version April 10, 2020, accessed April 12, 2020.
• Homepage of the Bernried monastery
• History of the monastery

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Hartig: Die Oberbayerischen Stifts , Volume I: The Benedictine, Cistercian and Augustinian canons . Publisher vorm. G. J. Manz, Munich 1935, DNB 560552157 , p. 187 f.
2. ^ Karl Rösch: Franz Josef Strauss - Member of the Bundestag in the Weilheim constituency 1949–1978. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-8316-4392-9 . Dissertation at the same time. P. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Build a church. 350 years parish and monastery church St. Martin, Bernried ( Memento from February 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). In: stmartin-bernried.de . 2013, p. 8 (PDF; 1.86 MB).
4. ^ Superior in Bernried. In: bildungshaus-bernried.de. Retrieved March 23, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 46 ″  E