Biburg Monastery

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View of the former monastery building

The Biburg Abbey is a former convent of Benedictine in Biburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg .

history

Copper engraving by Michael Wening : Biburg Abbey, ca.1700

Count Heinrich I von Sittling and his wife Bertha, daughter of Count Eberhard I von Ratzenhofen , called the "Blessed Bertha", handed over the Biburg Castle, which belonged to them and which was originally Bertha's marriage property, to their two younger sons when their inheritance was distributed Konrad and Arbeo. According to the wishes of their mother Bertha, Konrad and Arbeo donated their Biburg castle to the cathedral church in Bamberg in 1125 with the condition that a monastery be built there. The "Blessed Bertha" is therefore considered to be the founder of the monastery. The construction of the church began in 1125. In 1133 it was provisionally inaugurated. In 1140 the monastery complex was so far completed that it could be consecrated by the bishops Heinrich von Regensburg and Egilbert von Bamberg in honor of "Our Lady". Eberhard von Sittling and Biburg , another son of the "Blessed Bertha" and a monk fromChecking , then became the first abbot of the Biburg monastery. His older brother Ulrich was appointed Vogt of the monastery. Originally as a double monastery d. H. Built as both a men's and a women's monastery, it burned down in 1278, although the women's monastery was never rebuilt. After the fire in 1278 and economic problems, Abbot Heinrich IV had to sell the monastery goods at the end of the 13th century. After economic recovery and the monastery flourishing from 1400 onwards, the monks left the monastery in the turmoil of the Reformation . In 1555 the empty monastery was closed; the plant came under sovereign administration. In 1589 Jesuits from Ingolstadt received the building. In 1781 the Order of Malta took over the monastery complex. In 1808 the monastery became the property of the Bavarian state due to the secularization in Bavaria . The grave of "Blessed Bertha" was originally located in the nearby pilgrimage church of Allersdorf, which was also donated by her and was looked after from Biburg, and was later transferred with the cover plate of the high grave to the monastery church, in which the "Bertastein" is in the apse of the southern one Side aisle can still be seen.

Buildings

The former monastery church
Interior of the Maria Immaculata monastery church

The monastery church Maria Immaculata is one of the most important Romanesque architectural monuments in old Bavaria, having remained almost unchanged in its structural substance since its inauguration in 1140. At the beginning of the 16th century, the ribbed vault was created in the central nave. Since 1785 it has been used as the parish church of Biburg. From 1885 to 1887 the church was re-Romanized. The monastery buildings, which were renovated in 1701 after a fire, were privatized after the Order of Malta was dissolved. The monastery buildings housed the Biburg monastery brewery, which was closed in 1991. The Biburg Art Pension, an art school and academy for artists, is currently using some of the rooms in the monastery. The former monastery, hotel and most recently "Free School" serves as a permanent branch of the St. Franziskus Abensberg vocational training center (BBW). The boarding school closed at the end of the 2016/2017 school year.

Trivia

In 2010 the monastery served as a location for parts of the feature film Trans Bavaria .

Web links

Commons : Biburg Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam Rottler Rev. i. R .: Abensberg through the ages , self-published, Abensberg 1972, p. 25
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hans Bleibrunner: Church and Monastery Biburg near Abensberg , pp. 3–8
  3. ↑ a b Adam Rottler, pp. 36-38.
  4. ↑ a b c Kloster Biburg , basic data and history:
    Christine Riedl-Valder:  Biburg - a place of medieval asceticism in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
  5. ↑ Hubert Freilinger: Historischer Atlas von Bayern , Heft 46, S. 200, Ed. Commission for Bavarian State History Munich, 1977
  6. ↑ An art boarding house is moving into the former Biburg monastery. Mittelbayerische Zeitung, accessed on August 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Address information. Deutsche Telekom Medien GmbH, accessed on December 28, 2012 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 31.8 "  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 23.8"  E