Bildhausen Monastery

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Bildhausen Monastery
Picture Maria Bildhausen 2011 07.JPG
location Germany
Bavaria
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '37 "  N , 10 ° 17' 15"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '37 "  N , 10 ° 17' 15"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		357
Patronage December 8th
founding year 1158
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1803
Mother monastery Ebrach Monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Maria Bildhausen Monastery

The Bildhausen Monastery (also Maria Bildhausen Monastery ) is a former Cistercian abbey near Münnerstadt in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg . It is located in a partly wooded hilly landscape on the eastern edge of the Rhön . The Franconian Marienweg leads through Maria Bildhausen .

history

The Cistercian monastery consecrated to Saint Bilhildis was founded in 1156 by Hermann von Stahleck , Count Palatine of the Rhine and settled on February 12, 1158 by monks from the Ebrach monastery in the Steigerwald.

The monastery had its first heyday until 1525, marked by rich acquisitions and donations. During the German Peasants' War , the so-called Bildhäuser Haufen , the regional union of rebellious peasants and citizens, brought devastation and looting to the abbey between Easter and Pentecost in 1525. Between 1552 and 1555, in the so-called Second Margrave War , the monastery suffered further severe damage to its property and buildings. The third incursion was the Thirty Years War , which destroyed the restorations by Abbot Michael Christ (1582).

In the 17th and 18th centuries, reconstruction work took place, which essentially gave the monastery complex, as it still presents itself in its preserved parts, its face. Abbot Robert Metzel started these renovations from 1675 to 1689.

The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization ; the last abbot was Nivard Schlimbach . In 1826 the church as well as the cloister , the gate chapel and the guest building were demolished. In 1897 Dominikusringenisen acquired the monastery complex. Sisters of the St. Joseph Congregation from Ursberg moved into the preserved buildings and in 1929 set up a facility for the disabled. In 1954, at the request of the community of Kleinwenkheim, the community part of Bildhausen was renamed Maria Bildhausen by resolution of the Bavarian state government. Since 1996 the facility for people with disabilities has been continued by the church foundation Dominikus -ringenisen-Werk .

Dominikus -ringenisen-Werk Maria Bildhausen

The Dominikus -ringenisen-Werk operates as a facility for the disabled

  • Residential facilities in Maria Bildhausen,
  • Residential facilities in Bad Königshofen, Münnerstadt and Bad Brückenau,
  • a workshop for disabled people in Maria Bildhausen and Münnerstadt,
  • a mining facility in Maria Bildhausen and Bad Brückenau,
  • Outpatient and open help in the districts of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld as well
  • a day care center for people with autism in Aschaffenburg .

The residential offers at the Maria Bildhausen location look after adults with intellectual disabilities as dormitories, residential care homes and specialist care facilities. 150 places are available in 13 residential groups.

The decentralized residential offers include two residential facilities with 27 spaces in Bad Königshofen , two residential facilities with 24 spaces in Münnerstadt and one residential facility with 24 spaces in Bad Brückenau .

In the workshop for disabled people (WfbM) with 210 employees, people with disabilities are employed in the areas of industrial and manual production, in-house production and services. There is a vocational training area to introduce you to working life within a period of up to two years as well as internship and training opportunities in housekeeping, cloister inn, central kitchen, gardening and monastery shop. If they are suitably qualified, workshop employees can get work in these areas or at outsourced workplaces after the training phase.

Ambulatory assisted living (ABW) is offered in the social rooms Münnerstadt, Bad Königshofen and Bad Brückenau.

Attractions

Syndicate building and archive tower
The gatehouse

The following buildings have been preserved from the former monastery complex:

  • The former abbey and syndicate building was built in 1625 under Abbot Georg Kihn as a replacement for the previous buildings in the Renaissance style that had been destroyed in the war. The building consists of the chancellery with a Renaissance gable and bay window on the south side, connected to the older square archive tower on the east side (built at the end of the 16th century) and the chancellery to the north . The interior (staircase with rich stucco work and abbot's apartment on the upper floor with rococo decor) goes back to Abbot Bonifaz Geßner (second half of the 18th century).
  • For the new St. Maria convent building (17th and 18th centuries), parts of the structure of the first building from the 12th century were used.
  • The basement of the octagonal, five-storey stair tower from the early 17th century in the Renaissance style still comes from the medieval building. Today it stands alone, but was previously connected to the refectory, which no longer exists.
  • The garden pavilion , built in 1766, also belongs to the Bonifaz Geßner era.
  • The gatehouse (entrance gate) was built in 1788 by the last abbot of the monastery, Nivardus Schlimbach .
  • The summer residence and farm building on today's golf course also come from the last abbot .

There is nothing left of the monastery church, which was demolished in 1826 and which went back to Abbot Georg Kihn (17th century). The 17 baroque altars that the church once owned are distributed among various churches in the region; 4 are missing. A permanent exhibition with photographs and accompanying material in the preserved basement of the former guest house (Kaisersaal) documents the research of the former estate manager Alfons Maria Wirsing (deceased 1986) about these altars after the files kept in the Würzburg State Archives were burned in the 1945 bombing .

gastronomy

There is a monastery inn and a restaurant on the golf course.

Congregation of St. Joseph

The convent currently has three sisters (as of May 2017).

The agricultural land, insofar as it is still used as such, was leased in summer 2009 and will be converted to organic farming. Local products are apple juice, liqueurs and schnapps.

A golf course was laid out in 1992–1993 on a further 138 hectares, which were also previously used for agriculture ; the abbot Schlimbach's summer residence and farm buildings were partially renovated or renewed. The operator is the Golfclub Maria Bildhausen e. V. Parts of the natural field and meadow landscape have been preserved on the 18-hole course, and additional ponds and plantings have been created. With an extension of twelve kilometers, the golf course is twice as spacious as an average-sized facility; the length of the fairways is not affected.

  • Gatehouse, built in 1788 by Abbot Schlimbach

  • Abbey and syndicate building, built in 1625 as a prelate apartment by Abbot Georg Kihn

  • Detail of the abbey and syndicate building

  • Garden hall of Abbot Bonifaz Geßner, built in 1765/66

  • Stair tower, 1454, once connected to the convent building, cloister and refectory

  • Detail stair tower

  • Convent building St. Maria, 1165 or 17th century

  • today's monastery church

literature

(in chronological order)

  • Johann Wilhelm Rost: History of the Franconian Cistercian Abbey Bildhausen. In: Archives of the Historical Association of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg. Volume 11, Issue 1. Stürtz, Würzburg 1851, pp. 1-96 ( digitized version ).
  • Heinrich Wagner: Regesten of the Cistercian Abbey of Bildhausen 1158–1525. (= Sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg. Volume 37). Schöningh, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-87717-040-4 .
  • Werner Eberth : The secularization 1802/03 in the area of ​​today's Bad Kissingen district. Secularization of the Cisterze in Bildhausen. Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2003, DNB 969788630 .

Web links

Commons : Maria Bildhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Joseph Congregation Ursberg