Engelthal Monastery (Hallwangen)
The monastery Engelthal ( monastery Engeltal , Monastery Engenthal ) was a Dominican convent in Hallwangen , now a suburb of Dornstetten in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). However, the village of Hallwangen itself was not owned by the monastery. The possessions extended to surrounding areas.
The monastery, founded around 1295, was dismantled after the Reformation in 1588. Remnants of the wall are in the area of today's Hallwangen church. The baptismal font in the Herzogsweiler church comes from a penitential chapel that belonged to the monastery. Until 1993/94 there was a monastery mill in Hallwangen, the history of which also goes back to the Engelthal monastery.
The foundation of the monastery is documented in 1292 by the knight Hans von Weitingen. In the beginning, the monastery was under the protection of the Lords of Fürstenberg . In 1372 the monastery was sold to Württemberg. In 1527 the monastery of Württemberg went to the Tübingen hospital. After the Reformation, the property was handed over to the clerical administration in Dornstetten, which was also the beginning of the decline of the monastery.
Web links
- Chronicle of the village of Obermusbach
- History of the monastery
- Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg
- Wikisource
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 11.4 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 47" E