Ennetach Monastery

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Ennetach with Dominican convent (watercolor from 1805)

The Ennetach Monastery was a Dominican monastery in Ennetach , today a district of Mengen in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The Ennetach monastery was probably founded around 1280 and was subordinate to the Dominican monastery in Constance . In the first half of the 15th century, the monastery was first explicitly as Terziarinnen - Convention refers, 1508 was a Inklusorium mentioned. The convent was considered poor, but later it had considerable agricultural and forestry property, most of which was managed by the nuns themselves. In 1711 the monastery was still free of debt, but by 1732 large debts accumulated due to mismanagement. The income from the work of the sisters in the production of works of art was no longer sufficient to solve the monastery's financial problems. Embroidery work in particular was an important source of income for the monastery.

In 1803 the monastery fell to the House of Thurn and Taxis , together with the Buchau monastery and other lands , which administered it as part of the Imperial Principality of Buchau , and in 1806 it became the Kingdom of Württemberg under constitutional law . In 1807 there were only 13 women and five lay sisters in the convent. From 1821 the monastery belonged to the dean's office Saulgau in the then newly founded diocese of Rottenburg . In 1826 the remaining sisters were incorporated into the Sießen convent .

Convention and church building

The first stone monastery buildings were built around 1330. In 1420 a small monastery church is mentioned in honor of the Holy Trinity , Mary , Bartholomew and Mary Magdalene , which was consecrated again in 1426. Between 1701 and 1712 the monastery was completely renovated. The monastery buildings were then demolished after the monastery was closed between 1827 and 1840. Only the “Klosterstrasse” and a weir in the Ablach near the sawmill remind of the former monastery today.

literature

Joseph Späth: The Dominican Convent of Ennetach , Mengen 1997 Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 19 ′ 20 ″  E

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