Ettenheimmünster Monastery
The monastery Ettenheimmünster was a Benedictine - Abbey in Ettenheimmünster . It was about 500 m east of today's parish church of the place. Legend has it that the monastery was founded as a monk's cell as early as the 7th century, the oldest secured documents date from the early 12th century. After the war and hardship of the 17th century, the monastery complex was renovated in the baroque style in the early 18th century and flourished briefly before the monastery area became part of the Baden state in 1803came who abolished the monastery and sold the buildings. In the course of the 19th century all monastery buildings were demolished after various uses. Today - in addition to the pilgrimage and parish church of St. Landelin located in the village, which was never the monastery church, only a few ruins of the monastery remain.
history
Founding legend
According to legend, the founding of the monastery goes back to the holy Landelin von Ettenheimmünster , an Irish monk who is said to have been murdered by a pagan hunter around 640 on the site of today's Landelin spring . According to legend, five springs sprang from the place of martyrdom . The later bishop of Strasbourg , Widegern , built a church and a small monastery, called Monachorum Cella , around 728 , which, however, fell apart again for economic reasons. Under Widegern's successor, Heddo , the monastery was re-established at the same location and given appropriate property. The documents on the early history of the monastery, including the so-called Heddos testament from 762 and the demarcation of ownership of the monasteries Ettenheimmünster and Waldkirch from 926, are considered by researchers to be forgeries from the time of the investiture dispute (between 1111 and 1125), which made use of older documents that are now lost , but these changed.
Early history
The oldest secured documents date from the early 12th century. At that time, the monastery was legally subject to the diocese of Strasbourg , with which there were constant disputes. The Strasbourg bishops awarded the bailiwick of the monastery to the Lords of Geroldseck , with whom there had also been arguments for centuries. In 1440 the monastery was devastated by the bailiffs. The monastery suffered further devastation during the Peasants' War in 1525. While the Augsburg Confession was introduced in the surrounding margrave and knightly places at the time of the Reformation , the monastery remained traditional. Through the Strasbourg bishop's schism of 1592/93, the monastery came under the ownership of the Protestant bishop Johann Georg von Brandenburg . During the Thirty Years War , the monastery was occupied by Swedish troops, while the monks were housed in other monasteries. After the death of Jakob von Geroldseck in 1634, the Kastvogtei returned to the Strasbourg bishops. The abbey was facing economic ruin as a result of the Thirty Years' War, was also affected in the subsequent wars of the 17th century and was abandoned by the monks for another three years from 1676 onwards. Not far from the Benedictine abbey, a pilgrimage church was built from 1687 under Abbot Maurus Geiger , which is today one of the most beautiful baroque sacred buildings on the Upper Rhine . Today this church serves the community as a parish church .
Brief heyday in the 18th century
After the end of the War of the Spanish Succession , the monastery was rebuilt under Abbot Johann Baptist Eck (1710–1740) by the Vorarlberg master builder Peter Thumb , and from 1719 the abbey church was rebuilt. The monastery had a rich library, most of which are now in the Baden State Library . As a music center, the abbey was active beyond the Upper Rhine during this time.
Bishopric
As a result of the French Revolution , the Bishop of Strasbourg , Cardinal Louis Rohan , fled across the Rhine in 1790 and found accommodation in the monastery until he could take his seat in the episcopal office in Ettenheim, which had been converted for him (but he did not succeed in obtaining a diocese on the right bank of the Rhine establish). It belonged to the bishopric of Strasbourg until 1803 .
secularization
In 1803 the monastery, in which 28 monks lived in addition to the abbot , was secularized by the newly founded state of Baden, which had acquired the monastery area as a result of the Napoleonic wars . The monastery complex was sold to private owners in 1804. The valuable inventory of the church, including the Silbermann organ, was transferred to the pilgrimage church of St. Landolin. The monastery building was first used as a chicory and then as a tobacco factory . During the Napoleonic wars it was used as a hospital . Eventually it was sold for demolition. In 1860 the tower of the church was the last to be blown up, so that only the surrounding wall of the monastery remained. Today it is located to the east of the St. Marien retirement home.
List of Abbots
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Personalities
- Ildefons Haas (* 1735 in Offenburg, † 1791 in Ettenheimmünster), Benedictine monk in the Ettenheimmünster monastery, church musician and composer
- Albert Abbreviation , (born November 15, 1811 in Freiburg, † May 27, 1884 in Ettenheimmünster), pastor and local researcher
literature
- Ettenheimmünster monastery ; in: Geroldsecker Land, issue 22, 1980
- Albert Abbreviation, Cardinal LRE Rohan zu Ettenheim , 1870
- Albert Abbreviation, The Benedictine Abbey Ettenheim-Münster: historical description , Lahr 1870 online in the Badische Landesbibliothek
- Albert Abbreviation, The City of Ettenheim and its Surroundings , 1883 - 92 pages
- Albert Abbreviation, Der Amts-Bezirk: or the former Sanctuary Empire Bondorf , 1861 - 257 pages
- Bernhard Uttenweiler: The veneration of the holy martyr Landelin and the pilgrimage church in Ettenheimmünster , Kunstverlag Josef Fink 2006, ISBN 3-89870-299-5
Web links
- Benedictine Abbey Ettenheimmünster in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- Ettenheimmünster Monastery on badischewanderungen.de (where it is suggested, however, that the pilgrimage church was the monastery church)
- Homepage of the community Ettenheim about the monastery Ettenheimmünster
- The manuscripts of the Ettenheimmünster monastery on the website of the Badische Landesbibliothek
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sollinger: History and memory calendar (history and memory calendar). A useful diary for all classes, but especially for friends of religion and the like. history. Sollinger, 1825, p. 88 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 7 ° 52 ′ 31.8 ″ E