Fremersberg Monastery
The Fremersberg Monastery is a former monastery and today's winery on the southwest slope of the Fremersberg near Baden-Baden . It is located in an exclave of the municipality of Sinzheim, which is enclosed by the city of Baden-Baden . It was inhabited by Franciscans until 1826 .
history
In 1411 and a built Leineweber named Heinrich von Mühlhausen on the southern slope of the Fremersbergs Klause . When other forest brothers joined him, they built a chapel. In 1426, the later Margrave Jakob I of Baden had a monastery built for brothers of the Franciscan order of the Upper German (Strasbourg) Franciscan Province on the same spot, according to legend, out of gratitude for the help given by two men of the order when he went to the Fremersberger Forst got lost. The monastery was devastated in the Thirty Years War . Hardly rebuilt by Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm , it was looted in 1689 during the War of the Palatinate Succession . In 1826 it was finally closed as a result of secularization and then demolished.
Fremersberg Monastery
Today, on the site of the former monastery, there is a castle-like building complex built in 1905 in the classical style with a main wing, side wing and bell tower. It is the seat of the administration and the German headquarters of IDS Germany , a service company for information in the healthcare sector. IDS has completely renovated the monastery property, which is under monument protection, according to management-optimized requirements and supplemented it with art. A complementary vineyard area has been leased to a privately operated winery, the Ewald Kopp winery in Sinzheim-Ebenung since 2009. On the vineyard area lies the single layer of Klostergut Fremersberger Feigenwäldchen , whose name comes from the 36 fig bushes in the southwestern part of the property. Some of the vines are over 50 years old. This location was the first vineyard on the Baden Wine Route , which began near Baden-Baden , until it was extended north in 2014.
literature
- Book of the dead of the Franciscans on the Fremersberg over Baden-Baden: Liber mortuorum vv patrum et religiosorum fratrum, benefactorum, patronorum in Fremersberg , 1439–1822; General State Archives Karlsruhe (holdings of 64 anniversaries, No. 15 Fremersberg on Baden-Baden)
- Franz Vinyard: Fremersberg Monastery near Baden-Baden . In: Mein Heimatland 21 (1934), pp. 50–54
- Wolfgang Müller: The Franciscan Monastery Fremersberg . In: The Ortenau. Journal of the Historical Association for Mittelbaden 58 (1978), pp. 438–444
Web links
- Franciscan monastery in Fremersberg in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 45 " N , 8 ° 11 ′ 42" E