Gars Monastery

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Engraving of the monastery from the Churbaier Atlas by Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1687
Michael Wening : Gars Monastery, early 18th century
Monastery church
Interior of the monastery church

Gars Abbey is since 1858 a monastery of the Redemptorists in Gars am Inn in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

history

The monastery consecrated to SS. Maria and Radegundis was founded by Duke Tassilo III. founded by Bavaria in 768 as "Cella Garoz". Originally there were Benedictines in Gars , from 1122 to 1803, the year it was dissolved in the course of secularization in Bavaria , the monastery was an Augustinian canon monastery . The early baroque monastery church (built under the direction of Christoph Zuccalli together with his two cousins Kaspar and Enrico from Roveredo in Graubünden ) is considered the first baroque church on German soil. They and central monastery buildings survived the period of secularization. It has been a Redemptorist monastery since 1858. From 1907 to 1973 Gars housed a Philosophical-Theological College for the Redemptorists of the Munich Order Province. In the building complex there are also classrooms and administration rooms of a state high school as well as an institute for teacher training. The grave of the Redemptorist Kaspar Stangassinger, who was beatified in 1988, is located in the monastery church .

The famous painter monk Max Schmalzl , also known as the Bavarian Fra Angelico , lived and worked in the monastery from 1871 until his death in 1930 .

The Bavarian mystic Louise Beck lived in the monastery until her death in 1879 . During this time she ruled the monastery and had a great influence on Bavarian church politics.

Row of provosts

source

Augustinian Canons:

  1. Eppo I.
  2. Eberwin
  3. Hugo, 1129, 1158
  4. Henry I, 1160
  5. Friedrich I.
  6. Egenolf, 1170
  7. Henry II, 1171, 1177
  8. Johann I, 1179, around 1183
  9. Berthold I., 1185, 1195
  10. Adelung (Adelwin), 1198, 1210
  11. Henry III, 1219
  12. Frederick II, 1229
  13. Ulrich (unsure)
  14. Conrad I., 1288
  15. Thomas I., † 1307 (uncertain)
  16. Jacob I.
  17. Gundaker, † 1317 (uncertain)
  18. Seyfrid
  19. Hartnid, † 1323 (uncertain)
  20. Berthold
  21. Stephan
  22. Thomas II
  23. Jacob II
  24. Zacharias, 1381
  25. Albert von Leuzendorf, 1383
  26. James III, 1388
  27. Jakob IV. Hinterkircher, 1414–1420
  28. Conrad II. Dezlsamer, † 1435
  29. Thomas III Surauer, 1435-1455
  30. Christian Nadler, 1455-1459
  31. Johann II. Mosheimer, 1459–1469
  32. Johann III. Stockhaimer, 1469-1494; received the pontificals in 1484
  33. Jakob V. Zollner, 1494–1510
  34. Johann IV. Schambacher, 1510–1516
  35. Joachim, 1516
  36. Sebastian Peltram, 1516-1528
  37. Caspar von Leuzenbrunn, 1528–1533
  38. Valentin Rhem, 1533-1540
  39. Georg I. Edenhueber, 1540–1556
  40. Georg II Hadersperger, 1557–1591
  41. Michael Wagnereck, 1592-1620
  42. Peter Mittmann, 1620-1643
  43. Ubald Mayr, 1643-1648
  44. Athanas Peitlhauser, 1648–1698
  45. Gelasius Ludwig, 1698–1742
  46. Paulus Hoelzl, 1742–1751
  47. Joseph Schmid, 1751–1771
  48. Floridus Fak, 1772-1794
  49. Augustin Hacklinger, 1794–1803, † 1830

literature

  • Bernhard Ebermann: Monastery and parish church Gars am Inn (= Small Art Guide. No. 940). 6th, supplemented edition. Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-4674-1 .
  • Augustin Hacklinger: Brief history of the regulated Canon Monastery Gars. sn, Munich 1830, digitized .
  • Heiner Hofmann (editor): The traditions, documents and records of the Gars monastery (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history. NF Bd. 31). Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-10391-X .

Web links

Commons : Kloster Gars  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hartig: Die Oberbayerischen Stifts , Volume I: The Benedictine, Cistercian and Augustinian canons . Publisher vorm. G. J. Manz, Munich 1935, DNB 560552157 , p. 182.

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 23.4 "  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 34.7"  E