Gnadental Monastery (Michelfeld)
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Gnadental Monastery (Latin Abbatia Vallis Gratiae ) was a Cistercian abbey in Gnadental in the Schwäbisch Hall district .
history
Gnadental Monastery was founded by Konrad von Krautheim and his wife Kunigunde von Eberstein, initially in Hohebach , not far from their Krautheim Castle . In 1237, at the request of the Würzburg Bishop Hermann I von Lobdeburg, the General Chapter in Cîteaux incorporated the Cistercian Order. A little later the nuns moved to the valley of the beavers .
The monastery bailiwick was exercised by the Counts of Hohenlohe , for whom the abbey also temporarily served as a burial place . With the introduction of the Reformation by the Lords of Hohenlohe, the monastery was secularized ; the nuns who did not want to convert to the new faith were allowed to stay in the complex. The first Protestant pastor was introduced to his office at Candlemas in 1557. In 1571 the last prioress Sophia von Ellrichshausen died . After that, the monastery was used as a stud farm from 1589 , a mint was set up there in 1622 and a hospital in 1696 with up to 24 inmates. The hospital later moved to Neuenstein .
The hospital building and the three-aisled monastery church have been preserved, while only remnants of the walled monastery district and the cloister can be seen on the borders of today's cemetery. The monastery church, consecrated to Our Lady , with a nun's gallery and several outstanding tombstones of abbesses and benefactors is an important regional testimony to the early Gothic.
Web links
- Cistercian abbey Gnadental in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- Side of the community
- Gnadental in GenWiki
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 39 ″ N , 9 ° 39 ′ 12.6 ″ E