Goldbach Monastery

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Goldbach Monastery. Remnants of the surrounding wall

Goldbach Monastery was a Pauline convent in Goldbach , a district of Waldenburg in the Hohenlohe district .

history

The monastery was founded around 1380 by Anna von Leuchtenberg, the widow of Kraft III. von Hohenlohe , donated in the hamlet of Goldbach, which was first mentioned in 1357. In 1382 the Bishop of Würzburg Gerhard von Schwarzburg confirmed the foundation and transferred the patronage of the parish of Untermünkheim to the monastery . This secured income for the monastery, but was also linked to the obligation to maintain a vicar at the local parish.

The convent in Goldbach was intended for a prior , four monks and five lay brothers . The monastery bailiwick was exercised by the Counts of Hohenlohe . Under canon law it was subordinate to the Argenhardt Monastery and, after its incorporation, to the Pauliner Provincial in Langnau near Tettnang.

The monastery was placed under papal protection several times, for example in 1388 by Urban VI. and later by Martin V. Numerous donations and purchases of goods, including the rights of patronage from Ilsfeld and Satteldorf to Goldbach, allowed the monastery to grow steadily. A detailed inventory has been preserved from 1511, listing the library and other items that were then in the monastery’s possession.

After the Reformation, the monastery was cut off from its income from its three parishes, which were located in the area of ​​the imperial city of Schwäbisch Hall . In 1553 a Protestant church order was finally introduced in Hohenlohe, which sealed the end of the monastery. The monastery property was confiscated by the Counts of Hohenlohe and divided between the main lines of Neuenstein and Waldenburg. Goldbach himself fell to the Waldenburg line. They sold it to private individuals in 1772.

Monastery complex

The entire monastery area was originally surrounded by a wall. The chapel, first mentioned in 1391, was consecrated to St. Lawrence . Other buildings were the Brotherhood House, which is connected to the chapel with a cloister, the Endresshaus and the Rossstall. Today the plan of the brotherhood house as well as the remains of the wall and the cloister lake are still preserved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theobald Freudenberger: Die Würzburger Weihematrikel of the years 1520 to 1552 , Paderborn 1990, p. 70.
  2. ↑ a b c Database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives : Paulinerkloster Goldbach - History , accessed on September 23, 2010.

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 9 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 26.9 ″  E