Gutnau Monastery

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The monastery Gutnau , old spelling also monastery Guttnau was a small Benedictine monastery in Neuenburg in Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald .

history

The Gutnau Monastery was founded in 1181 with the help of a preserved inheritance , according to the information from the Liber Originum of Abbot Caspar Molitoris von Guta, a nun from the Sitzenkirch Monastery . The first monastery building was probably located directly on the Rhine, but was later rebuilt further away from the bank towards Auggen . In 1260 nuns of the Sitzenkirch monastery joined the convent in Gutnau, but without the approval of the St. Blasian abbot. Therefore, in 1261 the nuns from Sitzenkirchen had to return. In 1423 the monastery burned to the ground and was only poorly repaired. In 1492 the monastery was so impoverished that it could no longer sustain itself. St. Blasien converted it into a provost's office.

The property finally fell to the Provost Office Bürgeln in 1630 , and in 1657 to the Provost Office Krozingen , which they incorporated around 1682 at the latest.

In August 1675, all of the monastery buildings were destroyed by the French and not rebuilt afterwards. In 1780 the last remaining fiefs were sold. There are no more visible remains on site.

In the Gutnau area, hidden in the undergrowth, there is a block of wall nicknamed "Heidenklotz". This corner piece is part of the St. Mathiskirche, which was first mentioned in 1313. Skeletal remains near the church indicate a cemetery belonging to the fishing settlement of Au, which disappeared on the Rhine in the Middle Ages.

After the Reformation, St. Mathis was used by the Protestant parish of Auggen, the monastery church was reserved for the Catholic convent. The Protestant pastor Jermias Gmelin von Auggen mentions on September 24, 1669, "that there were two churches in the Gutnau branch, the monastery church belonging to the prelate of St. Blasien and the other church of St. Mathis. The pastor of Auggen preached there occasionally and held the children's apprenticeship in good weather at noon. This church has been in the ashes for over 30 years ".

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literature

  • Franz Joseph Mone : Sources for Baden regional history. Volume 1. (digitized version)
  • Johann Baptist Eiselin : Opus incompletum in folio ex quo: Liber originum, auctore abbate Kaspar I, story about Abbot Kaspar I (based on an original by Abbot Kaspar II, which also contains the inscriptions on the tombs in the former cloister of St. Blasien until 1672, kept in the Einsiedeln Monastery archive ).
  • Columban Reble : Liber Originum Monasterij Sancti Blasij In Silva Hercynia: That is: An old-written book from the origin of the Gotts-Haus St. Blasien on the black forest . Waldshut, 1716, pp. 198-203 online
  • Martin Gerbert : Historia Nigrae Silvae ordinis Sancti Benedicti coloniae , 1783–1788 (digital copies: Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 ), also published in German since 1993, translated by Adalbert Weh
  • Franz Quarthal : The Benedictine monasteries in Baden-Württemberg / arr. by Franz Quarthal. In cooperation with Hansmartin Decker-Hauff , Klaus Schreiner and the Institute for Historical Regional Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Tübingen. St. Ottilien, EOS-Verlag 1987
  • Winfried Zwernemann: The Gutenau Monastery, Medieval and Roman soil monuments south of Neuchâtel in "Das Markgräflerland" 1st, 1982, pp. 72-86

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 38.4 "  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 19.7"  E