Habsthal Monastery
The monastery Habsthal , actually Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady Habsthal is one of Benedictine occupied monastery in Habsthal , a suburb Ostrachs in Baden-Wuerttemberg Sigmaringen district .
The monastery, which is located on the Upper Swabian Baroque Road , the Upper Swabian Pilgrimage Route and the “Habsthaler Jakobsweg”, a stage of the Via Beuronensis , is a little-known baroque gem in Upper Swabia . It belongs to the Swiss Benedictine Federation.
history
The monastery has its origin in the city of Mengen . There some women got together in the first half of the 13th century to live together in a monastic way. This Massener Beguinage was based in what was then the administrative building - today's Gasthof Lamm. They cared for the sick, looked after the poor and looked after orphans.
The women soon received ecclesiastical recognition and then sought donors through relationships to found a new monastery. They found them in Count Palatine Hugo IV of Tübingen and King Rudolf von Habsburg , who made land and buildings in Habsthal available to them.
" In the name ... amen. We Hugo, Count Palatine of Tubingen by the grace of God, make it known to all who read this letter both now and in the future. So that what is traded about people does not get lost through oblivion as a stepmother of things, it is customary to write such things wisely in writings and to leave them behind for their descendants; Therefore, by virtue of this letter, we testify that we own the property in Habsthal with all its affiliations and what we believe to be right in it, at the request of Fratris Joannis of Ravensburg, order of preachers, in honor of God and the glorious Virgin Mary, for the salvation of our and our forefathers' souls, voluntarily handed over to the hand of the aforementioned F. Joannis, to those venerable prioress and convent of the sisters in quantities in Christ Jesus with full right. This is seen a. D. Christi 1259, Indictione 2da. on the way in between near Altheim in the presence of the named F Joannis and his journeyman Conradi von Überlingen, Mr. Crafftonis, Lord of the Church of Altheim, Lord v. Iselingen, called Marquardus, Miller von Iselingen and Werner, his brother, - Wolframs Advocaten von Altensteig and Eberhards Edlen von Jungingen. On the interest day in the cross or bed weeks at 9 a.m. As a testimony and certainty of things, we have ordered that this letter be affirmed with our island. "
The women moved from Mengen to Habsthal in 1259. There they again joined the Dominican order through relationships with the Dominican Johannes von Ravensburg. As Dominicans , from then on they lived according to the rules of St. Augustine, held a strict enclosure and practiced choral prayer.
They were evidently well received and were repeatedly given land, even entire farms. The monastery was able to build up a small dominion in the districts of Habsthal, Rosna and Bernweiler and owned the lower jurisdiction there .
In 1806 Napoleon dissolved the convent. The principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen received the possessions of the Habsthal and Wald monasteries through secularization . Prince Anton Aloys let the nuns continue to live in the monastery with great restrictions; there was a prioress, 17 nuns and three lay sisters.
The Dominican convent was abolished in 1840 and the convent building was used as an educational institution for prospective teachers . From 1856 to 1875 a penal and correctional facility was housed in Habsthal . In 1892, Benedictine nuns from Hermetschwil, Switzerland, acquired the monastery building in the canton of Aargau . The nuns built the abbess's seat and the novitiate in Habsthal. The four sisters who make up the convent today are in the monastic tradition. Since 1991 Abbot Benno Malfèr from the Muri-Gries Abbey in South Tyrol has been the Ordinary of the Order .
On Ascension Day, May 21 and 22, 2009, the monastery and the village of Habsthal celebrated the 750th anniversary with Erwin Teufel and other prominent figures from church, aristocratic and political circles. The monastery has been managed by Prioress Kornelia Kreidler OSB since 2010. The roof structure of the monastery building was badly damaged, so that renovation work was urgently required. A support association was founded for this. The roof and facade renovation has been completed since 2014; Since 2013 the monastery community has been running a monastery shop with the help of volunteers.
List of abbesses and prioresses
As abbesses, prioresses, subproresses, choir women (C), lay sisters (L) and novices (N) of the Habsthal monastery are known:
| date | Abbess / Prioress | annotation | Subprior | C / L / N |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ~ 1490 | Brigitte von Hornstein (P) | |||
| 1685 | 17/14 /? | |||
| 1697-1714 | Maria Augustina Lippin (P) | from Bregenz , * around 1663 | M. Josepha Schwarzin | 21 / ≥ 4/1 (1697) |
| 1724-1758 | Maria Theresia Schirdtim (P) also Schietin |
from Überlingen , * around 1684 | Amanda Lauinger | 17/3/1 (1722) |
| 1783-1791 | M. Conrada Egger (P) | from the Allgäu | ||
| 1791-1801 | Creszenzia Örtlin (P) | Conrada Egger | ||
| 1801-1825 | M. Conrada Egger (P) | from the Allgäu; † 1825 | Creszenzia Örtlin | 14/4/2 (1803) |
| 1806 | Dissolution of the Convention. | 17/3 /? | ||
| 1841 | The seven surviving Dominican women have to leave the monastery. | Σ = 7 | ||
| 1892 | The first nine Benedictine nuns from Hermetschwil move into Habsthal. | 2 / - / 7 | ||
| 1892-1898 | M. Gertrudis Stocker (P) | |||
| 1898-1903 | M. Gertrudis Stocker (Ä) | First abbess of Hermetschwil-Habsthal | Σ = 24 | |
| 1903-1918 | M. Benedikta Deupoz (Ä) | |||
| 1918-1943 | M. Margareta Baiker (Ä) | |||
| 1943-1985 | M. Scholastika Beil (Ä) | Σ = ≥ 22 (1979) | ||
| 1986-1990 | M. Raphaela Nowak (P) | from Hamburg | ||
| Separation of the two monasteries Hermetschwil and Habsthal; Habsthal Abbey is elevated to an independent conventual priory | ||||
| 1990-2010 | Walburga Wolf (P) | from Gliwice | ||
| since 2010 | Kornelia Kreidler (P) | Σ = 5 (2009) Σ = 3 (since March 2015) |
building
Monastery building
The monastery building was built in the 13th century according to the St. Gallen plan as a four-wing complex with an east-facing church. At its northwest corner is a baroque Mount of Olives around 1520.
Monastery church
The monastery church of St. Stephan was built in 1650 after it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War according to plans by Jodokus Beer z. T. rebuilt and expanded. The baroque furnishings were completed in 1750; it now appears as a hall church with the choir just closed. St. Stephan harbors a lot of artistic treasures and illustrates the devotion to Mary in the works of art , which was the focus of her theology, which has existed for almost 600 years. This is still reflected today in the baroque interior of the church. In the Baroque period, the Dominican sisters commissioned famous masters, for example the painter Gottfried Bernhard Göz , who helped make the Birnau pilgrimage church into its splendor, designed the ceiling fresco in Habsthal . The stucco comes from Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer , Franz Joseph Spiegler painted one of the pictures of Mary. Above the nuns' choir is the adoration of Mary by Dominican sisters, in the nave there is Saint Dominic and in the choir there is the adoration of the Holy Eucharist by the four continents. The furnishings include the high altar from around 1750, the rotating tabernacle with the sacrament scene shown in it with a plastic group of Christ and the apostles. The altar leaves show the founding history of the monastery, the martyrdom of Saint Stephen and Saint Rosa of Lima . They are the work of Matthäus Zehender from 1691. The side altar painting in the nave with the marriage of Saint Catherine was created in 1747 by Spiegler.
The organ is on the nun's gallery . This was ordered in 1907 by the Benedictine nuns from Gebr. Späth Orgelbau in Ennetach . The order was in return for the right granted by the parish to use the nuns' gallery again for choir prayer. The almost original organ has undergone several restorations over the decades, most recently in 2003 by the organ building workshop Harald Rapp from Ennetach. The old ones were zinc - with new tin - pipe replaced. The organ now has 18 stops .
Others
The documentary film “ Silentium - About Life in the Monastery ”, shot in 2013 by the director Sobo Swobodnik, reports on everyday life in Habsthal Monastery. The 84-minute film premiered on May 9, 2015 in the culture cinema Linse in Weingarten. The official cinema release in Germany was May 14, 2015.
literature
- Otto Beck: Habsthal Abbey . (= Small Art Guide; No. 1666). 2nd Edition. Schnell + Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-7954-5376-3
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . Baden-Württemberg I: The administrative districts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1993, ISBN 978-3-422-03024-4 , Habsthal, p. 267 f . (New edition autumn 2011).
- Doris Muth: The secularization of the Habsthal monastery . In: The secularization in the principalities of Hohenzollern 200 years ago (= magazine for Hohenzollern history, 38/39, 2002/2003), pp. 327–352.
- Doris Muth, Sr. Kornelia Kreidler OSB: The Habsthal Monastery . In: Edwin Ernst Weber (Hrsg.): Monasteries in the Sigmaringen district in the past and present. (= Local history publication series of the district of Sigmaringen; Vol. 9) . Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2005, ISBN 3-89870-190-5 , pp. 120-165.
- Johann Nepomuk von Raiser: History of the Habsthal Monastery, formerly Mengen , in: Johann Daniel Georg Memminger (Hrsg.): Württembergische Jahrbücher für patriotic history, geography, statistics and topography, year 1825, 2nd issue, Stuttgart and Tübingen 1826, p 419-432. ( Digitized version )
- Karl Theodor Zingeler : Regulations, commanded and prohibited for the Habsthal monastery . In: Communications of the Association for History and Archeology in Hohenzollern, Vol. 10 (1876/77) , pp. 66–73.
- Karl Theodor Zingeler: Statutes and regulations of the Habstall monastery de anno 1521 . In: Communications of the Association for History and Archeology in Hohenzollern, Vol. 10 (1876/77) , pp. 74–81.
- Karl Theodor Zingeler: Documents on the history of the Habsthal monastery . In: Communications of the Association for History and Archeology in Hohenzollern, Vol. 11 (1877/78) , pp. 35–80.
- Edward von Hornstein-Grüningen: Fragments on the history of the Habsthal monastery . In: Communications of the Association for History and Archeology in Hohenzollern, Vol. 17 (1883/84) , pp. 55–58.
- Johann Adam Kraus: Burdens of the Habsthal monastery around 1700 . In: Association for History, Culture and Regional Studies Hohenzollern (ed.): Hohenzollerische Heimat, 13th year, No. 3 / July 1963 , pp. 45f.
Web links
- Official website
- Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg - Habsthal Dominican Monastery
- "Silentium - From Life in the Monastery" with trailer at moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vera Romeu: Ascension. 750 years is a good reason to celebrate for the nuns . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from May 19, 2009
- ↑ a b c d Vera Romeu: Habsthal Monastery. Many guests celebrate with the monastery village . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from May 23, 2009
- ^ Walter Kempe: Contribution to the history of Habsthal . In: Hohenzollerischer Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Hohenzollerische Heimat, 42nd year, No. 2 / June 1992 (p. 43)
- ↑ a b c Dehio (2011), p. 267
- ↑ Vera Romeu: 750th anniversary. Kloster claims more awareness . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from April 23, 2009
- ↑ Dehio (2011), p. 268
- ^ Art can convey theology . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 4, 2008
- ↑ Sr. Kornelia Kreidler OSB: Treasures of the parament art and other treasures from the Benedictine monastery of Our Lady Habsthal . Information brochure on the exhibition in Habsthal Abbey from Saturday, September 8, 2007 to Sunday, October 14, 2007
- ↑ Karlheinz Fahlbusch (kf): "Silentium": A film about life in Habsthal Abbey gets under your skin . In: Südkurier of May 13, 2015
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 18 ″ E