Holy Cross Monastery (Donauwörth)

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Holy Cross Monastery, with stork's nest
Holy Cross Monastery, high altar
Holy Cross Monastery, ceiling painting
Epitaph plate of the Duchess Maria von Brabant

The Monastery of the Holy Cross in Donauwörth is a former abbey of Benedictine .

history

The monastery, consecrated to the Holy Cross, was founded around 1040 by Mangold I von Werd as a Benedictine monastery . The spiritual founding gift was a part of the cross of Christ, which Mangold received as the ambassador of the German emperor in Constantinople .

At the beginning of the 12th century the nunnery was replaced by a male monastery of the Benedictine rule and moved to the western edge of the city and at the same time its highest geographical location within the wall ring. After the buildings were damaged in the Thirty Years War, Abbot Amandus Röls went to a new church after the Spanish Wars of Succession. In the Rococo era (1770/1780) the buildings were rebuilt and expanded several times.

The monastery was dissolved on January 15, 1803 in the course of secularization . Mobile and immobile possessions of the abbey were handed over to Prince von Oettingen-Wallerstein as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , as compensation for his loss of goods on the left bank of the Rhine, namely the rule of Dagstuhl in the rear Palatinate. The monastery church remained as a church of the parish Heilig-Kreuz and as a pilgrimage church. At the beginning of the Fifth Coalition War (1809), Napoléon Bonaparte resided for several days in the prelature of the dissolved monastery, which the "Napoleon Room" there is still evidence of today. From there he even issued the first order of the day of the campaign, which was to end extremely favorably for him with the peace of Schönbrunn , the climax and turning point of his position of power on the European continent. In the meantime, he had the former monastery church repurposed as a horse stable.

The last abbot of the monastery was Cölestin Königsdorfer (1756-1840).

In 1877 the educationalist Ludwig Auer acquired the monastery building. In 1910, four years before his death, the reform educator known in Donauwörth as "Uncle Ludwig" transferred the property to the Cassianeum Pedagogical Foundation , which was continued by his sons. From 1916 to 1977 the children's home Heilig Kreuz existed in the monastery, supported by the Cassianeum , which today is described as a "place of horror" because of the bad grievances that became public in 2018 and apparently from the beginning. Above all under Max Auer, a respected Roman Catholic priest and grandson of the founder, who ran the facility from 1947 to 1977 and also sexually abused the children , abuse and cruel upbringing methods were popular on the mountain. Notorious among the children were the confessions that they had to make in the crypt chapel in the basement of the monastery tower and were then brutally beaten for their often fabricated sins.

Since 1935 the Sacred Heart Missionaries from Salzburg settled in the premises of the Holy Cross Monastery, there has also been Catholic religious life there again .

The archive of the secularized Holy Cross Monastery (Donauwörth) is located on the Harburg .

In the crypt of the monastery church, the Bavarian duchess rests Maria of Brabant , the order of her husband in 1256 the Severe Louis was beheaded because he jealous of the Palatine Ritter I. Raugraf Henry was. Its epitaph plate is located in the church, surrounded by an elaborate wrought iron grille donated by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria . In addition, memorial plaques for the court ladies who were also killed are set in the ground.

  • Holy Cross Monastery

  • Holy Cross monastery complex

  • Holy Cross Monastery

  • inside view

Old Views:

  • Heilig Kreuz Monastery (date before 1843)

  • Holy Cross Monastery (1843)

literature

Web links

Commons : Kloster Heilig Kreuz (Donauwörth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German biography Mangold I (Manegold, Manigold) von Werd (= Donauwörth, Bavaria)
  2. ↑ http://www.paedagogische-stiftung-cassianeum.de/
  3. ^ Judith Zacher: Late Enlightenment. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , March 14, 2018, accessed on February 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Christopher Beschnitt: Catholic children's home was a place of horror for decades. In: Katholisch.de , February 21, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019.
  5. ^ Donauwörth branch of the Sacred Heart Missionaries
  6. ↑ Harburg Archive, Fürsten zu Oettingen-Wallerstein ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archive-in-bayern.de
  7. ^ Website on the story of Mary of Brabant

Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 8.8 ″  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 26 ″  E