Heiligenthal Monastery

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Ground and elevation of the former Heiligenthal monastery church

The monastery Heiligenthal is a former monastery of Cistercian nuns in Schwanfeld (district Heiligenthal ) in Bavaria in the diocese of Wuerzburg .

history

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  • Exterior of the ship

  • Choir room

Heigenthal Abbey near Schwanfeld was founded in 1234 by the blessed abbess Jutta von Fuchsstadt, a sister of the knight Helebold von Fuchsstadt. Of the Cistercian convent, only the church from the later 13th century has survived, as well as individual pieces of equipment, because the monastery ran into difficulties as early as the 14th century and was reformed under Prince-Bishop Lorenz von Bibra (1495–1519) and by the Prince-Bishop Julius Echter secularized in 1579 in favor of the Julius Hospital in Würzburg. In the 19th century, the buildings and lands were privately owned and have been used as a farm ever since. The property of the monastery was intended for the endowment of the Julius Hospital in Würzburg.

literature

  • Tilmann Breuer et al. (Ed.): Dehio , Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bayern Vol. 1 (Franconia), Munich and Berlin 1999, p. 438.
  • Edgar Krausen : The monasteries of the Cistercian order in Bavaria (= Bayerische Heimatforschung, issue 7), Munich 1953, 48 f.
  • Ernst Günther Krenig: Medieval convents based on the Constitutions of Cîteaux with special consideration of Franconian nunneries, in: Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 10 (1954), p. 31 f. and p. 74.
  • Felix Mader and Georg Lill: The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria, City and District Office Schweinfurt, Series III, Volume 17, Munich 1917, p. 177 ff.
  • Alfred Thousand Pound: Decline and Dissolution of the Heiligenthal Monastery, in: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 34/35 (1975), 501 ff.
  • Angela Driver: Heiligenthal, in: Wolfgang Brückner and Jürgen Lenssen (eds.): Cistercians in Franconia, The old diocese of Würzburg and its former Cistercians, Würzburg 1991, p. 109 f.
  • Erich Schneider: Monasteries and monasteries in Mainfranken, Würzburg 1993, p. 114 f.
  • Wolfgang Schneider: Klosterkirche Heiligenthal, in: Wolfgang Brückner and Wolfgang Schneider (Eds.): Pilgrimage in the Diocese of Würzburg, places of grace, places of worship and worship in Lower Franconia, Würzburg 1996, p. 143.

Web links

Commons : St. Markus in Heiligenthal  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Heiligenthal in the Topographia Franconiae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '49.7 "  N , 10 ° 7' 19.9"  E