Hohenwart Monastery

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Engraving of the monastery by Anton Wilhelm Ertl from the " Churbaierischen Atlas " 1687
Interior shot of the former monastery church

The monastery Hohenwart is a former 1074 founded the Benedictine Abbey in Hohenwart in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .

history

The monastery was founded in 1074 by Count Ortolf and his sister Wiltrudis from the so-called House of the Counts of Hohenwart . The monastery church was consecrated on May 13, 1074 by Bishop Embriko von Augsburg . This important family, which died out with the founders of the monastery, belonged to the so-called Rapotonen and was related to the neighboring Count House of Dießen and later of Andechs and Wolfratshausen.

The abbey was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The monastery church was rededicated to the parish church of St. George . Since the monastery buildings could not find a buyer, the nuns could continue to live there. Since 1876 they have been owned by the Regens Wagner Foundation in Dillingen under the local management of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters . Valuable witnesses have been preserved from the time of the Benedictine monastery: The Bavarian State Library in Munich holds a valuable gospel book , called the Golden Book of Hohenwart with writing from 1100 and miniatures from 1230, further 70 valuable books from Hohenwart Monastery.

The venerable Romanesque basilica fell victim to a fire in 1895. Even today point to the Romanesque structure: the Peterskapelle - built in 1230 as a donor's burial place - with the impressive Romanesque column, as well as the cloister and the Romanesque cellar vault. A special gem is the rococo-style monastery pharmacy (1739) with its filigree stucco ceiling, the figurative representations of which point to the monastic art of healing. The stucco relief showing Christ as the true apothecary is particularly interesting.

Today the regional center of the Regens Wagner Hohenwart disability aid is located in the former Benedictine monastery.

In Hohenwart, Schrobenhausen and Pfaffenhofen, around 11,000 people with various disabilities find broad, differentiated and regional support services from outpatient, semi-inpatient and inpatient offers for all ages and diverse life situations.

Panoramic view from the east

Row of Abbesses

Source:

  1. Luitgardis
  2. Mechtildis
  3. Uota
  4. Himmeltrud
  5. Hildegard, 1186
  6. Adelheid I, 1224, 1240
  7. Sophia, 1242
  8. Adelheid II, 1274, 1283
  9. Bertha, 1315, 1316
  10. Elisabeth I of Starzhausen, 1327, 1350
  11. Elisabeth II. Judmann, 1366, 1381
  12. Agnes I. Kölner, 1384, 1393
  13. Agnes II. Stettberger, 1395
  14. Asanna von Parsberg, 1405, † 1430
  15. Omelia I. Appsberger, 1438, 1444
  16. Agnes III Horner, 1452, † 1468
  17. Clara von Hohenkirchen, 1468–1483
  18. Veronica von Seckendorf, 1483
  19. Barbara I. Sinzenhauser, 1484-1490
  20. Cunigunde I. Boeck, 1490-1511
  21. Catharina Vogelhut, 1511–1545
  22. Scholastica von Papenberg, 1545–1563
  23. Cordula Burghart, 1563-1568
  24. Barbara II. Brenzinger, 1568–1590
  25. Anna I. Mantlacher, 1590-1613
  26. Barbara III. Burger, 1613-1633; received the staff in 1622
  27. Anna II. Siebenaicher, 1635–1679
  28. Coelestina Zeller, 1679-1700
  29. Sabina Richildis von Wampl, 1700–1737
  30. Cunigunde II. Frey, 1737-1760
  31. Amalia II. Countess of Closen, 1760–1767
  32. Gertrud Reiter, 1767–1798
  33. Amalia III. Hundhammer, 1798–1803, † 1811

The abbesses Benedicta and Adla Reglin entered in the death register could not be assigned to any time. Adla is perhaps one of the two Adelheid.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Hamann: The Counts of Hohenwart. In: Wilhelm Störmer, Ferdinand Kramer (ed.): High medieval noble families in old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia . Munich 2005, pp. 65-96.
  2. ↑ a b Michael Hartig: The Upper Bavarian Pencils. Volume I: The Benedictine, Cistercian and Augustinian Canons . Publisher vorm. G. J. Manz, Munich 1935, DNB 560552157 , p. 97.

literature

  • AT Kluck: The Hohenwart Monastery and its sanctuaries . Publishing house Hickl, Schrobenhausen 1880.
  • Hans Purchart: The old Benedictine monastery Hohenwart, its donor family and the "Golden Book" . Publishing house of the District Office, Pfaffenhofen / Ilm 1983.
  • Stefanie Hamann: The Counts of Hohenwart. In: William Stoermer, Ferdinand Kramer (ed.): High medieval noble families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia Munich 2005, pp 65-96 Volldigitalisat .
  • Hans Perlinger: The development of the Hohenwart monastery up to the present. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese. Volume 50, 2016, pp. 519-631.

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '50.7 "  N , 11 ° 22' 32.9"  E