Holzkirchen Monastery

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Holzkirchen Monastery
Dome of the Holzkirchen monastery church

Holzkirchen Monastery was a Benedictine provostry in Holzkirchen west of Würzburg in Lower Franconia .

history

Drudmunt, a son of the Franconian Count Throand and founder of the Holzkirchen Monastery in Waldsassengau in Lower Franconia , handed the monastery over to Charlemagne in 775 , who in turn transferred it to the Imperial Monastery of Fulda . The monastery of St. Sixtus was under the bailiwick of the Counts of Wertheim . In 1552, in the course of the Reformation, the monastery of Count Michael III. von Wertheim († 1555) repealed. As early as 1561 the property was returned to the monastery or its mother monastery in Fulda ; however, monastery life remained extinct. In 1612, Prince-Bishop Julius Echter moved in the monastery as a settled fiefdom for the Würzburg monastery . A newly established convent with twelve Benedictine monks was driven out by Swedish soldiers in 1631.

Under Provost Bonifatius von Hutten, a brother of the Würzburg prince-bishop Christoph Franz von Hutten and an uncle of the Speyer prince-bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg , Balthasar Neumann built the monastery church from 1728 to 1730. It was not until 1759 that Ferdinand Zobel von Giebelstadt set up a monastery again. In 1802 the Holzkirchen monastery was secularized . The Counts of Castell owned the monastery and church from 1816 until the church was donated to the Catholic parish in 1909.

The property was empty from 1995 and has been used since 2003 under the name Benediktushof as a non- denominational and non- religious seminar and conference facility.

Monastery building

The former Benedictine provosty is enclosed on three sides by walls; to the north the Aalbach forms the border, on the immediate edge of which the church and prelate building ( red building ) are located. Beyond the Aalbach is the monastery mill. The monastery itself is a three-wing complex that is open to the west and is made up of parts from different construction periods. Initially, in 1726, Provost Bonifatius entrusted Johann Dientzenhofer with the planning of new buildings for wooden churches. After Dientzenhofer's death, the project was passed on to Balthasar Neumann. Balthasar Neumann's baroque church building is on the north-west corner; the central building with the dome which was destroyed by fire in the 19th century has now been reconstructed.

List of the known provosts of wooden churches

  • Helmfried (around 815)
  • Helmfrid (around 879)
  • Diepold (1183)
  • Gerlach (1212, 1241)
  • Konrad (1247, 1249)
  • Albert von Lüder (since 1260, 1274)
  • Bertho von Mackenzell (since 1281, 1291)
  • Heinrich von Hohenberg (1298-1315)
  • Konrad von Bimbach (1323, † 1325)
  • Theoderich von Wildsprechtroda (since 1326, 1334)
  • Werner von Bellersheim (1343, 1344)
  • Wigand of Erbach (1351)
  • Hertnid of Leimbach (1353)
  • Konrad von Hanau (1355-1372)
  • Konrad Fuchs von Kanneberg (1372–1387)
  • Wigand of Zippur (13871390)
  • Johannes von Merlau (1391-1395)
  • Peter von Eisenbach (1405, 1420)
  • Gottfried von Bimbach (since 1421, 1422)
  • Konrad von Bimbach (1423–1425)
  • Johann Fink von Altenburg (1425–1428)
  • Johannes von Buchenau (since 1428, 1434)
  • Heinrich von Frielingen (since 1435, 1439)
  • Reinhard von Weilnau (1440–1446)
  • Konrad von Lauerbach (1446–1483)
  • Ludwig von Mansbach (1483–1500)
  • Reinhard von der Tann (1500–1518)
  • Hartmann von Kirchberg (1518–1521)
  • Johann von Henneberg (1521–1529)
  • Philipp von Rückingen (since 1529, 1532)
  • Bonifaz von Heideck (before 1541)
  • Wolfgang Theoderich von Uissigheim (1539–1544 and 1546–1549), from 1550 prince abbot and at the same time provost of Petersberg, Frauenberg and Johannesberg, also provost of Thulba
  • Kuno Riedesel von Bellersheim (1544–1546)
  • Johann Schenk von Schweinsberg (1549–1555)
  • Philipp Georg Schenk von Schweinsberg (1561–1568), overlapping 1567–1568 prince abbot, also provost from Michaelsberg, from Neuenberg, from Johannesberg
  • Johann Wolfgang Schott von Memmelsdorf (1568–1592)
  • Kaspar von Wildungen (1593–1601)
  • Reinhard Ludwig von Dallwig (1601–1613), simultaneously with Thulba, prince abbot 1606–1622, at times also provost of Johannesberg and von Blankenau
  • Georg von Hatzfeld (1613–1618)
  • Bernhard Wilhelm von Schwalbach (1618–1624), before and after that provost in Zella
  • Eberhard Hermann Schutzbar called Milchling (1625–1630)
  • Johann Friedrich von Kerpen (1630–1631)
  • Hermann Georg von Neuhof (1631–1638), prince abbot since 1635, also provost of Blankenau, Johannesberg and Rohr
  • Joachim Graf von Graveneck (1638–1644), previously provost of Petersberg, overlapping provost of Michaelsberg, then prince abbot of Fulda
  • Salentin von Sinzig (1644–1668)
  • Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach (1668–1671), then prince abbot
  • Plazidus von Droste (1671–1678), at the same time provost of Zella, then prince abbot
  • Ildephons of Havighorst (1678–1697)
  • Bernhard von Reinach (1697–1699), then provost von Blankenau
  • Friedrich von Buttlar (1699–1701), then in Thulba and in Johannesberg near Fulda
  • Mauritius von Westphalen (1701–1710), then in Thulba
  • Konrad von Mengersen (1710–1715), before that in Thulba, then on the Johannesberg
  • Friedrich von Droste (1716–1724)
  • Boniface von Hutten zu Stolzenberg (1724–1732), then in Thulba, then Petersberg
  • Casimir von Sickingen (1732–1739)
  • Eugen (Eugenius) von Bastheim (10 Dec. 1739 to 1755), before that in Sannerz, then on the Johannesberg
  • Benedikt (Benedictus) von Zievel (10 September 1755 to 1759), then in Sannerz, then in Thulba
  • Ferdinand (Ferdinandus) Zobel von Giebelstadt (1759–1766), before that in Sannerz
  • Lothar (Lotharius) von Breidbach zu Bürresheim (June 29, 1766 to 1775), then provost on the Petersberg, then on the Andreasberg
  • Bonifatius (Bonifacius) Freiherr von Ebersberg called von Weyhers and Leyen (Sept. 30, 1775 to 1795)
  • Heinrich (Henricus) von Reisach (July 18, 1795 to 1802), last provost

literature

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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 50.2 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 49.8"  E