Hugshofen Monastery
Hugshofen Monastery ( French Honcourt ) was a Benedictine abbey near Saint-Martin in the Upper Alsatian Weilertal near Schlettstadt (today Vallée de Villé, Sélestat , France ), which was dissolved during the Reformation .
history
The monastery is said to have been founded in the year 1000 by Werner von Ortenberg and his wife Himiltrud, the oldest traditional members of the von Hirrlingen family . Nothing is learned about the Benedictine community in Hugshofen from the decades following its establishment. The monastery and the founding family did not reappear until 1061. Folmar (von Hirrlingen), Werner's son and Himiltrud, together with his wife Heilicha, handed over the monastery of the Strasbourg Cathedral under Bishop Hermann . Hugshofen thus became a monastery of the Strasbourg bishops .
About the connections between the Hirrlingers, the Hugshofener monastery governors , with the monastic community of Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest - Ulrich (I.) von Hirrlingen († 1123) had married the widow of the St. Georgen monastery governor Hermann, who died in 1094 - Hugshofen took briefly or around the year 1110 participated in the St. Georgen monastery reform and was reformed by Abbot Theoger von Sankt Georgen , with Konrad a reform abbot from Hirsau Monastery was appointed.
The first papal privilege, that of Pope Calixt II , is a confirmation of the monastery's goods and rights. The document dated to the years 1122–1124 was drawn up at the instigation of the Lorraine Countess Adelheid, a relative of the Hirrlingers, and determined among other things the exemption of the monastery from the power of the Strasbourg bishop. However, this provision, supplemented by the protection of the narrow monastery area from all episcopal and secular-preferential influence, is so extraordinary that the papal privilege can only be a forgery, namely from the 13th century. This becomes evident when one compares the Calixt privilege with the contents of a document from Pope Innocent II of June 10, 1135. Here Hugshofen is only subject to papal protection by means of the libertas Romana , the " Roman freedom ", as we know it from the St. Georgen monastery. The text of the real Innocent deed thus reflects the correct constitutional status of the Alsatian abbey, only the list of possessions listed in the privilege was later shaved and tampered with. The same forger who wrote the Calixt deed also produced the alleged imperial deed of the German ruler Friedrich I Barbarossa of October 24, 1162.
A gift of goods from Judinta, the wife of Count Albrechts II von Habsburg (1096–1140), to be dated to the Hugshofen Monastery in 1140/52 , makes it probable that Judinta was and was a sister of Ulrich (II.) Von Hirrlingen († 1152) Ulrich the Hugshofener monastery governor. However, the founding family and their heirs could not maintain their position as governors in the long term. By 1200 at the latest, the Counts of Hohenberg held the bailiwick of the monastery alongside other formerly Hirrling positions. In addition, the monastic community in the 12th century was a Benedictine reform monastery, which was endowed with "Roman freedom" by 1135 at the latest. In connection with this, the community, which was also an episcopal monastery, tried to limit the influence of the bishop and bailiff. The two forged documents from the 13th century show that the problem of the relationship between the monastery, bishop and governor was still virulent at the time. Perhaps the forgery of documents is related to the transfer of the monastery bailiwick to the Counts of Habsburg around 1258. In any case, Hugshofen was drawn into the maelstrom of the Habsburg rule. Devastated several times in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Benedictine abbey was dissolved during the Reformation . The ("strange") monastery church, a Romanesque central building , a round building with an attached rectangular choir , conical roof and polygonal superstructure , still stood until 1782 .
In 1237, the Hugshofen Abbey sold its remote property in the town of Ober-Flörsheim, northwest of Worms , to the Deutschordensballei Hessen zu Marburg . It was a parsonage with a church set and a Fronhof with lands, which changed hands for 850 silver marks. This resulted in the German Order Coming Ober-Flörsheim , which was only dissolved in 1797 .
Abbots
- Paul Volz , * 1480 in Offenburg , student and chronicler of the Schuttern monastery , abbot of the Hugshofen monastery until 1526, humanist ; † 1544 in Strasbourg.
literature
- Michael Buhlmann: The Lords of Hirrlingen and the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest (= Vertex Alemanniae H. 15). Sankt Georgen 2005 ( PDF ; 261 kB).
- Michael Buhlmann: St. Georgen as the reform center of Benedictine monasticism (= sources on the medieval history of St. George, Part VIII = Vertex Alemanniae H. 20). Sankt Georgen 2005 ( PDF ; 275 kB).
- Hans Hirsch: Forgery of documents of the Hugshofen and Murbach monasteries . In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Supplementary volume 11. Innsbruck 1929, pp. 179–192.
- Hans Jänichen: Dominion and territorial relationships around Tübingen and Rottenburg in the 11th and 12th centuries. Part 1: The free gentlemen (= writings on Southwest German regional studies . Volume 2). Müller & Gräff, Stuttgart 1964, ISSN 0582-0529 .
- Rudolf Kautzsch: The Romanesque church building in Alsace . Urban-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1944.
- Hans-Josef Wollasch: The Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgen in the Black Forest and its relationships with monasteries west of the Rhine . In: Stadt St. Georgen (ed.): 900 years of the city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest 1084–1984 . Festschrift. St. Georgen 1984, pp. 45-61.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the village and the coming Ober-Flörsheim . In: ober-floersheim.de . Retrieved March 30, 2017.
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 58 ″ E