Inzigkofen Abbey

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The pin Inzigkofen was an Augustinian canon Woman pin in Inzigkofen in today's district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg . It is a testimony to the history, culture and piety of a women's monastery in Upper Swabia from 1354 to 1856. With its economic importance as well as its spiritual and cultural impact, it has had a lasting impact on its surroundings for half a millennium. In the holdings of its library - as far as it is preserved - the Inzigkofen Monastery will remain alive in the future, especially with regard to research into German mysticism . The monastery complex in Inzigkofen is an important architectural monument in Baden-Württemberg and, with the adult education center, is an important supraregional provider of adult education.

history

Late medieval manuscripts in the spirit of mysticism , a rich artistic legacy, high-quality monastery work from the Baroque period, rich sources on the everyday life and piety of the convent and, last but not least, a largely unadulterated architectural heritage testify to the special status of the Inzigkofer Augustinian Choir Women's Monastery in the monastic world of Upper Swabia with evidence from Gothic through Baroque to early classicism. The monastery is famous for its demanding musical life, its high-quality monastery work and for its library. Music was so important for the life of the monastery that when choosing the novices, emphasis was placed on musicality. A collegiate school cannot be proven, but the convent supported the village school. In addition to the choir prayer, meditation was a pillar of Inzigkofer's spirituality, with mystical piety at times playing a major role. A rich collection of mystical literature in the former abbey library is evidence of this. The handicraft activity of the choir women is noteworthy; they made reliquaries set in gold, silver and pearls . Crib figures made of wax and wire were a specialty.

Foundation to reform

According to the monastery chronicle, the Inzigkofer women's community was founded in 1354 as a small hermitage by two sisters of a middle-class Sigmaringer family, Mechthild and Irmengard Sönnerin, and by a Lùdgart. The hermitage was first mentioned in a document in 1356. The women's beguinage community , which had already grown, soon adopted the rule of the Third Order of the Franciscans ( Terziarinnen ). A cloister was built in 1388.

As for religious development, the monastery joined an Augustinian reform movement in 1394. After the sisters had first lived as Franciscan tertiary sisters, 40 years after the founding - the founders had already died - they wanted to adopt a stricter monastic way of life and a correct rule of the order and become Augustinian choirs. The number of women choirs was initially set at 13 - later it was up to 30 - and lay sisters were added; Mariazell Abbey near Winterthur was designated for the visitation . In 1395 there was an exemption from the Laizer parish. In 1412, the 13 sisters under Prioress Anna Schmid († 1420), who had visions, accepted the strict enclosure on their own initiative after complaining about disturbances in their spiritual activities. In the same year the monastery became legally a separate parish. The pastoral care was taken over by a confessor, for whom a chaplain fruition was created.

But soon afterwards they demanded even stricter statutes. After they apparently found no support in this matter from the Augustinian Canons 'Monastery of Beuron, which had taken over the visit in 1419, they turned to the provost of the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Langenzenn near Fürth. In the years of the Langenzenner visit from 1430 onwards, the monastery came under the spell of the "Raudnitzer Reform" of the Augustinian canons. With advice from Langenzenn, Inzigkofen took over the statutes of the recently reformed Augustinian women's choir in Pillenreuth near Schwabach in 1431. In addition, there were close relationships with the reform center of Indersdorf in the 15th century. In 1458 a second benefice was donated. Although Laiz remained a parish for the village of Inzigkofen, the villagers were allowed to attend church services in the monastery. In 1466 the visit went to Indersdorf near Dachau, 1550 to the Wengenstift in Ulm, and in 1578 to Kreuzlingen.

The Reformation under Martin Luther did not gain a foothold in Inzigkofen; According to the chronicle of the Inzigkofen monastery, Luther brought "false doctrines" and "heresies" into the world. Pastors who marry, the abolition of Holy Mass and the veneration of saints, the renouncement of prayers for the dead or the consecration of holy water have apparently shaken the Inzigkofen nuns to the core. At this time, a flattening of the spiritual life could be observed: as early as 1502, toned down statutes were introduced, the monastery life relaxed. It was not until the Thirty Years' War and the Constance exile from 1632 to 1645 that a spiritual renewal took place: in 1643 new statutes came into force, which renewed the strict enclosure. These statutes remained in principle until the abolition of the pen.

Rise of the pen

Inzigkofen Abbey around 1700

In the late Middle Ages, the women's community experienced an unusual ascent from a poor beginner's cell to an elegant and spiritually respected women's monastery. The Inzigkofer success story was made possible on the one hand by the protection and promotion of noble, patrician and spiritual donors and benefactors; Among these, the lower nobility of Reischach , who lived on the Dietfurt , and the canon Michael von Reischach, who descended from them, are of particular importance. On the other hand, through joining the reform movement within their order and cultivating a mystically determined piety in the 15th and 16th centuries, the women's community gained a high level of spiritual prestige and a strong attraction increasingly for women from the high and low nobility as well as the affluent urban Bourgeoisie.

The bailiwick was always with the local lords of Inzigkofen: first with the Lords of Reischach, from 1421 with the Werdenbergers , from 1534 with the Fürstenbergers and from 1540 with the Hohenzollern . The latter fully integrated the pen into their emerging sovereignty. The spiritual supervision was with the Bishop of Constance and the respective visitators, but the influence of the confessors should not be underestimated either.

The economic basis of the monastery was donations and the dowry of the choir women. The financial situation improved considerably, especially since the 15th century, when more and more members of the nobility and patriciate of larger cities entered and in the 16th century the Fürstenbergs and Hohenzollern sponsored the monastery.

In 1595/97 the nearby Dominican convent Hedingen was integrated, which greatly increased the property, but led to tensions between old and new sisters in the convent.

Up to the beginning of the 17th century, the monastery was able to build on an extensive manorial rule with finally 44 fiefdoms in 1626, the taxes of which together with further feudal income , a profitable monastic self-management, the dowries of new novices , the interest of a temporarily extensive monetary economy and the proceeds from the sale of monastery work provided the material basis for an increasingly strict monastery life in contemplation and seclusion .

Characteristic of the monastic life in Inzigkofen, especially since the adoption of the new statutes in 1643, was a rigorously managed enclosure with a strict demarcation from the outside world. The strict daily conduct also included the consistent daily practice of the eight canonical times of prayer including the midnight mass that divides the night's rest, weekly and seasonal fasting times, various penitential practices as well as additional voluntary prayer obligations and extended times of worship before the suspended altar sacrament by day and night.

The monastic community in the 18th century, mostly around 40 nuns, was divided into a two-thirds majority of the actual choir women and a smaller group of the fore or lay sisters. In a clearly pronounced two-class society, the women choir devoted themselves entirely to the spiritual life and participated in various positions in the monastic self-administration, while the lay sisters were primarily entrusted with household chores. At the head of the monastery stood the priestess , who was freely chosen by the choir wives, as the spiritual and secular head of the community.

In this women's world with its far-reaching autonomy, four men nevertheless had a very significant influence: the confessor with his key role in the inner monastic group dynamics and piety practice, the visitor appointed by the head of an Augustinian canon as overseer and counselor, the bishop of Constance as ecclesiastical court authority and patron of the Stifts and finally the secular local lord and guardian of the monastery.

Annulment and princely time

Inzigkofen Castle around 1830

In anticipation of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss announced in 1803, Prince Anton Aloys von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen announced that he would take possession of the monastery in October 1802 . The choir women learned from the weekly newspaper that the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was to receive the monastery church as partial compensation for the loss of territory in Alsace. On November 5, 1802, he ordered the expropriation of the monastery and on December 16, 1802 the monastery property worth 4,328 guilders was auctioned.

Only ratified by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, after the secularization of 1803, the rich ownership of the monastery officially passed to the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . The sisters were granted the right to stay with pension payments until the death of the last nun in 1856. The church was still available to the Inzigkofern. Most of the monastery equipment, including books, documents and works of art that are important from today's point of view, were sold, with parts left to the sisters.

With the abolition of the monastery in 1802, a lively community was met that still showed no signs of decay. At the same time, the 200-year “princely time” of Inzigkofen began: in 1810 the former monastery office building was redesigned into a country palace. The Sigmaringen Princess Amalie Zephyrine and her grandson Hereditary Prince Karl Anton used it as a summer residence between 1811 and 1848. The adjoining hillside area on both sides of the Danube was transformed into a romantic landscape garden. The neighboring Amalienfelsen is also part of the complex .

The convent building was available to the choir women until their death; afterwards it stood empty for a long time. In the Third Reich it was used from 1939 to 1944 as a warehouse for the female Reich labor service . After the Second World War it served as a reception camp.

Adult Education Center

Since 1948, the convent buildings have served the Volkshochschulheim Inzigkofen eV as an independent, non-denominational and non-partisan location for free adult education. The nuns' cells were converted into bedrooms in order to enable weekly courses and weekend seminars when used as an adult education center. The chapter house is the largest course room, all guest rooms are like the course rooms in the monastery itself.

In 2002 the municipality of Inzigkofen bought the entire monastery complex within the enclosure wall from the Princely House of Hohenzollern. Since it remained essentially unchanged in the 200 years after the secularization, it was considered the best preserved monastery complex in southwest Germany at that time. The sponsoring association Volkshochschulheim, which leased the monastery complex from the municipality of Inzigkofen, calculated that the renovation would cost five million euros in 2002. This sum could only be raised because the Landesstiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg co-financed. The Landesstiftung manages the money from the proceeds of the EnBW share sale and finances measures to preserve listed properties. In 2003 the monastery church was donated to the Catholic branch parish.

The construction work for the renovation began in 2004 with the cloister and the so-called Mesnerhaus and was completed here in 2007.

Further extensive renovation work took place in 2007/2008. The main building was renovated with a new facade, the kitchen and dining room were remodeled, additional guest rooms were equipped with wet rooms and the statics were secured. In the spring of 2008, the field ceiling was removed as part of the renovation work in order to restore the statics. It became apparent that several ceiling beams had broken and that the renovation was of the utmost urgency. The field ceiling was stripped of paint, reinstalled, and the ornamentation came to light on the frieze. From June to August 2008 the wing of the former monastery was a major construction site. However, since the German Foundation for Monument Protection was unable to provide any money in 2008, the renovation of the vault and the workshop was postponed for the time being. Since this summer, the chapter house has returned to its original state.

In December 2008, the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation named the former Augustinian Choir Foundation Inzigkofen “Monument of the Month”. After the sacristan's building , the repair of which has been funded with 100,000 euros since 2003, the Monument Foundation has concentrated entirely on restoring the chapter house and made a further 100,000 euros available for this.

The chapter house on the ground floor of a two-story building in the east wing was restored to its original state in 2007. For this purpose, among other things, the field ceiling was removed, the old layer of paint was removed and the stamped frieze hidden underneath was restored with various ornaments. The statics endangered due to broken ceiling joists was carefully secured. The original floor, which was presumably wooden floorboards, could no longer be restored. These were replaced by parquet. In the chapter house there is a large tiled stove from the late 18th century and a historic wooden coffered ceiling that has been restored. It is hung in the roof structure on struts that were very dilapidated before the renovation. During the renovation, a historical wooden frieze with interesting details was exposed. The garden room, a room that opens onto a patio towards the garden, was completed in 2008. In 2010 the around 200 shutters were restored.

Between 2003 and 2010 a total of 6.5 million euros was invested in the renovation of the monastery complex. In June 2010, the completion of the renovation of the convent building and the preservation of the historic buildings were celebrated in the presence of State Secretary Hubert Wicker .

The community, as the owner of the facility, has taken over the renovation of the 900-meter-long surrounding wall around the monastery grounds. This will be repaired in stages. There is still no schedule for the former tithe barn.

Monastery complex

Nunnery in the former collegiate church

Inzigkofen's rise to a wealthy monastery of regional status can also be seen in the five phases of expansion of the monastery complex from the end of the 14th to the end of the 18th century.

Since it was founded in 1354, the sisters have been able to use the existing Mauritius chapel. In 1388 a towerless church consecrated to John the Baptist and Saint Bartholomew and Mauritius was demolished and rebuilt. After the change of order, a bell tower was added in 1484. From 1391 to 1449 the temporary wooden buildings were replaced by convent buildings near the church; Until 1576, the convent and church were repeatedly rebuilt and expanded.

The buildings financed by the Michael von Reischach foundations from the second half of the 15th century onwards are dominant in the appearance of the monastery complex: On the one hand, there is the late Gothic "Michaels Haus", now called sacristan's house, and that of the provost Maria Franziska Raßler (1658–1680) in 1659, eleven years after the end of the Thirty Years' War, commissioned the new construction of the monastery building (convent building and cloister) together with the monastery church. The provostess ran the monastery together with the prioress, shepherdess and councilors. There was also a large number of other offices. The architect and founder of the Vorarlberger Baumeisterschule Michael Beer from Au in the Bregenzerwald was commissioned with the new building . Between 1659 and 1663 a three-winged building was built in the transitional style between Renaissance and Baroque. At the start of construction, according to the chronicle, the financing should not have been secured and the nuns should have lent a hand "if they were not observed by any secular". The current building has a cloister, prelate hall and stucco ceilings.

The chapter house, then known as the convent room, was built in the east wing. As a piece of jewelery, it contains a large tiled stove from the late 18th century. The room was equipped with a wooden field ceiling, profiled cover strips subdivide rectangular fields. While the spruce planks of the ceiling were left without paint or decoration, various stamped ornaments can be found on the frieze. In the middle of the room, the lamb of God is depicted on the frieze. This may indicate the place where the provess was seated when the convent was assembled. The year 1663 on the frieze commemorates the year the building was completed.

The former collegiate church of St. Johannes Baptist has a tower from 1484, but was enlarged and rebuilt between 1780 and 1781 according to plans by the Haigerloch master builder Christian Großbayer . The nun's gallery was built in to enable compliance with the “ strict enclosure ”. The gallery shows an elaborate grid of twigs and paper mache. During the renovation, it was given its largely classical form today. The gallery parapet with the Zollern coat of arms and the choir grille is an outstanding example of the plait style in southwest Germany: between gilded pillars there are flower vases made of paper and plaster. The Twelve Apostles stand on a curved cornice supported by the pillars, with vines climbing up between them. The building has an impressive high altar. The late Gothic winged altar was created by the Strüb workshop from Veringenstadt in 1505. The historical monastic depictions of Mary include a late Gothic Mother of God with child and the “Bussenmadonna”, a sculpture that also dates from the 15th century.

Next to the church, an office building and a higher wall with an integrated hermit chapel were built between 1726 and 1729. The baroque hermit chapel was painted in 1740 by the Riedling painter Joseph Ignaz Wegscheider with Wessobrunn stucco and ceiling paintings. The ceiling fresco shows the Annunciation. The chapel is also home to a plastic copy of the “Black Madonna of Einsiedeln” from 1732, which goes back to Franz Anton Källin , according to the type of a sovereign queen of heaven with a crown, scepter and child.

Inzigkofen has been a small "monastery town" since the baroque period at the latest, which, surrounded by the 900 meter long outer enclosure wall built in 1728/29, includes a church and convent district as well as a guest house, accommodation for the confessor, various farm buildings and, last but not least, extensive gardens .

The tithe barn of the monastery was built in 1510. Burned down by Swedish soldiers passing through in the Thirty Years War around 1636, it was rebuilt in 1645/46. The yields from the monastery's own fields were stored here. Because the monastery was entitled to half of the big tithe (grain and large cattle) and three parts of the small tithe (other crops and small cattle) from all fields in the district of the village and these yields were also brought here, the tithe barn got its name. After the abolition of the monastery in secularization, the princely court chamber housed an orangery and a winter storage facility and leased the premises to local farmers for laying hay, straw and grain.

The historic nuns 'cemetery with its wrought iron crosses is dominated by a figure of Mary - a Virgin Mary standing on a cloud with a child in her arms - which stands in the center of the inner courtyard at the entrance to the nuns' cemetery. The figure made of green-gray molasse sandstone from the Lake Constance region probably dates from the 17th century and was erected in its current location in 1888. Where it comes from is unknown. In 1888 the monastery complex was already owned by the Princely House of Hohenzollern. Walther Genzmer describes the figure in his 1948 book “Die Kunstdenkmäler Hohenzollerns” as “badly weathered”. The figure, only vaguely recognizable and eaten away by acid rain , could no longer be reconstructed in the original due to a lack of photo credits. It was cleaned in 2011, preserved with binders and restored.

Also in 2011, the doors and door frames made of spruce wood were freed from their colors, which were applied in the post-monastery period, so that they appear again as originally in the wood tone. Often after leaching, decorations from the Baroque period and special inlays came to light. The crucifix from 1463 was also restored on the monastery wall.

Former library

Inzigkofen's most significant legacy for the humanities is his former library. In the course of the monastery reform in the 15th century (see above), the nuns set out to systematically build an extensive library with great zeal and expertise. In addition to devotional books and works of edification literature, above all works of German-language mystical literature of the 14th century were collected, mostly in copies that were made in the own scriptorium . Although most of it was destroyed when the monastery was closed, some of the most important German mystic manuscripts have been saved in the remainder. Some texts have only survived in their Inzigkofener copy. As far as possible, this library was reconstructed by Werner Fechter . An eight-page fragment of a manuscript, which was made for the monastery at the end of the 15th century, came to the Martinus Library in Mainz around 200 years ago .

exhibition

The completion of the renovation of the late-Gothic sacristan's house in accordance with the requirements of historical monuments as well as the double anniversary of the first documentary mention of the town and monastery in Inzigkofen 700 and 650 years ago were the reason for an exhibition from March 16 to May 20, 2007 in the former Inzigkofen monastery. The show with around 120 exhibits, mostly valuable originals, from 28 lenders showed a cross-section of the five hundred year history of the monastery and the subsequent “princely time” of Inzigkofen. Insights into the economic foundations of monastic life, the building history, everyday life in the monastery and the forms of piety were offered. The highlights of the exhibition were testimonies to the craftsmanship of the sisters, important works of fine art from the monastery and, last but not least, treasures of medieval, mystical and baroque piety. Documents and bound manuscripts were represented in the show, as were numerous paintings, lines, sculptures, relics, vestments and monastery works from the late Middle Ages to the 19th century.

The richly decorated iron door to the early monastic treasury from the 17th century, parts of the former monastery library and five watercolor drawings of the palace and the Princely Park from the 1830s were on display for the first time in Inzigkofen. Among other things, “Boat trip on the Danube with Hermitage”, a watercolor drawing (10.7 × 17.5 centimeters) by Charles de Mayenfisch from 1833 from the Sigmaringen district archive. The reconstruction of a baroque nun's cell gave an impression of the severity and piety in monastic life 250 years ago. Sound examples from the baroque period refer to the high quality music culture.

A 102-centimeter wooden sculpture of St. Mauritius with armor, sword belt, helmet and sword stretched out, around 1350, is in the possession of the Inzigkofen branch Catholic parish. The reliquary with arm spindle of St. Fidelis, 18th century, is owned by the General Catholic Church Fund for Hohenzollern. A chest of drawers with a prayer stool and an altar structure with Mary and child, wood with inlays, 18th century, is in the Josefinenstift Sigmaringen. The host monstrance of the Inzigkofen Monastery, made by Michael Mair , Augsburg, 1680–1648, silver, partially gold-plated, height 89 centimeters, is the property of the Inzigkofen Filial Catholic Church. The door to the former monastery treasury, massive iron, probably 17th century, is in the Princely Hohenzollern Collections in Sigmaringen. An altar bouquet, tin and wire, set in a wooden vase, 18th century, is privately owned.

Trivia

A postage stamp from Deutsche Post Berlin from 1967 shows the oak figure “The Apostle John on the Breast of Christ” (“Johannesminne”, Christ-John group ) by an unknown master from Upper Swabia, probably from the Inzigkofen monastery. The sculpture made around 1310/1320 with a height of 89 cm is in the Bode Museum in Berlin.

  • Sigmaringer Christ-Johannes-Group

  • Postage stamp from 1967

In July 2010, the film A Dangerous Method took place outside the monastery walls . A rain shower that was planned according to the script had to be artificially generated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christoph Wartenberg: Inzigkofen Monastery. Renovators celebrate a first degree . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from June 12, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Annotated edition of the chronicle of the Inzigkofen monastery published - two volumes with 1065 pages. Nuns cemetery reminds of the women choirs. In: Südkurier of December 31, 2009
  3. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): The existing system is secured . In: Südkurier from June 15, 2010
  4. ^ A b Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Monastery complex . In: Südkurier from June 15, 2010
  5. ^ Hermann-Peter Steinmüller (hps): Five million euros, four years . In: Südkurier of December 14, 2002
  6. ^ Regional art in the chapter house . In: Südkurier of March 12, 2011
  7. ↑ a b Madonna of Einsiedeln . In: Südkurier from November 28, 2011
  8. ↑ Jennifer Kuhlmann (jek): How the museum got into the tithe barn . In: Ders .: Reminder: When grandma made the butter herself. Erich Beck and Raimund Rieder show old treasures in the farmer's museum. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of October 21, 2011
  9. ↑ Vera Romeu (from right): Ascension: The figure of Mary is floating. The standing stone figure has fallen into disrepair and needs to be restored . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from February 15, 2011
  10. ↑ Ute Korn-Amann (uka): Voluntary: First of all, the old paint comes off. 15 volunteers bring out the splendor of the doors in the Inzigkofen monastery. In: Schwäbische Zeitung from August 19, 2011
  11. ↑ See literature: Fechter; Ringler
  12. ↑ Barbara Non-White : With dance and violin playing. Miniatures of medieval mysticism in the New Yearbook of the Diocese of Mainz. In: MBN. Diocese of Mainz, accessed on November 29, 2013 .
  13. ↑ Ute Korn-Amann (uka): Film stars hide behind the monastery wall . In: Schwäbische Zeitung from July 12, 2010

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Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 4 ′ 26.8 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 37.6"  E