Kaisheim Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey Kaisheim | |
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 Former Imperial Abbey of Kaisheim - northeast wing |
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| location | Germany Bavaria |
| Lies in the diocese | augsburg |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 46 '2.3 " N , 10 ° 47' 53.9" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
78 |
| founding year | 1133 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1802 |
| Mother monastery | Lucelle Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Kaisheim Abbey (formerly Kaiser home , latin "Caesarea") is a former abbey of the Cistercians in the market Kaisheim (at Donauwörth ) in the diocese of Augsburg in Bavarian Swabia .
history
The monastery was in 1133 by Count Henry I of Lech Gemünd († March 11, 1142) and his wife, the daughter of Liukardis Monastery of Lützel in Alsace , which is itself a subsidiary founded bellevaux abbey from the filiation of the Branch Morimond established was. Kaisheim founded the daughter monastery Stams in the Tyrolean Inn Valley in 1273 . It was presumably an imperial monastery since 1370 , but it was not until 1656 that the monastery was able to enforce its imperial directness against the dukes of Bavaria and the abbot was promoted to prince abbot . Since then, Pielenhofen Monastery has also belonged to Kaisheim Monastery as a subpriorate. At Christmas 1778, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stayed in the monastery as a guest of the Imperial Prelate Cölestin Angelprugger, whom he had met in Mannheim, which was dissolved in 1802 with the secularization .
The monastery complex was initially occupied by the military by Bavarian troops . Then Kaisheim served as the central monastery of the dissolved Bavarian order province of the Franciscans . From 1816 the buildings were used by the Bavarian state as a penal workhouse and penitentiary . A correctional facility, the JVA Kaisheim , is still located in the buildings . In the east wing, the so-called Kaisersaal wing, the permanent exhibition Behind Bars has been housed in the Bavarian Prison Museum since 1989 .
In addition to the former monastery church, the imperial hall and the library hall are of particular structural importance. The furnishings of the library hall, a richly decorated two-storey gallery complex on three sides, made around 1730, was moved to the former provincial library (now the Staatliche Bibliothek Neuburg an der Donau ) in 1804 and installed there in the former congregation hall.
The summer residence of the Kaisheim abbots was a few kilometers away in Leitheim Palace .
Abbots of Kaisheim
Burial places
The Kaisheim Monastery was the burial place of the Count's House of Lechsgemünd-Graisbach and some of his ministerial families , such as u. a. those of Pappenheim , von Wemding , von Schweinspoint , von Schepach, von Rechenberg and Schenk von Geyern .
Numerous grave monuments have been preserved in the church and in the cloister . Particularly worth seeing is the high grave of the founder Heinrich I von Lechsgmünd in the central nave of the church, as well as the figural stones of the knight Georg von Wemding († 1551) and his wife Margarethe († 1549) next to the western portal .
Because of the Kaisheim correctional facility , the cloister is no longer accessible today.
literature
- Johann Wolfgang Melchinger, Geographical, statistical-topographical lexicon of Baiern, or, Complete alphabetical description of all cities, monasteries, castles, villages, spots, farms, mountains, valleys, rivers, lakes, strange areas and the like in the entire Baiern district . s. w., Verlag der Stettinische Buchhandlung, Ulm 1796, pp. 5-7
- Franz Dionys Reithofer : The last 31 years of Kaisersheim. A memorial of gratitude to this former famous Cistercian imperial abbey . Munich 1817 ( e-copy ).
- Martin Schaidler: Chronicle of the former imperial monastery Kaisheim . Noerdlingen, 1887
- Karl Huber: The Cistercian Abbey of Kaisheim in the struggle for immunity, imperial immediacy and sovereignty . Diss., Erlangen, 1928
- Luitpold Reindl: History of the Kaisheim Monastery , self-published, undated (1913)
- Hermann Hoffmann ( arrangement ): The oldest land register of the Imperial Monastery of Kaisheim 1319–1352 (= Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 5, Vol. 1) Augsburg 1959.
- Hermann Hoffmann ( arrangement ): The documents of the Reichsstiftes Kaisheim 1135–1287 (= Swabian Research Association at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 2a, Vol. 11), Augsburg 1972.
- Johann Lang, Otto Kuchenbauer: 850 years of the founding of the Kaisheim monastery 1134–1984 - Festschrift for the 850th anniversary , Kaisheim 1984
- Werner Schiedermair (Ed.): Kaisheim - Markt und Kloster , Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2001, ISBN 3-933784-83-2
- Wolfgang Wüst: The search for the earthly realm in Swabian churches. Sovereignty as a theme of the monastery chronicle. Wettenhausen and Kaisheim in comparison. In: Wilhelm Liebhart / Ulrich Faust (eds.), Suevia Sacra. On the history of the East Swabian imperial monasteries in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period (Augsburg contributions to the regional history of Bavarian Swabia 8) Stuttgart 2001, pp. 115–132.
- Georg Schrott: "To the wholesome teaching and eternal Hail". Printed sermons in honor of St. Bernhard von Clairvaux from the Cistercian Abbey of Kaisheim . In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 114 (2003) pp. 299–348
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 325.
Web links
- Monasteries in Bavaria: Cistercian monastery Kaisheim
- Historical lexicon of Bavaria - Lechsgemünd-Graisbach, Counts of
Remarks
- ^ Johann Adam Graf von Reisach: History of the Counts of Lechsmund and Graisbach , Munich 1813, p. 26 → digitized
- ↑ The original documents from this book are in the Augsburg State Archives under the sign. KU Reichsstift Kaisheim.