Kirchberg Monastery

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Kirchberg Monastery
Convent building
View "into" the nuns' cemetery, Hohenzollern Castle on the horizon

The Kirchberg convent is a former Dominican convent in Sulz am Neckar , district of Rottweil , in Baden-Wuerttemberg . As the monastery of a mendicant order , its church does not have a bell tower, but only a modest roof turret for two bells.

history

Originally there was a castle on the Kirchberg; the Lords of Kirchberg were first mentioned in 1095. The monastery was founded in 1237 by Count Burkhard III. von Hohenberg built at the instigation of noble ladies of the House of Hohenberg. In 1245 Pope Innocent IV confirmed the foundation of the monastery. After just ten years, the number of nuns had risen from initially 10 to 60.

Around 1270 the monastery came under the jurisdiction of the Rottweil monastery, which was incorporated into the Dominican Order in 1266.

In the 14th century, about 100 years later, the nun Elisabeth von Kirchberg recorded reports on the religious life and the experiences of grace of deceased monastery members who gained national fame. They are handed down in a Dominican sister book of the monastery, edited in several versions, and in the vita of a sister Irmegard.

In 1381 the County of Hohenberg was sold to Habsburg, and Kirchberg became an enclave in Upper Austria until 1805 . In the course of the introduction of the Reformation , the Kirchberg monastery accepted nuns from abolished Dominican convents in countries that had become Evangelical, including in 1564 from the Dominican convent in Pforzheim .

During the secularization , the Upper Austrian monastery came to Württemberg in 1805 and was abolished on October 11, 1806. Kirchberg Monastery became a state domain . The nuns were allowed to stay in the monastery for the time being; the last nun left the monastery in 1865. Because of the high maintenance costs, the state offered the neighboring municipality of Rosenfeld , which had suffered from a major fire, the building as a quarry in 1868 . At that time, the rose fields demolished the east and south wings, as well as the north cloister. The material was used to build Rosenfeld.

As early as 1850, one of the four agricultural schools in the country was set up in the buildings as a state technical college for the training of farmers. Services were held for their pupils in the St. John's Church of the former monastery. In 1941 the agricultural school ceased operations.

In Horb am Neckar (Neckarstrasse 12), the Schaffnereihof of the Kirchberg monastery (1301–1806), which in 1301 received tax exemption from the city, is still preserved today. It is probably the oldest secular building in the city of Horb. The mighty stone building is also known as the Haus am Aischbach and, according to Section 28 DSchG, is a cultural monument of particular importance.

Attractions

  • Carving on the cheeks

  • Hohenberg grave slab for Margareta von Hohenberg (1296), b. from Fürstenberg

  • Lamentation of Mary (Pietà), 14th century

  • Baroque Michaelsbrunnen

  • Cloister

  • Donate

  • Kirchberger Klostertor (1749)

  • Portal figure Dominic

Rottweil, Dominican Museum, Holy Three Kings, around 1480, from the Dominican convent in Kirchberg
  • West portal with coat of arms and the religious saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena
  • Rows of windows in the cloister with Gothic tracery (some only ruins)
  • Nuns cemetery with a view of the Hohenzollern
  • Baroque Michaelsbrunnen
  • Herb garden
  • Katharinenkapelle with donors coat of arms (burial place of the Lords of Weitingen )
  • Monastery church (1688: redesign in baroque style )
  • early Gothic portal
  • Pietà from the early 16th century.
  • Baroque pulpit with the religious saints Vinzenz, Dominikus, Thomas and Petrus Martyr
  • Hohenberger grave slab (grave slab Albrecht II von Hohenberg for his wife Margareta, née von Fürstenberg )
  • Grave slab of the Count Palatine of Tübingen with the coat of arms of the Count Palatine and the five-petalled rose of the Counts of Eberstein
  • Carved side panels of the pews from 1748. - See also Dominican Museum Rottweil .
  • Holy three kings

Overview of the monastery complex

The separation of the farm building of the estate of the former monastery from the actual monastery complex with church, convent building , cloister , residential house of the nuns, dormitory , refectory , kitchen, cellar and other common parts of the building (pharmacy, library, etc.) is clearly recognizable .

The complex can be entered from the west through the still preserved portal (1749). The view falls on the mighty front of the west wing of the monastery. The facade dates from 1733. The alternation of semi-arches and triangles in the rows of windows is striking. In the middle of the courtyard is the manor house where the chaplain and high-ranking guests of the order once lived. In front of it is the small bakery. On the south side of the square there is a stable, a barn and another building with stables. On the north side, there is a long stretch of cow and pig sty. The building that closes off the estate to the west was an agricultural school for a long time (1850–1941).

The church, built in 1237, is located on the north side of the monastery building and faces east; In 1688 it was rebuilt in baroque style by Johann Feuerstein from Rottweil. From the entrance door with the coat of arms of the Dominican order one arrives at the closed area of ​​the monastery, the enclosure. Right in the hallway, a winch set into the wall forms what was once the only point of contact between the nuns and the outside world. The speech grille has been preserved in the reception room behind.

Viewed from the inner courtyard of the cloister, the church stands to the north, to the east is the nuns' house with single cells and dormitory (dormitory) and to the south the dining room (refectory or rempter).

Todays use

In 1956 the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood of the Berneuchen Movement received permission to move into the former monastery building and set up a retreat. The people of Berneuchen have been using the entire monastery grounds since 1970. In 2000 the agriculture school was reopened as a guest house.

Since 2000 there has been a permanent exhibition in the monastery on the works of Helmuth Uhrig , who bequeathed his works to the Michael Brotherhood in a will. A "Uhrig-Kreis" in Kirchberg Monastery takes care of special and traveling exhibitions as well as publications about the artist.

Between 1995 and 2001, the editorial team for the ecumenical service book ADORU in the international language Esperanto met repeatedly on the Kirchberg . The group of authors therefore called itself “Kirchberg Monastery”.

Today, the house community invites groups and individual guests to "breathe a sigh of relief" - this is the title of the annual event plan - for example during choir weeks and spiritual seminars, or during courses on fasting, body work and meditation. External groups regularly attend seminars on their own responsibility, with the spectrum ranging from confirmation groups and church committees to management seminars from industry.

Kirchberg Monastery is the starting point for a paradise tour of the same name.

spirituality

The spiritual atmosphere of the Berneuchen house is largely shaped by the special design of the choir prayer , to which the guests are invited. The morning praise ( Laudes ) is celebrated daily at 7.45 a.m., the midday prayer ( sixth ) at 12 p.m., the evening blessing ( Vespers ) at 6 p.m. and the night prayer ( Compline ) at 9 p.m. Here monastic tradition and modern sacred songs are combined.

For the prayer of the hour, the Evangelical diary of the day published by the Michael Brotherhood in collaboration with Godehard Joppich from the Benedictine abbey of Münsterschwarzach is available.

On Thursdays and Sundays, a sacrament service is celebrated in the form of the evangelical mass . Common grace is as natural as the travel blessing before the house guests drive home.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Siegfried Ringler: Elisabeth von Kirchberg . In: VL² , 2, 479-482 (1980).
  2. ↑ See Siegfried Ringler: Viten- und Revelationsliteratur in women's monasteries of the Middle Ages. Sources and Studies. Artemis, Munich 1980 (Munich texts and studies on German literature in the Middle Ages 72), pp. 91–110 u. ö. (see register: Kirchberg / Sulz ); Sabine Jansen: The texts of the Kirchberg corpus. Tradition and text history from the 15th to the 19th century . Dissertation University of Cologne 2005.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Mürle: Euphemia. The English king's daughter in the women's monastery in Pforzheim . Konstanz 1993, p. 27.
  4. ^ Alfred Dehlinger: Württemberg's state in its historical development until today . No. 1 . Stuttgart 1951, p. 490-491 .
  5. ↑ Annegret Kaiser: Monument Preservation Value Plan. Complete system of the old town of Horb. (PDF) State Office for Monument Preservation in the Stuttgart Regional Council, August 10, 2016, accessed on February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Armin Braun: Small monuments in the cities and communities from A to Z, in: Small monuments in the district of Rottweil . Ed .: Rottweil district, Bernhard Rüth, Armin Braun. regional culture publisher, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89735-973-4 , p. 285 .
  7. ↑ RAD + WANDERPARADIES Schwarzwald und Alb (Ed.): RAD + WANDERPARADIES Schwarzwald und Alb hiking brochure . 3. Edition. tape 2 , 2018, p. 8th f .

Sources - archive holdings

  • Archive holdings StaS FAS F 14 NVA Kloster Kirchberg Permalink

literature

  • Rudolf Krauss: History of the Dominican women's monastery in Kirchberg . In: WJjH Württembergische Vierteljahreshefte für Landesgeschichte . No. 3 . Stuttgart 1894, p. 291-332 .
  • Johann Adam Kraus: New and old from Kirchberg Monastery near Haigerloch . In: Hohenzollerische Jahreshefte . No. 24 , 1964, pp. 341-344 .
  • Oskar Planck: A walk through Kirchberg monastery and its history. Stuttgart 1966 2 (reprint 1991).
  • Hans Peter Müller: The Sisters Book of Kirchberg Monastery (1237-1305) . In: The Sülchgau . No. 21/22 , p. 42-56 (Date: 1977/78).
  • Wolfgang Zimmermann and Nicole Priesching (eds.): Württembergisches Klosterbuch . Ulm 2003, ISBN 3-7995-0220-3 , p. 302 f .
  • Sabine Jansen: The texts of the Kirchberg corpus. Tradition and text history from the 15th to the 19th century . Dissertation University of Cologne 2005 ( full text ).
  • Adolf Klek: Nuns, knights, commissioners in the history of the monastery: Kirchberger Blätter . Berneuchener Haus Kloster Kirchberg, Sulz 2007
  • Adolf Klek: Gentlemen's favor and feminine grace: the early days of the Kirchberg monastery . Berneuchen House, Kirchberg Monastery, Sulz 2010
  • Adolf Klek: “ain wild thing at that time in Kirchperg”: Crisis and crime time in the women's monastery 1470–1570 . Berneuchener Haus Kloster Kirchberg, Sulz 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045499-8
  • Yvonne Arras: The Dominicans of the Neckar-Alb region in the Augsburger Chronik by Karl Welz OP († 1809) and Emerich Ruef OP († 1814), in: (Ed.) Hohenzollerischer Geschichtsverein e.V. Sigmaringen: Journal for Hohenzollern History , Vol. 52/53, Sigmaringen 2015/2016

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 29 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 58"  E