Koenigsbruck Monastery
| Cistercian convent Koenigsbruck | |
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 Page of the rituals of Königsbruck (1495) |
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| location |
 FranceRegion Alsace Department Bas-Rhin |
| Lies in the diocese | Strasbourg |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 51 '40 " N , 8 ° 0' 46" E |
| founding year | 1140 by Cistercian women |
| Cistercian since | around 1140 to 1791 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1793 |
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Koenigsbruck Monastery (Königsbrück) was a Cistercian abbey in the Holy Forest (Forêt d'Haguenau) near Haguenau . It was on the Sauer near the Au Vieux Couvent inn . The closest place is people home .
history
The monastery was founded around 1140 (according to other sources not until 1152) by Duke Friedrich the One-Eyed . It was one of the richest monasteries in Alsace and enjoyed exemption from customs duties for a ship on the Rhine. In 1232, the newly founded Heilsbruck monastery in the Speyer diocese was occupied with nuns from the local convent.
In the peasant wars it was plundered in 1525 and again in 1621. From 1621 to 1673 the nuns stayed in Haguenau. During the reconstruction in the 18th century, Peter Thumb built the monastery church. The monastery came to an end during the French Revolution . The nuns then moved to Lichtenthal Abbey near Baden-Baden .
Buildings and plant
Only some of the foundations of the monastery, which was demolished except for a mill, have been preserved. Several altars have found their way into the Roeschwoog church . In Haguenau, the Hôtel de Koenigsbruck, built in 1748, has been preserved with its ironwork (Grand-Rue 142, inventoried as Monument historique since 1930).
literature
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Editions Gaud, Moisenay, 2nd ed., P. 11, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 .
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1976, p. 106, ISBN 3-422-00345-2 .
- M. Sandra Yellow: Königsbruck and Wechterswinkel . Two early Cistercian convents in German-speaking countries, two Staufer brothers and the high level of imperial politics . In: Cistercienser Chronik 125 (2018), pp. 434–472.
