Krauftal Monastery
The Krauftal nunnery (today Graufthal ) is located in the hamlet of Graufthal in the municipality of Eschbourg in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace . The monastery was founded in the 10th century, abolished in the 16th century, was under the supervision of the Benedictine monastery of St. Georgen in the Black Forest from 1124/30 and was a priory of the Black Forest monastery until the 16th century .
Krauftal was probably founded in the 10th century, and - as was common at the time - a Benedictine monastery. In a way that is no longer comprehensible, the Counts of Metz were significantly involved in the establishment. Only in this way - and through Abbot Theoger von St. Georgen (1088–1119) - are later ownership rights of the monastery in Saargau and the disposal of Count Folmar V of Metz († 1111) over the monastery at the beginning of the 12th century understandable. Because the count gave the monastic community in St. Georgen the spiritual supervision of the nunnery (1124/1130), as the humanist and Benedictine monk Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516) first put it.
At least we have, with a privilege from Pope Innocent II , probably from March 12th 1138, the confirmation of St. George's supervisory right over Krauftal. Vogt of the nunnery was at the time of the certificate issue Count Peter von Lützelburg, who together with his wife Ida and his son Reginald with the consent of Bishop Stephan von Metz (1120-1163) and the Krauftaler Abbess Hazzecha recognized the pastoral care of St. George and to restore the religio , i.e. the correct monastic and worship order.
In this regard, Hazzecha also wrote a letter to the famous Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), that prophetissa teutonica , who became known not least for her visionary literature and for natural and medicinal writings. Hazzecha refers in her letter to Hildegard's visit to Krauftal, which, according to Hildegardi's Vita , is said to have taken place in 1160. Not much had changed for the better since Hildegard's stay in Krauftal, and so the answer from the abbess of Rupertsberg Monastery is an admonition to help yourself.
A St. Georgen monk is attested as prior of Krauftal in 1389, and the monastery was repopulated in 1488 by nuns from Sindelsberg near Marmoutier . In the Peasants' War of 1524/1525 the monastery was destroyed and the spiritual community was abolished shortly afterwards. The monastery buildings fell apart in the 16th century.
The ruins of the monastery were entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques in 1984 and are listed.
literature
- Hans-Josef Wollasch: The beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical uniqueness of a monastery within the Hirsau reform . Verlag Albert, Freiburg / B. 1964. (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region 14)
- 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 . St. Georgen 1984, pp. 45-61 (Festschrift).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Saint-Gangolphe monastery in Graufthal in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 7 ° 16 ′ 50.5 ″ E