Lobenfeld Monastery
The Lobenfeld Monastery in Lobenfeld, a district of the Lobbach community in the Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg , is a monastery founded by Augustinian canons before 1150 , which, after an eventful history, was closed in the course of the Reformation in 1560. The Lobenfeld monastery church is one of the most important Hohenstaufen monuments in Baden-Württemberg.
history
Founded in the 12th century by Augustinian canons
In the early 12th century was at the site of the monastery, where an ancient street of Heidelberg coming to Mosbach and Wimpfen branched, a Hofgut consisting of Salic inheritance to the Staufer fell that allows the Edelfreien Meginlach of Obrigheim to feud , gave the it in turn was given away by Bishop Burchard II of Worms to found a monastery. On behalf of Worms, Augustinian canons from Frankenthal founded the Lobenfeld monastery there as part of the systematic development of the areas on the right bank of the Rhine for the diocese of Worms . With an undated document from 1181 or 1187, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa confirmed ownership of the monastery. In the document, the dispositions of King Konrad III, who died in 1152, are recorded . and the consent of Duke Friedrich II. of Swabia, who died on the second crusade in 1147, is quoted, so that the monastery must have been founded before 1147. Various donations to the monastery are also documented in the 12th century. From a donation from Abbot Heinrich von Lorsch to various monasteries, two marks went to Lobenfeld in 1167. On the occasion of this donation, the monastery was first mentioned in a document. Heinrich's successor, Abbot Sigehard, sold the Lobenfeld monastery in 1173 an arable and meadow estate along with a forest near Plankstadt . In Barbarossa's document, apart from the property in Plankstadt, property in "Butersbach" (Biddersbacher Hof in the district of Lobenfeld), "Breitenhart" (in the district of Daisbach ) and "curtis in Nivwenheim" (estate in Heidelberg-Neuenheim ) are named. How these goods came into the possession of the monastery is unknown. However, they were probably not all part of the original equipment of the monastery, rather it seems to have only consisted of the nearby Biddersbacher Hof.
In its early years, the monastery asked Boppo (IV.) Von Lauffen († 1181) on the Dilsberg for protection several times , which was then granted. However, the son Boppo (V.) then tried to obtain the bailiwick of the monastery, which is why the document of Friedrich I Barbarossa can also be addressed as a letter of protection against secular appropriation of the monastery property. At the same time, the document can also be understood as a safeguard for the monastery with a view to upcoming construction work, especially since the Romanesque eastern half of the monastery church consisting of transept and choir, the architecture of which was presumably based on the eastern building of the Worms Cathedral , dates back to around 1170/80.
The actual monastery buildings were attached to the monastery church in the south and took up roughly the same area as the buildings there today ( old house and Schaffnei building ). To the north of the church was a burial place. To the south-east of the church, roughly in the area of the old house , remains of the foundations are found that are older than the church and that were taken into account when the church was built. This is probably where the oldest cloister building, if not the original Hofgut, can be found.
A male head of the monastery was mentioned for the last time in 1223 with a praepositus , and from 1254 onwards, sisters were mentioned. How the change came about is unknown. Older research is based on the few documents and changes around the middle of the 13th century. More recent research sees the tombstone of Abbess Agnes found in the monastery, which is dated around 1200, as an indication that a nunnery was already in the monastery at that time. The management of the nunnery was held by a magistra (master), the superintendent remained in Frankenthal or represented by the provost of the Höningen monastery , another Frankenthal monastery founded. The town of Lobenfeld , which was first mentioned in 1229 but was insignificant until the 19th century, settled around the monastery , over which the monastery initially exercised local authority.
In the course of the 13th century, the monastery gradually came under the influence of the Cistercian monastery Schönau, which was emerging together with the Palatinate County . As early as 1211, the Lobenfeld Monastery sold an estate in Heidelberg to the Schönau Monastery, the purchase price of which was not paid in full, so that an arbitration was reached in 1223. From Frankenthal, most of the Plankstadt property was sold to the Schönau monastery in 1254. The property traffic between the monasteries of Lobenfeld, Lorsch and Schönau in the 12th and 13th centuries led not least to a consolidation of the properties. Lobenfeld renounced distant properties in Plankstadt and Viernheim and instead received property and rights in Wollenberg , Wimpfen , Schatthausen , Reilsheim , Bischofsheim and other places in the vicinity of the core property in Lobenfeld, Waldwimmersbach and Epfenbach .
Establishment of a Schaffnei
In the meantime, the imperial protective rights came to the Count Palatine, who appointed an administrator, the so-called conductor , to manage the monastery property, to control the tenants and property of the monastery and to collect taxes . The conductor's office has been occupied since 1326, but it may not have been occupied continuously. Due to the small-scale ownership structure in the late medieval Kraichgau and the expansion efforts of the Electoral Palatinate, complicated and changing legal relationships existed even in the core ownership of the monastery, both in terms of lordship and authoritarian powers, in the parceling of leases and leaseholds as well as in serfdom of the residents. It can be summed up that the monastery lost ownership of rights in Waldwimmersbach, but has meanwhile gained in Epfenbach. The monastery in Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach ceded official rights to the Count Palatine, but also gained them in Epfenbach. The conductors' office, which was initially not linked to an official seat in Lobenfeld, lost many of its sovereign powers over time, such as the appointment of mayors, and turned into a fiscal office, later also with a residence obligation , whereby the conductors themselves also lease and lease goods could manage or use after-stock.
Transition to the Cistercian monastery
When and how the monastery in Lobenfeld came to the Cistercian order is unknown. It is possible that the first nuns, possibly in the early 13th century, were Cistercian women. The extension of the monastery church to include the single-nave nave around the middle of the 14th century was also carried out according to the building specifications of the Cistercians.
From the year 1331, Margareta von Helmstatt, the first mention of an abbess of the monastery, described in more detail by her ancestry, dates back to. Their exact determination in the family table of the gentlemen von Helmstatt has not yet been successful. In 1342 Gertrud von Sickingen, daughter of Reinhard II von Sickingen, is registered as a nun in the monastery. According to her preserved tombstone, Adelheid von Waltdorf died in 1357 as a member of the Lobenfeld convent, but her membership of the von Walldorf family is questionable. After 1382, the abbesses were known by their full names for around 80 years, with the names of the Kraichgau knights appearing, including those of Venningen , von Angelloch and von Hornberg.
The economic difficulties of the Schönau monastery around 1360 apparently did not have a noticeable effect on the Lobenfeld monastery, especially since it was able to expand its economic security in Heidelberg through a farm and a wine press and the duty-free export of the products without Schönau's cooperation. In addition, the very widely scattered possessions for the dowry of the conventual women contributed to economic security. In the 14th century, the Billigheim monastery and the Lobenfeld monastery also shared the market tariff at Mosbach.
Benedictine monastery from 1438
In 1425, Count Palatine Ludwig IV made efforts to relocate the nuns of the Neuburg Monastery to Lobenfeld. After protests by both convents, the merger did not take place, instead Lobenfeld in 1436 and Neuburg in 1438 were accepted into the Benedictine order at Ludwig's instigation . 1459 the monastery Lobenfeld was finally in the Bursfelde Congregation integrated and Ludwig IV. Of all compulsory labor and Atzungsansprüchen freed. In place of the previous abbess Agnes von Hornberg (mentioned in 1457 and 1458), the prioress of the Marienberg monastery , which had already been reformed in the Bursfeld style , Agnes von Rohrbach was appointed superior. The monastery took part in the Bursfeld general chapters of 1488 and 1493. In the meantime, middle-class women have also found acceptance, including Elisabeth Silbereisen from Mosbach around 1512 , who later became the wife of the Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer .
The leasing of monastery property was increasingly taken over by Heidelberg land clerks in the early 16th century, so that the monastery was probably already under central electoral supervision. In the course of the Reformation in the Electoral Palatinate, the monastery was gradually closed. Initially, in 1556 new entrants were banned. The last prioress, Anna von Bettendorff, the sister of the Worms prince-bishop Dietrich von Bettendorf , resigned on December 16, 1560. A conductor was appointed to manage the monastery by February 1563 at the latest by the Palatinate church property and gradient administration. The nuns were free to stay in the monastery buildings. It is not known how many and by when made use of it. Würdtwein reports that monastery life did not end until 1616, but it is commonly assumed that that year at most marked the death of the last nun, while the monastery buildings were used secularly at that time.
The monastery district after the abolition of the monastery
The electoral ecclesiastical administration upgraded the conductorship and set up a conductorship in the convent building to manage the monastery property and the church property of the provost in Wiesenbach, which had also been confiscated from the Electoral Palatinate . If the monastery property had previously been administered for the benefit of the monastery, the benefit after the Reformation lay directly with the Electoral Palatinate. In addition to his various administrative and supervisory functions, the conductor in Lobenfeld also exercised his rights in Epfenbach.
The accessories of the Schaffnerei Lobenfeld included the Biddersbacher Hof, from the 18th century also the Klingentaler Hof near Langenzell , the Pfarrsatz in Lobenfeld and Waldwimmersbach in their common church in the Biddersbacher Hof as well as in Epfenbach and goods and slopes in Epfenbach , Wollenberg , Bischofsheim , Wimpfen and Aglasterhausen as well as numerous free float in the area of the southern Bergstrasse, including goods and rights in Wiesloch , Altwiesloch , Baiertal , Schatthausen , Dielheim , Nußloch and Gauangelloch . Part of the property was formerly owned by Schönau monastery, which had come to the Schaffnei in Lobenfeld via the dissolved provost office in Wiesenbach. A small part of the property also came from securing financial transactions (pledges).
During the Thirty Years' War , after the capitulation of Mannheim and Heidelberg in 1622, Bavaria attempted recatholicization. The conductor Paulus Mauer, who died in 1625 and was buried in the church, was probably transferred from Munich to the Electoral Palatinate. In 1629 the monastery was handed over to Jesuits from Heidelberg . In 1643 it was looted by Lorraine horsemen. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the monastery came back to the Palatinate clergy administration. After that, from 1664 onwards, around 100 Sabbatarians settled by Elector Karl I. Ludwig used the facility, while the Schaffnei's office was relocated to Neckargemünd . The Sabbathers were expelled again in 1669 because of mismanagement and destruction. From 1672, Anabaptists from Switzerland managed the complex as religious refugees. From the late 17th century onwards, it was important that the Schaffnei, which was again administered from the monastery district, was staffed with administratively trained staff. In the early 18th century, the conductors still had civil and police authority within the monastic immunity district , but gradually lost these rights to the winery in Dilsberg , which was also responsible for the village of Lobenfeld.
Due to the long agricultural and administrative use, the functional monastery buildings and the closed character of the complex were largely lost over time. The convent building as the administration building of the Schaffnei was renovated as early as 1605. The old house by the staircase to the east portal of the church, which possibly stands on the oldest foundations of the complex, was renovated several times as the home of the respective tenants. When the Palatinate church was divided in 1705, the monastery church came to the Protestants, the rest of the monastery property to the Catholics. The nave of the monastery church was exchanged for a field in 1808 by the Catholic Schaffnerei, who converted it into a barn.
Representative estate
In the second half of the 18th century, the Heyliger conductors, who had a certain upper-class, lordly lifestyle in the monastery grounds, decorated the monastery district with park-like gardens. At that time, a few more residential houses and associated farm buildings were built, some of which had to be replaced by the walls surrounding the complex or were used as building material. In the late 18th century there were a total of five hereditary estates on the monastery site. A community-like structure of its own developed in the monastery district, which was quite prosperous due to the large amount of land it owned compared to the neighboring village of Lobenfeld. In 1804 and 1831 there were attempts to separate from the poor village community. In 1846 the mill building was renewed.
1884 Schaffnerei with was Schaffnerei Heidelberg combined for Palatine Catholic Kirchenschaffnerei and the official residence of Heidelberg moved, then became the Schaffneigebäude to the house of the former tenant family Fellmann, while in the old house only under were employees and which also still going back to the monastery High Nonnenhaus well was demolished at that time. The large, historic-looking farm buildings east of the Schaffnei were rebuilt at that time .
present
During a fighter bomber attack on March 24, 1945, several residential and farm buildings in the monastery complex burned down. In 1950 the old house burned down and was then renewed except for the cellar. In 1966 the Schaffneigebuilding was also replaced by a smaller new building on the old cellar.
The place Lobenfeld has grown many times over due to modern development towards the north and in 1974 merged with the neighboring Waldwimmersbach to form the municipality of Lobbach. At around that time (1968), the Schaffnerei owned around 120 hectares of agricultural land. In the last third of the 20th century, the intensive agricultural use of the facility decreased. The tenant family Kaiser has moved into a resettler's yard northeast of the monastery district.
Along with the decline in agriculture, efforts to restore the monastery church and to use the monastery for cultural purposes began. Since the restoration of the historic Dickel organ from 1773 in the monastery church in 1958, there has been a series of events called Music in the monastery church . In 1979 the political community acquired the nave of the monastery church and planned to convert it into a festival hall. The plans were ready for construction, but in 1984 the nave was returned to the Protestant parish, which renovated it from 1995 to 1997 and has since then again owned the entire church. The construction maintenance is the responsibility of the Evangelical Foundation Care Schönau .
In 2004 the Spiritual Center Klosterkirche Lobenfeld was brought into being. It offers retreats and meditation days, concerts, exhibitions and training for volunteers. The remaining buildings in the monastery area are either inhabited or used for agriculture. The historic monastery wall has been repaired in some places. In 2006, paths and open spaces in the monastery were redesigned. In 2008 a new cloister garden was inaugurated, which ties in with the tradition of the medieval cloister gardens as well as the representative park facilities that once existed and the cottage gardens of the Lobenfeld monastery district maintained by the residents.
Buildings in the monastery district
Monastery church
The Lobenfeld monastery church is the most important building in the complex and is one of the outstanding Hohenstaufen monuments in Baden-Württemberg and one of the few Romanesque buildings in the Kraichgau . The transept and choir of the church were probably built in the late 12th century and have historical wall paintings. The simple nave was added in the middle of the 14th century. When the Palatinate church was divided in 1705, the church came to the Evangelical Care of Schönau, but later only the transept and choir were used for church purposes, while the nave was left to the Catholic Schaffnei in 1808, who used it as a barn for the monastery property for around 170 years and moved it to During this time it was rebuilt several times in accordance with agricultural requirements. It was not until 1984 that the nave came back into the possession of the Protestant nursing staff and was renovated from 1995 to 1997. Since 2004 the Spiritual Center Klosterkirche Lobenfeld has been using the monastery church for various events.
Old house
The old house to the left of the stairs of the monastery church stands on the walls of an ancient vaulted cellar, which is possibly even older than the church. The house was built in 1952/53 instead of a previous building that burned down in 1950, the year of construction of which is estimated to be around 1770 in 1841. There are no documents about other previous buildings. The conductor Johann Heiliger had a stone farm building erected south of the building in 1749. From 1783 the Geiß family lived in the old house as tenants . The estate was later divided, because in 1845 a tenant Lichti ran Frohnhof I and lived in the old house , while Friedrich Geiß ran Frohnhof II and lived in the (expired) Hagenbuch house . Around 1880 the Fellmann brothers ran the two Frohnhöfe. The Hagenbuch'sche house was demolished because it was in disrepair and both tenants lived temporarily in the old house before they were able to move into the Schaffnei building after the Abbey Schaffnei moved away in 1884 , whereupon workers from the estate , which had been reunited in 1881, moved into the old house . After the Second World War, up to 35 people lived in the building. On December 23, 1950, the roof of the building burned down. At first they wanted to restore it, but the substance was so bad that it was torn down to the cellar edge and rebuilt. When the septic tank was excavated in the course of the reconstruction, some medieval burials and an old well shaft with further skeletons were found. The building belonged to the Palatinate Catholic Church Office in Heidelberg, which sold it privately in 1992. The owners also converted the barn opposite from 1749 into a house.
Schaffneigebuilding
The Schaffneigebuilding north of the monastery church was given its present form by a new building in 1966. The building stands on a vaulted cellar, which was probably built in the 14th century near the nave of the church. In the new building in 1966, various historical components from the previous building were reused, which testify to the old age of the building. The entrance portal on the south side shows the year 1605, the lintel on the north side is dated to 1487. In the gable on the east side, the three-pass window of a former monastery building was walled in. The previous building replaced in 1966 was a two-story stone building from 1605 with three attic storeys. The respective abbey conductors lived and worked in the building, from 1747 to 1830 from the Heiliger family. The representative and large-sized building was appropriate for the lucrative conductor's office, the gardens to the south of the building were once designed as a representative park. After the Schaffnei moved to Heidelberg in 1884, the Fellmann family, who owned the property and managed the estate until 1967, moved into the building. The construction of numerous farm buildings in the monastery district goes back to this tenant family. To the west of the Schaffneigebuilding was the towering High Nonnenhaus , to which a transverse building to the church once connected to the south. The nun's house, which was built roughly on a square floor plan of 12 × 12 meters, lost much of its stability due to the demolition of that transverse building, so that the southern wall had to be reinforced. Frequent repairs to the nunnery are reported in the 18th century. In 1722 part of the roof of the building collapsed. In 1840 it was referred to as the “manorial warehouse”. In 1873 there were still considerations to move the tenant apartment to the nuns house, in 1879 it is no longer mentioned in the fire insurance book.
Gatehouse
The gatehouse (also doors house ) made probably once the only access to the most complete walled early as the Middle Ages monastery area. The ground floor of the gatehouse is massive, the upper floor is a half-timbered construction. Until a renovation in the 1950s, during which the framework of the building also disappeared under plaster, pan stones of the gate wing with mortise holes and the mounting of the safety crossbeam were still visible in the gate passage. The gatehouse was renovated in 1683 by linen weaver Christian Düfflin and then moved into. Even after the monastery was closed, the gatehouse was the point of contact for the poor and beggars who asked for alms from the porter. The schoolmaster Hunzinger owned the building around 1750. In 1854, Caspar Stoll is named as the owner. The demolition of the monastery wall east of the gatehouse, which had to give way to a barn ( Stolle Scheuerle ) that existed until 1994 , for whose construction parts of the monastery wall as well as decorated stones from other monastery buildings were used, probably goes back to him or the previous owner Jakob Geiß, mentioned in 1807 . After the barn was torn down, a small residential building was added to the gap between the gatehouse and the Zum Kloster inn . The gatehouse was given a new roof in 1996 and came into the possession of the Lobbach community in 2002. The western extension of the gatehouse is the so-called Gimber House . A building at this point has been occupied since the late 17th century and has been expanded several times. The shepherd Franz Philipp had the building redesigned in 1834 as a two-story stone structure. In the second half of the 19th century, ownership of the building was divided into two parts. Half of the building, from 1898 the entire building, was owned by the Gimber family, from whom the name of this building derives, until the 1980s.
House Mayer
The Mayer house south of the gatehouse was built in 1956. In its place there was previously a wide house with a low-hipped roof . In the fire insurance records of 1841, the age of this building is given as 200 years. The house was expanded in 1789 with an attached stable. As a legacy house, partly owned by the Mayer family since 1798 and wholly owned by the Mayer family from 1841, the property also included other stables and barns in the monastery district.
Evangelical school house
The Protestant school building adjoins the Mayer residential building to the east ; its predecessor building probably formed the eastern third of the old hereditary building. The community acquired this property in 1852, had the old buildings demolished and in 1854 the current building was built as a Protestant schoolhouse. There was a teacher's apartment on the upper floor. After the Lobenfeld school house was built in 1904, the entire building was divided into apartments. In 1980 the building was renovated, with the former main entrance in the south being walled up.
House Kaiser / Philipp
The Kaiser / Philipp house adjoins the school building to the east. The half-timbered house was built in 1803 by a widow from the Frey family. The vaulted cellar under the house could come from a previous building. The building was inhabited by Jakob Geiß in the middle of the 19th century and temporarily served as an inn with guest rooms and an attached dance floor as well as a post office. The building is named after the Kaiser family, who owned the building from 1884 and also ran the post office from 1886, and after the later owners named Philipp. The property included the large garden south of the building and the large barn adjoining it to the east, which Heinrich Kaiser had built in 1885 on the fire site of a previous building and which was rebuilt in 1945 using the old walls after it was destroyed in the Second World War.
Monastery mill
The monastery mill is already occupied in 1510 and was leased to the Schaffnei after the monastery was closed. 1618 Peter Märtins and Joseph Pfister are named as tenants. When the monastery was temporarily inhabited by Sabbatarian, they also took over the mill. Hereditary tenants came back later. A new mill building was completed in 1727. The respective millers came from the Frey family from 1707 to the end of the 19th century. Today's mill building was built under Müller Georg Frey in 1846. The mill room, which has been in the building since 1978, goes back to the historic inn in the mill, which only moved to the Kaiser / Philipp house in 1852 , after Georg Frey was mayor of Lobenfeld and was no longer allowed to exercise the innkeeping rights associated with the mill for generations. After leaving office, he briefly resumed the restaurant business, but his son was no longer interested in continuing. The mill came to the Holdermann family of millers in 1898. Klostermüller Heinrich Holdermann married the widow of the monastery innkeeper Heinrich Kaiser, who died in World War I. After the miller's death, the latter only continued the inn that had been inaugurated in 1914 and sold the mill in 1928 to a speculator, from whose bankruptcy assets the mill came to the current owners, the Christ / Rutsch family, in 1930. The outbuildings belonging to the mill were renewed after the Second World War.
House goat
The house goat northeast of the church was, was built in the late 18th century by the Erbbeständer Martin Geiss, who is also head of the small Protestant community. His grandson of the same name, Martin Geiß, had the building converted in 1863. His grandson Friedrich Geiß had a tobacco shed built to the west of the house in 1938. The entire property with residential building, tobacco shed and other outbuildings burned down during the bomber attack on March 24, 1945, but was rebuilt following the old cubature after the end of the war and extended to the north by Ludwig Geiß.
Monastery wall
The monastery wall , which enclosed the complex almost in a circle, was built in the first half of the 14th century. It once had a total length of about 730 meters, was between 60 and 80 cm thick and sometimes up to five meters high. Due to the use and multiple renovations of the monastery district as well as road construction and agriculture, large parts of the wall have disappeared today. The remaining parts of the wall have been preserved since the 1980s and some parts of the wall have also been reconstructed.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Ebert 2008, p. 21.
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Web links
- Website of the "Spiritual Center Klosterkirche Lobenfeld"
- Website of the "Friends of the Lobenfeld Monastery Church"
- Lobbach community , information about Lobenfeld monastery on the community website
- Benedictine Abbey Lobenfeld in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives (poor content)
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '1.2 " N , 8 ° 52' 2.3" E