Lochgarten Monastery
The monastery Loch Garten was a monastery of Premonstratensian of 1144 to the early 14th century. It was about eight kilometers north of Weikersheim in the Main-Tauber district . Today there is an eco farm on the site.
history
King Conrad III. allowed the brothers Constantin and Giselbert to found a monastery on their property in 1144 . Constantin and Giselbert, the censors of the collegiate church in Lorch , used the Gut Locarden ( garden in the forest ) that they had received from their father for the establishment . The responsible bishop Embricho von Würzburg (1127–1146) sent Premonstratensian women from the Tückelhausen monastery near Ochsenfurt , which had been founded a few years earlier, to the new monastery, whose abbot Lochgarten was initially also subordinate. In 1155 Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa took the monastery under his protection. In competition with Lochgarten, Duke Friedrich von Rothenburg , nephew of Friedrich I, founded a Premonstratensian monastery between 1164 and 1167 in Schäftersheim , which is also a few kilometers from Lochgarten to the north of Weikersheim.
At the beginning of the 14th century, Lochgarten was incorporated into the Schäftersheim monastery and a few years later it was completely abolished as a monastery. The property continued to be managed from Schäftersheim, but from 1334 it fell to the Hohenlohe family , initially partly through purchase, and then completely after the Reformation .
Further use
In the 18th century, Count Karl-Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim built a hunting lodge on the Lochgarten estate that has now been created, which he called partly after his name, but partly also after the original name Louisgarde .
The Hofgut Lochgarten is now again managed as a Demeterhof under the name Louisgarde .
Web links
- Premonstratensian monastery Lochgarten in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
literature
- Thomas Horling: Founding and early days of the Tückelhausen Premonstratensian Monastery (before 1139-1172) , in: Journal for Bavarian State History 68 (2005), pp. 441–484 ( digitized version )
- Benvenut Stengele : The former Premonstratensian convent Lochgarten near Mergentheim , in: Diöcesan-Archiv von Schwaben , 12th year 1894, issue 10, p. 39 f. ( Digitized version )
Remarks
Parish churches of pastoral care unit 3 of the dean's office Mergentheim : To the precious blood (Weikersheim) with the branches Elpersheim and Queckbronn | St. Margareta (Laudenbach)
Other churches and ways of the cross: Way of the Cross (Laudenbach) to the mountain church Laudenbach
Monasteries: Lochgarten Monastery (†) | Premonstratensian monastery Schäftersheim (†)
(†): Sacred building no longer used / available
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '47.4 " N , 9 ° 52' 34.7" E