Mönchsdeggingen Monastery
The monastery Mönchsdeggingen is a former convent of the Missionaries of Mariannhill in Mönchsdeggingen at Nördlingen on the southern Riesrand in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The monastery consecrated to St. Martin was opened in 10./11. Founded in the 18th century by the ruling house of the Ottonians - ancestors of Emperor Heinrich II . Initially it was a Benedictine monastery until 1138 , and in 1142 it was converted into a Benedictine monastery. The monastery, which burned down in 1512/13, was rebuilt under Abbot Alexander Hummel, and the pilgrimage church was later redesigned in baroque style.
The Benedictine monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization . The ownership of the monastery passed to the princes of Oettingen-Wallerstein . The monks were allowed to stay until 1807. In 1950 the Mariannhill Congregation of Missionaries took over the monastery as a novitiate for the prospective priests. In the meantime the Generalate of the Order, which has been based in Rome since 1970, was also housed here . With the departure of the last confrere in 2009, the monastery was finally dissolved. The monastery church and the cemetery became the property of a church foundation, which continues to operate both. The remaining monastery buildings were sold to an investor in 2017 for conversion into private apartments.
Web links
- Mönchsdeggingen Monastery , basic data and history: Mönchsdeggingen - the oldest monastery in the Ries in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 '27.2 " N , 10 ° 35' 2.7" E