Münchsteinach Monastery

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The monastery Münchsteinach ( Monastery of St. Nicholas ) is a former convent of Benedictine in Münchsteinach in Bavaria .

history

The monastery, consecrated to St. Nicholas , was founded by the noble lords of Steinach around 1140 (according to earlier information 1102 or 1133). The monastery was successful in the clearing culture , as the villages of Abtsgreuth , Mönchsberg and Höfen testify.

The bailiwick of the monastery came to the Burgraves of Nuremberg and later Margraves of Brandenburg via King Konradin at the latest in 1265 . The Münchsteinach monastery also had the church patronage (or the right to present the pastor) in nearby Gutenstetten , which is why the monastery patron St. Nikolaus is on the altar (in addition, the Münchsteinach abbot Wilhelm planned a new church in Gutenstetten to be completed in 1500 as early as 1493) .

During the Peasants' War in 1525, the church and monastery were partially destroyed, mainly by rebels operating from Gutenstetten, and the abbot Christoph von Hirschaid was captured. In 1527, Margrave Casimir had the "Monica", the largest bell of the abandoned monastery, cast by Abenberg , who was also responsible for the renovation of all the monastery buildings, in the town church of Neustadt. The monastery, whose reconstruction initially had to be carried out by the Gutenstetteners, was dissolved in 1528/1529 in the course of the Reformation and in 1540 a monastery office was set up for administration. The monastery church has been used as a Lutheran parish church since 1530

Münchsteinach became the margravial monastery office, which Neustadt an der Aisch supported by paying the town doctor Wenger, who worked there around 1553, his first salary. The Gutenstetten Church was again officially recognized a share of the confiscated monastery property from Münchsteinach. The monastery office existed in 1792. The monastery church was restored to its original condition through extensive renovation between 1965 and 1970. The original colors from the time it was built around 1180 were exposed on the pillars of the basilica. A depiction of a saint from this period is particularly impressive.

literature

  • Walter Haas: The church and the former Benedictine monastery in Münchsteinach ( large architectural monuments , issue 248). 3rd edition, Munich / Berlin 1991
  • Hans Sponholz et al. (Ed.): District Neustadt an der Aisch . Verl. F. Authorities and Economy Hoeppner, Aßling-Pörsdorf / Obb. 1972, DNB  720137675 , p. 111-113 .

Web links

Commons : Münchsteinach monastery district  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Zimmermann: On the history of Münchsteinach .
  2. ↑ Franconian tourism: Münchsteinach .
  3. ^ Pfeiffer Gerhard: The legal status of the Münchsteinach Monastery, Yearbook for Franconian State Research No. 23, Neustadt / Aisch, 1963 . 1963.
  4. ^ Max Döllner : Development history of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933 . 1950; 2nd Edition. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 99.
  5. ^ Max Döllner: History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. 1950, pp. 60, 72, 136, 141 and 144 f.
  6. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), pp. 524 and 145.

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 16.4 "  N , 10 ° 35 ′ 50.3"  E