Margrethausen Monastery

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The monastery complex today

The Margrethausen Monastery is a former Franciscan monastery in Margrethausen , today a district of Albstadt in Baden-Württemberg .

The Margrethausen monastery was founded as a Franciscan monastery in 1338 by the local lord Konrad von Tierberg - probably due to a tradition of spiritual life that had existed here for a long time , and was established the following year. Conrad von Tierberg equipped the small hermitage, which was re-established in 1339, with property and goods on site, took it under his protection and shield and freed it from all services. Soon afterwards, the hermitage was able to expand its property considerably by purchasing a number of Meßstetten farms from the Haiterbach line of the Lords of Tierberg at Meßstetten Castle . The monastery property comprised five MeßstetterFeuds, 168 Jauchert arable land and 104 Mannswahd meadows. Until the Reformation the monastery was the largest lord and feudal lord of the Meßstetter, so it had more area than the amply furnished Meßstetter collegiate church of St Lamprecht with its three altars or the chaplaincy.

Until the 15th century the monastery was under the patronage of the Lords of Tierberg. After the family died out, the rule of the "Frawen zu St. Margarethen Husen" passed over various families to the von Stauffenberg family .

In the Thirty Years' War both village was and monastery church badly damaged. The parish was abolished and united with the neighboring Lautlingen . But the monastery church was rebuilt as early as 1707, and the new monastery building was inaugurated in 1723 so that monastery life could continue.

In the course of secularization, the area passed to Württemberg in 1802 , Napoleon occupied the country in 1803, and in 1805 it was assigned to the Württemberg office of Balingen . The monastery was dissolved in 1811 and the monastery buildings were subsequently used as a school, teacher's apartment and for local administration.

Of the former four wing buildings of the monastery, only the east wing, which adjoins the parish church, remains today.

literature

  • Parish Church of St. Margareta, Albstadt-Margrethausen. 2001

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Upper Baden gender book , p. 223. Digitized version, University Library of Heidelberg
  2. ↑ History can be so exciting. Lecture by Heinrich Stopper on "The Meßstetter Hofgüter des Kloster Margrethausen" - invitation of the citizens' meeting . In: Südkurier of May 14, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 8 ° 57 ′ 59 ″  E