Maria Rosengarten Monastery
Maria Rosengarten Monastery was a women's monastery in Bad Wurzach in the Ravensburg district from January 8, 1513 until 2007 .
founding
In a brief from January 8, 1513, issued by Pope Clement V , Helena von Hohenzollern declared the foundation of the monastery in the style of the Third Order of St. Francis approves. First of all, a piece of land on the eastern bank of the Wurzacher Ach outside the city was acquired at the parish church of St. Verena and a walled nurses house was built. Together with four sisters from Kisslegg , the founder entered the monastery as superior and died less than a year later. In the oldest picture of the monastery on the Zeiler map from 1610, a three-storey plastered walled building with a gable roof rising parallel to the parish church can be seen. Shortly before her death on October 27, 1514, Helena freed the monastery from all taxes and burdens of the city and endowed it with the annual interest income from her morning gift . Her son Georg III. Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil bequeathed perpetual interest to the monastery one day after his mother's death on November 12, 1514 . In addition, the founder allowed three head of cattle and three pigs to be kept on the town's commons . The nuns were also supposed to earn their living from running a linen weaving mill, which was located in the basement of the monastery. The sisters of the monastery cared for the sick, gave lessons to women, sold wax candles, their weaving, hosts and confectionery. In 1637 the population of the place had fallen to 19. In 1780 100 people lived in the city. In 1707 a second three-storey wing was added to the original monastery wing at a slight acute angle to the south of the guest house. In 1711 the sisters received permission from the Bishop of Constance to build their own house chapel in the monastery. It was in 1717 in honor of St. Joseph , Elizabeth, Francis, Anthony of Padua and Clare consecrated , is still in operation and is considered one of the most beautiful chapels in Germany. It was furnished in the Rococo style in 1763. In 1761, the original main wing, which was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War, was rebuilt. At the time of secularization , the property of the monastery with buildings was classified at 16,000 guilders and capital at 29,245 guilders. As of 1806, the monastery showed a total of 0 guilders in liabilities, which means it was free of debt.
On July 25, 1806, Prince Eberhard von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach abolished the monastery and confiscated property and property. A little later the Waldburg House was mediatized , the legal successor, the Kingdom of Württemberg , disputed the validity of the contracts with the monastery of Prince Eberhard. In 1855 the monastery was repopulated by the school sisters of the Holy Cross from Menzingen in Switzerland. They managed the monastery building and ran a girls' school there, but had to leave the monastery after a short time because a decree of the Kingdom of Württemberg forbade foreign religious to stay there. In 1863 the Congregation of Our Lady Poor School Sisters in Rottenburg acquired the monastery and ran a state-recognized vocational school for domestic economics there until 1991. In 1936 the nuns administered the first mud baths in the monastery. Immediately next to the monastery is the soul chapel , in which the mortal remains of the nuns of the monastery rest.
Dissolution and further use
In 2007 the monastery was dissolved and acquired by the city of Bad Wurzach. In the years 2007 to 2011, the monastery was comprehensively renovated on behalf of the city and state of Baden-Württemberg for around seven million euros and dismantled on the actual monastery. The house chapel of the monastery is still used as a chapel and is open to the public every day. A nature conservation center, library, archive and club rooms are to be accommodated in the buildings.
literature
- Dehio manual ; Baden-Württemberg II. The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1997.
- Manfred Thierer / Ursula Rückgauer: Places of Silence. The chapels in the Ravensburg district . Ed .: District Office Ravensburg. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89870-547-9 , p. 392 .
Web links
- City of Bad Wurzach
- Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg - Maria Rosengarten Bad Wurzach
- Database building research / restoration of Maria Rosengarten Monastery
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 '35.1 " N , 9 ° 53' 58.4" E