Michelfeld Monastery (Lower Franconia)

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The monastery Michelfeld (Lower Franconia) was a convent of the Premonstratensians in Michelfeld at Marktsteft in Bavaria in the diocese of Wuerzburg .

history

Between Mainbernheim and Marktsteft, a women's foundation for Premonstratensian women was founded in Michelfeld in 1245 , which was subordinate to the abbot of Oberzell Abbey. Maybe a kind of community already existed at this point, the “curia in Michelveth”. Perhaps unknown donors also established the community at this point. At first the settlement was probably subject to the Augustinian rule before the community was subordinated to the Premonstratensian order.

In 1261, the papal confirmation of the foundation of the monastery by Pope Alexander IV. Konrad von Hohenlohe bequeathed a small amount of money to the Michelfelder nuns in 1275. The monastery also held the right of patronage over the parish of Gaukönigshofen. In 1305 the nuns had to leave Michelfeld because of the deterioration of the monastic discipline and they moved to the monastery there in Tückelhausen . The resettlement happened without the consent of the General Chapter. No traces of Michelfeld Monastery have been found so far.

literature

  • Ingrid Heeg-Engelhart: Oberzell and the Premonstratensian branches under him until the middle of the 16th century (in particular the Unterzell and Gerlachsheim monasteries). In: Helmut Flachenecker , Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Monastery (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg, volume LXII). Würzburg 2006, pp. 249-288.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heeg-Engelhart, Ingrid: Oberzell and the Premonstratensian branches subordinate to him . P. 280 f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′ 47 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 7 ″  E