Neustadt am Main monastery
The Neustadt am Main monastery is now a monastery of the Missionary Dominican Sisters in Neustadt am Main in Bavaria in the Würzburg diocese and is located between Lohr and Marktheidenfeld.
history
The first monastery in Neustadt am Main, then called Rorinlacha, was at "Michil Statt". It was founded by Burkard and Karl Martell in 738. The church was excavated in 1974 by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation. The first monastery in the valley, the "Alte Statt", was excavated by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation in 1981/82. The second Benedictine monastery in the valley of Neustadt am Main, on the Neue Statt, was founded in 772 by the former second bishop of Würzburg , Megingaud , on behalf of Charlemagne . It was a royal monastery since 772. It was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The monastery with its extensive library came into the possession of Prince Konstantin von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg . The University Library of Würzburg acquired the remains of the Neustädter monastery library, which the prince had kept in his Kleinheubach castle. In 1857 the monastery building and church burned down. In 1960 the ruins were blown up and in 1961 a new monastery was inaugurated by the Missionary Dominicans ( Dominicans of St. Catherine of Siena from Oakford / Natal ).
Monastery study
The Dominican convent took part in the monastery study . According to their results, nuns and women of the general population live almost equally long, closely followed by monks , who have an average life expectancy of one to two years shorter than both groups of women. The men of the general population are clearly lagging behind; they live on average six years shorter than nuns and women of the general population and up to four and a half years shorter than monks.
heraldry
Different coat of arms in the Main Spessart district show with the coat of arms figure today the influence of the Benedictine Abbey Town (Kloster Neustadt am Main). The sign in the shield is enhanced by a black cross, black uncial capital letter N.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Marc Luy : Why women live longer . Findings from a comparison of the monastery and general population. In: Materials on Population Science . No. 106 . Federal Institute for Population Research , 2002, ISSN 0178-918X , DNB 965668789 ( bib-demografie.de [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on December 6, 2015] Zugl. Diploma thesis 1998). online, PDF; 1.5 MB ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marc Luy in: Hella Ehlers, Heike Kahlert , Gabriele Linke, Dorit Raffel, Beate Rudlof, Heike Trappe (eds.): Gender difference - and no end? Social sciences and humanities contributions to gender research . 1st edition. tape 8 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1647-6 , 10 years monastery study - knowledge gained and open questions about the causes of the different life expectancy of women and men, p. 251–273 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
literature
- Klaus Weyer: From the Celtic shrine to the Carolingian mission monastery - Neustadt am Main. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, pp. 27–151, ISBN 978-3-8260-6740-2 .
Web links
- Official website: Convent of the Dominican Sisters in Neustadt am Main
- Neustadt am Main monastery , basic data and history: Neustadt am Main - between king and bishop in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
- Detailed information about the former Benedictine monastery Neustadt: Weyer-Neustadt
Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 48.4 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 13.1" E