Obermarchtal Monastery

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Former Premonstratensian Abbey of Marchtal
Obermarchtal (1907)

The monastery Obermarchtal (lat. Abbatia Marchtallensis ) is a former imperial immediacy Prämonstratenser - Canons and is located in the municipality Obermarchtal between Ehingen and Riedlingen , east of Zwiefalten in Alb-Donau-Kreis . In the vicinity is the village of Untermarchtal with the Vincentine convent of the same name .

history

Munster St. Peter and Paul
Interior view with altar group
Convent building

In the year 776, the descendants of Halaholf († before 776) ( Ahalolfinger ) and Hitta transferred the Petrus Monastery, which they had donated, to the Abbey of Sankt Gallen . 993 the monastery existed as one of Hermann II. , Duke of Swabia and his wife Gerberga the Apostles Peter and Paul dedicated canons , which the Dukes of Swabia as grave lay served. On January 1st, 995, the enlarged monastery church was consecrated by Bishop Gebhard II .

In the 12th century Marchtal was owned by a number of Swabian nobles, including the Staufers and in particular Emperor Friedrich I , whereby the frequent changes of ownership resulted in the decline of the monastery.

1171 was the monastery of Count Palatine Hugo II. Of Tübingen the Prämonstranserorden transferred and quasi re-established as a double pin for men and women and equipped with sufficient Held; the canons of the new monastery were brought from the abbey Mönchsrot in Rot an der Rot .

  • The first provost of the new foundation was Eberhard von Wolfegg from Mönchsrot Monastery.
  • Provost Meinhardt had the monastery walls renewed in 1204–1208.
  • Provost Konrad (1226–1275) forbade the acceptance of women in 1273, so that the double monastery soon became a male monastery.
  • Provost Walther II had the old collegiate church expanded into a three-aisled basilica , which was consecrated on May 2, 1239 by Bishop Heinrich I of Constance .

From the late 13th century to 1420 was Marchtal own pen of the Bishop of Constance.

In 1440 Marchtal became the Abbey collected and acquired in 1500 as a member of the Swabian kingdom prelate College , the Imperial City . The abbot received the right to wear the miter in 1609 . On September 11, 1701, another new building of the collegiate church was consecrated after it was started in 1686 after the canons had fled from attacking Swedes in 1632. The builders of the new baroque building were Michael Thumb and, after his death in 1690, his brother Christian Thumb and Franz Beer von Bleichten. In 1770 Marie Antoinette , Archduchess of Austria from the House of Habsburg-Lothringen, stayed at the Marcht Monastery on her bridal trip from Vienna to Paris . From 1800 to 1803 Johann Nepomuk Schelble (1789–1837) was a choirboy in the abbey. Along with the secularization , Abbot Friedrich II and the convent had to cede all rights and income to the House of Thurn und Taxis in 1802 , which administered it as part of the Imperial Principality of Buchau before it fell to the Kingdom of Württemberg in 1806 as part of mediatization . Furthermore, they had to vacate the monastery in 1803 so that it could be used as the administrative center of Thurn und Taxis for the newly preserved properties in Upper Swabia. In addition, a girls' secondary school with boarding school was founded by the Salesians after they moved into the north wing in 1919.

In 1972 the Thurn und Taxis monastery complex was bought by the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart in order to convert it into an Academy for Teacher Training, which opened in 1978, and the Realschule of the Salesians was taken over in 1992 by the Free Catholic School Foundation of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

On September 16, 2001, the collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul was opened by the diocesan bishop Dr. Gebhard Fürst raised to the ministerial level The monastery church is one of the well-known examples of the southern German baroque .

Witch hunt

In the time of witch trials in the area of the Reich monastery were witch hunts conducted. These witch trials begin in the 16th century and continue into the 18th century. Three waves of persecution can be distinguished: between 1586 and 1596, around 1627/1628 and between 1745 and 1757. What is special about the Marchtal witch trials is the panic of persecution from the middle of the 18th century, which killed 7 women. At least 60 death sentences against alleged magical delinquents can be proven from the Marchtal witch trial files.

Today's use of the facility

The Obermarchtal monastery, surrounded by a wall, with the church of St. Peter and Paul, the former enclosure and its farmhouses is now used as a conference center by the church academy for teacher training in Obermarchtal in the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese . Your inner courtyard was the location of the exhibition "Marchtaler Windows - New Art". The north wing of the complex houses the secondary school and the grammar school of the preparatory college. Services and concerts are held in the Church of St. Peter and Paul.

Provosts and abbots of Marchtal

Toast

  • 1171–1179 Eberhard I.
  • 1179-1187 Udalrich
  • 1187 Gerlach
  • 1191–1204 Swiss chard
  • 1204-1208 Meinradus
  • 1208–1209 Heinrich I. von Suppingen
  • 1209–1214 Walther I. von Westernach
  • 1214–1217 Rudiger
  • 1217–1229 Rudolph von Ertingen
  • 1229–1243 Walther II. Von Schmalstetten
  • 1243–1251 Theodorich von Wittenhausen
  • 1251–1252 Friedrich
  • 1252–1266 Heinrich II.
  • 1266–1275 Conrad I of Taugendorf
  • 1275–1281 Wernherus I.
  • 1281-1282 Engelher
  • 1282–1292 Berchtold I.
  • 1292–1299 Heinrich III.
  • 1299–1304 Burchhard I.
  • 1304-1308 Sifride
  • 1308–1310 Wernherus II.
  • 1310-1312 Conrad II.
  • 1312-1322 Burchhard II.
  • 1322-1329 Conrad III.
  • 1329–1333 Hermann Huotter
  • 1333–1340 Henry IV Walk
  • 1340–1344 Eberhard II.
  • 1344–1348 Conrad IV. Gager
  • 1348-1367 Konrad V. von Rota
  • 1368–1377 Berchtold II.
  • 1377-1399 Ludwig Leo
  • 1399–1401 Stephanus Wucherer
  • 1401–1409 Jakob I. Kupferschmid
  • 1409–1424 Jacob II. Klingler
  • 1424–1436 Albertus Pfluoger

Abbots

  • 1436–1461 Heinrich Mörstetter
  • 1461–1482 Jodokus Blank
  • 1482–1514 Simon Götz (1st Reich Abbot)
  • 1514–1518 John I. Haberkalt
  • 1518–1534 Heinrich II. Stölzlin
  • 1538–1550 John II Gudin
  • 1550–1559 Christoph Boner
  • 1559–1571 Christophorus Schenz
  • 1571–1591 Konrad I. Frei
  • 1591–1600 John III. Riedgasser
  • 1600–1614 Jakob Hefl
  • 1614–1637 Johann Engler
  • 1637–1660 Konrad II. Kneer
  • 1660–1661 Godefried Dorner
  • 1661–1691 Nikolaus Wierith
  • 1691–1705 Adalbert Rieger
  • 1705–1711 Friedrich I. Herlin
  • 1711-1719 Edmund I. Dilger
  • 1719–1746 Ulrich Blank
  • 1746–1768 Edmund II. Sartor
  • 1768–1772 Ignaz Stein
  • 1772–1796 Paulus Schmid
  • 1796–1802 Bernard Kempter
  • 1802 Friedrich II. Walter

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Picture gallery

  • Putte in the minster

  • Window with rocaille decorations on the monastery

  • Choir stalls in the minster

literature

  • Max Müller, Rudolf Reinhardt, Wilfried Schöntag (eds.): Marchtal. Premonstratensian Abbey - Princely Castle - Ecclesiastical Academy. Ceremony for the 300th anniversary of the collegiate church of St. Peter and Paul (1692 to 1992) . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Ulm 1992, ISBN 3-88294-182-0 .
  • Maximilian Müller / Winfried Aßfalg: Former Premonstratensian Abbey of St. Peter and Paul Marchtal. Great art guide . Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul, Obermarchtal 1998, ISBN 3-00-003061-1
  • Manuela Oberst: Exercitium, Propaganda and Representation. The Drama, Perioches and Libretto Collection of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Marchtal (1657 to 1778) (= publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Series B: Research; Vol. 179). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-17-020984-8 .
  • Lyndal Roper: Witch Mania. Story of a persecution . Munich 2007.
  • Wilfried Schöntag: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The Diocese of Constance 6. The Premonstratensian Monastery Marchtal, which is directly part of the empire . Germania Sacra , Third Volume 5, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-025312-2 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Kloster Obermarchtal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Marchtaler School Regulations 1748  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Müller, Winfried Aßfalg: Former Premonstratensian Abbey of St. Peter and Paul Marchtal . Ed .: Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul. 2nd Edition. 2006, ISBN 3-00-003061-1 , p. 56 .
  2. ↑ a b Constanze Störk: "Hence, natural reason itself dictates that there are witches". Hunting of witches in the imperial abbey of Marchtal 1586-1757. In: historicum.net. 2003, accessed April 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Marchtal window. In: Obermarchtal municipality. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016 ; accessed on April 4, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Maximilian Müller, Winfried Aßfalg: Former Premonstratensian Abbey of St. Peter and Paul Marchtal . Ed .: Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul. 2nd Edition. 2006, ISBN 3-00-003061-1 , p. 56 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 11.4 "  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 15.5"  E