Obermedlingen Monastery
The Obermedlingen Monastery is a former monastery in Medlingen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The Ministeriale Walter II von Faimingen provided goods for a small monastery in 1251, into which 15 nuns moved in in 1260. The monastery was finally assigned to the German Order of the Dominicans in 1263 . The Obermedlingen parish was incorporated into the Obermedlingen monastery in 1266 and the Untermedlingen parish in 1337.
In 1462 Obermedlingen and the monastery were badly affected during the Bavarian War at the Battle of Giengen ( Giengen an der Brenz ).
As a result of Martin Luther's posting of the theses , there was a crisis in Obermedlingen Monastery in 1517. In 1544, Duke Ottheinrich von Pfalz-Neuburg appointed a Protestant preacher to whom the 20 Catholic Dominicans in the monastery were also subordinate. The following year, the monastery church burned down during the Schmalkaldic War, probably due to arson. In 1546, the Dominicans were held captive in Lauingen Castle for several months on the orders of Ottheinrich.
The Untermedlingen branch was Protestant from 1552 to 1614.
In 1555 the Obermedlingen Monastery was dissolved after the Peace of Augsburg and its goods were confiscated.
The Obermedlingen branch, which had previously belonged to the Dominicans, was transferred to the Dominicans in 1651 and converted into a men's convent. Despite protests from the city of Gundelfingen, the friars built a brewery in 1663 and built a small church between 1666 and 1672. In 1678 the monastery was elevated to a priory .
In 1804 the monastery was dissolved and two electoral commissioners confiscated the monastery property; some of the monastery buildings were demolished. In the following year, Obermedlingen served the French as the main camp before the battle of Elchingen .
In 1923 the wafers from the Immaculate Virgin Mary moved into the remaining monastery buildings and opened a six-class high school in 1925. 100 to 150 students from Swabia , Upper Franconia and the Saarland soon attended school and boarding school . The mission school was closed in 1940, resettlers from Bukovina were quartered, and a reserve hospital was set up.
After the Second World War, the monastery became a district refugee camp (1946–1951). The mission school then moved back to the monastery and stayed there until 1970.
The Obermedlingen Abbey was renovated in 1985 and 1987, after which the Premonstratensian Monastery Teplá moved in . The last Premonstratensian left the monastery in 1996 and the Marian religious order has been represented in the Obermedlingen monastery ever since .
A local electronics company purchased the mission school buildings; the former dining room of the monastery is used by local associations and the community.
Collegiate Church of the Assumption
In 1700 the foundation stone was laid for the new construction of the monastery and today's collegiate church. The church was consecrated in 1721 by the then Augsburg Auxiliary Bishop Johann Jakob Mayer, although the furnishings were not yet completed.
The construction management was the responsibility of Valerian Brenner , who was followed by his parlier Jakob Albrecht after his death ; both were Baroque architects from Vorarlberg .
The furnishings are kept in an elegant early baroque white, to which the altars, confessionals, rows of seats, the choir stalls, the organ and the pulpit made of dark brown wood create a harmonious contrast. The inlay work is extremely noteworthy .
The large paintings and frescoes on the ceiling were made by Konrad Huber in 1784. Of these, only the ceiling painting in the choir has survived, as part of the nave vault collapsed in 1861. Today's neo-baroque ceiling paintings in the nave were created in 1894/1896 by the Munich painter Josef Huber-Feldkirch . The ceiling stucco was also lost in 1861, but the remaining, extremely rich stucco work in the choir and sacristy testify to great skill and are of high quality, so that the work of Dominikus Zimmermann is accepted.
The exterior is particularly impressive due to the 73 meter high church tower with a double onion dome, which is visible from afar. The design of the west facade of the church is also impressive.
The church last underwent a thorough exterior renovation for its 300th anniversary in 2000.
Web links
- Obermedlingen Monastery , basic data in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
literature
- Renate Wenck: Assumption of Mary Obermedlingen . Former Dominican monastery and current parish church (Schnell Art Guide No. 1311), 2nd edition, Munich 1987.
Coordinates: 48 ° 34 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 12.7 ″ E