Oberschönenfeld Monastery
| Oberschönenfeld Monastery | |
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 Cistercian Abbey Oberschönenfeld |
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| location |
 Germany Bavaria Gessertshausen |
| Lies in the diocese | augsburg |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 18 '44.2 " N , 10 ° 43' 35.4" E |
| Patronage | Assumption Day |
| founding year | 1211 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1803 |
| Year of repopulation | 1836 |
| Congregation | Mehrerauer Congregation |
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The Oberschönenfeld Abbey (lat. Abbatia BMV de Campo Specioso Superiore ) is an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Gessertshausen in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
There were beguines in the vicinity of Oberschönenfeld as early as 1186 . This women's community was headed by female masters, from 1186 to 1192 by Countess Würga and from 1192 to 1211 by Hildegunde von Brennberg, who was then elected the first abbess of the abbey founded in 1211 with the support of the Kaisheim monastery . The oldest document about Schönenfeld, a papal confirmation of all religious privileges, dates from 1248.
The first church was consecrated in 1262 under the abbess Nobility I. Looting and destruction took place between 1632 and 1648 during the Thirty Years War . The convent had to flee several times. From 1718 to 1721 the monastery was built by the master builder Franz Beer and later the church in its current baroque form. The Mariae Himmelfahrt abbey church also comes from this period . In addition to the construction activities, there was also an internal consolidation of the monastery rule. Expression of this land and court protection was the issue of a policey order in 1667, which was renewed in 1775 under Abbess Irmengard II. Stichaner (1774–1803). There, important questions of everyday life were precisely regulated, from the order of worship to the forced labor to visiting a pub. Until 1803, however, the monastery was denied an imperial estate in the imperial circle . Oberschönenfeld remained under the sovereignty of the Augsburg bishops ( Hochstift ). The court and land rule also extended to the two neighboring villages of Gessertshausen and Altenmünster .
In 1803 the abbey was dissolved by secularization . The convent was now run by the prioresses and was reduced in size to five sisters in the following years. In 1836, King Ludwig I of Bavaria approved the continued existence of the monastery. King Ludwig III. von Bayern raised the monastery back to an abbey in 1918 , and papal approval for this survey was granted in 1922. In 1951 the first missionaries were sent to Brazil , who in 1963 founded their own monastery in Itararé .
Monastery complex
Museums
In 1984, in the former stables of the monastery, which had not been used since 1972, the district of Swabia established the Swabian Folklore Museum Oberschönenfeld (since 2018: Museum Oberschönenfeld ). In the Volkskundemuseum building, it presents a permanent exhibition on everyday life in Swabia from 1800 to the present day and changing cultural-historical special exhibitions. The affiliated Swabian Gallery regularly shows art exhibitions.
The nature park house of the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder nature park , which opened in 1992, is also located there . In addition to the monastery, the “Glaserschusterhaus” from Döpshofen, a typical perennial house for the area, was rebuilt between 1974 and 1980 and made accessible as a museum. This mercenary property is the last thatched small farmhouse in the Augsburg area.
Public house
At the monastery there is a beautiful beer garden with mighty, old chestnut trees.
Monastery bakery
The monastery complex also has a bakery. It has been located in the renovated Nature Park House (former cattle barn) since 1982 and is equipped with a wood stove and an electric oven. The one- and two-kilo loaves of bread made there by the sisters are offered for sale both in the monastery and in some shops in the region.
Abbesses and Prioresses
Abbesses from 1211 to 1803
- 1211–1220 Hildegunde von Brennberg
- 1220–1251 Anna Metter
- 1251-1262 Willibirgis
- 1262-1271 Adelheid
- 1271-1279 Hilta
- 1279–1286 Adelheid von Kemnat
- 1286-1299 Agnes von Lutzingen
- 1299–1304 Hildegunde von Zusmecke
- 1304–1309 Elisabeth Kübel
- 1309 to? Sophie
- ? until 1326 Margaretha von Lutzingen
- 1327-1332 Irmengard
- 1332–1342 Hildegunde
- 1342 to? Agnes von Lutzingen
- ? until 1353 Agnes da Troy
- 1353 to? Agnes von Marschalk
- ? until 1373 Katharina von Villenbach
- 1373–1383 Katharina von Lutzingen
- 1383–1390 Anna von Schwenningen
- 1390–1398 Katharina von Tettingen
- 1398–1449 Gertrud von Freyberg
- 1449–1463 Anna Marschälkin von Pappenheim
- 1463–1492 Dorothea von Laimberg
- 1492–1508 Barbara Vetter von Schwenningen
- 1508–1517 Margaretha Vetter von Schwenningen
- 1517–1522 Ursula von Wintzer
- 1522–1552 Ursula von Tanneck
- 1553–1571 Agnes von Burtenbach zu Hammerstetten
- 1571–1601 Barbara Elchinger
- 1601–1603 Walburga Schüßler
- 1603-1624 Susanna Willemayr
- 1624–1633 Apollonia Wörl
- 1633–1657 Elisabeth Herold
- 1657–1685 Anna Maria Weinhart
- 1685–1722 Hildegard Meixner
- 1722–1742 Viktoria Farget
- 1742–1767 Anna Cäcilia Wachter
- 1767–1774 Charitas Karner
- 1774–1803 Irmengard II. Stichaner
Prioresses
From 1803 to 1836 the monastery was formally dissolved.
- 1803–1813 Johanna Scheppich
- 1813–1820 Viktoria Hörmann
- 1820–1834 Charitas de Crignis
- 1834–1845 Anna Schabel
- 1845-1865 Scholastica Sax
- 1865–1876 Bernarda Behringer
- 1876–1898 Nivarda Behringer
- 1898–1922 Cecilia Zimmermann
Abbesses from 1922
- 1922–1949 Cecilia Zimmermann
- 1949–1985 Caritas Schmidberger
- 1985-2008 Ancilla Betting
- since 2008 Gertrud Pesch
Cäcilia Zimmermann led the monastery for 24 years as prioress and then for 27 years as abbess.
literature
- Hans Frei (Ed.): Oberschönenfeld. Monastery and museum . (= Series of publications of the museums of the Swabian district; vol. 31). Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg 2002, ISBN 3-89870-084-4
- Wilhelm Neu, Frank Otten: District of Augsburg. [Brief inventory] . (= Bavarian art monuments; 30). Munich 1970, pp. 224-244
- Karl Puchner: The documents of the Oberschönenfeld monastery . (= Swabian Research Association Series 2, Volume 2). Verl. D. Swabian Research Association, Augsburg 1953
- Wolfgang Wüst (Ed.): The "good" Policey in the Reichskreis. On the early modern setting of standards in the core regions of the Old Reich , Volume 1: Der Schwäbische Reichskreis, with special consideration of Bavarian Swabia , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, pp. 259-273 (Oberschönenfeld Policey Orders), ISBN 3-05-003415-7
- Michael Ritter: The Cistercian convent Oberschönenfeld, Augsburg district . In: Werner Schiedermair (Ed.): Klosterland Bavarian Swabia. 2nd ext. Edition. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89870-127-3 , pp. 348–353
- Werner Schiedermair (Ed.): Oberschönenfeld Monastery . Auer, Donauwörth 1995, ISBN 3-403-02578-0
- Theobald Schiller: Oberschönenfeld 1211–1911 . Oberschönenfeld 1911
- Theodor Wiedemann : Documentary history of the women's monastery Oberschönenfeld , in: Anton Steichele (Hrsg.): Contributions to the history of the Diocese of Augsburg, Vol. 2, Augsburg 1852
- [Anonymous]: History of the women's monastery in Ober-Schönefeld, in the margraviate of Burgau , in: Swabian Archive, Volume 2, Item 2, 1792, pp. 228–235 ( digitized version , alternative )
- Oberschönenfeld Abbey (Ed.): Oberschönenfeld Abbey. Oldest convent of the Cistercian order in Germany. 1211-1961. A look back over 750 years. Oberschönenfeld 1961
- Beate Spiegel (Ed.): Here the sky is open. 800 years of Oberschönenfeld Monastery . With contribution from Ancilla Betting et al. Gessertshausen 2011 (= series of publications by the museums of the Swabian district, 44). ISSN 0935-4433
- Peter Stoll: On the contribution of Joseph Mages and Johann Joseph Anton Huber to the picturesque decor of the Cistercian convent church Oberschönenfeld , Augsburg, University, 2009 ( full text )
Web links
- Website of the monastery
- Oberschönenfeld Monastery , basic data and history: Oberschönenfeld - Cistercian women and Swabian folklore in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
- Entry to Oberschönenfeld Abbey on Order online
- Museum Oberschönenfeld
- The nature park house in Oberschönenfeld
Individual evidence
- ↑ Your exact recipe remains a secret. Sister Maria Gratia has been baking Oberschönefeld wood-fired bread since 1984. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , January 11, 2018.
- ↑ Article: Gertrud Pesch is the new abbess of Oberschönenfeld from September 9, 2008 on Orden online accessed on September 9, 2008
