Pegau Monastery

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The St. Jakob Monastery in Pegau was a Benedictine monastery that was located in the city of Pegau . It was one of the oldest foundations of a monastery in Saxony. It was best known through the so-called Annales Pegaviensis , the Pegau Annals , from 1155, which were an important medieval historiography.

history

The Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia Wiprecht von Groitzsch founded the Benedictine monastery of St. Jakob in Pegau in 1091. He planned it as a house monastery and burial place . The monastery was consecrated five years later.

After the death of the first abbot Bero († 1100) Windolf († May 1, 1156 in Schkölen ) was second abbot (1101–1150), previously he was canon of St. Martin, Aureus and Justinus in Heiligenstadt and head of the monastery school in Corvey , which Wiprecht brought to Pegau in 1101. Windolf ensures that the monastery flourishes for the first time. From the monastery, the eastern colonization was pushed towards the Mulde . Wiprecht II brought the first settlers from Franconia for this purpose .

Marked by severe burns that he suffered on his property in Halle , Wiprecht relinquished his secular power in 1124, joined the monastery and died a short time later. He was buried in the monastery according to his wishes.

In 1155 a Pegau monk wrote the so-called Annales Pegaviensis , the Pegau Annals.

The monastery experienced a first stroke of fate in 1156 when it burned down to the dormitory. Only four years later, Bishop Johann I von Merseburg was able to inaugurate the rebuilt monastery church.

In 1172, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa renewed the Pegau Monastery 's right to coin and market coins , thus ensuring its economic importance. As an abbey entitled to coinage, the monastery has coined spiritual bracteates , which have a large crutch cross and usually a name as a distinctive mark .

With Abbot Siegfried von Reckin, who was in charge from 1184 to 1224, the monastery founders regained the right of the monastery founders through an imperial arbitration in the years of struggle against the Bishop of Merseburg for the freedom of the monastery in front of the curia.

In 1198 after the death of Emperor Heinrich VI. the monastery was subordinated to the margraves of Meissen.

Margrave Dietzmann destroyed the monastery after the Battle of Lucka . Margrave Friedrich II. Von Meißen assigned the Ephorie Borna to the monastery in 1327 . In 1502 there was a shift in power to the city of Pegau. In 1502, the monastery acquired higher jurisdiction. After almost a hundred years of belonging, the Pegau monastery lost its rights to Borna in 1522. This became Protestant in the course of the Reformation. 17 years later the city of Pegau followed and the monastery was secularized . In 1545, the Elector of Saxony Moritz, the new owner, sold the monastery to the city for 19,500 guilders.

A convention convened in the monastery in 1548 , with the participation of Philipp Melanchthon and the Naumburg bishop Julius von Pflug , tried in vain to bring about an agreement between Catholics and Protestants. In 1556 the monastery was demolished. The cenotaph of Wiprechts von Groitzsch was then moved to the St. Laurentius Church in Pegau .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mcsearch.info Pegau, Abbey. Siegfried von Rekkin, 1185-1224. Bracteate. Löbb Coll. 376. Hohenst Coll. 814 Coll. Bonh. 961. Berger 2070.

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literature

  • Hans Patze : The Pegau Annals , the king's elevation Wratislaws v. Bohemia and the beginnings of the city of Pegau. JGMODtl 12, 1963
  • Thomas Vogtherr, Thomas Ludwig: The row of abbots of the Benedictine monastery St. Jakob in Pegau . in: New Archive for Saxon History, Vol. 69/1998, pp. 1–23 ( digitized version ; PDF; 1.3 MB)

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 12 ° 15 ′ 11.6 ″  E