Pielenhofen Monastery

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The Pielenhofen monastery was a monastery in the municipality of the same name Pielenhofen in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg .

history

The monastery of the Cistercian Sisters, consecrated to the Assumption of Mary, dates back to the foundation of the Lords of Hohenfels and von Ehrenfels in 1240. In 1542 the monastery came under secular administration during the Reformation in the Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg . In 1559 Count Palatine Ottheinrich dissolved the monastery. In 1655 it was incorporated as a subpriorate to the Imperial Monastery of Kaisheim .

In the course of secularization in Bavaria , the monastery was dissolved for the second time in 1803. The monastery church became a parish church. In 1806 the Carmelites from Munich and Neuburg an der Donau moved into the monastery complex as their central monastery. In 1838 the Salesians bought the monastery and set up an institute for major daughters in it . From this a lyceum developed , which existed until 1980. From 1981 to 2013 Pielenhofen housed the Regensburger Domspatzen elementary school with the attached boarding school.

In 2010 the monastery was abandoned by the sisters due to a lack of staff. The last five remaining sisters moved to the Zangberg monastery . In 2013 the monastery buildings were sold to the Herder School Association . The association now operates a secondary school and a technical college for design in the buildings .

Monastery church

Altar of the monastery church

The baroque church has two three-story towers, two aisles and a transept, which are covered with a domed vault. Inside there is a late baroque high altar with eight columns. The ceiling painting with the motif of the Trinity comes from Jacob Carl Stauder . The twelve pictures of the apostles are the work of Johann Gebhard from the convent of checking .

The ironworks of the Pielenhofen monastery

The Cistercians had also switched to industrial work. In Pielenhofen, for example, in 1397 a mill on the Naab was named with four wheels. The monastery mill that exists today, with its undershot water wheels, dates from the 16th century.

There has also been a hammer mill here since the 15th century . The Upper Palatinate's first charcoal blast furnace ( blow or blue furnace ) was even built here. The Count Palatinate of Pfalz-Neuburg had a steelworks built in Pielenhofen in 1604. The ore was supplied from a small ore mine near Krachenhausen and mainly on the shipping route from Sulzbach and Amberg . The blast furnace was in operation nine to ten weeks a year and during this time it produced around 610 kg of pig iron per day. This was further processed into wrought iron, Zaineisen and steel in Pielenhofen, Edlhausen and on a Zainhammer in Laaber . In a report from the commissioner Hainrich Kheckh to the Munich court chamber it said: “The blast furnace eats 18 Schuech, ... would be ruled by 4 people, each of whom, as they report, dishonestly the weeks pr. 1 fl would be paid. Have to go forward day and night, and from 3, ... 9, to 10 weeks after the work has been done, it would always be torn unchecked until something broke something in it, or the same would otherwise be wiped out. If every 24 hours 3. irons are made, which they round around the stove like many others and other metalworkers let out the sinner, then the sinner swims away and would be pulled out with hacking. An iron holds 3 to 3 ½ cents. ”In 1611 a loss of sales of the Pielenhofen ironworks was founded in Ulm.

The 30 Years' War brought the hammer to a standstill. In 1652, however, the hammer smith Joseph Türckh is mentioned again , who worked here as a zain and armorer.

Naabinsel in Pielenhofen

In 1653/54 a new hammer was built on the site of a mill using the stones from the old kiln, at the expense of the sovereign, under the supervision of the Laaber caretaker administrator, Georg Giese, as it was expected that this would result in an economic boom. Under advice of Zerennmeisters Michael Schaller of Wolfbach established workers at a cost of 1,894 fl a race and a wave oven, a stamp mill and other accessories. A supply of ore and charcoal was also set up and a disused sergeant from Weiden was employed as an administrator. This blast furnace was not put into operation by the Pielenhofen monastery, however, because there had been disputes with the Kaisheim monastery because of the use of the monastery grounds. Kaisheim was also not prepared to pay the sovereign the cost of building the blast furnace. So the hammer remained unused and the facilities rot. In 1657, considerable damage from a flood was found ( "torn apart by the water, and until then their kheiner had been more pounded" ) and considerable parts of the facility had been stolen. It was no longer commissioned.

In the place, the memory of the ironworks has been completely lost. On the Naabinsel, however, hydraulic structures (spanning ponds, mill ditch, chamber lock from 1837) of the abandoned mill and hammer operations can still be seen.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pielenhofen Monastery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Mariä Himmelfahrt (Pielenhofen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Art. Pielenhofen . In: Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche , 3rd ed., Vol. 8, Col. 286–287.
  2. Ignaz Edler von Voith: The royal mining and smeltery office, Bodenwöhr. Inside: The "Hammer to Pilnhouen". Historical Association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 1840, pp. 406–408.
  3. Reinhard Dähne, Wolfgang Roser: The Bavarian iron road from Pegnitz to Regensburg. House of Bavarian History, Volume 5, Munich 1988, p. 44.
  4. Jakob Hellinger: Iron ore extraction and processing in the late Middle Ages and early modern times along Laber and Naab. Die Oberpfalz , 2017, 105th year, pp. 10–11.
  5. Dirk Götschmann: Upper Palatinate iron. Mining and iron industry in the 16th and 17th centuries . Published by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria (= series of publications by the Mining and Industry Museum in East Bavaria, vol. 5). Mining and Industry Museum East Bavaria, Theuern 1985, ISBN 3-924350-05-1 ; therein: The work in Pielenhofen , pp. 168–170.

Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 24.2 "  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 25.6"  E