Pillenreuth Monastery
The Pillenreuth monastery is a former monastery of the Augustinian choir women in the diocese of Eichstätt ; Today is Pillenreuth to Nuremberg incorporated ( Southeastern Außenstadt ).
history
The Augustinian Choir Women 's monastery, consecrated to the Assumption of Mary, was founded in 1345 by Konrad Groß . Konrad Groß was then the imperial mayor in Nuremberg. In 1422 Pillenreuth took over the reform statutes of Cardinal Branda and thus played a pioneering role in the course of the efforts at that time for a church and monastery reform; in 1431, the Inzigkofen monastery also adopted the Pillenreuther rule. During the Second Margrave War , Pillenreuth was destroyed by Albrecht Alcibiades' troops in 1552 and not rebuilt. The last living nun handed over the property to the city of Nuremberg in 1596 , which sold it as a whole. Later the property was split up and sold on. Since 1808/18 the settlement belonged to Worzeldorf and with this municipality Pillenreuth came to Nuremberg on July 1, 1972 as part of the municipal reform . Today only remains of the former monastery complex are left.
Former library
However, the Pillenreuth monastery remains important due to the holdings of its former medieval library . The newly founded and richly endowed monastery was probably the retirement home of Heinrich von Nördlingen , the committed propagator of mystical spirituality and literature, until at least 1379 . With his help one should have received among other things the writings of his "father" Tauler and books from the Engelthal monastery . In any case, such texts were copied again in Pillenreuth in the 15th century and loaned to other monasteries when Pillenreuth developed a lively translation, writing and lending activity after the reform statutes were adopted. Especially under the committed nun Anna Ebin (1461–1476 provost; † 1485), especially texts of mystical and edifying literature were received with high connoisseurship. In doing so, there was an exchange with numerous reform monasteries, especially the Katharinenkloster Nuremberg , the Inzigkofen monastery, the Schönensteinbach monasteries and the Rebdorf monastery . The reception activity of this network of monasteries is a not insignificant part of the mystical literature that has been passed down to the present day.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Branda see Hermann Tüchle: Das Mainz Reformdekret des Cardinal Branda. In: Remigius Bäumer (Ed.): From Konstanz to Trient. Contributions to the history of the church from the reform councils to the Tridentinum. Fs. F. August Franzen. Paderborn 1972, pp. 101-117
- ↑ See Ringler, 1980 (see below: literature), passim
literature
- Günther P. Fehring, Anton Ress (†): The city of Nuremberg. (Brief inventory) . 2nd edition. Edited by Wilhelm Schwemmer. Unchanged reprint of the 1977 edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-422-00558-7 , ( Bayerische Kunstdenkmale 10), p. 396f.
- Heinrich Gürsching: New documented news about the mystic Heinrich von Nördlingen? In: Festgabe for K. Schorbaum . Neustadt (Aisch) 1950, pp. 42-57
- Elvira Langen: A new source for knowledge of the mystical life in the Pillenreuth monastery. Investigations and texts. Dissertation Heidelberg 1960
- Siegfried Ringler : Life and revelation literature in women's monasteries in the Middle Ages. Sources and Studies. Artemis, Munich 1980 (Munich texts and studies on German literature in the Middle Ages 72), p. 41f .; 49-63
- Siegfried Ringler: Ebin (Eybin), Anna . In: VL² , 2, 295-297 (1980)
- Martin Schieber: The history of the Pillenreuth monastery . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg 80, 1993, pp. 1–115, online .
- Heinrich Wich: History of the Pillenreuth Monastery with the Weiherhaus and Königshof. Nuremberg 1925
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Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 45 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 41" E