Rottenmünster Abbey
The Rottenmünster Abbey was a Cistercian abbey near Rottweil between 1224 and 1850 .
It was created around 1220 as the founding of the inmates of the Frauenklause zu Hochmauren (Rottweil). On May 9, 1224, the Rottenmünster monastery was founded by Pope Honorius III. accepted into the general chapter of the Cistercians. Father Abbot was the Abbot of Salem , Eberhard von Rohrdorf , first Abbess Master Williburgis. In 1237, Emperor Friedrich II elevated Rottenmünster to an imperial monastery and transferred the protection of the monastery to the imperial city of Rottweil. The monastery collected real estate between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb through donations and dowries . The abbess was a member of the Reichstag and the Swabian Imperial Circle .
The number of nuns leveled off after the high of 100 nuns at the end of the 14th century to between 20 and 30 nuns. During the Thirty Years' War the monastery was plundered by troops traveling around, and in 1643 the monastery was burned down by troops from the Duke of Württemberg . In 1662 only 14 women choirs and three lay sisters lived in the monastery. In the 18th century the number of sisters rose again to over 30. As part of the secularization , ownership of the monastery was taken over by Württemberg on November 23, 1802. This was an area with 3,000 inhabitants and an annual income of around 30,000 guilders. 24 women choirs, four novices and 14 lay sisters stayed in the monastery. The last abbess Juliana Mayer died in 1826. In 1850 the last living sister, Franziska Gaupp, left the monastery. This ended its use as a Cistercian abbey.
In 1898 a sanatorium for the mentally ill was set up in the monastery, from which today's Vinzenz-von-Paul-Hospital developed.
List of Abbesses
- 1237 Ida
- 1290 Adelheid of Grieningen
- 1328 Catherine of Triberg
- 1343 Adelheid Diepolt
- 1351 Anna Boller
- 1388 Katharina Gieringer
- 1419 Brigitta Kopp
since 1442 imperial abbesses
- 1436 Elisabeth (Bletz) von Rothenstein
- until 1475 Beatrix von Enzberg
- 1650–1658 Susanna von Pflimmern
- 1658–1687 Ursula Scherlin
- 1687–1725 Maria Williburg Frey
- 1725–1733 Magdalena Schneider
- 1733–1748 Barbara von Pflimmern
- 1748–1762 Thesselina Eberle
- 1762–1777 Magdalena Mayr
- 1777–1796 Maria Barbara Barxel
- 1796–1802 Maria Juliana Maier
literature
- Margareta Bull-Reichenmiller: The former imperial monastery and Cistercian nunnery Rottenmünster , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964
Web links
- History of the Vinzenz von Paul Hospital
- Cistercian abbey Rottenmünster in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- Panoramic picture of the monastery church
- Dominican convent Hochmauren in Leo-Bw
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Reinhardt, Churches and Monasteries on the Upper Neckar , in: (Ed. Franz Quarthal), Between Black Forest and Swabian Alb. The land on the upper Neckar (= publication by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Brg.) , Sigmaringen 1984, p. 352.
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 3.1 ″ N , 8 ° 38 ′ 5.9 ″ E