Salmannshofen Monastery

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The Salmannshofen Monastery was a monastery of the Terziarinnen of the Franciscans in Salmannshofen near Affaltern ( Biberbach ) in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .

history

monastery

The origins of the monastery lie in the submerged town of Hausen at the foot of the Kirchberg castle stables between Heretsried and Lützelburg. The Franciscan monastery in Hausen was given up for the purpose of founding a new monastery. In 1282 Count Ludwig von Öttingen left his fiefdom in Salmannshofen to the von Hausen sisters. The monastery consecrated to St. John the Baptist was initially under the spiritual direction of the barefoot monks in Augsburg, for whom a bed house was set up next to the church in Salmmanshofen. At times there was also an Augustinian settlement from Muttershofen near the church .

In the 14th century, the monastery received a number of donations and foundations, for example in 1307 from Ulrich von Wellenburg, the bishop's chamberlain in Augsburg, his own property, Affaltern . A lack of offspring and economic problems were probably the reasons for the collapse of the monastery. At the turn of the year 1400/01 the monastery was destroyed by fire. At that time the convent only consisted of four women religious. It was then the property of the Holzen Monastery ( Benedictine nuns ) until it was sold to the Augsburg Cathedral Chapter in 1753 .

The cathedral chapter sold the Salmannshofen monastery mill to the miller Kaspar Bertele for a purchase price of 500 guilders. In 1874 the mill owner Matthäus Bertele sold the lower Salmannshofen mill to the miller Johann Baptist Gott von Achsheim. It was owned by the Hintermayer family since 1887. On the site of the former monastery, there are now two properties that may have arisen from monastery buildings.

Church of St. John

According to a note in the land register of the former parish, the Salmannshofen church has existed since 1262. The church was under the patronage of St. John the Baptist. St. Vitus and St. Alban are also mentioned as patrons. Conradus Lutz († 1264), who was buried in church, was the first pastor. In 1726 the choir tower church was repaired. In 1758 all parts of the building were demolished. The stones were reused for the new building of the Herbertshofen rectory. Like the church, the cemetery also disappeared, only a small chapel remained on the site. The Salmannshofen parish was transferred to Affaltern and the branch was raised to a parish. In the year of the transfer, Affaltern also got its own cemetery.

In 1780 Leonhard Zimmermann von Feigenhofen acquired the Salmannshofen vicarage with the former house number 46 for 1200 guilders. In 1841 the parish farm Klausenbauerhof was later bought by Josef Jehle von Batzenhofen. The family moved to Affaltern in 1877. Boundary stones in the woods are still reminiscent of the former monastery, as well as bricks that probably indicate the church foundation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Pötzl: Sagas and Legends: Schwänke and Ortsneckereien . Heimatverein für der Landkreis Augsburg eV, 2006 ( google.de [accessed on May 18, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Christoph Bauer: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 978-3-406-39452-2 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Part Swabia . Commission for Bavarian State History, 1952 ( google.de [accessed on August 2, 2020]).
  4. ↑ St. Sebastian. In: Pilgrimage Church in Biberbach. Retrieved May 18, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Steffi Brand: The chapel is the heart. Retrieved May 18, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 37.7 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 41"  E