Sankt Johanniszelle monastery under Wildberg

St. Johanniszelle monastery under Wildberg was a former monastery in Bad Königshofen in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg . There are different views as to whether it is to be assigned to the Cistercian or Benedictine nuns .

history

The monastery, consecrated to St. Mary and St. John the Evangelist, was founded before 1209 by Countess Palatine Gertraud near the Rhine. Michael Wieland assumes that she is the widow of Hermann von Stahleck and that the monastery must have been founded between 1182 and 1201. More resources and rights received the monastery in particular by the Lords of Wildberg , notably including most of Konrad von Wildenberg, who transferred in 1293 advocacies and also in the Sepultur wanted to be buried the monastery.

According to the so-called Ebrach manuscript from the 14th century, Michael de Leone counts St. Johanniszelle to the Benedictine monasteries. The chronicler of the Franconian Cistercian monasteries Joseph Agricola, on the other hand, counts it to the Cistercian monasteries, from 1660 to the monasteries of the Cistercian women. A formal admission of the monastery to the Cistercians cannot be proven, nor could the abbot of Maria Bildhausen's authority to issue instructions be proven. It is therefore currently assumed that it was a Benedictine women's convent that at times lived according to the stricter rules of Cîteaux.

In 1555 the last abbess Ursula von Herbelstadt died in the monastery. The secularization took place together with the Hochstift Würzburg . The monastery became part of the prince-bishop's cafeteria .

The monastery was about at the level of the Johanneshof on the road from Sulzfeld to Bad Königshofen.

Abbesses (selection)

• End of the 12th century: Hedwigis
• 1358: Bertha von Grimmelshausen
• 1379: Elisabeth Truchsessin (= Truchseß von Wetzhausen )
• 1417: Sophia Schottin (= Schott von Schottenstein )
• 1441: Katharina Schottin
• 1444: Elisabeth Truchsessin
• 1446–1460: Elisabeth (Else) von Maßbach (prioress since 1441)
• 1472–1502: Katharina Zollnerin (= Zollner von Rottenstein , prioress since 1455)
• 1502–1540: Dorothea Zollnerin
• 1540–1555: Ursula von Herbilstadt (1550 alone in the monastery, † 1555)

literature

• Heinrich Wagner: The list of documents of the women's monastery St. Johanniszell under Wildberg from 1555 . In: Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsblätter 56 (1994), pp. 197-233 (207-211).
• Michael Wieland (1831–1910): The monastery at Johanni's cell under Wildberg . In: Zisterzienser-Chronik 8, Bregenz 1896, pp. 257–266.
• Reinhold WF Heusinger, Gerwin K. Solf: Sulzfeld im Grabfeld. In: Contributions to local history. Mellrichstadt 1987
• Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 532.
• Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 132.

Web links

• Sankt Johanniszelle monastery under Wildberg , basic data and history:  The women of the Johanniszelle (author: Erich Schneider) in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 27.1 ″  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 8 ″  E