St. Vitus Monastery

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Tower of the former monastery church and current parish church of St. Vitus
Engraving of the monastery from the "Churbaierischen Atlas" by Anton Wilhelm Ertl 1687
The organ with the case from 1639

The Monastery Sankt Veit is a former Benedictine - Abbey in Neumarkt in Bavaria in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

History up to secularization

The monastery, consecrated to St. Veit , was founded in 1121 by the noble Dietmar von Lungau in Elsenbach and moved in 1171 to the nearby St. Veitsberg high above the Rott . In 1255 the monastery received the right to freely elect abbot. Towards the end of the 14th century the monastery was quite prosperous, and the new church in Sankt Veit was completed around 1501 under Abbot Nikolaus Humbler. However, during the Reformation there was a crisis in the monastery, so that in 1556 there were only three monks in the monastery. Abbot Andreas Kirchisner was deposed. Under the two abbots Andreas Sappenberger (1602–1633) and Maurus Fröschl (1633–1653), the monastery was able to recover despite the Swedish invasions and a fire in 1639.

The second heyday of the monastery began in the 17th and 18th centuries under Abbot Gregor Westermayr. After a fire in 1708, large parts of the monastery were rebuilt. Under Abbot Gregor II. Kirmayr (a historical error) the great 700th anniversary of the monastery was celebrated in 1730. Gregory II was abbot from 1723 to 1764. He was followed by Maurus Aimer and Anselmus Schuler. With Cölestin Weighart, the last abbot of the monastery took office in 1795. A visit to the monastery by the electoral clergy criticized the situation sharply, and in 1802 the monastery was dissolved itself and taken over by the St. Anna women's monastery in Munich .

History after 1802

In 1829 the monastery buildings became the property of the Saxon baron Maximilian Speck von Sternburg , in 1858 they were sold to Maximilian von Montgelas, the son of the well-known statesman Count Montgelas , who used the monastery buildings as a palace. In 1894 the director of the Löwenbrauerei Anton Hertrich bought the building. His son Otto successfully expanded the former monastic brewery. The Klosterbräu Sankt Veit existed until 1984. The majority of the monastery had been in the possession of the archbishop's clerical seminary in Freising since 1934. The entire house has been used as a retirement home since 1952, and a modern new building was built in 1996. The old people's home Stift St. Veit has been the non-profit company responsible for the old people's home since 2006 .

description

Former St. Vitus Abbey Church

List of Abbots

Source:

  1. Pilgrim, 1144
  2. Ulrich, 1150, † 1161
  3. Wernher I., 1161
  4. Heinrich I, 1171, † 1190
  5. Wernher II, 1190
  6. Othmar, 1207
  7. Raban, 1230
  8. Benedict, 1245
  9. Meingott, 1253
  10. Conrad I., 1265
  11. Chuno, 1272
  12. Liebhard I., 1277
  13. Conrad II, 1301
  14. Henry II, 1310
  15. Ruger von Degenberg, † 1335
  16. Liebhard II., 1323
  17. Leibrand, 1334, 1335
  18. Conrad III., 1346, 1348
  19. Winhard, 1352, 1357
  20. Hermann, 1360
  21. Conrad IV, 1365-1379
  22. Johann Tölkner, 1380-1395
  23. Andreas Tölkner, 1395-1414
  24. Frederick I, 1418, 1422
  25. Jakob Popfinger
  26. Simon
  27. Frederick II, 1437-1443
  28. Henry III. Kratzl, 1443-1468; received the pontificals in 1458
  29. Martin Chancellor, 1471–1496
  30. Nicolaus Humbler, 1496-1516
  31. Stephan Dietrich, 1516–1537
  32. Gotthard Schitterperger, 1537–1548
  33. Andreas Kirchisner, 1548–1556
  34. Job Lauterbacher, 1556 (1561) - 1563

Administrator :

Gregor Rieder, 1563–1569
Vitus Wiesensteiger, 1569–1577
Hieronymus Wimber, 1577–1579
Modest Schilling, 1579–1582
  2. Modest Schilling, 1582–1589

Administrator : Caspar Strauss, 1591–1594

  2. Raphael Kraz, 1594 (1599) - 1602
  3. Andreas Sappenberger, 1602–1633
  4. Maurus I. Fröschl, 1633–1653
  5. Georg Wöstermayer, 1653–1687
  6. Bernhard Hintershuber, 1687–1695
  7. Marian Wieser, 1695-1720
  8. Gregor Kirmayr, 1721–1764
  9. Maurus II. Aimer, 1764-1772

Administrator : Aegid Lichteisen, 1772–1775

  2. Anselm Schuler, 1775–1796
  3. Celestine Weighart, 1796–1802, † 1804

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hartig: Die Oberbayerischen Stifts , Volume I: The Benedictine, Cistercian and Augustinian canons . Publisher vorm. G. J. Manz, Munich 1935, DNB 560552157 , p. 67 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 31.5 ″  N , 12 ° 31 ′ 2 ″  E