Schwarzhofen Monastery
The Schwarzhofen Monastery is a former Dominican monastery in Schwarzhofen in Bavaria in the Diocese of Regensburg.
history
The origin of the monastery goes back to a group of pious Regensburg women who came together to form a religious community around 1230, from which the Holy Cross Monastery in Regensburg emerged . To enable these women to build a church, Count Heinrich von Ortenburg gave them the Schwarzhofen parish in 1237 . In the background, however, Countess Jutta von Ortenburg , who is referred to as fundatorix in the Regensburg Dominican Sisters ' necrology, may have worked . Heinrich's descendants confirmed the donation several times and in a Ortenburg document from 1268 they allowed their loyal followers to donate land to the monastery. In this certificate, the exhibitors identified themselves and their ancestors as the founders of the monastery. It can therefore be assumed that the monastery was founded around 1240 by Count Rapoto IV and Diepold von Ortenburg - Murach . A prioress named Dicmunde and a number of Dominican women working in Schwarzhofen are mentioned for the first time in a Walderbach document in 1260 ; but the prioress is subject to the prioress of Heilig-Kreuz in Regensburg ( subieta ). Accordingly, a convent in Schwarzhofen does not appear in medieval documents. In 1285, Count Rapoto IV von Ortenburg allowed the nuns sent from Regensburg to return to Regensburg at any time. This is interpreted as a result of the first destruction of the monastery in the course of the war campaigns of the Bohemian king Ottokar II . With this the monastic life in Schwarzhofen died out for four centuries.
During the Hussite Wars, Schwarzhofen was devastated in 1418 or 1427. According to the historiography of the Dominican convent in Regensburg, the nuns from Schwarzhofen allegedly fled to the motherhouse in Regensburg; this event seems to have been dated incorrectly, because the return took place as early as 1285. In Schwarzhofen, the Dominican nuns remained at the Klosterkreuzhof, which was initially looked after by a lay brother and then by secular administrators.
Establishment of the monastery
In 1691 the Dominican Sisters of Regensburg decided to re-establish the Dominican Sisters' branch in Schwarzhofen. A total of five Dominican women were sent to Schwarzhofen and the construction of the new monastery began. In 1702 the cloister could be inaugurated. At first the monastery was run by a vicar. The second vicar was Benedicta Teresia Garzweilerin (* 1637), who died in 1712. Subsequently, a prioress was elected, also as a sign of separation from the mother monastery in Regensburg. In 1712 the convent already had 20 choir and lay sisters. After a financial crisis, the monastery was placed under the administration of the government in Amberg in the 18th century. Although parts of the debts could be paid off again (the ruinous purchase of Hofmark Schwarzeneck in 1756 was reversed in 1774), it is not clear whether all debts had been paid off by the time of secularization.
In 1802 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization . At that time there were still 15 nuns. Church and monastery furnishings, monastery gardens and pharmacy were sold. The monastery building was bought by Mrs. Zeugerin, tradeswoman and landlady in Schwarzhofen. The monastery church was auctioned and demolished over the following years. In 1836 the poor school sisters set up a convent here and used the remaining parts of the building, they also built a school for girls there.
In one part of the monastery, the Dr. housed by Ringseissche Beneficiary , d. H. a retirement home for Schwarzhofen.
literature
- Stefan Benz: Schwarzhofen - On the founding and social structure of a rural monastery in the 18th century. Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (Ed.), Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. S. 159 - 170. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .
Web links
- Schwarzhofen monastery , basic data and history: Schwarzhofen - Dominicans and poor school sisters in the Schwarzach valley in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 41 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 38 ″ E