Seiferstetten Monastery

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Seiferstetten Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in the area of ​​the town of Landsberg am Lech in Bavaria .

Geographical location

The site of the disappeared monastery complex used to be the present-day medieval desert of Seiferstetten on the right terrace of the Lech about two kilometers south of the Pitzling district of the town of Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria .

history

The monastery was founded around 740 by the brothers Waldram, Eliland and Landfrid , counts of Antdorf an der Loisach from the Huosi clan , together with Benediktbeuern monastery , where Landfrid became the first abbot, and six other monasteries (the male convents Schlehdorf , Sandau , Wessobrunn and the three women's monasteries Kochel , Polling and Staffelsee ).

The Seiferstetten monastery (formerly Siverstatt ) was probably destroyed by the Hungarians in 908 (or 955 at the latest) and never completely rebuilt except for the church. The site of the monastery complex is now a medieval desert and has been registered as a ground monument by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (D-1-8031-0173). An entire courtyard of the Landsberg hospital and a Walburga chapel stood there until it was demolished in 1769. The foundations of the former monastery buildings still bear evidence of unevenness in the floor of the largely afforested property.

literature

  • Josef Hemmerle : The Benedictine Abbey Benediktbeuern . De Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1993, especially p. 80 ff. ( E-copy ).
  • Siegfried Hirsch : Yearbook of the German Empire under Heinrich II. Volume 1, Berlin 1862, p. 103.
  • Pankraz Fried , Sebastian Hiereth: Altbayern row I issue 22-23: Landsberg district court and Rauhenlechsberg nursing court . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1971 (327 pages).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin sources from Martin Zeiller : Tractatus De X. Circulis Imperii Romano-Germanici. Ulm 1665, p. 230.

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 51 ″  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 49 ″  E