St. Fides Monastery in Grafenhausen

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The Monastery of St. Fides Grafenhausen or Grafenhausen Monastery was a Benedictine monastery consecrated to Saint Fides von Agen in Grafenhausen in the district of Waldshut in the southern Black Forest .

history

The monastery was founded together with the Wagenhausen monastery in 1095 by Abbot Sigfrid from the Schaffhausen monastery of Allerheiligen . Pope Urban II confirmed the possession of the Allerheiligen monastery in Grafenhausen by a bull dated October 8, 1095. The monastery, which was always dependent on Allerheiligen, was primarily entrusted with the administration of its property in the Black Forest. In the 11th century there was then more and more friction with the neighboring monastery of St. Blasien . After a long period of prosperity, the last nun left the monastery around 1470. With the Reformation in Schaffhausen, ownership of the monastery had changed to the hands of the city.

After the rectory in Birkendorf , to which Grafenhausen was ecclesiastically subordinate, became dilapidated, the clergyman provided by St. Blasien moved into the well-preserved monastery building in Grafenhausen. The building and the monastery church of St. Fides existed until the fire in 1622. Martin I had the church of St. Fides rebuilt first, and the Grafenhausen rectory was later built on the site of the former monastery . St. Blasien founded the Benedictine Provosty Grafenhausen in 1736/66 ; it existed until it was abolished in 1806.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund Schenk: From the history of the community and Vogtei Grafenhausen in the Black Forest . 2004. p. 12

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