St. Johann Monastery (Alsace)
The Alsatian nunnery of St. Johann (St. Jean-le-Saverne), founded around 1126/27, was a priory of the Benedictine monastery of St. Georgen in the Black Forest .
The St. Johann nunnery in Megenhemswilre in Saint-Jean-Saverne near Zabern was built around 1126/1127. The monastery was bought by Count Peter von Lützelburg - he was probably related to Abbot Theoger (1088–1119) and Emperor Heinrich V (1106–1125) - to Abbot Werner I of St. Georgen (1119– 1134), as shown in a founding report.
St. Johann still has a Romanesque church building, probably from the first half of the 12th century, a small, transeptless, three-aisled pillar basilica with an end consisting of three apses and compact proportions. Papal confirmations of ownership of St. Johann for St. Georgen date from 1139 and 1179. In the 14th century, a St. Georgen abbot still held the office of prior in St. Johann.
In 1439, during the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War , the women's convent was partially destroyed and closed in the wake of the French Revolution (1789).
literature
- Notitia fundationis cellae s. Iohannis prope Tabernas , in: Georg Waitz , Wilhelm Wattenbach u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 15.2: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars III. Supplementum tomi XIII pars II. Hannover 1888, pp. 1002–1005 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
- Wollasch, H.-J .: The beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical uniqueness of a monastery within the Hirsau Reform (research on the history of the Upper Rhine region 14) , Freiburg i.Br. 1964
- Wollasch, H.-J .: The Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgen in the Black Forest and its relationships with monasteries west of the Rhine , in: 900 years city of St. Georgen in the Black Forest 1084-1984. Festschrift, ed. vd Stadt St. Georgen, St. Georgen 1984, pp. 45–61
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 48 ″ E