St. Wolfgang Monastery (Engen)

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The St. Wolfgang Monastery was a Benedictine monastery in the town of Engen im Hegau , it was closed in 1803. Today the Engen Museum is located there.

history

A first attempt at founding a monastery initially failed around 1320 when the abbot Ulrich von Kloster St. Georgen in the Black Forest gave an estate in Neuhausen, which had previously had the collection and the women of Engen as a fief, to Heinrich the shopkeeper von Engen .

The daughters of the local citizen Ulrich Staehllin, Maethild, Adelhaid the giantess, Osterlüet von Snerchingen and Maethild the Minrin, called themselves sisters and probably had previously been accepted into the order of another monastery. With her capital of 20 pounds (probably pfennigs), Adelhaid die Minrin bought a house in the Sammlungsgasse belonging to Hansen vonzell ( Radolfzell ). They chose Maethild as their prioress . About this purchase, they signed a contract with Peter von Hewen, lord of the city of Engen, and the church lord of St. Martin, Heinrich von Mühlhausen, which they confirmed on 19 July 1335. The monastery of St. Wolfgang was founded. In the centuries that followed, numerous foundations and gifts were made, and many daughters of the nobles entered the monastery.

From a diary (around 1590 to 1653), the prioress Verena's little thought book , one learns that in 1655 they agreed with the mayor and councilor, Georg Sigmund von Herberstein (1594–1663), on a tax back payment of 400 guilders.

Repeal

In 1724 the cloister was introduced and in 1803 it was abolished in the course of secularization . The Fürstenberg rule took over the monastery and the debts it had accrued with it. The Capuchin monastery in the city of Engen was also closed. In the little thought book it says: In 1618 the first stone was laid at the Capuchin monastery. The Capuchin monastery was consecrated on August 20th in 1623. Archduke Leopold is present. The Capuchins also wrote a diary, from 1654 to 1820, in Latin. The Capuchin Monastery was bought by the city in 1827 and the St. Wolfgang Monastery became free, and a collection of antiquities, the Museum Engen, was created here from the collection of the spiritual.

literature

  • Wilhelm Wetzel: From the Engen Collection to the Hegau Museum , 1937
  • Herbert Berner (Ed.): Engen im Hegau . Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, 3 volumes. Volume 1: published 1983, ISBN 3-7995-4047-4 . Volume 2: published 1990, ISBN 3-7995-4055-5 . Volume 3: published 2000, ISBN 3-7995-4049-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Wetzel, From the Engen Collection to the Hegau Museum p. 4
  2. ↑ Jakob Barth, History of the city of Engen and the rule of Hewen , 1882

Coordinates: 47 ° 51 ′ 9.6 "  N , 8 ° 46 ′ 11.2"  E