Tettenweis Monastery

The St. Gertrud Monastery

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Gertrud is a Benedictine monastery in Tettenweis , Diocese of Passau , which was built in a castle of the Counts of Joner .

history

The former Hofmarksschloss on the outskirts of Tettenweis was built in 1797 by Count Franz Xaver Peter von Joner in place of a modest previous castle.

In 1873 the manor Tettenweis was bought by the Austrian councilor Richard Weiß Edler von Starkenfels (1815–1882), who was raised to the status of Austrian baron in the 1870s. His son Alois (1847–1895) married the widow of the last Count of Tauffkirchen zu Kleeberg and was an important heraldist and genealogist who, together with Johann Kirnbauer von Erzstätt, wrote the Siebmacher - book of arms about the nobility in Upper Austria . In 1893 he sold the manor Tettenweis on.

This castle was bought by Count Max von Löwenstein-Scharffeneck (father of Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg ) in 1896 , but sold it to the Frauenchiemsee monastery in 1899 , which founded a Benedictine daughter monastery there in the same year. From 1902 the property was expanded in the neo-Romanesque style. The monastery church was built in 1949.

The priory of St. Gertrud was elevated to the status of an abbey on October 28, 1924. The first abbess was the previous prioress M. Editha Gaßlhuber. Since 1987 the monastery has been a member of the newly founded Federation of Bavarian Benedictine Abbeys .

activities

The Benedictine nuns of Tettenweis now run a kindergarten, a guest house and a monastery shop. A quilt sewing shop, a wax workshop and the in-house pasta production also ensure the economic survival of the spiritual community.

Abbesses

Bernarda Amtmann, 1899 / 1903–1916 (only prioress)
Editha Gaßlhuber, 1925–1941 (1917–1925 prioress)
Michaela Haberberger, 1941-1967
Emmanuela Aichinger , 1967-1992
Bernarda Schmidt, since 1992

Web links

http://www.sankt-gertrud.de
Entry to St. Gertrud Abbey in Tettenweis on Orden online

Individual evidence

^ Gerhard Seibold: Alois Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels and his family book. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 303–305 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , accessed on May 7, 2017).

48.443697222222 13.2665Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '37.3 " N , 13 ° 15' 59.4" E

[1] Gerhard Seibold: Alois Freiherr Weiß von Starkenfels and his family book. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 152, Linz 2007, pp. 303–305 ( PDF on ZOBODAT , accessed on May 7, 2017).