Thierhaupten Monastery

Main building from the courtyard

The thierhaupten abbey is a former abbey of Benedictine in Thierhaupten in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .

history

Inscription plaque about the construction and consecration of the sacristy in Thierhaupten, 1309 ( Bavarian National Museum , Munich)

The monastery, consecrated to St. Peter and Paul, was founded by Duke Tassilo III. founded by Bavaria in the 8th century. In 955 a pillage occurred in the course of the Hungarian storms . The monastery was rebuilt and refurbished by Gebhard I and Rapoto von Hohenwart . The Swabian Federation destroyed the monastery in 1504. The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The property of the monastery was auctioned in April 1803, the monastery buildings were sold to the Donauwörth mayor and innkeeper Andreas Dietrich (1756–1828). The last abbot of the monastery, Edmund Schmid († December 2, 1825), was a pastor in Thierhaupten and bought the monastery church for the parish for 1,100 guilders in 1812. After 180 years of private, manorial use, the Thierhaupten market bought the desolate monastery complex in 1983 and provided for the urgently needed and extensive asset security and renovation, which was jointly supported by the municipality, the Free State of Bavaria, the Swabian district and the Augsburg district .

Abbots

Years of office	Lifetime	Names	comment
1304-1313	approx. 1280–?	Ulrich von Raitenbuch	Last member of the ministerial family “de Raitenbuch”. He died in the monastery of St. Cross in Donauwörth .
1457–	–11.09.1468	Thomas von Gerzen
1502–	1455-1511	Peter Wagner	Also prior of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg
1553-1597	1526 / 27-1597	Benedikt Gaugenrieder	When he died on June 6, 1597 at the age of 71, his circumstances were in order.
1677-1700		Benedict Sartorius	Died on November 21, 1700
1701-1714		Joseph Frantz	Coat of arms: bird
1801-1803	January 10, 1752– December 2, 1825	Edmund Schmid	Last abbot of the monastery before secularization

A restored abbots gallery has been preserved.

Klostermühlen

Various mills belonged to the monastery: a grain mill, a paper mill, an oil mill and a sawmill.

It is interesting, however, that the monastery was plundered by the Austrians in the War of the Spanish Succession from 1703 to 1704, whereby the windows and stoves in the rooms and cells of the monastery were smashed, the grain taken from the box and from the field, the paper and a grain mill « burned down on the stump ».

Paper mill

Watermark on a letter dated July 11, 1703 from André Falquet .

The paper mill, which belongs to the Benedictine Abbey Thierhaupten on the Achflüsschen, was made. The paper mill had existed since 1609, whereby the sheets that the mill had to deliver to the monastery every year as donations in kind bear a heraldic watermark, which represents the monastery coat of arms: a double coat of arms, one of which is the upper body of a doe (in the hunter's language = animal ), while the constantly changing personal coat of arms of the respective abbot is visible on the other shield. From 1701 to 1714 this was a bird owned by Abbot Frantz.

"These papers were used in the monastery clerk's office as well as in binding the municipal law book, hall books, necrologies and other documents now stored in the archive."

Watermark

The description of the watermark on a letter from 1703 reads: “Two circles, on the left with the torso of a doe, on the right with a rooster. A leafy ornament around the circles. Above it is a miter with a curvature , below on the left «İİ» (probably two large «i» with a dot on each), on the right «M».

Oil mill

The oil mill was first mentioned in 1578, was later converted into a sawmill, and in 1936 it gave it a new sawmill, which is equipped with a Francis turbine for energy supply.

Monastery church

The basilica, which was built in 1170 and has remained Romanesque in its core, received its current baroque appearance around 1714, together with the convent and economic buildings, according to plans by Johann Jakob Herkommer . The three-aisled pillar basilica has been the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul since 1809 .

present

In addition to the various uses for local club life, the cloister courtyard as an event room and a restaurant in the vaulted rooms of the former stables, the monastery complex mainly accommodates supra-regional facilities:

a school of village and rural development,
the Swabian branch of the Department of Prehistory and Early History of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation ,
the Bavarian building archive - an institution so far unique in the Federal Republic of Germany - with workshops for wood, minerals and wet wood preservation for professional training of craftsmen working in the preservation of monuments. Another aim is to collect and research historical building structures and fittings. The district of Swabia is responsible for the facility, the State Office for Monument Preservation provides the specialist staff and
the academy for further training of craftsmen in monument preservation.

The Friends of Thierhaupten Monastery came into being when the municipality acquired the monastery (decision of the municipal council of May 10, 1983) and has around 350 members. It is still run by Fritz Hölzl, the mayor at the time of acquisition (in office from 1978 to 1996), and takes care of the history and culture of the monastery, organizes exhibitions, guided tours and concerts.

literature

Nikolaus Debler: History of the Thierhaupten Monastery . Donauwörth, 1908–1912 (reprint: Thierhaupten 1984)
History, renovation and current use of the Thierhaupten monastery - permanent exhibition of the homeland maintenance of the Swabian district; Catalog . Augsburg, Schwaben District, 2000. ISBN 3-934113-01-X
Franz Häußler: Closter Thierhaupten - history in pictures . Thierhaupten, Freundeskreis Kloster Thierhaupten eV, 1989
Karl Bauer: Photo book Kloster Thierhaupten , 1985
Karin Hösch: Thierhaupten - former Benedictine monastery, monastery mill museum, monastery inn (Peda art guide). Passau, 2001. ISBN 3-89643-171-4
Thierhaupten Monastery - redevelopment measure as part of urban development funding . Augsburg, 2000
Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, Volume 82, 1971, page 67 ( Google Books, snippet view , text )

Individual evidence

↑ Stefanie Hamann: The Counts of Hohenwart. In Ferdinand Kramer & Wilhelm Störmer (eds.), High Middle Ages Noble Families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History, Volume XX), pp. 65 - 96. Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005. ISBN 376966874X .
↑ Wolfgang Wüst : The local Policey: Setting standards and regulatory policy in the country , Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008, p. 58, (Google books) .
^ Anton Maria Kobolt: Baierisches Gelehrten-Lexikon , Hagen (Ed.), 1795, p. 256, (Google books) .
^ Gilbert Tournoy: Humanistica Lovaniensia , Volume XLII, Leuven University Press, 1993, (Google books) .
↑ Claus Braun, Abbot Edmund bought back the monastery church , In: Augsburger Allgemeine , October 2nd, 2012, augsburger-allgemeine.de .
↑ List of Abbots and Administrators at Franz Häußler Closter Thierhaupten - History in Pictures , p. 227.
↑ ^a ^b ^c thierhaupten.de - Thierhaupten market: Klostermühlenmuseum
↑ ^a ^b Barbara, Seidenschwand: Klostermühlenmuseum Thierhaupten , Augsburg, Klostermühlenmuseum Thierhaupten (publisher), year unknown.
^ J. Haller and S. Brügger: Nobility letter André Falquet - Aspects of an imperial document from 1725 . Aarau, 2007, see also adelsbrief.info .
↑ Debler was born on December 8, 1876 in Thierhaupten, ordained a priest on July 22, 1902, died on August 30, 1939 and was buried in his place of birth.