Unterzell Monastery
| Unterzell Monastery | |
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 The ruins of the former monastery church . In the surrounding walls of the ( choir , transept up to the tower - right |
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| location | Unterzell Abbey, Judenhof 4, 97299 Zell am Main |
| Lies in the diocese | Diocese of Würzburg |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 48 '38.4 " N , 9 ° 52' 20.8" E |
| Patronage | Mary (mother of Jesus) and Cecilia of Rome |
| founding year | around 1230 by Premonstratensian women |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1562 as a result of the Peasant War |
| Year of repopulation | In 1642 a new convent of Premonstratensian choir women was formed |
| Year of re-dissolution | Disbanded in 1803 in the course of secularization in Bavaria. |
| Mother monastery | Oberzell Monastery |
The Kloster cell was a former convent of the Premonstratensians in Zell am Main in Würzburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Wuerzburg.
history
The Unterzell Monastery, consecrated to Saints Maria and Caecilia , was founded by Hermann I von Lobdeburg , Bishop of Würzburg, by relocating the women's convent attached to Oberzell Monastery around 1230. In 1525, during the Great Peasants' War, insurgent, inherited farmers plundered the monastery. In 1562, under Prince-Bishop Friedrich von Wirsberg , it came under the administration of the Prince-Bishops of the Würzburg Monastery . In 1642 a new convent of women choirs was formed.
A dark chapter in the history of Unterzell Monastery is the fate of Superior Maria Renata Singer von Mossau , who was sentenced to death and executed in 1749 during the witch persecution in the Würzburg monastery.
The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization in Bavaria and sold to interested parties. The church was temporarily used as a goat barn. The high altar and two side altars came to Alt St. Josef in Oberdürrbach .
Jewish life in the former monastery
In the course of the Hep-Hep riots in 1819, many Jeschivah students and other Jews from Würzburg fled to the surrounding area, including to Rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum in Theilheim near Werneck . Rosenbaum acquired the former monastery with others and moved there with the family and Lazarus Bergmann in 1822 . Together with some of the people from Würzburg who had fled, they founded a new Jewish community there and subsequently a Talmud school .
In addition to his previous acquisition as a cattle and goods dealer, Rosenbaum set up a grocery store and a nail smithy in Unterzell . From 1825 Bergmann ran the nail smithy, after his Aliyah with his wife and children in 1834, Rosenbaum's eldest son, master nail smith Moses Rosenbaum, continued it.
Market rights for Zell
Rosenbaum's economic ventures in Unterzell together with the Oberzell-based Schnelldruckpressenfabrik of Friedrich Koenig (1774–1833) and Andreas Bauer (1783–1860) were decisive for the fact that Oberzell and Unterzell, combined as Zell am Main, received market rights in 1833 .
War destruction
In 1945, when the city of Würzburg was bombed , the entire complex burned down and the church was in ruins. In the post-war period, the monastery buildings were converted into apartments.
New church life from 1971
In 1971, the Evangelical-Lutheran Reconciliation Church and a community center were built in the choir of the destroyed church building.
The walls of the main nave form an inner courtyard. The remains of the wall of the transept border a small garden today.
Web links
- Monasteries in Bavaria
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Unterzell Monastery , basic data and history:
Christian Lankes / Markus Schütz: Unterzell near Würzburg - Witch Trial in Paradise in the database of Monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unterzell in Zell am Main (Würzburg district)
- ↑ See "Zell am Main (Würzburg district) Jewish history / synagogue", section "Reports from the history of the Jewish community and the Rosenbaum family" , on: Alemannia Judaica: Working group for research into the history of Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region , accessed December 12, 2016.
- ↑ See "The Rosenbaum family in Zell am Main" ( memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Section: 'Die Nagelschmiede', on: Freundeskreis der Zeller Laubhütte ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 21, 2016.
