Weitenau Monastery

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As a monastery Weitenau a former is monastery in the Bailiwick Weitenau called today a district of the 1974/1975 resulting overall community stones in the district Lörrach . In the second half of the 19th century it was renamed the Schlächtenhaus community, which today also belongs to Steinen. The beginnings are documented up to the 12th century. The monastery complex also included a church that was evangelical after the Reformation and was used for services until the end of the 19th century. After a renovation, the buildings have been used as a specialist clinic since 1971.

history

Benedictine priory 1100–1556

According to assumptions, the place of the former monastery was already a pagan place of worship before Christianization . The first documented evidence goes back to the year 1100. After that, an own church and associated lands belonged to the barons of Wart , a Thurgau noble family. These ceded their claims to the monastery of St. Blasien , which established a priory here, the first provost of which was Erkinbold von Wart. The monastery church was dedicated to St. Gangolf . From 1528 to 1532 the later abbot of the St. Blasien monastery , Caspar Molitoris , was provost in " Weitnau ".

The monastery buildings were renovated at the end of the 12th century after they were said to have been affected by a fire. Adelheid, the wife of Dietrich von Rotenberg, a relative of the Lords of Rötteln , found her final resting place in the monastery church as the benefactress of the monastery. Between 1360 and 1370 this church is mentioned with branch churches in Demberg and Wieslet (ecclesia Witnow cum filiabus, videlicet Tenberg et Wislach).

In 1485 a sacrament house was built in the church . Also at the end of the 15th century, the construction of the church tower began, which at that time was completed with a gable roof in the direction of the nave . The polygonal choir was connected directly to the south wall of the tower. The coats of arms above the portal bear witness to the joint building activities of Margrave Rudolf IV and Abbots Christoph von Greuth (1461–1482) and Georg Eberhard (1482–1491).

During the Peasants' War , the monastery was looted at the same time as the sister provosts Sitzenkirch and Bürgeln on May 3, 1525 and the three conventuals were driven out.

With the introduction of the Reformation in Markgräflerland in 1556, the monastery church became an independent parish church, to whose municipal area Schlächtenhaus, Hofen, Farnbuck and also Weitenau belonged without the Schillighof.

Evangelical Church 1556–1891

The current buildings were erected in the 16th century when the convent buildings were demolished and replaced with a rectory. At the end of the 16th century, the bell tower was raised by a fourth floor and the choir and the roof of the nave were renewed.

Profanation

With the construction of the Evangelical Church in Hofen between 1890 and 1891, the monastery church lost its importance. A year later it was profaned . The choir was torn down and the nave was divided into two floors. The Gothic windows on the upper floor are still original, while the lower ones have been newly added. At the same time, the saddle roof of the church tower was replaced by a pyramid roof. First an inn was set up in the monastery buildings and later a sanatorium. Since 1971 there has been a specialist clinic for drug and alcohol therapy with a total of 52 places in the rooms.

Location and description

Former bell tower

The facility is located in a valley halfway between Steinen and the Schlächtenhaus. The structures are located directly on the country road at the edge of the forest. The building ensemble consists of a total of six buildings. The converted nave, with its tower built to the northeast, is the main structure of the complex.

Originally the bell tower is said to have had seven bells, five of which are said to have been stolen by French troops during the 17th and 18th centuries. One of these stolen bells is said to have ended up in Strasbourg Cathedral . The remaining two bells come from Lörrach bell founder Andreas Roost, who made them in 1774. The two bells were removed in 1901, so there are no more bells hanging in the tower today.

literature

Web links

Commons : Weitenau Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Entry on leobw
  2. ↑ a b Karl Seith : The Weitenau Monastery . In: Badische Heimat , 1923, page 42 ff
  3. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , page 370 (09.1)
  4. ^ FX Kraus: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Großherzogtums Baden , Volume V, 1901, Seite 198
  5. ↑ s. Entry on leobw
  6. ↑ W (endelin) Haid : Liber taxationis (et Liber marcarum) ecclesiarum et Beneficiorum in diocesi Constantiensi de anno 1353 . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 5, 1870, page 87 online
  7. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , page 370 (09.3)
  8. ^ Karl Seith: The Markgräflerland and the Markgräfler in the Peasants' War of 1525. Karlsruhe 1926, page 52
  9. ↑ s. Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg
  10. ↑ H. Vocke (Ed.): Die Chronik des Kreises Lörrach , 1966, page 205
  11. ↑ s. Entry on leobw
  12. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , page 370 (09.5)
  13. ^ Helm: Churches and chapels in the Markgräflerland , pp. 370–371 (09.5)

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 14.7 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 27.4"  E