Wonnental Monastery

Wonnental abbey church in the middle of the 18th century

Today's view

The Wonnental monastery in Breisgau was a convent of Cistercian women near Kenzingen in northern Breisgau . It was first mentioned in a document in 1242 and dissolved during the secularization in 1806.

history

Around 1230 free religious women's communities were formed in Nidingen and Altenkenzingen. These two settlements combine to form the Wonnental Monastery near Kenzingen, which was first mentioned in a document in 1242. The brothers Hermann and Johann von Weisweil sell the prioress Mechtildis von Wonnental a court horse in Kenzingen.

Rudolf von Üsenberg had granted protection to the Sisters of Nidingen in 1244 and gave his patronage rights to the monastery in 1248. In 1249 he founded the city of Kenzingen. When he died, he was buried in the monastery, which made it the home monastery of the Üsenberg family .

Initially the monastery belonged to the Dominican order. But it was soon affiliated with the male monastery Tennenbach . In 1262 the women's convent was finally incorporated into the Cistercian order, the father abbot was the monastery director of Tennenbach. The 14th century stands for the heyday of the monastery, which owned extensive property with the resulting income. In the 14th century there were u. a. two splendid manuscripts, a gradual and an antiphonary , made. Economic difficulties in the 15th century led to the decline of the convent. In 1525 the abbey was sacked and destroyed by insurgent farmers. The wars of the 17th century did not spare the monastery. In the Thirty Years' War in 1632 the nuns had to leave the monastery. The monastery then stood empty for about a decade. In 1638 it was made habitable again. In 1673 the nuns had to leave the monastery due to renewed turmoil of the war.

The monastery was secularized on October 19, 1806 , the 37th and last abbess Maria Benedicta Krebs died in 1819. The monastery became the property of the Baden state . He sold the monastery and it became a chicory and beetroot factory. The church was demolished and a chicory mill was built with the building material. Production was relocated to Freiburg in 1812. Today the monastery complex is divided into a number of private houses.

literature

• Paul Zinsmaier : On the founding history of Tennenbach and Wonnental. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 98 (1950), pp. 470–479.
• Gebhard Heil: "1242 - First documentary mention of the Wonnental Monastery". In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 23–24 digitized
• Helmut Reiner: The Cistercian convent Wonnental through the ages. A timetable. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 25-28 digitized
• Anneliese Müller: City and monastery in the mirror of the Wonnentaler documents. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 100-109 digitized
• Stefan King; Bertram Jenisch: Searching for traces - a tour of the former Wonnental monastery - “Jucunda Vallis”. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, Volume 26 and 27 (2006/2007), pp. 137–161 digitized
• Stefan King: Convent area, confessor's house, barn and stable building - building history notes on the existing buildings of the former Wonnental monastery. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 162–213 digitized
• Rolf Brinkmann: Observations on the remains of the former monastery church Wonnental. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 214–222 digitized
• Klaus Weber: Views of the former Wonnental Monastery - a documentation of remembering. In: Die Pforte , published by the Working Group for History and Regional Studies in Kenzingen eV, 26th and 27th year (2006/2007), pp. 239–263 digitized

Web links

Commons : Kloster Wonnental  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cistercian abbey Wonnental in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
• Manuscripts from the provenance of Wonnenthal in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Since secularization, both books have been kept in the Badische Landesbibliothek and have been digitized there: Wonnentaler Graduale (Cod. UH1) and Wonnentaler Antiphonar (Cod. St. Georgen 5)

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 9 ″  E