Zangberg Monastery

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Zangberg Monastery is a monastery of the Sisters of the Visitation of Mary in Zangberg in Upper Bavaria .

Convent church Herz Jesu in Zangberg

history

The buildings date back to a castle from the year 1000. In 1285 this was expanded to a fortress and, after a fire from Ferdinand Maria Franz Freiherr von Neuhaus, rebuilt as a four-winged castle around an inner courtyard in 1684–1715 . The castle was the seat of the Hofmark Zangberg . A copper engraving by Michael Wening (early 18th century) shows the impressive building on a hill and the park. The most artistically significant interiors, which have been preserved largely unchanged to this day, are the Princely Hall and the Ancestral Hall, where concerts are occasionally held.

In 1862 Carl Theodor Graf Geldern-Egmont sold the buildings to the Sisters of the Visitation of Mary , an order of the Salesian Sisters . 26 sisters, four novices and one candidate moved from Dietramszell to the new monastery. As the monastery of St. Joseph, it is owned by the sisters to this day. The monastery ran a secondary school for daughters (boarding school), the most famous of which was probably Zita von Bourbon-Parma .

From 1941 the sisters had to leave the building for several years; they lived temporarily in the Villa Ortner (Schloss Geldern) in Palmberg. A munitions factory was to be built in the confiscated monastery. For this purpose, forced laborers from Mettenheim were first requested, later a separate camp was set up in Zangberg with around 60 prisoners, mostly skilled workers. As a non-independent camp, the Zangberg camp was assigned to the Mettenheim camp, part of the Mühldorf concentration camp external command at Dachau . The camp was officially mentioned for the first time shortly before the end of the war in March 1945.

In September 1946, school operations could be resumed. After the school was closed, its rooms now house the BSH Academy of BSH Hausgeräte GmbH (since 2000) and training rooms for Capgemini sd & m .

literature

  • Ursel Roth: Stories and dishes from the Zangberg monastery . Kloster Zangberg, Zangberg et al. 2002, ISBN 3-00-014597-4 .

Web links

Commons : Sankt Josef (Zangberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For more information on the monastery structures, see the list of monuments in Zangberg .
  2. ↑ Ursel Roth: Stories and dishes from the Zangberg monastery . Kloster Zangberg, Zangberg et al. 2002, p. 49
  3. ↑ So much for the representation according to the article, Mühldorf concentration camp external command . It is possible that the prisoners of the Zangberg camp were also used to set up the " Weingut I " armaments facility.
  4. ↑ Ursel Roth: Stories and dishes from the Zangberg monastery . Kloster Zangberg, Zangberg et al. 2002, p. 51

Coordinates: 48 ° 16 ′ 29.3 "  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 33.6"  E