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The Klosterzimmern (also Klosterzimmern is) a former monastery of Cistercian nuns in Deiningen in the Bavarian district of Donau-Ries . The convention was abolished in the course of the Reformation .

history

The origin of this monastery lay outside the Ries in the Gunzenhäuser and Hahnenkamm areas . The Cistercian monastery was founded in 1233 by Friedrich von Truhendingen and his wife Agnes zu Windsfeld . In 1245 it moved its seat to the Stahelsberg, today's Schloßberg in the Hechlingen district. There are still ruins of the former monastery church to be found. In 1252 another and final relocation took place in the fertile Nördlinger Ries , where Rudolf I von Hürnheim-Rauhhaus donated his estate "Zimmer" to the church on the condition that the monastery relocated there and that he could set up his family's hereditary burial there.

In the further course of time, the monastery rooms developed into one of the richest monasteries in the Ries. An example is the purchase of half the village of Pfäfflingen in 1279 .

In the 14th century, the Counts of Oetting succeeded , without ever having been involved in the foundation, in obtaining the bailiwick over rooms. From 1522 the Reformation found its way intozimmer and the nuns exchanged their vestments for long black dresses. Lutheran teachings were incorporated. The separation of the monastery from the father abbot in Kaisheim took place: The Zimmer monastery became Lutheran. After the monastery was repopulated as a result of the Schmalkaldic War in 1547, the monastery was finally dissolved by the Counts of Oettingen in 1558.

There were extensive sales from the monastery property under the princes Albrecht Ernst I and Albrecht Ernst II. After the death of Albrecht Ernst II (1731), the last prince of the Oettingen-Oettingen line, the estate fell to the Roman Catholic Oettingen-Wallerstein line and was administered by the Alerheim District Office. Albrecht Ernst II had already set up a pheasantry , which experienced an upswing under the Wallersteiners. In 1775 a cloth factory was built in Zimmer, but it soon closed again. In the years that followed, the Klosterzimmer estate was an agricultural estate owned by the Wallerstein prince.

In 2000, Klosterzimmer was sold to members of the Twelve Tribes Community . This was accused of child abuse in 2013 . Most of the members then moved to the Czech Republic . In 2017, the Twelve Tribes said they had left Germany. The plant was sold to a private buyer.

Building history

The remains of the former Gothic monastery church are still preserved today as a place of worship. Much of the interior is no longer there. The Protestant parish of Deiningen still uses the church sporadically for church services.

literature

  • Martin Winter: The Stahelsberg Monastery . In: Alt-Gunzenhausen , issue 48 (1993), p. 46f.

Web links

Commons : Monastery Rooms  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article174761060/Pruegeln-fuer-Gott-Sekte-Zwoelf-Staemme-klagt-vor-Menschenrechtsgericht.html .
  2. ↑ According to https://taz.de/Urteil-gegen-Zwoelf-Staemme/!5490738/ (2018) to a farmer.

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 34.3 "  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 24.8"  E