Monastery office
A monastery office is a Wuerttemberg administrative unit which, after the Reformation in the 16th century, took over the administration of the properties of the dissolved monasteries and their lower court powers. At the head of the office was the prelate , an evangelical clergyman appointed by the duke who had a seat and a vote in the state parliament . The administrative business was directed by the monastery bailiff or court master, who from 1759 carried the title of monastery administrator .
The monastery offices were dissolved after the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century as part of the subsequent reorganization of the Kingdom of Württemberg .
list
- Adelberg Monastery Office
- Alpirsbach monastery office
- Anhausen monastery office
- Bebenhausen monastery office
- Blaubeuren monastery office
- Klosteramt Denkendorf
- Herbrechtingen monastery administration
- Herrenalb monastery office
- Hirsau monastery office
- Königsbronn monastery office
- Klosteramt Lichtenstern (emerged from the women's monastery, not a prelate)
- Lorch monastery office
- Maulbronn Monastery Office
- Murrhardt monastery office
- Reichenbach Monastery Office
- St. Georgen Monastery Office
Administrative units known as the cloister master's office or monastery administration emerged from the less well-off monasteries and foundations . They were not represented in the state parliament.
literature
- Erwin Hölzle: The German Southwest at the End of the Old Reich , Stuttgart 1938, p. 30ff.
- Hans-Martin Maurer: Old Württemberg Archive (A-holdings) . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-17-002175-3 , p. 160 ( Publications of the State Archive Administration of Baden-Württemberg , Volume 32).