Klosterberg (Hohenwart)

Klosterberg Hohenwart market Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 57 ″  N , 11 ° 22 ′ 28 ″  E
Height :	421 m
Residents :	589  (2012)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1978
Postal code :	86558
Area code :	08443
Panoramic view from the east

Klosterberg is a district of the Upper Bavarian market Hohenwart . Until 1978 it was the seat of an independent community . The parish church of St. Georg von Hohenwart and the Hohenwart monastery are located in Klosterberg.

Geographical location

The parish village of Klosterberg is located on a hill to the left of the couple about 1.5 km northwest of the main town of the market town.

history

The place was named after Hohenwart Monastery , a Benedictine abbey founded in 1074 , which was also the nucleus of the Hohenwart market. The abbey was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization . The monastery church was rededicated to the parish church of St. George . Since the monastery buildings could not find a buyer, the nuns could continue to live there. Since 1876 they have been owned by the Regens Wagner Foundation in Dillingen under the local management of the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters . The venerable Romanesque basilica fell victim to a fire in 1895.

The village of Hochstadtmühle also belonged to the municipality of Klosterberg, which was founded in 1818 with the Bavarian municipal edict. Until the regional reform in Bavaria in July 1972, the independent municipality of Koppenbach belonged to the district of Schrobenhausen . On January 1, 1978, it was incorporated into the Hohenwart store.

Attractions

The following architectural monuments are listed in the list of monuments:

• Parish Church of St. George
• Rectory
• Catholic cemetery chapel
• Uh Benedictine monastery at Hohenwart , an institution for the deaf and dumb since 1875
• Staircase chapel
• Wayside chapel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller's Großes Deutsches Ortsbuch 2012. De Gruyter, 2012, p. 739.
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 586 .
3. ↑ List of monuments for Hohenwart (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation

literature

• Hans Perlinger: The development of the Hohenwart monastery up to the present. In: Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese. Volume 50, 2016, pp. 519-631.