Ochsenhausen monastery museum
 Model of the observatory Basilius Perger (1788) |
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| place | Ochsenhausen |
| Art |
Items from the former monastery
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| architect | Johannes Lang |
| opening | 1999 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 7,500 (2009) |
| management |
City, country and parish
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-983019 |
The Ochsenhausen Monastery Museum is a museum about the former imperial abbey of Ochsenhausen . It was opened in August 1999 and is located in the former convent Fürstenbau under the auspices of the Roman Catholic parish Ochsenhausen , pastoral care unit of St. Benedict, the city Ochsenhausen and the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg .
history
The south wing of the prince building, in which the museum is located, was the former guest building of the monastery. The museum rooms once served as the reception rooms of the monastery and are among the representative parts of the complex.
exhibition
On two floors and an exhibition area of 500 square meters, the museum shows the history of the Ochsenhausen monastery from the consecration of the first monastery church in 1093 to the abolition of the monastery and sale to the King of Württemberg in 1825. A larger than life carved Saint George, one Tower monstrance made of silver, vestments and other liturgical devices are the focus of the museum. Filing cabinets and the secretary of the last abbot Romuald Weltin can also be seen.
Utinam pedestris and if only it were just a foot procession, a monk scribbled on the processional order of the annual, many-hour Georgi ride with 600 riders. This original processional order is also exhibited in the museum, as is the azimuthal quadrant designed by Basilius Perger Mechanikus und Mönch and built by the hammer smith Alois Weishaupt, (rotatable around a vertical axis, practically 360 ° can be observed) with a radius of about three meters around the rotatable Dome in the southern corner tower of the convent building, which was converted into an observatory in 1788. Then as now there are few comparable quadrants of this size and design. With the quadrant celestial bodies are determined and extraordinary celestial events are calculated.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 5 ″ E