Collegiate Foundation Lorch
The St. Maria monastery was a collegiate monastery in Lorch in Swabia from the 12th to the 14th century at the latest.
location
The pen was in the Lorch valley area. There are no more structural remains.
history
When the monastery was founded and by whom is unclear. A king, a bishop or an ancestor of the Staufer would be possible as a founder . Its existence was mentioned indirectly for the first time in 1144 in the deed of foundation for the Lochgarten monastery .
In the following decades it lost most of its abbey pledges to the neighboring Lorch monastery and the diocese of Augsburg . In 1327 the monastery was incorporated into Lorch Monastery. It was mentioned for the last time in 1354; in 1406 it no longer existed.
Structure and functions
The monastery was headed by a dean and not, as is usually the case, a prior. Up to eight canons belonged to the chapter, in 1550 six canons and six vicars were named.
The St. Maria Abbey was responsible for pastoral care in Lorch and the surrounding area, but this was partially transferred to the Lorch Monastery from the 13th century. Until about 1139 it served as the burial place of some ancestors of the Staufer. The monastery had about 13 chevrons.
literature
- Klaus Graf : Lorch Monastery in the Middle Ages. In: Lorch. Contributions to the history of the town and monastery. Heimatbuch der Stadt Lorch , vol. 1. Lorch 1990. pp. 39–95, especially pp. 87–92. ( Digitized version )
- Gebhard Mehring : Lorch Abbey. Sources on the history of a parish church. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1911. ( digitized version )
- Wolfgang Runschke: The manorial rule of the Lorch monastery. Dissertation. University of Tübingen 2010. pp. 70–73. ( online ).
Web links
- Klaus Graf: Lorch Collegiate Foundation in the database of monasteries in Baden-Württemberg of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
Remarks
- ↑ As an original royal estate, which then came to the Staufer with the Swabian Count Palatinate, so Runschke, p. 71
- ↑ This is the most widespread research opinion, as it served as a burial place for some Hohenstaufen. It is questionable why the Staufer found an additional monastery in Lorch and not the conversion of the monastery into a monastery, as happened several times during this time, cf. Runschke, 71
- ^ Document from July / September 1144, in Württembergisches Urkundenbuch , Volume II, No. 320, p. 33 online ; Regest in Regesta Imperii IV, 1,2 n. 307, however, still incorrectly assigned to Lorch Monastery