Collegiate Foundation St. Moritz (Augsburg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former collegiate church St. Moritz in Augsburg

The Collegiate Foundation St. Moritz was a canons' foundation in Augsburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg . It existed since 1020 and was dissolved in the course of secularization in 1802.

history

The pen was in 1020 by Bishop Bruno brother of Emperor Henry II. Launched and was after the cathedral chapter , the monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra and the Monastery of St. Stephen , the fourth spiritual community in Augsburg. It presumably had parish rights shortly after its foundation and looked after the settlement area between Ortisei and Afra , Perlach and Dom . The monastery obtained the right of free choice of provost in 1178 and was thus independent of the cathedral chapter. St. Moritz had had a public Latin school since the 12th century.

With the acquisition of church patronage from the Holy See in 1518, the Fuggers guaranteed the continued existence of the monastery during the Reformation . At the same time, with a payment of 1000 guilders, the family secured a predicature foundation, which included the right to propose the position of preacher and pastor in St. Moritz. The still existing predicature is perceived today by the Fugger senior council.

Famous provosts of St. Moritz were, even if only nominally, the Elector of Trier Franz Georg von Schönborn (1701–1746) or the Archbishop of Salzburg Hieronymus Josef Graf von Colloredo-Waldsee (1759–1775). As deputies, the deans were the actual officials. During the secularization period , the monastery was abolished in 1802. When it was dissolved, the convent consisted of 20 members, including 10 canons , 8 vicars and 2 provisional choirs. The former collegiate church became the city parish church.

Monastery building

The former monastery building was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by a new building in the post-war period. The old rectory on the opposite side, on the corner of Bürgermeister-Fischer-Strasse, was demolished in 1954. A department store complex has stood in its place since 1966.

Manorial rule

The collegiate foundation was under the sovereignty of the Hochstift Augsburg . As early as 1178, Biburg was in the hands of St. Moritz as an episcopal fief . It exercised the right of presentation there and, since 1499, also the Vogteirecht . In the middle of the 18th century, St. Moriz in Biburg owned 52 fireplaces with the lower court and street court . In addition, the monastery in Memmenhausen , Münster and Honsolgen gained larger holdings.

Real estate

coat of arms

The coats of arms of the following localities are borrowed from the monastery coat of arms of St. Moritz ( Golden's shield with green three mountain ).

  • Aretsried

  • Biburg

  • Vallried

See also

literature

  • Gernot M. Müller: The former collegiate foundation St. Moritz in Augsburg (1019-1803). History, culture, art . Fink, Lindenberg 2006, ISBN 3-89870-227-8 .
  • Albert Haemmerle: The canons of the canons of St. Moritz, St. Peter and St. Gertrud up to secularization . 1938.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Princely and Countess Fugger Foundation Administration: To this day closely associated with the Fuggers. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Max Spindler: Handbook of Bavarian History Vol. III, 2: History of Swabia up to the end of the 18th century . CH Beck, 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70453-6 ( google.de [accessed October 15, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Joachim Jahn: Augsburg Land (Historical Atlas of Bavaria Part Swabian Volume 11), Munich 1984, pp. 334–342