Moritzbrunn

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Moritzbrunn is an estate near Ochsenfeld , municipality of Adelschlag in the Bavarian district of Eichstätt . The former commandery of the Knights Templar is located in the Altmühltal Nature Park .

Moritzbrunn. Colored pen and ink drawing by Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk, Eichstätt

location

The estate is located in the middle of fields about four kilometers south of Eichstätt on the Adelschlag – Ochsenfeld road. Approx. The Ingolstadt – Treuchtlingen railway passes 500 meters to the north .

history

Barrows have been found nearby . Originally the estate was called "Mousprunnen" (1182) or "Moosprunn" (1315) or "Mo (o) sbrunn / Mossbrunn" (until 1545), from Old High German mos (marshland). He is mentioned for the first time under the Eichstätter Bishop Egelolf (r. 1177–82) 1182. This is where the Mosprunner family sat, who moved to Weissenburg . By the middle of the 13th century at the latest there was a Commandery of the Templar Order: In 1251 the Templars shared properties with the Benedictine monastery of St. Mang ( Füssen ) in the Swabian Dietmannsried , administered by the procurator Konrad in Moosbrunn; In 1289 this property was sold to the Premonstratensian Monastery of Steingaden by Wildgrave Friedrich , the master of temples in Germany and Slavenland . The Moosbrunn Commandery built a church in the 13th century . In Eichstätt, the commandery in front of the bridge at the Heilig-Geist-Spital had its own, the Moosprunner Hof (owned by the hospital in 1342, Rebdorf monastery in 1345 ). The commandments' possessions can also be found in Teisingen near Neumarkt-Sankt Veit , Wittenfeld , Meilenhofen , Pietenfeld , Hessenlohe and Leisacker ; Adelheid von Wellheim , whose husband had joined the Templar Order, received her property in Wittenfeld and Meilenhofen back from the Templar Order in 1308 or 1311.

After the repeal of the Knights Templar at the Council of Vienne (1312), the Commandery came to the Order of St. John on October 29, 1315 under the Johanniterbruder Albert von Katzenstein , but was already seven years later, on June 14, 1322, by the Eichstatt Bishop Marquard I. Hagel (r. 1322–24) bought up. In 1455 the feudal man Hans von Buttendorf handed it over to the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Eichstätt.

Around 1540 the courtyard with the church burned down and was acquired and rebuilt in 1545 by Bishop Moritz von Hutten (r. 1539–52) for the Eichstätt monastery; since then the farm has been called Moritzbrunn after him. In 1741 the prince-bishop master mason Giovanni Domenico Barbieri built new stables and at the church, in 1746 new stables and barns. Perhaps the west facade of the early Gothic church was built into the manor house at this time.

After the secularization of 1802-06, the court came to the princely house of Thurn and Taxis , in 1817 to the Duke of Leuchtenberg and in 1855 to the Bavarian state . In 1855 the farm was auctioned and in 1875 bought by the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who leased the property to Georg Puth a year later. Karl Puth bought the estate in 1903.

The nearby Tempelhof was probably owned by the Moosbrunn Commandery.

Former church

Moritzbrunner Altar in the Bavarian National Museum

The early Gothic church is now profaned and divided with a false ceiling; There is still a sacrament niche from the time it was built. In 1480 the church "devastated in the wars" had a patronage of our Lady and was provided by the hospital master in Eichstätt. On September 23, 1545 Moritz von Hutten rededicated the church to his patron saint, St. Mauritius . The top of the tower with a mansard helmet was built in the Baroque period in 1740 by Giovanni Domenico Barbieri, presumably according to plans by Gabriel de Gabrieli . A former side altar with a mercy seat, created by the sculptor Loy Hering and installed in 1548, has been in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich since 1884.

literature

  • D. Popp: Documents pertaining to the former Temperhof Moosbrunn. In: Archive of the Historical Association for Lower Franconia 12 (1852), pp. 243–248
  • (Latin) calendar notes from Bishop Moritz von Hutten. In: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 50/51 (1935/36), p. 87
  • Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 59 (1961/62), p. 37f., Footnote 120
  • Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Bavaria. Middle Franconia, II. Eichstätt District Office, Munich 1928 (reprint 1982)
  • Ria Puth: Brief history of the Moritzbrunn estate. In: Historische Blätter 13 (1964), No. 3, p. 9
  • The Eichstätter space in past and present, Eichstätt: 2nd edition 1984, p. 247f.

Web links

Commons : Moritzbrunn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 58.2 "  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 21.1"  E