Provost's tomb

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The Propstei Grab , also Klösterlein Grab , was a branch of the Benedictine monastery of Plankstetten ( Diocese of Eichstätt ) located near Sulzbürg in the Upper Palatinate .

location

The provost's office was south-east of Sulzbuerg on the slope of the Schlüpfelberg towards Mühlhausen .

history

With a deed dated March 25, 1376, Hilpolt von Stein the Elder and his son Hilpolt and his wife each donated a small provost's office to a previously existing church at the Holy Grave on Schlüpfelberg. They built a monastery property for two monks, namely a provost and a chaplain , who were referred there by Plankstetten. The small provost's office and thus also the mother monastery received ample income from 18 farms, two mills and a fishing water, the "Roßbach". The donor family held the protective bailiff over the provost's office. A total of nine provosts and three chaplains were known by name until 1552.

When the Lords of Wolfstein , who held the imperial rule of Sulzbuerg, hosted the provost and taxed it, the two inmates withdrew to the mother monastery in 1548. In protest, Plankstetten sent two other monks to the monastery grave. The prior of Plankstetten, who brought the protest to the Wolfsteiners, was taken into custody by them and was only released again at the instigation of the Eichstätt Prince-Bishop Moritz von Hutten ; The Lords of Wolfstein took the position that they had jurisdiction over the little monastery and that only the tithe had to be paid to the provost . The matter was finally pending before the Imperial District Court, where it dragged itself to. When Bernhard von Wolfstein introduced the Reformation in the Sulzbürg rule, the little monastery had to be finally given up. In 1571, the Plankstetten monastery concluded a contract with the Wolfsteiners that guaranteed at least half of the income of the former provost to the Plankstetten monastery.

In the future, the evangelical pastor from Bachhausen came three times a year with believers to the grave church to worship there. The Propsteig buildings fell into disrepair over time. When the Counts of Wolfstein died out in 1740 and their property fell to the Electorate of Bavaria, the Plankstetten monastery tried to get the other half of the monastery's income back. This was only partially successful: eleven Sulzburger subjects were placed under the monastery.

In 1777 the grave church was in ruins, the Protestant services were held outdoors. With the abolition of the Plankstetten monastery in the secularization of 1806, the income of the former provost's office was transferred to the Bavarian state.

literature

  • Johann Georg Hierl: The Schlüpfelberg . In: Annual report of the historical association for Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and the surrounding area 8/9 (1910/11)
  • Say to the "Kreuzstein near the former monastery grave". In: Neumarkter Tagblatt No. 155 of July 12, 1912
  • Franz Sales Romstöck: The founders and monasteries of the Diocese of Eichstätt up to 1806 . In: Collection sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 30 (1915), Eichstätt 1916, p. 45f.
  • Ludwig Wifling: The little monastery to the holy grave ; The Schlüpfelberg - east of Sulzbürg . (Both) in: 15th Annual Report of the Historical Association for Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and Surroundings 1958
  • Petrus Bauer: The Plankstetten Benedictine Abbey in the past and present. Plankstetten: Benediktinerabtei 1979, pp. 22-24, 67f.

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 59 ″  N , 11 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E