Wettenhausen Monastery

The Dominican nunnery of Wettenhausen was until 1802 an imperial monastery of the Augustinian canons with the rank of provost , today it belongs to the order of the Dominican Sisters . The monastery is located in Wettenhausen in the central Swabian community of Kammeltal in Bavaria . Ecclesiastically it belongs to the diocese of Augsburg .

history

founding

Dionysius von Rehlingen (1610–1692), one of the most important provosts of Wettenhausen

The Propstei Wettenhausen is mentioned for the first time in 1130 in the letter of sponsorship for Wettenhausen issued by Bishop Hermann von Vohburg . The donors were mistress Gertrud von Roggenstein and her two sons Wernher and Konrad. However, the letter of the benefactors does not state with any precision that a new monastery will be founded, but only the donation from Wettenhausen to the monastery.

According to the in-house chronicle, the monastery was founded in 982 by Countess Gertrud von Roggenstein and her two sons Wernher and Konrad. The countess wanted to found a monastery for the salvation of her family. She told her sons that she wanted to get as much land for the monastery as she could plow in one day. She hung a plow around her neck and rode a horse around a large territory.

The different founding dates can perhaps be explained by the fact that the foundation of 1130 was preceded by an older foundation. The Augsburg cathedral chapter had large estates in the area around Wettenhausen, especially in Ettenbeuren. Therefore, the first monastery is suspected in Ettenbeuren , which was perhaps founded in 982. It is believed that the von Roggenstein founding family gave their moated castle located on the Kammel into clerical hands in 1130 and that the monastery was therefore relocated to Wettenhausen. The exact information about the foundation before 1130 could have been lost in the turmoil of the investiture dispute and is therefore no longer verifiable today.

secularization

Wettenhausener Altar (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)

In the course of secularization , the monastery was dissolved in 1803. The library with around 9000 volumes went to the Bavarian State Library and the Dillingen University Library in Dillingen an der Donau , the monastery initially became the seat of the royal Bavarian rent office . In 1864 the Dominicans received the building from St. Ursula in Augsburg, they re-established a monastery and set up a school.

The former collegiate church of the Assumption of Mary, which belongs to the Wettenhausen convent, is now the parish church of the Kammeltal community. It was built in the 12th century and was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 17th century under the supervision of Michael Thumb .

literature

Coat of arms of the realm of Wettenhausen

Wolfgang Wüst : The realm of Wettenhausen: possession, rulership organization and sovereignty . In: Wettenhausen Monastery. Articles from the past and present looking back on its thousand-year existence 982–1982 (Günzburger Hefte 19) Weißenhorn 1983, pp. 29–45.
Wolfgang Wüst: The search for the earthly realm in Swabian churches. Sovereignty as a theme of the monastery chronicle. Wettenhausen and Kaisheim in comparison . In: Wilhelm Liebhart / Ulrich Faust (eds.): Suevia Sacra. On the history of the East Swabian imperial monuments in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period (Augsburg contributions to the regional history of Bavarian Swabia 8 - Festschrift for Pankraz Fried on his 70th birthday) Sigmaringen 2001, pp. 115–132.
Wolfgang Wüst: Economics and politics in the Swabian Reichsstift Wettenhausen . In: Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben 97 (2004) pp. 207–227.

Web links

Wikisource: Wettenhausen Monastery - Sources and full texts

Commons : Wettenhausen Monastery - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wettenhausen monastery , basic data and history:
Christine Riedl-Valder: Kammeltal community, Wettenhausen, Augustinian canons SS. Maria and Georg in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
PDF document on Provost Dionysius von Rehlingen (1610–1692)
History on the side of Wettenhausen Monastery

Individual evidence

↑ Wettenhausen Monastery - Contributions from the past and present, looking back on its thousand-year existence 982−1982 . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1983, ISBN 3-87437-205-7 .

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[1] Wettenhausen Monastery - Contributions from the past and present, looking back on its thousand-year existence 982−1982 . Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1983, ISBN 3-87437-205-7 .