Salvatorian Monastery of Gottesberg
The Salvatorianerkloster mountain of God is a 1921 decorated monastery of the Salvatorian on about 700 m above sea level. NN lying Gottesberg in Bad Wurzach in the Ravensburg district in Upper Swabia .
history
In 1704, Count Ernst Jakob von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach and his wife Anna Ludovica bequeathed a benefice to the church on Gottesberg, a small hill within the urban area of Bad Wurzach. In 1709, with the approval of the Bishop of Konstanz, a Holy Sepulcher chapel , stairs and hermitage were built. Patronage was the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross on September 14th. In 1712 an associated brotherhood of Christ's agony was founded. The brotherhood was called the Brotherhood of a Good Death . In 1712 it already had five hundred registered members. In 1763 three brothers of the tertiary , a brotherhood of the 3rd order of penitents , a branch of the order of the Paulaner , settled on the Gottesberg. In relation to ecclesiastical and secular rule, they had to commit themselves not to collect donations, to acquire any real estate and to obey the local pastor. The mendicant monks, clad in black habit, placed themselves under the protection of the Premonstratensians of the spiritual territory of the Reichsabbey of Rot an der Rot , which still existed before the secularization . The brothers made a living by spinning wool, weaving damask, and weaving fennel . In 1767 they succeeded in acquiring the holy bodies of Redemptus, Eutropia and Reparatus and placing them in the monastery church, where they are to this day. There was also a holy blood relic, which came from the private property of Pope Innocent XII. should come from. A pilgrim to Rome from Günzburg acquired it in 1693 and bequeathed it to the monks.
Secularization and a new beginning
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On July 25, 1806, Prince Eberhard von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach abolished the monastery by decree in the course of secularization . Real estate went to the Princely House, and money and mobile objects to the Kingdom of Württemberg . The brothers received a pension of 100 guilders. The last Paulaner brother Josef Hotz von Legau died in 1835.
In 1912 Prince Georg von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach gave the church and brother house to the parish of Bad Wurzach. In 1921 the parish brought the order of the Salvatorians to the Gottesberg. Every year since 1928, the Holy Blood Festival has been held on the second Friday in July with a horseman procession on the Gottesberg. In 2009, 5,000 believers and 1,700 riders took part in the blood procession with their horses. In 2009 the monastery had four brothers, some of whom do pastoral care in the surrounding parishes.
literature
- K. Finkbeiner: From the parish history of Wurzach. I. The Gottesberg near Wurzach. In: <DAS> No. 11/12 (1905); No. 1-4 (1906).
- R. Schneider / R. Kempter: Bad Wurzach. History and monuments. Bad Wurzach 1963. I O. BECK: Gottesberg Bad Wurzach. Munich-Zurich 1989.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Salvatorian Monastery Gottesberg History of the Gottesberg 2009 ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung : Blood Festival shows piety and Upper Swabian identity July 10, 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Predecessor monastery - brother house of the Paulaner on the Gottesberg near Wurzach
- The Salvatorian family
- Salvatorians in southern Germany
- Salvatorian Monastery of Gottesberg
- Temporary Monastery Salvatorian Monastery Gottesberg (SDS) in Orden.de
Coordinates: 47 ° 54 ′ 14.6 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 1.7" E