Risers
The Steigerherren ("Ordo Steigensium") were a small branch of the Augustinian Canons founded in the 12th century and abolished in 1482 .
The nucleus of the order was the small monastery Oberstieg , founded in the 12th century by the Counts of Dagsburg , on the Zaberner Steige in Alsace . There, in today's hamlet Oberstieg , a district of Wangenbourg-Engenthal , it and the attached hospice were supposed to provide for pilgrims on their way across the Vosges . The priory was founded in 1221 by Pope Honorius III. placed under its special protection and flourished in the 13th century. Pope Innocent IV gave the brothers the right to freely elect abbots, and in the course of the 13th century they built their monastery church, today's parish church " Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité " in Zabern , where they received land for a new monastery had. In 1303 most of the monks moved to Zabern and the convent, Steiga inferior (Unterstieg), was relocated there. Oberstieg lost its status as a monastery and became the Steiga superior priory . From the now motherhouse in Zabern, brothers were sent to the hospice in Oberstieg to take care of it.
The monastery in Zabern became the main building of the small and largely unknown Order of Steigerherren. In addition to Zabern and Oberstieg there were only four other mostly small houses:
- in Lahr on the western edge of the Black Forest, founded in 1259 by Walter von Geroldseck († 1277) at the request of his late wife Heilika as a hospice for 12 poor people;
- in Landau in the Palatinate , where Count Friedrich III. von Leiningen- Dagsburg gave the Steiger brothers a piece of land to build a hospice in 1276, their former monastery church is today's Landau collegiate church ;
- on the Dürrenberg near Walscheid in Lorraine (since the late 13th century), and
- on the Beerenberg near Wülflingen / Winterthur in Switzerland (since 1355/1365).
The “Steigerklöster” had a total of 32 members at most.
The original main task of running a hospice or hospital was abandoned over time, and in the 15th century the small religious branch, like so many monastic communities, experienced a moral and economic decline. On June 17, 1482 Pope sparked Sixtus IV. The houses on their property and certain for regulated Augustinian Chorherren- pins .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg: Collegiate Foundation of Our Dear Lady Lahr ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Dagobert Fischer: L'ancien prieuré de Dürrenstein, près de Walscheid (comté de Dabo). In: Mémoires de la Société d'Archéologie Lorraine , Ser. 2, vol. 14 (1872), pp. 301-324
- ↑ Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg: Collegiate Foundation of Our Dear Lady Lahr ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
