Niedermünster Abbey (Regensburg)
The Niedermünster Abbey is a former canonical monastery in Regensburg and was represented as the Niedermünster Imperial Abbey in the Bavarian Imperial Circle . It is located in Regensburg's old town, at Niedermünstergasse 6, not far from the cathedral .
history
From monastery to imperial abbey
The Maria Himmelfahrt and St. Erhard monastery was dedicated by the Bavarian Duke Tassilo III. founded before his abdication in 788 and was first mentioned around 889.
It became one of the most important Frauenstift Germany, which in 1002 by Henry II. As Reichsabtei Niedermünster to Reichsstift collected and its imperial immediacy in 1216 by Frederick II. Was confirmed. In the 11th century, the monastery also experienced a cultural boom, which can still be measured today in numerous preserved works of art such as the Gisela Cross and the Uta Codex .
In 1802 the monastery monastery was subordinated to the administration of the Principality of Regensburg and was secularized when it was dissolved in 1810 .
After secularization
From 1820 the monastery was partially rented out. In 1821, the bishop was assigned rooms as a flat, and the ordinariate was also moved to rooms in the former monastery.
Abbesses of Niedermünster
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Buildings
Profane building
Below the Niedermünsterkirche is the document niedermünster , which in photo-realistic , three-dimensional reconstructions of the original findings of the Roman Regensburg with the Legio III Italica camp , the first sacred building made of Roman stone material, the churches of the Carolingian period and the Ottonik, the ducal tombs and the grave site of Saint Erhard in comparison with the real walk through the excavations.
Sacred building
The Niedermünsterkirche was rebuilt in the Romanesque style in 1152 after the fire of a church building presumably already existing around 700 at the time of Duke Theodo II . It has been used as a cathedral parish church since 1821.
Portal side of the Niedermünsterkirche
literature
- Anke Borgmeyer, Achim Hubel, Andreas Tillmann, Angelika Wellnhofer: City of Regensburg, monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.37, Regensburg 1997, pp. 406-416, ISBN 3-927529-92-3 .
- Claudia Märtl: The Obermünster, Niedermünster, St. Paul women's monasteries . In Peter Schmid (Ed.): History of the City of Regensburg, Vol. 2, Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2000, pp. 745–763, ISBN 3-7917-1682-4 .
- Heinz Wolfgang Schlaich: The end of the Regensburger Reichsstifte St. Emmeram, Ober- and Niedermünster (VHVO 97) 1956, p. 163–376.
- Max Spindler (ed.): History of the Upper Palatinate. Handbuch der Geschichte Bayerns, Vol. III / 3, Munich 1995, pp. 271–286.
Web links
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Niedermünster Abbey (Regensburg) , basic data and history:
Peter Morsbach: Niedermünster - The burial place of the Ottonians in Regensburg in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History - Archaeological basement
- Digitization of a manuscript of a rule book from the Niedermünster in Regensburg of the Bamberg State Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Schmid. Regensburg. Historical Atlas of Bavaria, part of Old Bavaria, issue 60, Munich 1995, p. 236
- ↑ Max Spindler (ed.): History of the Upper Palatinate. Handbook of the History of Bavaria, Vol. III / 3, Munich 1995, p. 284
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 10.2 ″ N , 12 ° 6 ′ 2.4 ″ E