Sindelfingen Abbey

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The Sindelfingen Monastery was a medieval canon monastery in Sindelfingen , initially as a secular canon monastery from the 11th century on , which was dissolved and largely relocated there in 1476 by the Duke of Württemberg on the occasion of the establishment of the University and St. George's Monastery in Tübingen. A regulated Augustinian Canons Foundation was formed from the remaining part of the foundation's assets and existed until the Reformation in 1535.

location

The pen was about 530 m above sea level. NN high spur-shaped elevation above the medieval town of Sindelfingen and was separated from it by the old market square (today Corbeil-Essonnes-Platz).

history

In the area of ​​the former canon monastery of St. Martin, the manor of a noble family had been located at least since the late 7th century, later the ancestral seat of the Counts of Calw . A first St. Martin's Church with a cemetery was built in this manor around 700, and remnants of the manor's wall from the 10th century were discovered in 1973.

According to the Sindelfingen annals written in the 13th century , Count Adalbert (II.) Von Calw founded a Benedictine double monastery for monks and nuns in his Sindelfingen manor in 1059 . Soon afterwards, they were relocated to Hirsau in the rebuilt Aurelius monastery . Instead, Adalbert established a secular canon monastery in Sindelfingen with a provost and ten canons and chaplains each. The patronage was tied to the local authority. The ancestral seat of the Counts of Calw with the older Martinskirche was demolished for the construction . The construction of the new St. Martin's Church proceeded slowly; The crypt was consecrated in 1100 , but the actual church was not completed until 1132 by the Guelphs , who set up a mint in Sindelfingen. In relatively short succession, the umbrella bailiff changed from Calw to the Welfs (1132 or later), the Count Palatine of Tübingen, the Lords of Rechberg (before 1316, marriage) and finally to Württemberg (1351, sale). The monastery soon acquired extensive goods in the Sindelfingen area. In the 13th century the monastery was visited several times, especially by the Counts of Tübingen-Böblingen , who even burned down some colleges in 1260. In addition, the foundation of the city of Sindelfingen in 1263 by Count Rudolf the Scheerer of Tübingen-Herrenberg threatened its rights. In the 15th century some famous scholars, including Johannes von Bottwar, professor in Paris , held benefices in Sindelfingen. In 1477, Count Eberhard im Bart von Württemberg dissolved the monastery and turned it into the University of Tübingen , the Sankt-Georg-Stift in Tübingen and from the remains of it an Augustinian canon monastery in Sindelfingen. The ruler Augustiner brought the Windesheim Reform Congregation from the Worms monastery to Kirschgarten to build it up . Eight of the ten former canons became the first professors in Tübingen, including the first rector Johannes Vergenhans , provost Johannes Degen also retained the post of provost in the Tübingen monastery, to which that of the university's chancellor was now bound. The monastery that remained in Sindelfingen, which in addition to two canons retained a third of the income, was still considered rich, but never achieved the importance of the old monastery and was finally dissolved in 1535 with the introduction of the Reformation . The foundation's assets were then administered by the state of Württemberg through the Sindelfingen monastery administration, which lost its independence in 1806.

Preserved buildings

  • Martinskirche
  • "Chorherrenhaus" (probably the seat of a canon in the 15th century)
  • Klostergartenmauer (wall around the monastery district)
  • "Propstei"
  • Monastery library (built in 1517)
  • Sacristy (part of the old cloister building )
  • The monastery 's feudal farmers' farms have been excavated, and finds are in the city museum

Toast

literature

To date, there is only one monograph on the Sindelfingen pen from 1555. Books that deal with the pen in detail:

  • Hermann Weisert: Sindelfingen through the ages . Sindelfingen 1988
  • Oliver eye: pen and rule. A study on the instrumentalization of world clergy and church property for the interests of the rule of Württemberg . Sindelfingen 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paulus Weissenberger OSB: History of the Kirschgarten Monastery in Worms , Der Wormsgau , Supplement No. 6, Worms City Library, 1937, p. 71

Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 41 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 4 ″  E