Walpurgis pen Weilburg

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The Walpurgis pen in the town of Weilburg in the Limburg-Weilburg district in central Hesse was a collegiate monastery that existed from 912 to 1555. An important collegiate school was attached to it.

history

In 912 the previous year as king of the established East Francia elected Conrad I in memory of his in 906 at Fritzlar in the Babenberg feud fallen father Konrad the older one canons and let the small next to the Weilburger royal collegiate build St. Walpurgis, which was consecrated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Walpurgis and was probably more of a chapel. In the following years Konrad endowed the monastery with rich possessions from his own and royal estates. B. in April 914 with the baptistery in Haiger with goods and tithe as well as the royal court Heigera and in the year 915 with the "Villa Nassova", the royal court in Nassau along with extensive property. The later town of Weilburg was based on the monastery located on the east side of the Mühlberg above the Lahn and the formerly Conradin farmyard adjoining it to the south .

In the year 993 King Otto III. the pen to Bishop Hildebold von Worms . In 1002, Weilburg also came to the diocese of Worms as a gift from King Heinrich II . The bishop appointed the Counts of Nassau as bailiffs . In 1294, Adolf von Nassau , German king since 1292, acquired the Weilburg bailiwick with the Walpurgis pen through purchase. The church patronage, however, remained with the Bishop of Worms.

During the reign of Count Philip I of Nassau-Weilburg (1371-1429), the Walpurgis church was demolished in 1397 and in its place the the St. Andrew built dedicated to St. Andrew's church. In 1508 an extension of the collegiate church began with the addition of a choir, which was consecrated to Saint Martin and was to serve as the town church for the citizens of Weilburg. Lack of finances and construction defects delayed the completion for a long time, and only in 1538, under Count Philip III. (1523–1559), the church was completed, the tower even not until 1559.

In the course of the Reformation , the Walpurgis Abbey was dissolved on January 3, 1555 and declared the property of the Protestant Church. The St. Andrew's Church and the St. Martin's Church were combined into a Lutheran church. The last dean was Jakob Weilnau, the last rector and scholaster Peter Weilnau. The last canon, Christian Häderich, died in 1564.

In the course of the redesign of the Weilburg Palace , the present day palace church and the town hall were built on the site of the former collegiate church between 1707 and 1713 . For this, the dilapidated previous church St. Martin and St. Andreas was demolished except for the tower. The tower stump was integrated into the new church.

literature

  • Wolf-Heino Struck: Sources on the history of the monasteries and monasteries in the area of ​​the middle Lahn up to the end of the Middle Ages: The collegiate monasteries Dietkirchen, Diez, Gemünden, Idstein and Weilburg. Regesten (before 841) -1500. Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden, 1959, ISBN 3-922244-16-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frohnhausen / Dillkreis - Prehistory: When our parish did not yet exist ( Memento from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Nikolaus Gottfried Eichhoff: The Church Reformation in Nassau-Weilburg in the sixteenth century, Lanz, Weilburg, 1832, pp. 109–110 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 41 ″  E