Boos Cistercian Convent

The Cistercian convent Boos was 1231-1240 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in the district Boos in Ebersbach-Musbach in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg .

history

Beguines from Mengen in the district of Sigmaringen and those who were constituted as a community in Seefelden (later in Alt-Birnau ) in 1227 , founded in 1231 (with the support of the abbot of Salem Monastery , Eberhard von Rohrdorf ) in Boos (5 km southeast of Bad Saulgau and 20 km southeast of Mengen) a nunnery, which was founded in 1236 by Pope Gregory IX. confirmed as Cistercian.

The first abbess was called Anna von Frankenhofen († 1244). Since the convent in Boos was not well received by the local nobility, in 1240 it moved to the Baindt monastery , founded by Konrad von Winterstetten 18 km southeast of Boos . However, Boos remained connected to this monastery and since 2003 a parish hall has been named after the first abbess of the monastery.

The processing of the monastery history is largely thanks to the Cistercian priest Leodegar Walter (1883–1962), who was born in the neighboring village of Lampertsweiler (today: Bad Saulgau).

literature

• Leodegar Walter: "The Cistercian women's monastery in Boos-Seefelden". In: Linzgau-Chronik 3, 1912, pp. 15-19.
• Maren Kuhn-Rehfus: "The origin of the Upper Swabian Cistercian abbeys and the role of Eberhard of Salem". In: Journal for Württemberg State History 49, 1990, pp. 123–141.
• Andreas Wilts: Beguines in the Lake Constance area . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1994.

Manual literature

• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 64 B.
• Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 506.
• Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 59.

Web links

• Location of the monastery
• Page Cistercian monastery Boos in the project "Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg", author: Otto Beck
• Page sister collection Seefelden in the project “Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg”, author: Hildegard Bibby
• Page sister collection Altbirnau in the project "Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg", author: Elmar L. Kuhn
• Page Sister collection in the Quantum project “Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg”, author: Otto Beck
• Parish text on the history of the monastery and the motivation for naming a room as "Abbess Anna Hall"
• Walter, Leodegar, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 34.1 ″  N , 9 ° 33 ′ 51.9 ″  E