Frauenroth Abbey
The nun Roth is a former Cistercian convent in the town district Burkard Roth; it belonged to the diocese of Würzburg. Receive only the nave of the abbey church.
The relic of the monastery is in a rural area surrounded by the partially forested peaks on the eastern edge of the Bavarian Rhön.
History
The Mary and All Saints consecrated monastery was founded in 1231 by the minstrels and Crusaders Count Otto II and his wife Beatrice of Courtenay, who had sold after returning from the Crusades their property at Castle Botenlauben in Bad Kissingen to the Bishop of Würzburg, looking off to the earthly world withdraw.
The veil Sage was able to report that the monastery was founded when Beatrix with her husband walked in Botenlauben and the wind blew off her veil, whereupon Beatrix vowed to erect a monastery at the site of the veil.
After the death of the founder couple is buried in the monastery church, was her son, who was also named Otto, provisor of the monastery. It multiplied his possessions through a series of exchanges and acquisitions.
After the death of the last abbess of Amalia Rumrod the monastery disbanded in 1574; ownership fell to the prince-bishop chamber in Würzburg. In the Thirty Years' War the plant was looted, then stopped down to the nave of the church. 1691 the goods were sold to eight farmers from Burkard Roth, making the village Mrs Roth was born.
After the secularization used as a simple village church by the Empire in 1803, the history of the monastery and its affiliated art treasures remained long unnoticed; only a renovation of the church interior in the 1970s brought them back into the consciousness of interested.
The Church
The building is a Romanesque Cistercian church hall with arched arcades, lancet windows, typical roof skylights and circular apse. Only on the north side can still be seen to some extent, that it was a three-aisled basilica with aisles and transept earlier.
The nave is covered flat, the Gothic choir rib- vaulted. The color profiling of the triumphal arch, the vault ribs and window frames - alternating gray and claret - is heavily restored. In the choir, 1970-72 Gothic frescoes were uncovered with scenes from the Passion partly in the renovation; Crucifixion and resurrection are clearly identifiable, the rest of the state of preservation is rudimentary.
Art-historically most important piece of equipment is the high grave of the founder couple. The very expressive early Gothic sculptures by an unknown hand are among the most quality grave sculptures of the region and have been implicated in stylistic connection with Catherine and Mauritius in Magdeburg Cathedral, the founding figures of the Naumburg Master, along with work in Strasbourg.
The remaining economical Baroque decoration of the church ( altar, a Pietà and Andreas ) is not from the original convent provenance.
The high altar is double-sided usable. According to the inscription on the predella (rear) left Maximilian Adam von Blumencron, the founder of the noble family of the same name, produced as a monastery administrator the ruined church again for worship and has donated the altar 1652. He is shown here at the foot of a cross kneeling with his first two wives and 11 children. The inscription reads:
" In honor of the Most Holy Trinity, Mother Mary, also eternal Gedechtnis his two dear wives Eva Maria Ludwigin a gebohrene Fränckin, buried so them here, and then Maria Dorothea Ludwigin, a gebohrene Moserin as well as from both spouses children produced, has the honor strength and highly refined Mr. Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Würtzburg Chur- also hochfürtslicher Würtz Burgi shear 24 years long steward these churches, so completely burned in the courtyard of the Stieffts servant and the monastery Mrs Roth and zugrundt addressed also no worship can be held, which can make next to this altar, done the first Octrobris Anno 1652 " "
Two other art treasures from the time of the church as a Cistercian monastery are no longer on site:
- A sandstone Madonna ( mid 13th century), the so-called Smiling Madonna stands in the village church of the neighboring hamlet Lauter;
- A parchment manuscript from the early 14th century (so-called woman Rother Graduale ) is kept in the Württemberg State Library in Stuttgart.
Environment
The once used for agriculture from the monastery areas are occupied by the village women red; Fruit trees, paddocks, extensive grain fields and a village pond in the midst of and around the buildings of the village can still be an idea of the original design.
A viewpoint at a crucifix above the village gives an overview.