Herrenalb Abbey
The monastery Herrenalb was a 1148 founded by Cistercian monastery on the territory of the present village of Bad Herrenalb in the district of Calw in Baden- Württemberg.
History
To 1149, Count Berthold III. Eberstein Herrenalb. He donated Alba Dominorum out of gratitude that he was allowed to return home from the second crusade. The House Convent of the founding family, he handed the Cistercians. They came with their abbot of the monastery mother Neuburg / Haguenau in Alsace. The Memorandum is available only in a copy of 1270.
The Order of Cistercians Bernard of Clairvaux owes its importance. As abbot of the third daughter Abbey of Citeaux he coined him decisively. Nothing should distract the brothers from focusing on God. They wanted to re- run the original Benedictine life in contrast to the mighty empire monastery of Cluny. This was determined by strict compliance with the well defined rhythm of worship, prayer and working hours. Their mystical devotion to the suffering Christ and the Marian devotion marked the Order. The brothers lived in poverty and simplicity. The Cistercian monasteries were in the greatest solitude. The pretext of distraction. 5
Cistercian monasteries provided themselves with what they needed themselves The monastery mill and the bakery processed the grain of the fields. Artificial pond supplied the brothers with fish. In the monastery the monks cultivated garden vegetables, fruit trees and herbs. Bee colonies supplied the inhabitants with honey. Where the location factors would allow it, vines were planted. 23
Arising from a life achievements transformed the late 13th century the Cistercian monasteries on economic and cultural centers. 5 In Herrenalb the original equipment enlarged with land by purchase and donations. 1450 included 37 villages to the monastery and in 127 villages it achieved revenue of rights and goods. The monastery possessed goods in the Alb Valley and in the communities Ottersweier, Malsch (acquired in 1318 ), Bruchsal, Oberderdingen, Vaihingen an der Enz and Merklingen ( 1296 ).
The monastery came from 1289, first in the sphere of influence of the Margrave of Baden, and from 1338 under the patronage of the Counts of Württemberg. It was destroyed in the Peasants' Revolt in 1525. After Duke Ulrich had in 1534 introduced the Reformation in Württemberg, the monks, the monastery had to leave temporarily in 1536. As in 12 other major monasteries of men taught Württemberg Duke Christoph of Württemberg in 1556 in the monastery a Protestant monastery school, which has already been disbanded in 1595. After the severe damage by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War in 1642 was 1649, the final resolution of the Cistercian monastery instead.
Buildings and plant
From the former monastery are still some buildings available:
On passage to the area of the monastery is the monastery gate. It gave access to the outside world.
There are also remains of the Romanesque porch. The paradise was built around 1200 and increases in the late Gothic period in 1462. It was the meeting room of the converse and served as a burial site.
The three-nave Romanesque basilica of the monastery was completed in 1177. Tracery windows were the side choirs in the period around 1330. Margrave Bernard I von Baden is a cenotaph erected near the main altar. 1478 there was a redesign of the main choir. The Gothic choir of the monastery church was rebuilt in 1739 to the Protestant church.
As the only area of the former cloister, sacristy is still available. This was built around 1200 at the church. Inside it has a ribbed vault and Ausmalungsreste.
East of the church, opposite the sacristy, was the Abtsgebäude. The abbot lived not originally in his own apartment. It was not until the 13th century, there was Abtshäuser own.
The Klosterscheuer is one of the well-preserved farm buildings dating from around 1200.
Visible basic masonry of the town hall belonged to a Befestigungseckturm of Walling. The year 1432 is being held.
1 Paradise of the former monastery church
1 foyer inside
2 Evangelical Church in Bad Herrenalb
2 choir of the Evangelical Church
Cenotaph in the choir room
3 Old Sacristy
5 Access to Abtswohnung
9 Klosterscheuer
12 figure at the monastery courtyard
Former bakery
10 Town Hall access in the former corner tower