Langheim Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Schlägl ( 1202/ 03)

The Klosterlangheim is a former Cistercian monastery in Klosterlangheim, a district of Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia in the Archdiocese of Bamberg.

History

That the Virgin Mary, John the Evangelist and Nicholas consecrated Klosterlangheim was founded 1132/33 as a daughter house of the monastery Ebrach. As founders were three Bamberger Ministeriale in appearance, behind which Bishop Otto I of Bamberg was as initiator. The monastery was rich thanks to donations to land ownership, erbuntertäniger and robot requiring localities by the Dukes of Meranien in the 13th and 14th centuries, one of the wealthiest monasteries in Nordgau ( Bavaria). 1380 came Klosterlangheim in economic difficulties that led to that part of the property had to be sold with the revenue generated from the diocese of Bamberg. The efforts of the monastery, to disengage from the rule of the Bamberg Prince- Bishops and become rich immediately was unsuccessful; in 1741, these efforts were abandoned in changed political situation.

Between the years 1680 and 1792, during the recatholicization in Bavaria, the abbots were converted into a magnificent plant in the Baroque style, the Klosterlangheim. The Office of Administrative Courts seats in Tambach, Kulmbach and engines were rebuilt in baroque style. The architect Balthasar Neumann was planning on behalf of the monastery long home the construction of the impressive pilgrimage church of the Fourteen Saints at Bad Season stone, which was completed in 1772.

In 1802 a large fire destroyed a part of the convent building, one of the two libraries and damaged the monastery church and other components difficult. The monastery was dissolved in 1803 during the secularisation of Bavaria. The damaged by the fire building and the monastery church were demolished. The obtained structural remnants of the Abbey are located in the center of Klosterlangheim.

Abbots from 1449

Guts and district courts of the monastery

• The Langheimer Amtshof in Kulmbach was built in the late 17th century by Leonhard Dietzenhofer.
• In mile north-east of nearby Castle Tambach Altenhof, today a district of Weitramsdorf was since the 12th century a branch office, where the monks docked a number of still existing ponds and operated carp breeding.
• Wet Anger is a farm in the district of driving the town of Lichtenfels. The present building was built in 1693 under Abbot Gallus Knauer designed by the architect Leonhard Dietzenhofer.
• The Berghof is a farm in the district of driving the town of Lichtenfels. The original building, Abbot Gallus Knauer 1727 replace the Coburg architect Johann Georg Brückner by a new building, the following abbot Martin Wolf Advanced 1733.
• Today's District Hospital in Hochstadt am Main is a former office building of the monastery and inn. The building is a Sandsteinquaderbau with a gable roof and a corner alcove of 1605.