Lindau Abbey
The Kanonissenstift Lindau is a former Kanonissenstift in Lindau (Bodensee ) in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg.
History
The " Our Lady under the lime trees " consecrated monastery was also founded already by Count Adelbert of Raetia from the family of Burchard Inger around the year 822, possibly around 817. It is considered as the primordial cell of the city of Lindau.
The history of the city of Lindau is closely bound up with the Kanonissenstift, as the relocation of the monastery market from the mainland (of Aeschach ) formed on the island around 1079 the basis for city development. In the 15th century, the abbess of the convent acquired the dignity of a worldly kingdom princess.
While the town of Lindau in 1528 became Protestant, remained - thanks to the support of the Emperor - the pin in the Catholic doctrine. It was dissolved in 1802 in the wake of secularization. The pen fell on the princes Bretz stone, the 1804 Lindau eintauschte against estates in Bohemia and Hungary. In Stiftsgebaude the District Office was housed, which used 1922 partially spent Collegiate Church as a Catholic parish church.