Plankstetten Abbey

The monastery Plankstetten is a Benedictine abbey in the diocese of Eichstätt. It is located south of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate in the same place Plankstetten, a district of Berching. The monastery belongs to the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation.

History

The Benedictine monastery was in 1129 as bishop own monastery by Count Ernst II of Hirschberg and his brothers Earl Hartwig III. founded by Grögling, Eichstätter Hochstift Vogt, and Gebhard von Hirschberg, Bishop of Eichstätt. From the founding period today is still the Romanesque crypt to be found.

In the 15th century there was a decline of morals in the monastery. Abbot Ulrich IV Dürner (1461-1494) carried out a reform and founded the brewery. During the Peasants ' War ( 1525) and in the Thirty Years' War ( 1618-1648) are large parts of the monastery damaged or destroyed.

Only in the middle of the 17th century began with the first renovation of the church and the monastery. For larger construction projects, the decision was even until the end of the 17th century. The art-loving abbot Romanus Dettinger (1694-1703), created the baroque gate with the mildly descending former Abtswohnung. The Prälatensaal as the ballroom express the Baroque joie de vivre. In the reign of Abbot Romanus Dettinger also covers the construction of the characteristic corner tower, to which one passes on the way through the courtyard. The dominant Baroque architecture led his successor Abbot Dominic Heuber II (1704-1711) continued; he prompted the relocation of the sacristy and built the impressive brewery building (now a library ). Abbot Dominic IV Fleischmann (1757-1792), the attention given to the monastery church. On him the construction of the Chapel of the Cross goes back to the stuccoed Eichstätter Hofstukkateur Johann Jakob Berg. In his reign, and the guest house was built opposite the gate. ⊙ 49.06893211.453209 ] ] in 1806 was dissolved in the secularisation of the monastery. Monastery buildings and economy were auctioned. Already in 1856 the plan was to raise up the monastery dissolved again. The plan failed because the state authorities did not give permission for it.

1904 Plankstetten was re-established through financial help of Baron von Cramer -Klett as a priory of the monastery Scheyern. On November 5, 1907 an agricultural school was opened under the name "Rural continuation school Plankstetten ". In 1911 it was renamed the "Agricultural Winter School "; each year were taught about 50 students in two winter courses. There was a boarding school for them. 1917 Plankstetten was Abbey again.

1920 was the first scholastics the recently acquired from the Abbey Plankstetten Order Seminary of St. Benedict in the Luitpold street in Eichstätt (now Episcopal archive) relate. It was in 1935 extended to a boarding school, which had to be closed in 1941 but on Nazi instigation again. In 1946 it was reopened in 1954 and expanded with a new building. On 29 December 1975 it was decided to close the study seminar. Out of the Ecclesiastical Polytechnic Eichstätt came there, the Department of Philosophy II below.

When in 1934 the Christian Farmers Association, the College of Agriculture Plankstetten was closely associated, was forcibly transferred to the National Socialist " Reichsnährstand ", gave the monastery to the agricultural school; they had ( 1930/31: 130 young farmers) since the early 30's their biggest crowds experienced. On November 3, 1953, the school was reopened; the last prices fell in the spring of 1959 to the end.

With the school year 1959/60 was a (since 1962/63 fully equipped four-year ) Middle School / Junior High School with boarding facilities ( " dormitory " ) to be established. State recognition on November 6, 1963. On 1 December 1963, inaugurated a new gym. In 1965, the school was renamed the " Monastic Realschule ". 1966 a swimming pool was put into operation in the monastery garden. The boarding school was closed in 1988 and converted into a guest house; the junior high school had to be abandoned.

In 1975 the monastery with the church Plankstetten the district of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz. Since 1 May 1978, the community and thus the monastery the greater community Berching heard.

Recent history and contemporary

On October 17, 1980, the first well-attended youth vespers in Plankstetten took place under Abbot Dominic Madlener. Since this takes place every 3rd Friday of the month. Your sources are located in the Vespers of the Benedictine Youth Kremsmuenster in Austria and prayers at Taizé.

In 1980 the snow mill, which previously served as a shoemaker, laundry facilities, and poultry of the convent, renovated together with young people from the area and placed as a youth house snow mill for rent also external document groups from 1984 was available.

Following the abolition of the school and boarding the monastery looking for new tasks and sources of income. Today, the convent operates an education center, which hosts, among other meetings for village renewal and eco-agriculture.

The organic products of the monastery ( organic and natural land ), from agriculture, horticulture, butchery and bakery as well as the brewed to the monastery recipe beer ( Riedenburger Brauhaus ) are marketed along with other regional and national products of organic production in the monastery shop. A Christian bookstore and a mission bazaar complete the offer.

In addition, the monastery library serves partly as a public library, emphases are Theology, History and National History. The two parishes Plankstetten and the neighboring parish are cared for and fed by the monastery.

In the summer of 1997, the monastery is being renovated with state and church funds under the supervision of Monuments Office. New building, the library, the bakery, the butcher and the cloister were built at the shop Staudenhof for agriculture, so that in the former agricultural buildings find new and modern premises. In December 2000 the Advanced cloister shop was opened.

In 2013, extensive renovation work was completed in which completed the exam rooms of the monks, the central kitchen, the guest rooms and seminar rooms with special consideration of ecological aspects. All buildings have been converted to the supply of energy from renewable resources. The costs amounted to 16.5 million euros.

Tour

Church

We enter the church through the wooden main door, we are in the so-called paradise. Paradise is the connecting hall between the towers and the nave. If we look to the right, we see the Christopher Chapel, which has designed a Altöttinger artists. A glance to the right shows the War Memorial Chapel, which plays an influential role on Remembrance Sunday. A border lion with a human head clearly indicates the time of the Romanesque.

Through the iron gate we enter the nave.

If we look at the room, we notice " stuck " the different eras of the Church are:

• The Baroque to the pulpit,
• The Gothic in the apse,
• Rococo and the painful Chapel ...

The main equipment elements are:

• The pulpit, a gift from the Abbey of Lambach in Upper Austria,
• The high altar, whose paintings a Eichstätter mayor has painted,
• The other altars, the ceiling painting by Michael Zink.

The main organ was in 1981 by the organ builder Mathis ( Naefels, Switzerland ) built in the baroque splendor of housing Abbot Maurus X. autumn. The instrument has 29 stops on two manuals and pedal. The tracker action are mechanical.

• Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P

Bells

In the two 36 meter high towers of the abbey church bells from five cast steel bell, which was cast in 1921 from Bochum club depends.

• Bell Gallery

Bell 2: c1

Bell 3: es1

Bell 4: gb1

Bell 5: a1

Abbots

On 14 October 2006, the abbot of the monastery, Gregor Maria Hanke OSB, was appointed Bishop of Eichstätt and received on 2 December of the same year in the cathedral of Eichstätt by the Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick, episcopal ordination. On 23 February 2007, the chapter members of the convention then chaired by the Abbot President of the Bavarian Benedictine Congregation and abbot of the Benedictine abbey Schaeftlarn, Dr. Gregory Zasche OSB, the former novice master of the monastery, Father Beda Maria Sonnenberg OSB, prior of administrator for the duration elected for three years. On 12 March 2010, the monks of the abbey Plankstetten selected chaired by Abbot President Barnabas Bögle OSB the old administrator Beda P. Sonnenberg OSB the 55th abbot of the monastery.

• Rudolf, 1129
• Herwodo, 1130
• Henry I, in 1131, 1144
• Bernhard I, 1146
• Gottfried, 1180
• Rupert, 1186, 1198
• Einwich, 1202-1216
• Hartwig, 1216-1244
• Bernhard II, 1244 ( in the old convent unknown)
• Ulrich I, 1247-1258
• ( Postulated from Wülzburg ) Ulrich II of Mur, 1258-1264
• Ulrich III. , 1264-1276
• Rapoto, 1276-1286
• Albert, 1286-1293 ( on February 20, 1293 by Kastl postulated )
• Henry II, in 1297, 1301
• Hartung of Toeging, 1304-1319
• Henry III. , 1320-1325
• Conrad I, 1325
• Henry IV Morspeck, 1326-1360
• Conrad II, 1360/61
• Henry V, 1361/62
• Conrad III. ( Postulated outward ) Tetzel, 1362-1370
• Berthold Dück, 1371-1385
• Ulrich IV of Pfahlheim called Hirschberg, 1385-1398
• Henry VI. Rinthil, 1398-1415
• Conrad IV Hauzan, 1415-1423
• Nicholas, 1423/24
• John Strupperger, 1424/25
• Hermann Rebel, 1425-1448
• Leonard I. Schweppermann, 1448-1461
• Ulrich V Dürner, 1461-1494
• Matthew of Wichsenstein, 1494-1526
• Leonhard II Haeckl, 1534-1555
• John III. Kettner, 1586-1603
• Matthias Millmayr, 1603-1607
• James I. Petri, 1607-1627
• Andrew II Schaffler, 1627-1641
• Jerome Blank, 1641-1646 John Winkler, 1646-1651 (Administrator)

• Caelestin Black, 1671-1673 (Administrator)
• Gregor Kimpfler, Abbot of Scheyern, 1677-1680 Abbot administrator, by P. Dominic Renner as Prior - Administrator

• Benedict Uttenberger of Scheyern, 1682-1690 (Administrator)
• Ignaz Trauner of St. Emmeram, 1690-1694 (Administrator)

• Gregory Danner January to March 1904 prior
• Maurus Ilmberger, 1904-1906 Prior