Rottenbuch Abbey

The Klosterrotte book is a former pin of the Augustinian canons and those of the present convent of the Salesian Sisters in gang book in Bavaria in the diocese of Freising. It is located not far from the Wies Church on the Ammer Valley.

History

The St. Peter and Paul and the Nativity of Mary, consecrated monastery was founded in 1073 by Duke Welf I of Bavaria on coaxing Bishop Altmann of Passau. Dating back to the 11th century Romanesque basilica was enlarged in the Gothic style and decorated mid-18th century by the Wessobrunner plasterer Joseph Schmuzer in the Rococo style. The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the wake of secularization. Manufacturers of Aarau acquired most of the buildings for demolition. It was with difficulty the church and some outbuildings were saved. The library was largely in the paper mill. The Augustinian canons operated among others, the pilgrimage to the Hohenpeißenberg. 1963 took over Salesian Sisters, the surviving buildings.

As a mother, pin the Augustinians in the Old Bavaria Klosterrotte book in the 11th century was a leader in the canonical reform. One of its Augustinian canons was Eberwin, who had been from about 1100 until his death in 1142, the first provost of the monastery pin Berchtesgaden and in the meantime also the first provost of the monastery Baumburg so that Klosterrotte book initially acted as both mother monastery.

Bibliography

  • Jacob Mois: The collegiate church of Waterloo. Schnell & Steiner, Munich 1953.
  • Jacob Mois: The pin gang book in church reform of the eleventh. - XII. Century. A contribution to the history of the Order Auqustiner Canons. Publisher of the Archdiocese of Munich 1953 ( Contributions to the old Bavarian Church History 19, ISSN 0341-8456 ).
  • Franz Fuchs: The beginnings rotting book. In: Dieter R. Bauer and Matthias cup ( ed.): Welf IV key figure in a reversal time. Regional and European Perspectives. In: Journal of Bavarian history. Supplement B, 24, 2004, ISSN 0341-6976, pp. 261-279.
  • A. Helm: Herzogenberg to Rupprecht ( Berchtesgaden in Changing Times, Vol 2). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973 ( Nachdr d ed Berchtesgaden 1929).
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