Söflingen Abbey

The Empire Pen Söflingen ( Söflingen is now a district of Ulm and its center is about 3 km) was a Poor Clare Nuns Monastery, founded in 1258 by the Count of Dillingen and 1803 by Bavaria, to which it had fallen as a result of the empire Deputations main circuit, was repealed. It was the oldest and arguably most important monastery of the Poor Clares in Germany. His considerable possessions were mostly sold in private hands, partially canceled the monastery buildings and designated as the seat of a Royal Bavarian District Court, the abbey church was the parish church of the parish Söflingen on. 1810 was due to a border treaty, the area around Söflingen together with Ulm under Royal Württemberg rule.

The monastery Söflingen included the villages Söflingen, Harthausen associated ( with Ehrenstein ) and Schaffel Ueberkingen, shares in Bettingen, Burlafingen and Eckingen and slope and goods in many others, mostly for imperial city locations, with a total of about four thousand inhabitants. In a comparison of 1773, the monastery at Ulm had delivered its ownership in Mähringen, teaching, Jungingen, Wyke, Holzkirch, Lonsee, Langenau Weidenstetten, Söglingen and Bermaringen and for the dismissal of the protection and patronage, as well as the territorial sovereignty and jurisdiction of that in the Reformation can obtain Protestant become imperial city. Thus, it was immediate realm pen and the abbess got a seat and vote in the county and diets.

Most likely, the monastery was the successor to the convent of St. Damian in Ulm ( Elisa Bethe gutters on the Gries ), which already in 1229 by Pope Gregory IX. had been taken in papal protection. In addition to Ulm citizen named Krafft, called Naw, contributed many aristocrats with considerable donations to the economic boom of the monastery. A sizable foundation of Count Hartmann III. of Dillingen in place " Sevelingen " of 1258 led to the seat of the monastery was transferred there. 1270 the "Veste Sevelingen " by purchase at the monastery, soon the whole place was in its possession. Emperor Charles IV in 1359 recommended the monastery to protect the imperial city of Ulm, confirmed to him the other hand, in 1368 a lot of freedom ( " Unvogtbarkeit "). At the latest with the Reformation, the monastery of this patronage was tired and tried a long time to get away from it (see above).

Söflingen was repeatedly exposed to billeting and arson. 1552 Federal princes had made ​​their headquarters there, in 1628, 1643 and 1647 lived there, the Swedish troops, so that the nuns had to seek protection in Ulm; 1702/1703 referring to the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel, 1704, the English Duke of Marlborough, in 1805 the French Marshal Ney his headquarters there.

Abbesses

• To 1351 Ymag ( ina ), was called the most May 1, 1366 Sister Ymagina Trühendinger ( = Countess of Truhendingen )
• 1366 Margret
• 1482 Cristina Strönlerin
• 1567 Regina from Rorpach to Edelstetten
• To 1597-1603 -? Anna Starin of Osternach
• 1716-1739 Anna -Maria Cleopha famine (1674-1739)
• 1768-1774 Johanna Miller
• 1801-1802 Bonaventura Seelinger ( last abbess, † 1807)

Current usage

Built around 1492 former home of abbess is since 1810 the Catholic parish of the Assumption rectory. In the monastery mill, the music school of the city of Ulm has a branch. Was a multi-family house from the brewery of the former monastery brewery. The exam, so the actual monastery building was demolished in 1818.