Ursberg Abbey

The monastery Ursberg is a former monastery of the Premonstratensian monastery and today the Franciscan St. Joseph Congregation in Ursberg ( district of Günzburg, Bavaria) at the Diocese of Augsburg.

History

The St. Peter and St. John the Evangelist consecrated monastery was founded in 1125 by the noble Wernher von Schwabegg - Balzhausen. It was the first branch of the Premonstratensian order in southern Germany. The monastery was founded in 1143 Reichsstift year. The former Romanesque church was built around 1230. It was by the betting houses pen builder Joseph Dossenberger Younger Baroque style. During this time he also wrote his ceiling frescoes by Jacob Fröschle and Konrad Huber. Ursberg monastery founded already in 1126 the still existing monastery rye castle. In addition to the numerous construction programs also occurred in primary and court rule to rational reforms, but in 1777 led to the adoption of a policey own order. It regulated the internal order of the Swabian kingdom pin of the Sunday and holiday order on rules to the inn visit up to the ban of gambling on the pen subjects.

Worth mentioning is the Roman cross with the attendant figures of the holy Mother of God and St. John the Evangelist. The high altar is by J. Pflaum.

1803 it was resolved in the course of secularization. The church was the parish church. In the monastery of the parsonage and the district court Krumbach were housed. In 1884, the priest Dominic Ringeisen the building and called there a congregation of sisters for the care of physically and mentally handicapped in life, today's Dominic - Ringeisen -Werk. Support of this institution was the St. Joseph Congregation Ursberg, a Franciscan religious community with around 180 sisters. In 1996, the factory was converted into a church foundation under public law. The Foundation accompanies people with disabilities in numerous places in Bavaria.

Priors and abbots of the monastery

Organs

Main organ

The main organ was built in 1776 by the organ builder Johann Nepomuk Holzhey. The purely mechanical instrument has 26 stops on two manuals and pedal.

  • Couplers: II / I, I / P

Choir organ

The church has a small choir organ, which was also built by Holzhey. The instrument is divided, as is common in southern Germany, in two parts, which are in the choir left and right. The mechanical grinding shop instrument has 11 stops on one manual and pedal.

  • Couplers: I / P

Selected Literature

  • Wolfgang Wüst (eds. ): The "good" in the realm policey circle. For early modern standard-setting in the core regions of the Old Kingdom, Volume 1: The Empire Swabian Circle, with special consideration Bavarian- Swabia, Berlin 2001, pp. 359-382 ( Ursberger Policeyordnung ), ISBN 3-05-003415-7
Roman Catholic Diocese of Augsburg Roggenburg Abbey Polizeiwissenschaft Krumbach, Bavaria St. Ottilien Archabbey Elchingen Abbey Benediktbeuern Abbey
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