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With this account of the Cistercian ‑ later Benedictine ‑ Convent of St Aegidian in Munster, the Germania Sacra series again returns to the Diocese of Munster. This time, the Series’ established author Wilhelm Kohl turns his attention to a convent founded around 1200 in the episcopal city.
This volume opens the 3rd instalment of the Germania Sacra series, which since January 2008 has been based at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen.
The Cistercian Abbey of Marienfeld, founded by a group of Westphalian noblemen in 1185, is considered to be one of the most important monasteries of the Diocese of Münster. Due to the active support of Bishop Hermann II, it soon reached its zenith. Following the well-established pattern of Germania Sacra, Wilhelm Kohl, renowned expert of the history of the diocese of Münster, provides an outline of the history, constitution, spiritual and religious life, the history of the property and in particular a list of persons of the abbey from its foundation to its dissolution in 1803.
Bernried, an abbey of Augustinian canons founded in the 12th century, was home to a chapter of Augustinian canons until its secularization in 1803. A foundation of Count Otto and his wife Adelheid of Valley, it was one of the chapters founded during the reform movement of the regular canons. During six centuries the abbey was a creative center for the region around Bernried at Lake Starnberg. Following the well-established pattern of Germania Sacra, Walburga Scherbaum gives a summary of the history, constitution, spiritual and religious life, ownership history and in particular the individuals who lived and worked in the abbey from its beginning to its dissolution.
The Bishops of Würzburg from 1617 to 1684 by Winfried Romberg is the latest volume in the Germania Sacra series on the bishops of Würzburg, which was begun by Alfred Wendehorst. This volume continues with the biographies and the official work of the bishops of Würzburg starting with Johann Gottfried von Aschhausen up to and including Konrad Wilhelm von Wernau. Thus, this continuation of the series on the bishops of Würzburg is very much in line with the focus of the 3rd series of Germania Sacra, which is devoted to the cathedral chapters and dioceses of the Church of the Holy Roman Empire.
In the sixth volume of the Germania Sacra on the Bishopric of Constance, Wilfried Schöntag tells the story of the Premonstratensian monastery of Obermarchtal from its foundation in 1171 to its closure in 1803 and at the same time gives an introductory account of the history of the Swabian circary. In addition to the history of the monastery’s ownership and administration, the work also examines the lives of the provosts, abbots and conventuals, the monastery’s educational history and the history of the building and its artworks. A particular focus is placed on the 17th century, as this period may be regarded as the “great” century of the Marchtal abbots and conventuals.
Founded in 1196, the Bredelar Cistercian Monastery reached its greatest period of flowering during the 13th and 14th centuries. During this time the cloister owned an extensive library collection, containing up to 1,350 volumes, and generated significant illuminated biblical manuscripts. The Thirty Years’ War and Seven Years’ War weakened the monastery, which was rebuilt on two occasions prior to its closure in 1804. This book by Helmut Müller, which is devoted to the Bredelar Cistercian Monastery, constitutes the first volume about the Diocese of Paderborn within the Germania Sacra series. Following the established pattern for this series, the author presents the history of the Bredelar Monastery in relation to the Westphalian monasteries described in previous volumes, such as the Liesborn Benedictine Abbey and the Marienfeld Cistercian Monastery.
This work examines the cathedral chapter of St. Petri in Bautzen from its founding prior to 1221 through 1569. With the transfer of the apostolic administrature to the chapter of Bautzen, a new era began for this institution. After the Meissen chapter, Bautzen was the diocese’s most significant spiritual institution. The focus of the study is on the lives of the diocesan personnel and the internal constitution and economy of the diocese.
The fifth volume of the Würzburg Bishopric Series covers the episcopates from the epoch of late-confessional Catholic provenance through the first glimmers of the Enlightenment. The five pontificates that are presented illustrate the acme of absolute power achieved in this era. Generally, the Würzburg system of governance adopted fixed forms that were maintained throughout the rest of the 18th century.
The 9th volume covers the Augustinian monastery of St. Zeno in Reichenhall from its founding in 1136 until its dissolution in 1803. It describes the pastoral activities of the canons and examines the diocese's architectural, administrative, and property history as it developed into a regional spiritual and cultural center. The final catalogue lists the names of provosts and conventuals, some of them assigned to outside parishes.
The volume examines the history of the collegiate Church of Münstermaifeld from its beginnings to its dissolution in 1802, and its relationship with the towns in the Mosel region where the collegiate Church was propertied. The churchly life in the collegium and the nearby parishes is described and supplemented with a comprehensive chapter containing biographies of all of the canons, vicars, and pastors associated with the collegiate church.
The community of monks established around 700 was among the five wealthiest imperial abbeys with broad autonomous standing between the regional powers of Trier and Luxembourg. It implemented numerous reforms to the structure of the imperial church and was the training site for higher-level clergy. Of particular note are its specific formulation of the Benedictine rule and its scriptorium.
This history of the lives of the bishops from 1693 to 1802 completes the biographies of all the bishops of the Diocese. The volume extends from the beginning of the rule of Lothar Franz von Schönborn until secularization under Christoph Franz von Buseck. It also examines longer-term developments, such as the development of absolutist forms of governance and the transformation of the ideal of the bishop over the course of the Enlightenment.
Karl Hausberger depicts the life and work of the thirteen Regensburg bishops who served between 1614 and 1817. The narrow area of temporal territorial authority stands out in stark contrast with the breadth of their area of spiritual jurisdiction, which extended across wide portions of Old Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate.
Following the proven system of the Germania Sacra, Hillen knowledgeably outlines the history, charter, spiritual and religious life, history of ownership, and especially, the personnel of the abbey from the time it was founded to its abolition in 1803. This adds another volume to Germania Sacra on the Cistercian Abbeys – following St. Aegidii in Münster (3rd installment 1), Marienfeld (3rd installment 2) and Bredelar (3rd installment 6).
In its examination of the St. Walburg Abbey, the 2nd volume of the Germania Sacra presents the diocese of Eichstätt. The author evaluates the historical sources on the cloister, which was re-built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria after the secularization of 1835. The cult of Saint Walburga played a key role in the lives of the Benedictine sisters. The study includes an extensive catalogue of holdings and detailed rosters of the cloister’s membership.
Persisting from 1123 to 1808, the Ilbenstadt monastery was one of the first German Premonstratensian monasteries. Following the Germania Sacra template, this volume presents the monastery’s history of ownership as well as the lives of its provosts and abbots, mothers superior, prioresses, priors, female and male conventuals, and lay brothers and sisters. Additional topics include architecture, art history, and archive and library history.
The volume draws on extensive source materials to describe all aspects of monastic live in the Benedictine Monastery St. Peter im Schwarzwald from its founding in 1093 by Berthold II von Zähringen until the dissolution of the diocese in 1806. The monastery was the Zähringers’ "family chapel." Its first period of prosperity ended when the family died out. After years of impoverishment, the monastery enjoyed a second blossoming in the 1700s.
The volume covers the last five pontificates of the Franconian district from 1746 until the dissolution of the clerical state in 1802. The epoch was marked by a gradual transition from late confessionalism to enlightenment. Its heyday from the 1760s to the early 1790s was characterized by the bishops’ intensive efforts at reform.
In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Naumburg Cathedral Chapter grew to become one of the bishoprics' most influential clerical communities, with fifteen bishops emerging from its ranks in the late middle ages. It is one of the few clerical institutions in Germany that has existed without interruption since its founding and past the year 1803, preserving both its episcopacy and its property. This volume provides a structured source analysis.
The appointment of two bishops to the Constance cathedra, political power struggles in which church dignitaries were also embroiled, and ever-increasing debts shaped the history of the Bishopric of Constance at the turn of the fifteenth century in various ways. The lives of the bishops vividly reveal how individual office holders dealt with these challenges.