Buxheim Charterhouse

Coordinates: 47°59′58″N 10°08′02″E / 47.99944°N 10.13389°E / 47.99944; 10.13389
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Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim
Reichskartause Buxheim
1548–1802
Coat of arms of Buxheim Charterhouse
Coat of arms
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalBuxheim Charterhouse
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical era
Secularised to Ostein
1802
• Ostein inherited by
    Bassenheim

1809
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Memmingen
County of Ostein
Today part ofGermany

Buxheim Charterhouse (

Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen in Bavaria
.

History

The estate of Buxheim belonged from the mid-10th century to the

Virgin Mary.[1]

In 1402, after a long period of decline, in an extreme move to preserve it the then provost, Heinrich von Ellerbach, gave the establishment to the Carthusians, a move which proved extremely successful in reviving Buxheim both spiritually and economically. Its wealth however drew the hostile attentions of the nearby city of

reichsfrei, and thus independent of all territorial authority save that of the Emperor himself, under whose protection it stood; it was the only charterhouse (Reichskartause) in Germany ever to be granted that status.[1]

It was dissolved in the secularisation of 1802, when ownership passed first to the Counts of Ostein, who allowed the community to remain, and then in 1809 by inheritance to the Counts Waldbott von Bassenheim, who from 1812 used the premises as a castle. In 1916 the state took over the buildings, which in 1926 were acquired by the Salesians.[1]

Buildings

Parts of the monastery buildings were refurbished by Dominikus Zimmermann in the Rococo style: the monastic church, St. Anne's chapel in the cloisters, and also the nearby parish church.[1]

The Buxheim Carvings

A masterpiece of

Community of the Epiphany, an order of Anglican nuns. The sisters later withdrew to Cornwall and their work was taken over by another Anglican order, the Community of the Presentation. In 1960 the sisters relocated to their other convent at Hythe, Kent, taking the carvings with them. The community dwindled in size and was forced to hand the hospital over to a charitable trust. The sisters decided to return the carvings to Buxheim, which finally took place in the early 1980s. The Reverend Mother of the Presentation Sisters attended a special repatriation ceremony, and was awarded the Freedom of the City of Buxheim, only the second person ever to receive that honour.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Klöster in Bayern: Buxheim
  2. ^ See full history by Bruce Tait in Hythe Civic Society Newsletter, edition 153 (2010).

Further reading

  • Das Buxheimer Chorgestühl. Beiträge zur Bau- und Kunstgeschichte der ehemaligen Reichskartause Buxheim und zur Restaurierung des Chorgestühls. In: Michael Petzet (ed.): Arbeitshefte des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege, 66. München 1994
    ISBN 3874905691
  • Ulrich Faust: Buxheim, in: Monasticon Cartusiense, ed. Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Band 2, Salzburg 2004, pp. 372–380

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