Lindau Abbey
Imperial Abbey of Lindau Reichsstift Lindau | |||||||||
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| 1466–1802 | |||||||||
| Status | Imperial Abbey | ||||||||
| Capital | Lindau Abbey | ||||||||
| Government | Elective principality | ||||||||
| Historical era | 1802 | ||||||||
1804 1802 | |||||||||
• To Bavaria | 1805 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
Lindau Abbey (
, which stands on an island in the lake.History
The community, dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin Mary, is traditionally held to have been founded by Count Adelbert of Raetia in about 822.[1]
The town of Lindau grew round the foundation.
The abbey was granted Imperial immediacy (German: Reichsfreiheit) in 1466.
During the
Protestant Reformation
on the mainland were the only places in this region to remain Catholic.
The community was dissolved in 1802 in the course of the
secularisation of German Imperial Abbeys, and its assets taken over by the Prince of Bretzenheim (son of Elector of Bavaria Charles Theodore), who in 1804 exchanged Lindau for estates in Bohemia and Hungary
. In 1806 the territory became part of the new Kingdom of Bavaria.
The residential and service buildings were used for local government offices.
The canonesses' church became the present
Blessed Virgin Mary on the market place in the Old Town of Lindau. The church building originated at the same time as the religious community, that is, in the early 9th century. After the fire of 1728 that destroyed most of the town the church was rebuilt in Baroque style by the master builder Giovanni Gaspare Bagnato, who also built Schloss Mainau and the "New Castle" at Meersburg. The interior has Baroque ceiling paintings and Rococo
decorations.
Other religious houses in Lindau
Lindau has also contained other religious houses.
Franciscans
There was a
Protestant Reformation
by becoming Protestant and was secularised at the same time as Lindau Abbey. The church of the Minorites is still in existence as the Lindauer Stadttheater ("Lindau Town Theatre") but the cloister of the tertiary nuns were demolished in 1861. These premises were sometimes known as the Kloster am Steg ("monastery on the jetty").
Beguinage
There was also a house of the
Diocese of Augsburg
.
References
- ^ or possibly 817
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lindau Abbey.
- (in German) Klöster in Bayern: Kanonissenstift Lindau
- (in German) Maria-Ward-Realschule Lindau home page
- (in German) Lindau municipal website: history
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