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Frauenzell Abbey (German: Kloster Frauenzell) was a Benedictine monastery situated in Frauenzell, which is part of Brennberg in Bavaria, Germany.
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Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the monastery was founded in 1321 by Count Reinmar IV von Brennberg, developing an existing hermitage. At first a cell of Oberalteich Abbey, it became a dependent priory in 1350 and was granted the status of an independent abbey in 1424.[1][2]
It was dissolved in 1803 in the secularisation of the period. Some of the buildings were used for the accommodation of the school and the minister's house; the rest were sold to the villagers. The monastic church remains as a parish and pilgrimage church.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b Klöster in Bayern: Frauenzell - Benediktinische Geistigkeit im Waldkloster (Manfred Knedlik)
- ^ a b Joseph Sächerl: Chronik des Benediktiner-Klosters Frauenzell. (Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereines von Oberpfalz und Regensburg, Band 15). OCLC 775064361, pp. 269–273
Further reading
edit- Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberpfalz & Regensburg, Bd. 21: Bezirksamt Regensburg, ed. Felix Mader. München 1910, pp. 53–70
- Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Bayern V: Regensburg und die Oberpfalz, revised by Jolanda Drexler and Achim Hubel with Astrid Debold-Kritter et al., München / Berlin 1991, pp. 156–160
- Germania Benedictina. Band 2: Bayern. St. Ottilien 1970
- Franz Seraph Gsellhofer: "Beiträge zur Geschichte des ehemaligen Klosters U. L. Frauenzell", in: Verhandlungen des Historischen Vereins für Oberpfalz und Regensburg, Band 8 (1844), pp. 41–62
- Herbert Schindler: "Frauenzell. Ein Waldkloster und seine Geschichte", in: Unbekanntes Bayern, Bd. 1, München 1955, pp. 159–169
External links
edit- Media related to Kloster Frauenzell at Wikimedia Commons
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