Rinchnach Priory
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Rinchnach Priory (German: Kloster Rinchnach) was a Benedictine monastery at Rinchnach in Bavaria, Germany.
History
[edit]The monastery, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, was founded in 1011 by Saint Gunther, a Benedictine monk of Niederaltaich Abbey, as the first settlement in the central Bavarian Forest. In 1029 Emperor Conrad II endowed the monastery with land. It was made a priory of Niederaltaich in 1040, when Saint Gunther moved on to Gutwasser (the present Dobra Voda) in Bohemia.[1]
In 1488 (?) the Hussites burnt the monastery down.[citation needed] In 1703 it was pillaged by Hungarian regiments, but restored in 1708 by Niederaltaich Abbey.[2]
The monastery was dissolved in 1803 as a result of the secularisation of Bavaria, and its estates were auctioned off.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Klöster in Bayern: Rinchnach
- ^ Bauer, Sven: Kloster Rinchnach. Seine Geschichte von der Gründung bis zur Säkularisation. (ed. Ursula Grabmaier), Rinchnach 2011
Further reading
[edit]- Dengler, Josef: Rinchnach. Kirche St. Johannes der Täufer. Ehem. Propsteikirche (publ. Kath. Pfarramt Rinchnach, Peda-Kunstführer Nr. 803/2010), Passau 2010 (with bibliography)
- Ecclesia Rimichinaha/Propstei – Rinchnach/Klousta – Vom zentralen Klosterort des Mittleren Bay. Waldes (1011/12–1803) zur selbstbewussten Gemeinde. Katalog zur Ausstellung 2011 (exhibition catalogue publ. by the Rinchnacher Arbeitskreis Geschichte und Kultur), Rinchnach 2011
- Hemmerle, Josef: Die Benediktinerklöster in Bayern (Germania Benedictina Bd. 2), München 1970, pp. 261–263
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