Gutnau Monastery

Gutnau Monastery, also spelled Guttnau, was a small Benedictine monastery in Neuenburg am Rhein, in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

History

According to a note in the Liber Originum by abbot Caspar Molitoris, the monastery was founded by Guta, a nun of the Sitzenkirch Monastery, with money from an inheritance, in the year 1181. The first building was likely right on the bank of the river Rhine, but was later rebuilt closer to the village of Auggen. In 1260 nons from Sitzenkirch joined Gutnau, though without permission from the abbot of Saint Blaise Abbey, Black Forest, and were made to return to Sitzenkirch in 1261. In 1423 the monastery burned down to its foundation, and was restored only provisionally. By 1492 the monastery was so impoverished that it could no longer sustain itself, and became subordinated to Saint Blaise.

By 1630 its possessions had fallen to Bürgeln, and by 1657 to Krozingen. The monastery's buildings were destroyed by the French in August 1675; in 1780 the last remaining property rights were sold. There are no remains of the buildings.[1]

References
  1. Pfeiffer, Georg; Braun, Karl-Heinz. "Benediktinerpropstei Gutnau - Geschichte". Klöster in Baden-Württemberg (in German). Retrieved 20 September 2018.

Literature
  • Franz Joseph Mone: Quellen zur Badischen Landesgeschichte. Band 1. (Digitalisat)
  • Johann Baptist Eiselin: Opus incompletum in folio ex quo: Liber originum, auctore abbate Kaspar I., Geschichte über Abt Kaspar I. (nach einem Original von Abt Kaspar II., das auch die Inschriften der Grabmäler im ehemaligen Kreuzgang des Klosters St. Blasien bis 1672 enthält, aufbewahrt im Archiv Kloster Einsiedeln).
  • Columban Reble: Liber Originum Monasterij Sancti Blasij In Silva Hercynia: Das ist: Ein alt-geschribenes Buch vom Ursprung deß Gotts-Hauses St. Blasien auff dem Schwartzwald. Waldshut, 1716, S. 198–203 online
  • Martin Gerbert: Historia Nigrae Silvae ordinis Sancti Benedicti coloniae, 1783–1788 (Digitalisate: Bd. 1, Bd. 2, Bd. 3), seit 1993 auch in Deutsch erschienen, übersetzt von Adalbert Weh
  • Franz Quarthal: Die Benediktinerklöster in Baden-Württemberg / bearb. von Franz Quarthal. In Zusammenarbeit mit Hansmartin Decker-Hauff, Klaus Schreiner und dem Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen. St. Ottilien, EOS-Verlag 1987
  • Winfried Zwernemann: Das Kloster Gutenau, Mittelalterliche und römische Bodendenkmäler südlich von Neuenburg in "Das Markgräflerland" 1., 1982, S. 72–86

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