Rinchnach Priory (german: Kloster Rinchnach) was a
Benedictine
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, found ...
monastery at
Rinchnach in
Bavaria
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, Germany.
History
The monastery, dedicated to Saint
John the Baptist
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, was founded in 1011 by
Saint Gunther
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, 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
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) in
Bohemia.
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In 1488 (?) the Hussite
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s burnt the monastery down. In 1703 it was pillaged by Hungarian regiments, but restored in 1708 by Niederaltaich Abbey.[Bauer, Sven: ''Kloster Rinchnach. Seine Geschichte von der Gründung bis zur Säkularisation''. (ed. Ursula Grabmaier), Rinchnach 2011]
The monastery was dissolved in 1803 as a result of the secularisation
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of Bavaria, and its estates were auctioned off.
References
Further reading
*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
External links
Monasteries in Bavaria
Benedictine monasteries in Germany
1011 establishments in Europe
Christian monasteries established in the 11th century
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