Buxheim Charterhouse
| Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim | ||||||||||
| Reichskartause Buxheim | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Capital | Buxheim Charterhouse | |||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Charterhouse founded | 10th century | ||||||||
| • | Donated to Carthusians | 1402 | ||||||||
| • | Looted and abandoned during German Peasants' War |
1524–25 |
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| • | Occupied by Memmingen during Schmalkaldic War |
1546–47 |
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| • | Granted immediacy from Charles V at Augsburg |
1548 |
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| • | Secularised to Ostein | 1802 | ||||||||
| • | Ostein inherited by Bassenheim |
1809 |
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| Today part of |
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Buxheim Charterhouse (German: Reichskartause Buxheim) was formerly a monastery of the Carthusians (in fact, the largest charterhouse in Germany) and is now a monastery of the Salesians. It is situated in Buxheim near Memmingen in Bavaria.
The estate of Buxheim belonged from the mid-10th century to the chapter of Augsburg Cathedral, who in about 1100 founded a house of canons here, dedicated to Our Dear Lady.
In 1402 however, after a long period of decline, in an extreme move to preserve it the then provost, Heinrich von Ellerbach, gave the establishment to the Carthusians, a move which proved extremely successful in reviving Buxheim both spiritually and economically. Its wealth however drew the hostile attentions of the nearby city of Memmingen, which occupied it in 1546 during the Reformation, and impounded its property. Prior Dietrich Loher was able however by skilful diplomacy to obtain the favour of Emperor Charles V, and in 1548 the monastery was declared reichsfrei, and thus independent of all territorial authority save that of the Emperor himself, under whose protection it stood; it was the only charterhouse (Reichskartause) in Germany ever to be granted that status.
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