Weingarten Abbey
| Imperial Abbey of St Martin at Weingarten | ||||||||||
| Reichsabtei Weingarten | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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 Weingarten Abbey, 1525
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| Capital | Weingarten | |||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded | 1056 | ||||||||
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Acquired territory as Austrian protectorate |
1268 |
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| • | Gained Reichsfreiheit | 1274 | ||||||||
| • | Joined Council of Princes | 1793 | ||||||||
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Secularised to Orange-Nassau |
1803 | ||||||||
| • | Annexed by Württemberg | 1806 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Germany
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Coat of arms of Weingarten
Weingarten Abbey or St. Martin's Abbey (German: Reichsabtei Weingarten until 1803, then merely Abtei Weingarten) is a Benedictine monastery on the Martinsberg (St. Martin's Mount) in Weingarten near Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
In 1056, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, founded a Benedictine monastery on the Martinsberg, overlooking the village of Altdorf, an inheritance from his mother. The name Weingarten (vineyard) is documented from about 1123. (In 1865, the village took the name of the monastery to become the present town of Weingarten). He settled it with monks from Altomünster Abbey. In 1126, Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, withdrew here after his abdication; he died the same year and was buried in the abbey church.
The monks worked, among other things, at manuscript illumination. Their most famous work is the Berthold Sacramentary of 1217, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. Also of especial note is the Welfenchronik, written and illustrated in about 1190, chronicling and glorifying the House of Welf which had its seat at Ravensburg nearby.
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