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36-606: Weingarten may refer to: Places [ edit ] Weingarten, Württemberg , Germany, a town Weingarten Abbey Weingarten (Baden) , Germany, a municipality Weingarten, Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany, a municipality Weingarten, Thuringia , Germany, a village and former municipality Weingarten, Switzerland , a village in the municipality of Lommis Weingarten, Missouri , United States, an unincorporated community and census-designated place Other uses [ edit ] Weingarten (surname) Weingarten Realty ,

72-728: A contract of inheritance, in 1191 the Hohenstaufen Frederick Barbarossa acquired the ownership of the Schussengau (including Altdorf, Weingarten and Ravensburg) from Welf VI , Duke of Spoleto and uncle of both Frederick Barbarossa and Henry the Lion . About seventy years later, with the death of Conradin in Naples in 1268, the line of the Hohenstaufen became extinct. Their former estates were confiscated as imperial property of

108-454: A former real estate investment trust Weingarten's , a defunct Texas-based grocer See also [ edit ] Weingarten equations in differential geometry Weingarten Rights , in American law the right to union representation at investigatory interviews Weingarten Manuscript , a medieval German manuscript Weingartner Wingard, Saskatchewan , Canada (an anglicized form of

144-585: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Weingarten, W%C3%BCrttemberg Weingarten ( German: [ˈvaɪnˌɡaʁtn̩] ; Low Alemannic : Wãẽgaade ; lit.   ' Wine Garden ' ) is a town with a population of 25,000 (as of 2020 ) in Württemberg , in the District of Ravensburg , in the valley of the Schussen River . Together with

180-683: The Byzantine . In 2009 only four monks remained in Weingarten. The abbey was vacated on October 16, 2010; the Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart stepped in as a new tenant and tried to find a new monastic community to install here. In 2014, the Diocese offered the rooms to the State of Baden-Württemberg as a refugees home. Due to dilapidated sanitary installations and issues of monument protection this

216-610: The Holy Roman Empire . While the small town of Altdorf was ruled by the Reichslandvogt (imperial steward resp. bailiff ) of Swabia , the abbey of Weingarten won the status of an "Imperial Abbey" with privileges similar to those of an Imperial Free City . The Landvogtei was given in 1473/1486 as pawn to Sigismund, Archduke of Austria , which led to its integration as a district within Further Austria . The Vogt' s seat

252-651: The House of Welf , from which the English royal family also descends, are buried here in a single sarcophagus made of granite marble. In 1922, Weingarten was re-founded and re-settled by Benedictines from Beuron Archabbey and from the English Abbey of Erdington (in a suburb of Birmingham ) which had itself been settled from Beuron. In 1940, the monks were expelled by the National Socialists , but were able to return after

288-480: The Kingdom of Württemberg . The buildings were used inter alia as a factory and as a barracks for a regiment of infantry; the abbey church as the parish church of the town of Weingarten. King George V of Hanover visited the burial place of his ancestors (see below, Other burials ) in 1852 and then had the dilapidated crypt under the church redesigned in a classical style by Leo von Klenze . The bones of nine members of

324-573: The Precious Blood , still preserved in the church of Weingarten. Its legend runs thus: Longinus , the soldier who opened Jesus's side with a lance, caught some of the Sacred Blood and preserved it in a leaden box, which later he buried at Mantua . Being miraculously discovered in 804, the relic was solemnly exalted by Pope Leo III , but again buried during the Hungarian and Norman invasions. In 1048 it

360-632: The Swabian - Alemannic carnival called Fasnet can be traced back to 1348. At that time "town-hall dances" were reported, celebrating the end of a pest epidemic . Every year, the Fasnet season starts with the Gumpige Dunnschdig (Jumpy Thursday) a week before Ash Wednesday . In the evening, the Hemedglonkerumzug (from "hemed" = nightgown in local dialect) takes place, so everybody runs through

396-582: The secularization following the Reichsdeputationshauptschluß bill in 1803. Weingarten was first allotted to the House of Nassau , Altdorf to the dukedom of Württemberg . In 1806 Weingarten, too, was incorporated into Württemberg. During the 19th century several barracks were placed in Altdorf-Weingarten, making the city an important military site; following this in 1911 a young Erwin Rommel

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432-675: The 5th century. In the 8th century the region became part of the Frankish empire . Around the 9th century the Elder Welfs became counts of the Schussengau and established their seat in Altdorf. In 1056 Welf IV transferred the ancestral seat of the Welfs to the newly built castle of Ravensburg . He founded a new Benedictine abbey at the Martinsberg in Altdorf; this abbey was named Weingarten Abbey . By

468-582: The Italian-German Baroque style by Franz Beer . The frecoes are by Cosmas Damian Asam . The church is the second largest church in Württemberg . and is the largest Baroque church in Germany. The 102 meter long church is known as the " Swabian St. Peter's " since this church is almost exactly one-half the size of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome . The church was intended to stand within a monastic site built to

504-689: The abbey her library, containing a number of illustrated manuscripts. 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. The monastery

540-688: The end of the war. The monks are responsible for the management of the " Blutritt ", or pilgrimage to the Reliquary of the Holy Blood in the abbey church; they also run a guesthouse. Weingarten belongs to the Beuronese Congregation of the Benedictine Confederation . It is a monastery of two ecclesiastical traditions or rites — one part of the monks follow the Roman Rite , the other part

576-574: The fifteenth, and the early part of the sixteenth century, owing chiefly to the encroachments of a few commendatory abbots and the oppression of the bailiffs. Immediately before its suppression in 1802 it comprised forty-eight monks, ten of whom resided at the dependent priory of Hofen. In 1803, during the German Mediatisation , the abbey was dissolved. At first, it became part of the Principality of Nassau-Orange-Fulda , and then in 1806 part of

612-416: The ideal layout, but this undertaking was only partially completed as the north wing would have blocked the via regia or imperial road. Following the order on April 27, 1728 to stop construction on the north wing, the southern wing was extended and the east wing was completed. In 1956 the church was declared a papal basilica minor . Within the church is the famous Gabler Organ , a church organ that

648-410: The last four monks abandoned the abbey, the lease was taken over by the Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart which tried to find a new monastic community to install here. During Nazi Germany Weingarten was incorporated into Ravensburg; after the war, the rival cities were separated again. Since 1949, most of the former abbey buildings have been occupied by a teachers' college. A smaller part of

684-595: The main building is leased to the Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart which runs the Catholic Academy for adult education there. New buildings were erected in the neighbourhood by the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten . In 2014 parts of the Academy were rededicated as a refugees home, in 2015 rooms of the then-abandoned abbey were rededicated as auxiliary first admittance facility for refugees. During

720-660: The municipal reforms of the 1970s, a renewed attempt to fuse Ravensburg and Weingarten failed due to massive resistance on the part of Weingarten's citizenry. Weingarten was home to the NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School through the 1980s and 90s until it moved to Pfullendorf . Elections in May 2014: Weingarten is twinned with: Weingarten also has a climatic partnership with Blumenau in Brazil. The local tradition of

756-552: The name) Vinograd (disambiguation) Winograd Wijngaarden Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Weingarten . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weingarten&oldid=1189708343 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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792-437: The neighbouring hill to the monks, and thenceforth the monastery became known as Weingarten ("vineyard"), which is documented from about 1123. (In 1865, the village took the name of the monastery to become the present town of Weingarten ). In 1126, Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria , withdrew here after his abdication; he died the same year and was buried in the abbey church. Upon her death in 1095, Judith of Flanders bequeathed to

828-457: The pageant. On the Friday following Ascension , Catholics from Weingarten and from most parts of Upper Swabia take part in the annual Blutritt , a large equestrian procession . The procession of about 3,000 riders and dozens of local music bands leads through the town centre and some surrounding villages to bless houses, farms and fields with a relic of the holy blood of Jesus Christ . During

864-577: The refugee home in the rooms of the Academy. The abbey and the St. Martin's Basilica are a major attraction on the tourist route known as the Oberschwäbische Barockstrasse ( Upper Swabian Baroque Route ). In 1715, the Romanesque abbey church, constructed between 1124 and 1182, was largely demolished, and replaced between 1715 and 1724 by a large and richly decorated Baroque church designed in

900-453: The relic to Weingarten. The solemn presentation took place in 1090, on the Friday after the feast of the Ascension, and it was stipulated that annually on the same day, which came to be known as Blutfreitag , the relic should be carried in solemn procession. Numerous scholars have detailed the various chronological and political problems with this narrative, which was fabricated in order to imbue

936-477: The relic with cultural grandeur and legitimacy. The procession was prohibited in 1812, but since 1849 it has again taken place every year. It is popularly known as the Blutritt . The relic is carried by a rider, der heilige Blutritter , on horseback, followed by many other riders, and many thousands of people on foot. The reliquary, formerly of solid gold, set with numerous jewels, and valued at about 70,000 florins,

972-519: The rest of the year, the relic is on display in the Weingarten Abbey church. Weingarten Abbey Originally founded as a nunnery at Altdorf shortly around 900, the nuns were replaced by canons, but again returned in 1036. Welf I, Duke of Bavaria exchanged the nuns for the Benedictine monks of Altomünster Abbey in 1047. The monastery being destroyed by fire in 1053, Welf ceded his castle on

1008-587: The southern neighbour cities of Ravensburg and Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance (Bodensee), it forms one of 14 medium-sized infrastructural centres in Baden-Württemberg . The town is seat of the University of Applied Sciences of Ravensburg-Weingarten ( Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten ) and of the Teachers' College of Weingarten ( Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten ). The town was formerly known as Altdorf and

1044-570: The streets in pyjamas or nightshirts. This custom symbolizes the awakening of carnival fools. The main pageant takes place at Sunday. Typical carnival characters of Weingarten are the Plätzler (in a red and white costume, first depicted in 1868), the Lauratal ghosts and the Bockstallnarren ("buck stable fools"). In addition to these local groups, many other carnival groups from the region take part in

1080-503: Was based in the town. As in neighbouring Ravensburg, a significant engineering industry evolved during the second half of the century, based mainly on the local traditions of (paper and other) mills and textile production. In 1922, monks from Beuron Abbey (on the Danube) and Erdington Abbey (in Birmingham ) founded a new Benedictine abbey that leased some of the former abbey rooms. In 2010

1116-524: Was built between 1735 and 1750 by Joseph Gabler . The organ has over 60 registers , 169 ranks, 63 voices and over 6600 pipes . A wing of the abbey precincts accommodates the present monastery. Other parts of the former abbey house the Pädagogische Hochschule Weingarten and the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . The greatest treasure of Weingarten was its famous relic of

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1152-510: Was declined at first; instead parts of the rooms used by the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (see below) were rededicated as refugees home. In 2015, the number of refugees rose steeply. In July and August 2015 a part of the former abbey rooms was cut off and prepared to serve as additional Bedarfsorientierte Erstaufnahmeeinrichtung (BEA) (auxiliary first admittance/initial reception facility for refugees). At end of October 2015 about 130 refugees were accommodated there and about 40 at

1188-510: Was elevated to the status of a Reichsabtei , independent of all territorial lordship except that of the emperor, in 1274. It acquired territory of 306 km (118 sq mi), stretching from the Allgäu to the Bodensee and including many forests and vineyards, and was one of the richest monasteries in southern Germany. Its discipline never seriously declined, except during the latter part of

1224-521: Was first located at the castle of Ravensburg (most often called "Veitsburg" to distinguish it from the Imperial City of Ravensburg) until 1647 when Swedish troops destroyed the castle and the Vogt moved to a palace (the today's Schlössle ) in Altdorf. The abbey of Weingarten became one of the wealthiest monasteries in southern Germany, owning about 306 km of rich estates, before it was confiscated during

1260-459: Was re-discovered and solemnly exalted by Pope Leo IX in the presence of the emperor, Henry III , and many other dignitaries. It was divided into three parts, one of which the pope took to Rome, another was given to the emperor, Henry III, and the third remained at Mantua. Henry III bequeathed his share of the relic to Baldwin V, Count of Flanders , who gave it to his daughter Juditha. After her marriage to Welf I, Duke of Bavaria , Juditha presented

1296-461: Was renamed to Weingarten in 1865. Before that, Weingarten was the name of Weingarten Abbey only, which lay on the Martinsberg ( St. Martin 's hill) above the town. The name "Altdorf" is derived from the Frankish alach for "church". So "Altdorf" does not mean "old village" but "village/thorp with the parish church". Near the old town, an Alemannic burial place was excavated in 1954–1957, dating from

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