The Odenheim Abbey, also known as Wigoldsberg, Ritterstiftskirche Odenheim, Odenheim and Bruchsal Abbey, was an imperial priory of the

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and a

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convent. The

convent A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglic ...

was founded in 1122 as a Benedictine monastery in Odenheim.Robert Megerle: Ritterstift Odenheim. In: Robert Megerle: ''Heimatlexikon Bruchsal'' (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission der Stadt Bruchsal. Bd. 13). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1996, , p137. Odenheim-Priorat

History

Founded in 1122 it owned the town of Tiefenbach and several small villages. In 1494 it was converted into a

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and relocated in 1507 to

Bruchsal Bruchsal (; orig. Bruohselle, Bruaselle, historically known in English as Bruxhall; South Franconian: ''Brusel'') is a city at the western edge of the Kraichgau, approximately 20 km northeast of Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Württemberg, ...

. In 1507 the convent moved to new site in Bruchsall. The old monastery was destroyed in 1525 during the German Peasants' War and then used as a quarry for building projects in place. The new monastery at Bruchsal was destroyed in 1676. In 1803, the sovereign abbey was secularized in the first part of the German Mediatization and handed over to the

Margrave of Baden The Margraviate of Baden (german: Markgrafschaft Baden) was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Spread along the east side of the Upper Rhine River in southwestern Germany, it was named a margraviate in 1112 and existed until 1535, ...

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Abbots

*Eberhard (1122–1146?) *Heinrich (1146–1157?) *Burkhard (1157–1190?) *Siegfried (1190–1213) *Berengar (1213–1224?) *Deinhard (124–1245?) *Heinrich II. (1245–1275?) *Albert von Michelfeld (1275–1313?) *Morhardt (1313–1325?) *Burkard Röder (1325–1341?) Odenheim-stifterhif-kloster8

*Dietrich (1341–1365?) *Dietrich II. von Ubstadt (1365–1377?) *Dieter von Helmstatt (1377–1398) *Dietrich III. von Venningen (1398–1424) *Dieter II. von Angelach (1424–1445?) *Eberhard von Flehingen (1445–1458?) *Philipp von Flehingen (1458?–1468) *Johann Schenk von Winterstetten (1468–1472) *Ulrich von Finsterlohe (1472–1491) *Christoph von Angelach (1491–1503) *Melchior von Nieppenberg (1503–?) *David Göler von Ravensburg (1463–1539) *Andreas von Oberstein (1533–1603) *Philipp Christoph von Sötern (1567–1652) *Johann Heinrich von Gysenberg († 1717) *Hermann Lothar von Auwach (1652–1722) *Lothar Friedrich Mohr von Wald (1659–1713) *Karl Joseph von Mirbach (1718–1798), *Joseph Anton Siegmund von Beroldingen (1738–1816),

Deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian churches, such as the Catholic Chur ...

and Provost *Karl Eugen von Zobel von Giebelstadt (* 7. Mai 1760; † 26. April 1795) *Emmerich Carl von Schütz zu Holzhausen († 9. July 1833; age: 67 years)

References

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