Comburg

Comburg  was a Benedictine monastery near Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

Imperial Abbey of Comburg

Reichsstift Großcomburg
1070s–1587
Coat of arms
Comburg at the end of the 16th century
StatusImperial Abbey
CapitalComburg Abbey
GovernmentTheocracy
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Founded, with immediacy
1070s
• Converted to
    collegiate foundation

1488
1587
1803
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Comburg-Rothenburg
Württemberg
Today part of Germany

It was founded in the late 1070s by the Counts of Comburg-Rothenburg on the site of their castle. They retained the office of Vogt, which continued until their extinction in the Staufer dynasty. The first monks were from Brauweiler Abbey, but in the 1080s an abbot from Hirsau Abbey was appointed, and this brought Comburg into the movement of the Hirsau Reforms.

The monks of Comburg were exclusively of noble birth, and accordingly resisted the Benedictine reforms (the Melk Reforms) of the 15th century, under the pressure of which the monastery became a collegiate foundation (German: Kollegiatstift) in 1488, rather than admit non-nobles to the community.

In 1587 Comburg was mediatised by Württemberg, which brought to an end its status as an Imperial abbey.

The community was secularised in 1803. The library survives in the Württemberg State Library, but the church treasure was melted down in the Ludwigsburg mint.

The buildings have had a number of uses since then. Until 1909 a regiment of invalid soldiers (the Ehreninvalidenkorps) was based here. During World War II the site was used for a variety of training purposes and also at one point as a prisoner of war camp. After the war it was used briefly for housing displaced persons, but since 1947 it has housed a teacher training establishment.

List of Rulers

Abbots Prior to Provostry

  • Hemmo 1082
  • Günter 1096
  • Hardwig
  • Adelbert 1145
  • Gernod 1156
  • Engelhard Löw 1158
  • Wernher
  • Rüdiger
  • Wolframus
  • Walther
  • Conrad von Entensee
  • Heinrich
  • Eberhard Philipp von Eltershofen 1210
  • Embricus
  • Heinrich von Scheflai 1241
  • Berchtoldus von Michelfeld
  • Sifrid von Morstein 1266
  • Heinrich von Presingen
  • Burkhardt/Beringer Senft
  • Conrad von Ahaussen 1273
  • Wolframus von Pühlerriet
  • Conrad von Münken 1324
  • Heinrich Sieder 1365
  • Rudolph von Gundelshofen 1370
  • Erkhinger Veldner 1377
  • Ehrenfried I von Bellberg 1401
  • Gottfried von Stetten 1421
  • Ehrenfried II von Bellberg 1449
  • Andreas von Triefshausen 1476
  • Hiltebrand von Crailsheim 1480

(December 5th, 1488 converted to Ritterstift)

References

(in German)

  • 1865. Zeitschrift des Historichen Vereins für das Wirtembergische Franken. Vol 7 Issue 1. Weinsberg. p. 100.
  • Hause, Eberhard, 1981. Die Komburgen: ihre Bauwerke, Baumeister und Bauherren. Weinsberg.
  • Jooß, Rainer, 1987. Kloster Komburg im Mittelalter. Studien zur Verfassungs-, Besitz- und Sozialgeschichte einer fränkischen Benediktinerabtei (Forschungen aus Württembergisch Franken; Bd. 4), 2nd ed. Sigmaringen. ISBN 3-7995-7629-0
  • Kleiber, Gabriele, 1999. Groß- und Kleincomburg. Berlin: Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg in Zusammenarbeit mit der Staatsanzeiger für Baden-Württemberg GmbH. ISBN 3-422-03061-1
  • Schraut, Elisabeth (ed.), 1989. Die Comburg: Vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. Ausstellung im Hällisch-Fränkischen Museum und auf der Comburg, Neue Dekanei, 13. Juli bis 5. November 1989 (Catalogue of the Hällisch-Fränkisch Museum, Schwäbisch Hall; Bd. 3), Sigmaringen. ISBN 3-7995-3303-6

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