Gutnau Monastery


Gutnau Monastery, also spelled Guttnau, was a small Benedictine monastery in Neuenburg am Rhein, in the district Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

History

According to a note in the Liber Originum by abbot Caspar Molitoris, the monastery was founded by Guta, a nun of the :de:Kloster Sitzenkirch|Sitzenkirch Monastery, with money from an inheritance, in the year 1181. The first building was likely right on the bank of the river Rhine, but was later rebuilt closer to the village of Auggen. In 1260 nons from Sitzenkirch joined Gutnau, though without permission from the abbot of Saint Blaise Abbey, Black Forest, and were made to return to Sitzenkirch in 1261. In 1423 the monastery burned down to its foundation, and was restored only provisionally. By 1492 the monastery was so impoverished that it could no longer sustain itself, and became subordinated to Saint Blaise.
By 1630 its possessions had fallen to Bürgeln, and by 1657 to Krozingen. The monastery's buildings were destroyed by the French in August 1675; in 1780 the last remaining property rights were sold. There are no remains of the buildings.

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