Monastero Di Petersberg – Wikipedia

The Monastery of Petersberg (Today Church of San Pietro di Petersberg ) It was a Benedictine monastery located at Petersberg, near Fulda, in Bassa Franconia, Germany. Built in the ninth century, the monastery is already mentioned in 1020 documents with the name of Mountain of St. Peter . Inside, the complex welcomes the oldest wall paintings in the entire Germany.

In the crypt of the monastery, Santa Lioba of Tauberbischofsheim was buried, which is why in the centuries the church of the monastery also became known with the nickname of Liobakirche . Since 1995, the relic with the skull of the Saint has returned to the church.

The Petersberg monastery is still isolated today on a basaltic hill that dominates the homonymous village, near the city of Fulda. The church offers a wide view of the Basin of the Fulda river, on the homonymous city, on the town of Petersberg and on most of the surrounding places, being the only hill so elevated.

A first church at this point was probably built already at the time of the Abbot Bagulfo di Fulda at the turn of the VIII and IX century. The abbot of Fulda Rabano Mauro in the 1930s had built a three -nave basilica and first established a Benedictine monastery on what was already known by the name of Petersberg (Monte di San Pietro). The church was consecrated by Rabano Mauro himself on 28 September 836/838, who also made the remains of Santa Lioba of Tauberbischofsheim transported the remains of the Collegiate of Fulda to the crypt of the church of San Pietro which was precisely built.

The building was destroyed by an attack by the Hungarians in 915, and therefore the abbot of Fulda, Haicho, had the burnt buildings restore. Other damage occurred in 1327/1331, during the 16th century peasant wars and during the thirty -year war, which is why the bones of Santa Lioba were brought back to the collegiate church of Fulda to protect them from looting. On the spot, the empty sarcophagus was left where the remains of the Saint had been laid because it was deemed miraculous itself: periodically (as illustrated by a series of frescoes on site) there was the tradition for mothers of sick children to store their clothes all The interior of the sarcophagus and then to make them wear the sick, a practice that was prohibited in 1915 by the diocese of Fulda.

The abbots of Fulda established in 1298 a preferenty for the Monastery of Petersberg entrusting a provost as their representative and spiritual guide of this part of the abbey territory.

During the meditization of the Holy Roman Empire, the monastery was dissolved in 1802. In 1957 the inhabited area of ​​Petersberg built the new parish church of the town, dedicated to Rabano Mauro, located more in the center of the town, even if the church church owner continuous Even today to be that of San Pietro. This decision was due essentially to practical issues as the inhabitants was uncomfortable having to climb up to the top of the mountain for participation in the daily mass. In September 2007, on the occasion of the 1225th anniversary of the death of Santa Lioba, on the remains of the ancient convent of Petersberg, now in disuse, a new conventual structure was built to accommodate the Benedictine nuns of Santa Lioba who founded a modern monastery here. Since 1995, the relic of the Saint Lioba skull, preserved in Fulda by the era of looting, was brought back to the monastery and deposed in the crypt of the church of San Pietro.

The current church of San Pietro, overall peersberg’s claustral complex, still has several original features dating back to the Carolingian era despite having undergone not a few changes over the centuries. In fact, the choir are original, tripartite with cruise vault and the crypt under the main altar, where there are three apses, each with its own altar. Behind the main altar is the now empty sarcophagus of Santa Lioba, whose relics are now preserved inside the crypt. The tower of the choir and the western bell tower were made in a Romanesque style. The church was originally made up of three distinct naves but was reconstructed in 1479 in a single nave, in a late Gothic style.

The interior of the church was “modernized” in the Baroque era under the supervision of the provost Konstantin Schütz von Holzhausen (which was also auxiliary bishop in Fulda), works that were subsequently dismantled only in part thanks to the equally numerous restoration interventions that were had In 1889, in 1907, in 1930, in 1954, in 1974 and, more recently, in 2002-2007. The church are also preserved eight Romanesque stone bas -reliefs from the second half of the XII century.

In the church there is also the tomb of the chronicler of the Abbey of Fulda, Apollo von Vilbel († 1536), who was providing for Petersberg and then abbot of the Limburg monastery, in the palatinato.

• Gottfried von Steckelberg, 1299-1328
• Dietrich von Bimbach, c. 1353
• Giso von Haun, c. 1387–1401
• Johann von Buchenau, c. 1443–1449
• Johann Nasse von Linsingen, c. 1471 ^[first]
• Wilkin von Küchenmeister, 1475-1488
• Philipp von Herda, c. 1492
• Apollo from Vilbel, c. 1515–1522
• Philipp Schenck Zu Schweinsberg, 1536–1550, became the princely-abbot of Fulda in 1541 while maintaining the assignment of provision, as well as those of the provision of Rasdorf, Johannesberg and Frauenberg
• Wolfgang Dietrich von Eusigheim, 1550–1558, also princely-abbot of Fulda, already provost of Johannesberg, Frauenberg, then provost of Holzkirchen and Thaulba
• Wolfgang protable.
• Balthasar from Dernbach, c. 1585
• Johann Friedrich von Schwalbach, c. 1608, already provost of Michaelsberg, Blankenau and from 1606 Prince-Abbot of Fulda
• Petrus Von the Feltz, 1613-1624
• Johann Adolf von Hoheneck, 25 July 1625 – 1635, 1633–1635 also prince -abbot of Fulda and provost of Johannesberg
• Joachim von Gravennegg, 1635–1638 (discharged in 1638), then provost of Holzkirchen and Michaelsberg
• Matthias Benedikt von Rindtorff, 14 Agosto 1638 -?
• Johann Michael von Hochstetten, 30 Ottobre 1643 -?
• Ämilian von Dalwig
• Gallus von Ostein, 19 Maggio 1660 -?
• Johann Michael von Hochstetten ,? – 1669 (Rinuncia)
• Odo von Riedheim, 6 October 1669 – 1690
• Philipp von Spiegel to thisberg, 20 Marzo 1691 – 1720
• Pleay von Bastheim, 8 Gennaio 1721 – 1736
• Leopold Specht von Bubenheim, 1736–1738, already provost of Sannerz, then provost of Neuenberg
• Bonifatius von Hutten, 23 May 1738-1739, already provost of Holzkirchen and Thaulba
• Karl von Fechenbach, 1739–1753, then provost of Johannesberg and Andreasberg
• Anton von Hagenbach, 22 October 1753-1758, already a provost of Zella, then provost of Johannesberg
• Konstantin Schütz von Holzhausen, 1758-1775, Già Prevosto di Blankenau
• Lothar von Breidbach Zu Bürresheim, 30 September 1775-1778, already provost of Holzkirchen, then provost of Andreasberg
• Adolf von Hövel, 20 Marzo 1778-1788
• Sigismund Von Bibra, 18 August 1794-1802, last provost

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