Erzabtei Beuron - Beuron, BW, D
N 48° 03.044 E 008° 58.144
32U E 497694 N 5321939
Beuron Archabbey (in German Erzabtei Beuron, otherwise Erzabtei St. Martin; in Latin Archiabbatia Sancti Martini Beuronensis; Swabian: Erzabtei Beira) is a major house of the Benedictine Order located at Beuron in the upper Danube valley.
Waymark Code: WM16AQ9
Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Date Posted: 06/16/2022
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It was founded in 1863 by the brothers Maurus and Placidus Wolter, in buildings which until 1802 had housed an Augustinian monastery. Between 1875 and 1887 because of political conditions during the "Kulturkampf" ("cultural struggle") the monks had to leave the abbey, but used the opportunity to found new communities elsewhere, which afterwards joined together under the leadership of Beuron as the Beuronese Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation.
Beuron Abbey was a center of the 19th century Liturgical Movement, with Anselm Schott publishing a German translation of the Roman Missal since 1884. After the forced dissolution in the 1870s, Schott ultimately ended up in Maria Laach. The "Schott" German Missals and Prayers of the Faithful are still standard equipment in German parishes.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the Beuron Art School, with its emphasis on early Christian and Byzantine art, was influential on religious art of the period. One of the biggest exhibits of this type of art in the United States is at Conception Abbey in Missouri which was founded on principles established by Beuron.
The abbey continues to be a centre of study. The library is the largest monastic library in Germany, with over 400,000 books. Since 1884 the abbey has published the Missale Romanum, a lay missal originally produced by Father Anselm Schott of Beuron. The abbey also houses the Vetus-Latina-Institut (Ancient Latin Institute), which has for its purpose the collection and publication of all extant Old Latin translations of the Bible.
Archabbots since 1863
Maurus (Rudolf) Wolter from Bonn (1825–1890): Founder prior 1863, Abbot 1868–1890, Archabbot since 1885
Placidus (Ernst) Wolter from Bonn, the founders brother (1828–1908): 1890–1908
Ildefons (Friedrich) Schober from Pfullendorf (1849–1918): 1908–1917
Raphael (Josef) Walzer from Ravensburg (1888–1966): 1918–1937
Benedikt (Karl Borromäus) Baur from Mengen (1877–1963): 1938–1955
Benedikt (Johannes) Reetz from Ripsdorf/Eifel (1897–1964): 1957–1964
Damasus (Josef) Zähringer from Ibach (1899–1977): 1965–1967
Ursmar (Johannes) Engelmann from Jena (1909–1986): 1970–1980
Hieronymus (Gerhard) Nitz from Flensburg (1928-2020): 1980–2001
Theodor (Klaus) Hogg from Kirchen-Hausen (born 1941): 2001–2011
Tutilo (Heinz) Burger from Löffingen-Seppenhofen (born 1965), since 2011
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