Klosterruine Arnoldstein
About Klosterruine Arnoldstein
Klosterruine Arnoldstein is a former Benedictine abbey in Arnoldstein, inside the Austrian nation of Carinthia. A citadel on the site became first mentioned about 1085/90, then held by ministeriales of the Bamberg prince-bishops who had received prolonged Carinthian estates from the hands of Emperor Henry II on the occasion of his coronation in 1014. To reinforce his episcopal authority, Bishop Otto of Bamberg had the citadel slighted and established a Benedictine convent at the website in 1106. A first abbot seemed about 20 years later. Arnoldstein Abbey changed into vested with prolonged estates within the surrounding vicinity, from 1176 the Carinthian dukes acted as secular Vogt protectors. The monastery complicated was significantly broken via the 1348 Friuli earthquake and the convent skilled reasonable problems exacerbated by means of several Black Death epidemics within the following decades.
In 1495 the monks leased parts of the premises to Jakob Fugger and his brothers who had smelteries and a journey hammer erected. Nevertheless, the state of affairs worsened at some point of the Protestant Reformation, while the convent stood at the edge of economic spoil. In the route of his Counter-Reformation measures round 1600, the Habsburg archduke Ferdinand II of Austria pursued plans to hand over the monastery to the Jesuits which but had been not performed.
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