Lochgarten

Title

Lochgarten

Also Known As

Locarden, Louisgarde, Lovkarthen

Dates

Founded ca. 1144; Premonstratensian from 1146; dissolved early 14th c.

Affiliation

Tückelhausen

Medieval Diocese

Würzburg

Circary

Ilfeld

History

Lochgarten was founded by 1144 by Constantine and Giselbert, canons of Lorch, as a Benedictine priory. In 1146, Emicho von Leiningen, bishop of Würzburg, transferred the house to the Premonstratensian Order. The first sisters came from Tückelhausen. In 1324, the community merged with that of Schäftersheim and the sisters moved there.

Nothing now remains of the monastic complex, and a farm today occupies the site.

Status

Women's community

Archival Sources

Neuenstein, Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein

GA 10 Schubl. 23 II Nr. 1 (1144)

GA 10 U 1016 (1155)

Oe 1 Bü 14381 (1530)

Bibliography

Stengele, Benvenut. “Das ehemalige Prämonstratenser-Frauenkloster Lochgarten bei Mergentheim.” Diözesan-Archiv von Schwaben: Organ für Geschichte, Altertumskunde, Kunst und Kultur der Diözese Rottenburg und der angrenzenden Gebiete 12, no. 10 (1894): 39–40. http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/dioezarchivschwab1894/0047.

Files

Collection

Ilfeld

Citation

“Lochgarten,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/551.

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