Monastery Holzkirchen

The Holzkirchen Monastery was a Benedictine provostry in Holzkirchen, west of Würzburg in Lower Franconia.

Drudmunt, a son of the Franconian district count Throand and founder of the Holzkirchen Monastery in the Lower Franconian Waldsassengau, handed over the small monastery "Holtzchiricha," established in 768 and dedicated to the Virgin Mary, to Charlemagne in November 775. Charlemagne in turn transferred it to the imperial monastery of Fulda and its abbot Sturmius at the palace in Düren. The abbot Hrabanus Maurus placed the relics of Saint Magnus and Saint Januarius in a stone sarcophagus at Holzkirchen Monastery. Initially staffed with monks from the mother monastery in Fulda, the monastery soon became independent and had a monastic school, for which 18 scholars are documented in the 10th century. The monastery, dedicated to St. Sixtus among other saints, was under the protection of the Counts of Wertheim around 1130, who already served as partial protectors of the monastery's possessions in Unterleinach from 1224 onwards. The oldest rent book of the Holzkirchen monastery or provostry, preserved in the State Archive Wertheim at the Bronnbach monastery, dates back to 1470.

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