Historic – Games, Scheibbs: Parish and Charterhouse

The festivals and the town of Scibes (Scheibbs) are first mentioned around 1150 in the vicarage of the Diocese of St. Leonhard am Forst. On the Feast of Candles 1352, Duke Albrecht II elevated Scheps to city status in the second founding decade. A look at ancient documents and records shows how tangled the city of Chips with the founding of the monastery at the Games over the centuries in ecclesiastical and economic matters.

The first founding deed by Duke Albrecht II dated June 24, 1330 envisages a double rented house in Gaming with 24 friars and a former. The rented house was to be called “Maria Throne”. On August 13, 1332, the foundation stone of the church and monastery was laid. Ten years later the number of monks was so full that on the feast of St. Coloman on October 13, 1342, the Bishop of Gork performed the inauguration ceremony. In 1367 the construction of Charterhouse was completed. Duke Albrecht II, who died in 1368 and was the founder of the Diocese of Scheibbs and the Gaming charterhouse, is buried next to his wife and sister-in-law in Gaming.