Hagenbusch Monastery

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The Klosterhagen Busch was a Benedictine - Abbey in Xanten .

history

The founding of the monastery not far southwest of the city center in today's Hochbruch district cannot be precisely dated, but since it was a foundation by Abbot Volmar, who died in 1144, it is assumed between 1140 and 1144. In 1156, the Archbishop of Cologne, Arnold I, approved the transfer of the monastery and several properties in Xanten and Beek . In November 1263, the members of the order waived natural produce that the Benedictine nuns of the nearby Fürstenberg monastery had to provide annually, and instead received financial compensation. The Hagenbusch Monastery then acquired further properties in Xanten, Birten and Lüttingen, Sonsbeck and Wardt .

That it was not a prosperous monastery in spite of the land ownership can be guessed from the fact that in 1370 an extraordinary fee could not be paid to the Pope ; As a result, the monastery went into debt to avoid confiscation of the properties. The renovation of the now dilapidated abbey church could only be carried out with the financial help of the Cistercian nuns of the Fürstenberg monastery and further debts.

When the landscape surrounding the monastery was to be leveled by measures taken by the city and converted into arable land, there were several conflicts with the members of the order. On January 22nd, 1407, the monastery was granted the right to use the fields laid out between the monastery and the city; in return, the city received a right of first refusal on the land used by the monastery; on May 6, 1432, the members of the order also received usage rights for the fields west of the monastery.

The further impoverishment of the monastery, the deterioration of the monastery buildings and the members of the order not living in cloister justify the closure of the monastery in 1465, but Abbot Adam Meyer gave the Benedictine nuns free to stay in the monastery or to leave the monastery for good. In the subsequent re-establishment by Benedictine nuns who were appointed there, it cannot be proven whether sisters who were already living there remained there.

In 1473 the abbey got the permission to enclose its possessions with a wall and thus establish a boundary of interests between the Benedictines and the city. However, ten years later, in 1483, there were renewed disputes after the city leased farmland in the vicinity of the monastery. Thereupon the monastery made a promise that without its consent no further land would be sold and the existing lease contracts would not be extended. At the beginning of the 16th century the monastery became impoverished again, so that the members of the order temporarily gave it up and found accommodation in the Agnetenkloster Xanten , which they shared with the Cistercian nuns of the Fürstenberg monastery.

In 1802 the monastery was abolished in the course of the secularization under Napoléon Bonaparte and large parts of the monastery buildings were demolished. The last remains of the Hagenbusch monastery were also destroyed in a fire in 1926.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 41 ″  E