Oldekloster

Memorial stone in Moorweg.

The Oldekloster was a Benedictine monastery in the church today Moorweg , Samtgemeinde Esens . It is shown southwest of Esens on the East Frisian map by David Fabricius from 1589 and later maps . It had a Marian shrine and was an important regional pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages.

The monastery is named as an agricultural branch of the Marienkamp monastery of the Augustinian canons near Esens from 1421 , but is probably considerably older. It is likely to go back to the foundation of a Benedictine monastery, which was first mentioned in 1235 and was probably the predecessor of Marienkamp. It was probably also the monks from Oldekloster and Kloster Sconamora who created a drainage system in the region and founded Bensersiel around 1300 .

Oldekloster owned an important Marian shrine and was a place of pilgrimage with its own church. After 1424 the prior of Marienkamp, ​​Arnold von Crefeld, had a new choir room built in the Oldekloster.

With the secularization of Marienkamp in 1530, the Oldekloster was also abolished and became the property of the East Frisian count. They had sheep farming operated in Oldekloster, which they placed under the administration of the Schoo domain . The southern part of the land was afforested and privatized as Schooer Wald around 1900, and the land around the former monastery site was sold as agricultural land in the first third of the 20th century. No buildings have survived from the monastery. It is unclear what the monastery once looked like. Excavations have not taken place to date. Around 250 meters southwest of the desert there are traces of a fish pond in the grassland on the edge of the forest, around 700 meters southeast relics of old water management systems and peat cuttings under the forest, which are attributed to the monastery.

literature

• Axel Heinze: Marienthal . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 2, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-958-5 , p. 1003 ff. (Also describes Oldekloster)

Web links

• Monasteries in the municipality of Esens

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Heinze: Marienthal . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 2, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-958-5 , p. 1003 ff.
2. ↑ Axel Heinze: Water management development in the Esens area (PDF; 95 kB), viewed on November 19, 2012.
3. ↑ Axel Heinze: Oldekloster  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 20, 2012.  

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 30.5 ″  E