Hamborn Abbey

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View into the cloister
Fountain in the cloister
St. Johann Abbey Church

The Hamborn Abbey is a Premonstratensian in the same Duisburg district of Alt Hamborn . The abbey is part of the diocese of Essen , but formally does not belong to it.

history

The current abbey church goes back to a small parish church that was built on a manor called Havenburn by the Lords of Hochstaden in the 9th century.

In the course of time, the landlords leased the land surrounding the estate to farmers who settled here. The name of the manor was soon passed on to the entire parish . The Hamborn parish was created , which was later raised to a separate judicial district.

In 1136, Gerhard von Hochstaden gave his Hamborner property away to the Archbishop of Cologne on the condition that a Premonstratensian monastery should be built on the site of the parish church . After the parish church had been converted into a monastery church and the cloister and the actual monastery had been built, the monastery complex was consecrated in 1170 and made an abbey.

After the Napoleonic occupation of the Rhineland by the French army, the government appointed by him had this monastery as well as almost all the others abolished as part of the secularization . While the monastery property fell to the state, the monastery church of the Hamborner population remained as a parish church.

During the Second World War , the monastery and abbey church - like large parts of the Ruhr area - were significantly destroyed by Allied air raids .

As part of the re-establishment of the Diocese of Essen in 1958, the Hamborn Abbey was re-established in 1959 and settled by Premonstratensians from the Rot an der Rot monastery . In 1994 it was raised to the status of an abbey again by the Premonstratensian Order.

present

Monastery church. Look at the choir
The monastery church from the cemetery
Extension of the abbey

Today 29 canons belong to Hamborn Abbey, of which the youngest is 23 years old and the oldest is 83 years old. The abbot is Prelate Albert Thomas Dölken O.Praem., Who has headed the monastery since 1995. The canons are mainly active in pastoral care in the Duisburg area, and some of the Premonstratensians are also involved in episcopal administration, in schools and academia, as well as in various aid organizations and social projects. In addition to the location in Duisburg, the Premonstratensian Canons in Magdeburg, with currently three priests, also belong to the Hamborn Abbey as a dependent priory . Other areas of application include pastoral care in the former Premonstratensian abbeys of Cappenberg (in the southern Münsterland) and Sayn (near Koblenz).

The steady growth of the community made it necessary to expand the monastery building, so that the new building could be inaugurated in 2011.

The Abbey Gymnasium , the Abbey Center, which is used in particular to hold conferences and cultural events and is equipped with a tourist office, and the St. Johannes Hospital are located on the old site of Hamborn Abbey . In the abbey center there was also the abbey cellar restaurant and the Zum Hl. Geist restaurant in the old porter's house of the abbey . Today a Caritas center is located in the premises of the former restaurant Zum Hl. Geist. The abbey is located in the social hotspot of the north of Duisburg with its well-known districts of Marxloh and Bruckhausen in an area that is no longer predominantly Christian. The pastoral and social-pastoral tasks of the abbey are based on this today.

In addition to the abbey church with its sights, the treasury can also be visited.

Abbots and Priors

The "from" does not (always) indicate a noble origin, but is often an indication of the origin.

1958 until today

1136 to 1806

  • Karl Adalbert von Bayer, abbot 1790–1806
  • Alexander von der Horst , abbot 1782–1790
  • Ferdinand von Dunckel , abbot 1757–1782
  • Johan Arnold von Houven, abbot 1742–1757
  • Heinrich von Daell, Abbot, 1726–1742
  • Gottfried von Bemmel, abbot 1724–1726
  • Wilhelm Heinrich von Bentinck , abbot 1705–1724
  • Johann von Breidenbach , abbot 1694–1705
  • Johann von Breidenbach, abbot 1677–1694
  • Johann Albert von Heerdt, abbot 1672–1677
  • Wilhelm Gottfried von Hyllen, abbot 1647–1672
  • Stephan von der Stein, abbot 1619–1646
  • Wilhelm Ingenhoven zu Gelinde, abbot 1603–1619
  • Christoph von Husen , abbot 1553–1582
  • Albert Hane, abbot 1544–1553
  • Wilhelm von Wyenhorst, abbot 1517–1543
  • Johann Staël von Holstein , abbot 1487–1517
  • Elbert van den Bongart , abbot 1483–1487
  • Hermann von Hiesfeld, abbot around 1487
  • Heinrich Rinsche, abbot 1451–1476
  • Dietrich Estas, abbot 1426-1451
  • Berthold von Brabeck , abbot 1417–1424
  • Konstantin Kron, abbot 1392-1414
  • Volkwin, Abbot 12./13. century
  • Heinrich van den Berghe, abbot 1350–1388
  • Hermann von Holte, Abbot 1231–1234
  • Heinrich Stecke, abbot 1325–1345
  • Johann, abbot 1321-1322
  • Arnold, Abbot 1314-1318
  • Gerhard, abbot around 1308
  • Christian, abbot 1306-1310
  • Drudo, abbot around 1301
  • Conrad, Abbot 1297-1299
  • Gottfried, abbot around 1295
  • Laurentius, abbot 1287–1291
  • Johann, abbot 1281-1290
  • Gottschalk von Befreyt, abbot around 1272
  • Dietrich, abbot around 1268
  • Philipp, abbot around 1252
  • Friedrich, abbot 1216-1230
  • Dietrich, Provost around 1208
  • Gottfried, abbot 1195–1200
  • Allardus, abbot 12th century
  • Nicholas, provost 12th century
  • Gernod, Provost 1157–1166
  • Lambert, Provost around 1147

scout

From 2002, a tribe of the German Pfandfinderschaft Sankt Georg was located in the adjacent abbey center . The tribe of Hamborn Abbey, which was named after the abbey. For many years the scouts took part in religious events in the abbey and worked in close contact with the monks in the monastery. Every year the abbey received the light of peace from Bethlehem . However, due to financial and personnel difficulties, the tribe had to be dissolved in 2018.

organ

Organ prospectus

The organ in the abbey church was built in 1986 by Mönch Orgelbau from Überlingen. The slider chests -instrument has 45  registers with 3,181 pipes on three manuals and pedal . The playing and stop actions are mechanical.

I positive C-g 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Reed flute 4 ′
4th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Duplicate 2 ′
6th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Scharff IV 1'
8th. Cromorne 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
9. Praestant 16 ′
10. Principal 8th'
11. Voce Umana 8th'
12. Covered flute 8th'
13. Octave 4 ′
14th Pointed flute 4 ′
15th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Super octave 2 ′
17th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Cymbel III 1 ⁄ 2 ′
19th Cornet V 8th'
20th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
21st Bourdon 16 ′
22nd Flûte harmonique 8th'
23. Gamba 8th'
24. Voix céleste 8th'
25th Principal 4 ′
26th Flûte octaviante 4 ′
27. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. Quarte de Nazard 2 ′
29 Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
30th Sifflet 1'
31. Fittings V. 2 ′
32. Basson 16 ′
33. Trumpet harm. 8th'
34. Hautbois 8th'
35. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedals C – f 1
36. Principal bass 16 ′
37. Sub-bass 16 ′
38. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
39. Octave bass 8th'
40. Thought bass 8th'
41. Chorale bass 4 ′
42. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
43. Bombard 16 ′
44. Trumpet 8th'
45. Clarine 4 ′
  • Coupling : III / II, I / II, III / I, III / P, II / P, I / P

Bells

The provost church has a five-part ringing of bronze bells with the disposition d'– f'– g'– a'– c ”. The bells with the diameters 1415 mm, 1162 mm, 1021 mm, 922 mm and 775 mm have the weights 1737 kg, 980 kg, 650 kg, 475 kg and 260 kg. Bells II to V were cast by the Otto bell foundry from Bremen-Hemelingen in 1954 and 1958 . Bell I was cast in 2005 by the Bachert bell foundry .

Sources and further reading

  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): The bills of the poor charity of the Hamborner parish from 1766 to 1807 and the associated correspondence with the state authorities . From files in the Hamborn abbey archive, the main state archive in Düsseldorf and the city archive in Duisburg. Sources and materials for the Hamborner Geschichte 4, 1988.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): Income from Hamborn Abbey (approx. 1560 - approx. 1584) from Holten, Walsum, Götterswickerhamm, Spellen, Borth, Ginderich, Wesel, Hünxe, Dinslaken and Orsoy . A manuscript in the Hamborn Abbey Archive. Sources and materials for the Hamborner Geschichte 9, 1993.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): Income register of Hamborn Abbey 1658–1670 . A manuscript in the Hamborn Abbey Archive. Sources and materials for the Hamborner Geschichte 11, 1999.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): Regesta on the lease book of Hamborn Abbey 1617–1665 . Main State Archive Düsseldorf, inventory of Hamborn Monastery, file 187D. As Ms. ed. and with note vers. by Ludger Horstkötter. Duisburg-Hamborn 1995. Series: Sources and materials on the Hamborner story No. 10.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): The lease books of Hamborn Abbey 1427–1616 . The files of the Hamborn monastery 187A, 187B and 187C in the main state archive in Düsseldorf (mostly reconstructed from the estate of Dr. Franz Rommel) with additions from other archive holdings. As Ms. ed. and with note vers. by Ludger Horstkötter. Duisburg-Hamborn 2000.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): Documents on the economic situation of Hamborn Abbey (1658–1754) . Financial statements 1658–1722, income accounts 1673–1754 and regestations for the lease book 1663–1753. From files in the main state archive in Düsseldorf / as Ms. ed. and with note vers. by Ludger Horstkötter. Series: Sources and materials on the Hamborner story No. 13.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger (ed.): Documents on the economic situation of Hamborn Abbey (approx. 1750–1806) . Contains smoking hens, rent hens 1773–1806, income accounts of Hamborn Abbey 1755–1804, registers on the lease book of Hamborn Abbey from approx. 1757 to approx. 1768, taxation of Hamborn Abbey by Prussia approx. 1650–1806. Duisburg-Hamborn 2005. Series: Sources and materials on the Hamborner story No. 15.
  • Horstkötter, Ludger: Premonstratensian Abbey Hamborn . 2nd edition Duisburg-Hamborn 2004
  • Backmund, Norbert: History of the Premonstrate Order . Grafenau 1986.
  • Backmund, Norbert: Monasticon Praemonstratense . 3 volumes (Latin). Straubing 1949-1956.
  • Irene Crusius , Helmut Flachenecker (ed.): Studies on the Premonstratensian order . Publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, vol. 185. Studies on Germania Sacra, vol. 25. Göttingen 2003.
  • Handgrätinger, Thomas (ed.): Sent like him. The Order of the Premonstratensian Canons today . Wurzburg 1984.
  • Huber, Augustinus Kurt: The Premonstratensians . Schoenau 1961.
  • Philipp Bockelbrink, Claudia Euskirchen, Brigitta Kunz: Investing in the future - 875 years of Hamborn Abbey. In: Duisburg Monument Themes No. 9, Duisburg 2011. ( PDF (2.34 MB) )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our convent
  2. ↑ Our ministry today
  3. ↑ Magdeburg Monastery
  4. ↑ Bright and open to newcomers (PDF; 54 kB)
  5. ↑ Magdeburg Monastery
  6. ↑ Information on the organ
  7. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 111, 437, 552, 555, 563 .
  8. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen 2019, p. 556, here in particular 127, 414, 415, 508, 510, 516 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen ).

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 24.5 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 47 ″  E