Aegidia freedom

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Excerpt from the "Plan of the City of Braunschweig" by Albrecht Heinrich Carl Conradi around 1755, with the freedom of aegidia. Pictures include: Aegidienkirche (dark red in the center), to the left of it the Aegidienkloster ("O"), the Aegidienmarkt ("W"), the Augusttor (lower left corner), various oker arms (dark green).

The aegidia freedom was next to the castle freedom and the district of the Cyriakus monastery one of the special rights districts of the medieval city ​​of Braunschweig . The 1400 also St. Ilienhof or Klosterfreiheit called district was in the south of the city on the "Agiedienhügel" or "Koeppe mountain", with 76 meters the highest point of the city and enclosed the 1115 by bruno African Countess Gertrude the Younger of Braunschweig founded Aegidienkloster whose area bordered the Altewiek soft patch .

history

The Aegidienfreiheit has several arms, who was then still relatively unregulated running through the town Oker flows around and was probably surrounded by a wall, but probably from the 1200s through the city wall was unnecessary. You could pass through the monastery gate, the Aegidientor and the water gate. In addition, the surrounding wall had four keep , one of which was called "Schelle" and another "Weißenburg". Inside the wall were, among other things, the church, the monastery, the farmyard of the monastery, the Aegidienmühle, the Aegidienschule (the later garrison school ) and the Ottilien part to the north-west . The Aegidienmarkt followed in the north and Mönchsstrasse in the south .

From a legal point of view, the freedom of aegidia did not belong to the city of Braunschweig, but acted legally independently. Between the beginning of the Reformation in Braunschweig in 1528 and the loss of urban independence in 1671, the freedom of aegidia was directed by a city administrator, as the monks had left the monastery. A women's monastery existed there from 1615 .

literature

  • Hermann Dürre : History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. Braunschweig 1861 ( digitized version )
  • Ute Römer-Johannsen, Christof Römer : 800 years of St. Aegidien. Liebfrauenmünster of the Catholic parish of St. Nicolai in Braunschweig. In: Publications of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. 22, Braunschweig 1979.

Web links

Commons : Aegidien Freiheit  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Dürre: History of the City of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. P. 736.
  2. ^ Hermann Dürre: History of the city of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. P. 512.
  3. ^ Hermann Dürre: History of the city of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. P. 671.
  4. ↑ Ute Römer-Johannsen, Christof Römer: 800 years of St. Aegidien. Liebfrauenmünster of the Catholic parish of St. Nicolai in Braunschweig. P. 26.
  5. ^ Hermann Dürre: History of the city of Braunschweig in the Middle Ages. P. 737.
  6. ↑ Städtisches Museum Braunschweig (Hrsg.): The exhibition "History of the City of Braunschweig" in the old town hall. Part 1, p. 91.

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 34.1 "  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 31.5"  E