Augustinian Hermit Monastery (Einbeck)

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Monastery church of the Augustinian monks in 1654

The Augustinian Hermit Monastery , Latin conventus fratrum heremitarum S. Augustini , was a medieval monastery in Einbeck .

location

It was in the eastern old town between the Long Bridge and the Ostertor on today's Möncheplatz in front of Brüdernstrasse. The name "Möncheplatz" still reminds of the location of the monastery in the east of the old town. The square is now used as a parking lot.

history

Work in and around Einbeck

At the end of the 13th century the monastery was founded by donors who have not been handed down. The monks wore black woolen clothing. It had an important library. The church served as the hereditary burial place of the Lords of Berckefeldt and other nobles. It was restored after the city fire of 1540, used as a warehouse after the Reformation and finally demolished in the middle of the 18th century due to dilapidation.

The priests helped out with pastoral care and sermons in the area; For the diocese of Hildesheim , Bishop Johann issued an order for approval in 1363.

The order was a mendicant order and had little real estate. He had some gardens near Einbeck and some properties near Detnisse (desert near Lauenberg ), which he had received from the Corvey monastery in 1409 . From 1385 the order acquired 2 Hufe land near the village of Holtershausen , which finally came into its entirety in 1508. Together with the Abtshof above Holtershausen, which it received from 1421, the order had its largest possession here. Some capital was deposited with the St. Blasien monastery . The monastery lived on alms within its district, which the Provincial Henricus had set in 1316 to the area east of the Weser and south of the Poppenburg in order to delimit it from the district of the Augustinian monastery of Herford to the north-west . The chronicler Johannes Letzner reports in his Dasselischen and Einbeckische Chronica of 1596 that the monk Heinrich donated the house of the baker's guild inherited from his parents to the monastery (the bread house on Einbeck's market square ), on the condition that this annually for eternity to all parish churches should provide hosts for the Lord's Supper free of charge within two miles .

The Reformation introduced in the city in 1529 led to the gradual dissolution of the convent. In the 18th century the monastery was demolished due to its dilapidation.

Work in Hildesheim

1423 the monks bought the chapter of Hildesheim St. Andrew's pin for 70 Rhenish guilders in Hildesheim, the site of St. Aegidien Chapel in the alley leather Hagen Terminei . In the previous year, this had been moved to the episcopal chapel at the cathedral courtyard , as suspicious people were said to have repeatedly stayed in the Lederhagen, also known as Kantorgasse. The monks used the building as a base when traveling. The purchase contract did not take full effect until 1437, as St. Andreas had reserved a right of repurchase until then. The last written mention of the dates comes from the 2nd half of the 15th century; the year it was closed is not known.

seal

The seal of the monastery showed a building consisting of 7 arches and provided with Gothic decorations. Under the middle arch was a seated figure with sword and wheel. Above the seal showed two buildings from the gable side with three doors. Under the roofs there was a half-figure with a key and a book or a sword and a book. The inscription of the seal read: “S. conventus fratrum heremitarum ordinis S. Augustini in Embeke ”.

literature

  • Klinkhardt: The former monasteries in Einbeck and their history , in: Neues Vaterländisches Archiv 1837, pp. 198–202
  • Georg Max: History of the Principality of Grubenhagen Part 1 & 2 , Hanover 1862 & 1863, p. 263, 317 & 346
  • Erich Plümer: A deadline for the Einbeck Augustinian monks in Hildesheim , in: Einbecker Jahrbuch 22, 1955/56, pp. 33-34
  • Einbecker Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): History of the city of Einbeck . Volume I, Einbeck 1990, pp. 117f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Abtshof behind the Hube in Einbecker Morgenpost from September 15, 2012
  2. ^ Evidence for an abbot farm near Holtershausen
  3. ↑ Horst Hülse: The inscriptions of the city of Einbeck (The German inscriptions) . Reichert, L, 1996, ISBN 3-88226-875-1 , pp. 188 ( The Einbecker Inscriptions [accessed December 31, 2016]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 5 ″  N , 9 ° 52 ′ 11 ″  E