Augustinian Hermits Monastery (Herford)

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The street name and sign are reminiscent of the monastery

The Augustiner Eremiten Monastery was a medieval monastery in Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia.

history

Little is known about the early and founding history of the convent, which was founded before 1288. The monastery church was built between 1280 and 1300. It was a three-bay hall church . The appointment districts with the Einbeck monastery were established in 1316. In the first half of the 14th century, twelve appointments and hospices followed . During his visit to Herford, Emperor Karl IV stayed in the monastery in 1377, and in 1379 the chapter of the Thuringian-Saxon province of the Augustinian hermits took place here.

In the 15th century there were several reform efforts in the Herford convent and by fraternal lords , but also disputes with the city. In 1478 the city council restricted the rights of the convent, drove away the observants and forbade the convention to preach and beg in public places, read masses in city churches and use the city mills.

The Reformation ideas found their way into the Herford convent early on, which introduced the Reformation in the monastery in the 1520s . The convent also promoted the Reformation in the city. The Augustinian hermit Johann Dreier is considered to be Herford's reformer. He left the convent in 1530 and became the first Lutheran preacher at Herford Cathedral . On April 7, 1532, he read the new Herford Church Ordinance , which he had written and printed in Wittenberg in 1534. The Augustinian Hermit Monastery was abolished in 1540.

After the abolition of the convention, the properties were handed over to the city and the Imperial Abbey of Herford . The monastery church, presumably consecrated to St. Mary, was divided into two parts. The eastern part became the school church, the western warehouse. From 1692 the western part served as the Evangelical Reformed parish church. It was demolished in 1772 and the school church in 1806. The last parts of the monastery were demolished in 1886. Some of the stones were used to build the stone gate bridge. Some of the stones built there could be assigned to the Augustinian Church.

In 1869, on the site of the old Augustinian Church in Brüderstraße, a building was built in the classical style for the Friedrichs-Gymnasium . It was demolished in 1972 so that a department store could be built there

In March 2017, remnants of the north wall of the former monastery church were found during construction work.

literature

  • Kaspar Elm , Ulrich Hinz: Herford - Augustinian hermits . In: Westfälisches Klosterbuch, Vol. 1, pp. 424–429.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elm / Hinz, p. 425.
  2. ↑ Elm / Hinz, p. 425f.
  3. ↑ Elm / Hinz, p. 427f.
  4. ↑ Elm / Hinz, p. 425.
  5. ^ New Westphalian dated March 9, 2017: Monastery wall comes to light

Coordinates: 52 ° 6 ′ 52.5 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 29.3"  E