Augustinian Monastery (Anklam)
The Augustinian monastery in Anklam was a monastery of the Augustinian hermits . It existed from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
history
On April 20, 1304, the bishop of Cammin Heinrich von Wacholz allowed the Augustinian hermit monastery in Stargard in Pomerania to build a monastery in Anklam. The actual foundation took place in 1310. The Augustinians received a building from the city of Anklam, which was located near the city wall in the area where today's Brüderstraße joins Klosterstraße. The Anklamer City Council tried to prevent the transition from urban to intellectual property. Therefore, the Augustinians were forbidden to acquire any further property without the consent of the council. They were not allowed to accept houses or land in the Stadtfeld that had fallen to them in their wills, but only the proceeds from their sale.
In 1342, the Augustinians were given permission to build a chamber for the monks on the city wall, for which they had to break the ice on the city moat in the area of the monastery property in winter. In 1384 and 1478 the monastery fell victim to city fires. After the first fire, the Augustinians were able to acquire a neighboring property and thereby significantly expand the monastery. The Anklam mendicant monks got into a dispute with the Augustinian monastery in Helmstedt in 1393 because of the limits of their appointments . At the provincial chapter in Magdeburg the boundary between Dassow and Gadebusch was established. In Greifswald , the monastery had a terminating house until 1527. The income from benevolent gifts and begging enabled the Anklam Augustinian hermits to lend money themselves.
The Augustinian monasteries in Anklam, Königsberg , Friedeberg , Konitz , Rössel , Heiligenbeil , Stargard and Gartz (Oder) founded a joint educational institution in 1415, which was located in a different monastery every year. Each of the monasteries could send one of their young men ( juvenis ) there for a fee. For Anklam, 1423 or 1424 is assumed to be the year the school was accommodated. Among other things, historical studies were carried out in the library of the monastery, which Thomas Kantzow and probably Johannes Bugenhagen referred to in their chronicles.
Johannes Schiphower was prior of the monastery from 1491 or 1493 to 1497 . Various indications speak in favor of Johann Berckmann's membership .
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Anklam monastery joined the congregation of Johann von Staupitz . With the advent of the Reformation , the income from alms declined. After several monks had left the monastery, those who stayed behind reached a settlement with the city of Anklam on July 24, 1530, in which they, in return for an assurance of protection and a lifelong supply of food and clothing, the property as well as the documents and treasures of the monastery Handed over to the city council. During the visitation carried out by Jobst von Dewitz and Nikolaus Brun in 1535 , the monastery was no longer mentioned. The monastery building, damaged by lightning in 1530 , became the property of the Dukes of Pomerania in 1536 with the consent of the council . It was later demolished and the property, which was then used as a garbage dump, was sold at the beginning of the second half of the 16th century.
literature
- Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 1, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1924, pp. 1-12.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 28.3 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 25.1" E