Augustinian monastery in Wesel

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The Augustinian monastery in Wesel on the Lower Rhine existed from 1353 to around 1632. It was located in the city center near the Kornmarkt and was at times also used by nuns of the Premonstratensian order .

location

The monastery was located between today's Ritterstrasse and today's Torfstrasse in Wesel city center. Both streets run directly east of the Kornmarkt. The main building faced Ritterstrasse, while the monastery church faced Torfstrasse. The Torfstraße was sometimes called Augustinerstraße because of the monastery located there.

history

On June 16, 1325 a nobleman from Wesel donated what would later become the monastery property to the Augustinian order . The mendicant order used it as a bedroom or appointment . The deadlines were subordinate to the Marienthal an der Issel monastery , but as early as 1334 the Augustinians received papal permission to build their own monastery in Wesel. For this, however, the consent of the Premonstratensian nuns of the Oberndorf monastery near Wesel was necessary , as they had the corresponding rights. In 1351, the necessary contractual agreement was made with the Oberndorf monastery and construction work began. The monastery was consecrated on May 20, 1353. Seven dates previously belonging to Marienthal were assigned to the new monastery, including in Zwolle , Nijmegen and Doetinchem . In the second half of the 15th century, the monastery acquired all of the land adjacent to the east and thus expanded to Bierbrauerstrasse. Purchases from 1462 to 1491 are documented. This was accompanied by a generous renovation, which speaks for the good financial situation of the former mendicant monks at that time. A source from the early 16th century also depicts the monastery as wealthy.

In the early 16th century the Reformation was initiated by the Augustinian monk Martin Luther . His ideas also spread among the Wesel monks and are said to have been represented by them as early as 1522. In the 1520s and 1530s, the denominational orientation of the city was controversial, from 1540 Wesel was regarded as reforming. A Lutheran then became the prior of the monastery, but internally the denominational orientation remained controversial. From 1545, English and Walloon religious refugees admitted to Wesel were allowed to use the monastery church to practice their faith. The Augustinians increasingly withdrew and from 1587 the monastery served the Premonstratensian women from the previously destroyed Oberndorf monastery. After Wesel was recaptured from Spanish troops by Dutch troops in 1629, the Dutch took care of the dissolution of the monastery. Finally, some Augustinian monks are said to have lived there again and finally left the monastery in 1632 or 1633. Residential buildings emerged from part of the monastery, while the church was successively used as a weapons store, theater, hospital, and grain and flour store. In February 1945 the buildings were destroyed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Announcements No. 109 (historic-vereinigung-wesel.de)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g A deadline became a monastery - the Augustinian hermits in Wesel. (wesel.de)
  3. ↑ History of the German Augustinian Hermits, Volumes 3–4, 1972, p. 169
  4. ↑ History of the German Augustinian Hermits, Volumes 3–4, 1972, p. 169

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 29 "  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 43.5"  E