Böddeken

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Former monastery and today's Gut Böddeken
In the courtyard of the former Böddeken monastery
Old illustration by Alexander Duncker (19th century)
Portrait of St. Augustine at the gatehouse of the former monastery
Depiction of Saint Meinolf at the gatehouse in Böddeken
Landesstraße L751 / 818 with Gut Böddeken and the ruins of the former monastery church

Böddeken is a historic settlement in the northeast of the city of Büren in the Paderborn district . The former monastery and today's Gut Böddeken is located in a karst valley of the Paderborn plateau at the intersection of the state roads L751 and L 818 about 2 km southeast of the Wewelsburg . The valley plains of the estate are of a tributary of the Dahl Gosse , a few kilometers north at Niederntudorf in the Alme opens temporary waters , drained.

In the history of the Principality of Paderborn , the Böddeken Monastery , which was dissolved by Prussia in 1802, was one of the most important religious houses in Westphalia . In the 15th century it was even one of the most influential monasteries in Germany with a European level of effectiveness.

history

The oldest monastery of the Paderborn bishopric was founded in 836 by the Paderborn archdeacon Meinolf as a women's monastery . Only the Corvey Abbey, founded in 815, was older, but soon gained independence from the Paderborn bishop. Little is known about the early days of the house. The foundation is directly related to the translation of the relics of St. Liborius from Le Mans to Paderborn . Meinolf praised the construction of the women's monastery in Bodicon . The legend tells that Meinolf showed himself at this place a deer with a cross in its antlers. Over the years, the Kanonissenstift became an influential and prosperous monastery. Increasingly, only women with a noble background were accepted. Since the 11th century, the designation as a canon pin came up. It seems to have been economic difficulties that drove the monastery into decline in the 14th century. Originally religious tasks also faded into the background due to the house's supply function for aristocratic women.

The inner re-establishment followed at the beginning of the 15th century through the reform movement of the Windesheim congregation . First, in 1408/09, the Paderborn prince-bishop Wilhelm (1382-1428) transferred the rights to Dutch Augustinian canons from the Windesheim monastery near Zwolle . They joined the reform movements and made the monastery one of the largest German monasteries, with more than 40 canons and over 170 lay brothers. In the course of reform activities, an extensive monastery library was created through purchases, donations and, above all, the writing activities of the canons. The canons followed a very humble and laborious code that not only flourished the monastery itself, but also fertilized many other monasteries in Europe. Canons from Böddeken also emigrated to Switzerland and France. The reform monastery itself attracted many visitors. The church reformer and historian Gobelin Person , who was trained in papal Italy and died in Böddeken in 1421 , is closely associated with this reconstruction and fame . Until 1430 Böddeken was under the Neuss Chapter of the Augustinian Canons. In 1443 canons from Böddeken settled the abandoned Kirschgarten monastery in Worms and made it a regional center of church renewal, in 1447 the Höningen monastery in the Palatinate was subordinated to the Böddek convent.

In contrast to other parts of the Hochstift Paderborn , the Reformation had no lasting effects. Nevertheless, the monastery could no longer build on its heyday. The lay brother Göbel reported from the monastery life between 1502 and 1543 .

In anticipation of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, Prussian troops occupied the Duchy of Paderborn on August 3, 1802. On February 19, 1803, officials and soldiers dissolved the Augustinian monastery and the estate with over 670 acres of agricultural land went to the tax authorities as a state domain as part of the secularization . Canon Welschof wrote down his indignation at the time:

“It looked quite pagan and one should have believed that Nabuchodonosor , who had SC plundered the temple in Jerusalem, was on the tube when the Commissioner with his referendair and clerk, and administrator favor with his wife, and administrator and with his father, the governor of Neuhaus, in the middle of the sacred vessels, the goblets, godfathers, monstrances, cibories, incense barrels, mess cups, washing dishes, reliquary boxes and candlesticks, which were dishonored and desecrated, sitting around on the earth, sitting, eating and drinking . "

- Johannes Henricus Welschof : Family Chronicle Welschof

The domain was acquired in 1822 by the first district administrator of the Büren district , Josef von Hartmann, and later passed to the von Mallinckrodt family through marriage . It is the birthplace of Clemens von Droste zu Hülshoff .

Todays use

The Mallinckrodt estate management manages the entire complex, which still belongs to the von Mallinckrodt family today. The estate and its land will continue to be managed as an agricultural operation . Since 1978 there has been a boarding school with 51 places for children in the east wing of the former convent building . Since 2008 there has been a private residential elementary school on Böddeken in addition to the boarding school .

The facility is only partially accessible to the public from the outside.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gut Böddeken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Oeser: The manuscript holdings and the writing activity in the Augustinian canons of Böddeken. In: Archives for the history of the book industry. Volume 7, 1967, p. 317 ff.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Oeser: The manuscript holdings and the writing activity in the Augustinian canons of Böddeken. 1967, p. 318, note 2.
  3. ↑ www.wewelsburg-alte-muehle.de: Gut Böddeken.
  4. ^ LWL: Johannes Henricus Welschof, canon in the Böddeken monastery. ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Feige: The Bürener Land with a city tour and three bike tours. Landscape guide of the Westphalian Heimatbund, Vol. 16. Westphalian Heimatbund and Heimatverein Büren (ed.). Büren, 2008. p. 100.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Feige: The Bürener Land with a city tour and three bike tours. Landscape guide of the Westphalian Heimatbund, Vol. 16. Westphalian Heimatbund and Heimatverein Büren (ed.). Büren, 2008. p. 98.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Feige: The Bürener Land with a city tour and three bike tours. Landscape guide of the Westphalian Heimatbund, Vol. 16. Westphalian Heimatbund and Heimatverein Büren (ed.). Büren, 2008. p. 102.
  8. ↑ www.gut-boeddeken.de
  9. ^ Regional Association Westphalia-Lippe: Garden at the Böddeken monastery in LWL GeodatenKultur (gate entrance at the bus stop).

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 45 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 44"  E