Bernhard Goeken

Bernhard Goeken, detail of the tomb in St. Georg, Grauhof

Bernhard Goeken CanReg (born November 7, 1660 in Körbecke , † April 4, 1726 in Grauhof ) was a German Augustinian canon , provost of the Grauhof monastery and prior general of the Windesheim congregation .

Life

Goeken grew up as the son of the couple Röttger Goeken and Goda geb. Tegethoff in Baskets in the Paderborn Abbey . He received his academic and theological training at the Jesuit College and at the Philosophical-Theological University in Paderborn . He then entered the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of St. Georg in Grauhof near Goslar , where he made his profession in 1680 and was ordained priest in 1683 . In 1690 he was elected the third provost since the monastery was repopulated.

At that time the Grauhof convent buildings had largely fallen into disrepair as a result of the Reformation and the Thirty Years War . The Canons of Windesheim, to whom the complex had been handed over after the restitution of the Hildesheim Monastery, had only been able to carry out the most urgent building measures under Goeken's two predecessors. Under Goeken, supported by a period of economic prosperity, the construction of the entire monastery complex and the collegiate church in the Baroque style began . To do this, he brought the Lombard builder Francesco Mitta to Grauhof. At the same time, Goeken made the internal renewal of the convent his task. The Latin sayings above the two portals of the monastery, which are chronograms and rhyming verses at the same time and were probably written by Goeken himself, testify to both .

Goeken's high esteem is evident in his appointment to the Treasury of the Duchy of Hildesheim in 1693.

In 1715 the Windesheim congregation elected him their prior general.

When Goeken died in 1726, he was buried in the collegiate church on the south wall of the foremost nave yoke. At that time the new construction of the monastery and church was completed and the interior of the convent was consolidated. Goeken's successor in the office of Provost Heinrich Eikendorff completed the interior of the church and had an elaborate marble tomb erected over Goeken's grave, which bears the year 1731 and the name of the artist Lorenz Franz Biggen .

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  South entrance of the Grauhof monastery with inscription:
  
  TR I ST I B V S I N T V RB I S,
  TR VCI B V SQ V E T VMVL T I B V S V RB I S
  Q V AE VICI NA F VI T
  FABR IC A FRA C TA R VI T.
  ( 1527)
  BERNAR DV S STR VXI T,
  V ASTATAQ V E TE C TA RE DVXI T:
  ASS I STEBAT E I
  GRAT I A L ARGA D E I.
  (1701)
  “In the sad turmoil and wild tumult of the neighboring city, the building sank into ruins. Bernhard built and rebuilt the destroyed roofs. The abundant grace of God granted him assistance. "
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  Main portal of the Grauhof monastery with inscription:
  
  VIVI TE C ONFRATRES;
  LI GET V N I O MV T V A PATRES:
  PA X I N EA DV RET;
  S I STYG I S I RA F V RET.
  (1703)
  Bernardus Göeken Praepositus.
  “Live as confreres; mutual agreement binds the fathers together:
  peace is permanent in her when the fury of hell rages.
  Bernhard Goeken, Provost. "

literature

• Bernhard Goeken (1660–1726) from Körbecke near Warburg. In: The waiting . 103/1999, p. 5f.

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