Cellitinnenkloster Klein-Nazareth

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The Cellitinnenkloster Klein-Nazareth was a monastery in the city of Cologne . The community of sisters belonged to the religious family of the Cellites , but in contrast to all other monasteries of this religious family, they were not permanently active in nursing.

history

In 1307 Heymo (Heyman) dictus de Duren and his wife decided that their house at the Würfelpforte on Unter Sachsenhausen (“under sixteen houses”) should serve as a convent for 12 Beguines after their death ; the execution of this project was entrusted to the Pleban of St. Paul and the officials of Niederich . In 1314 the founders bequeathed their daughter Bela, who had joined the "Düren" or "Heyman" convents, 1 mark of hereditary interest that was to be distributed among the three oldest Beguines after her death. The administration was taken over by the Master or Rectrix, while the spiritual supervision was initially carried out by the pastor of St. Paul, and later by the Brothers of the Cross.

After the convent, which had only six sisters in 1477 , adopted the rule of St. Augustine with the Constitutions of the Cellites in 1474 , the monastery received permission to erect a prayer room and an altar in the house in 1486 , as well as a world or To have religious clergy read Holy Mass, but with the doors closed and without ringing bells. In the same year the inauguration of this non-public chapel was made , which thwarted the city council's plans to unite the convent with another.

The sisters made their living mainly by handwork, initially also by nursing, but they were released from nursing at the general chapter in Haarlem in 1500 . Although the monastery received a new chapel the following year, it may not have been an independent building until the chapel was consecrated in 1551 . Less than a hundred years later, namely in 1639 , there was a considerable structural expansion of the building, which was certainly necessary since the convent grew to 51 sisters in the 17th century, so that the available space proved to be inadequate.

The chapel of the monastery, which has been known as Klein-Nazareth since the 16th century, was a hall about 8 × 12 m in area, the north side was directly on the street; to the south, however, a narrow cloister courtyard of 7 × 28 m open space. To the west stretched a small forecourt with the monastery gate. Covering a fairly large garden to the south, the monastery was closed on September 2, 1802 , the total capital value of the community being estimated at 32,696 francs and the pensions to be paid to the sisters at around 4,300 francs. A cotton mill was built on the monastery site.

literature

  • Marianne Gechter: Little Nazareth. Chapel of the Cellitinnenkloster . In: Förderverein der Romanischen Kirchen in Köln (Hrsg.): The furnishing of the Cologne churches in the Renaissance and Baroque 1550 to 1800 (=  Colonia Romanica . Volume XX ). tape 3 . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-7743-0363-8 , pp. 277 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Friedrich Everhard Freiherr von Mering , Ludwig Reichert: Das Frauenkloster Klein-Nazareth, Cellite order of the rule of healing. Augustine . In: The bishops and archbishops of Cologne in their order, together with the history of the origin, progress and decay of the churches and monasteries of the city of Cologne, with special reference to the churches and monasteries of the archdiocese . tape 2 . M. Lengfeld, 1844, p. 171–173 ( digitized from Google Books ).
  2. ^ A b Marianne Gechter: Little Nazareth. Chapel of the Cellitinnenkloster . In: Förderverein der Romanischen Kirchen in Köln (Hrsg.): The furnishing of the Cologne churches in the Renaissance and Baroque 1550 to 1800 (=  Colonia Romanica . Volume XX ). tape 3 . Greven Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-7743-0363-8 , pp. 277 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '32.4 "  N , 6 ° 57' 5.3"  E