Clarissenkloster (Einbeck)
The Clarissa monastery, Latin "conventus sororum de tertia regula S. Francisci ordinis S. Clarae", was a monastery in Einbeck .
It was in the loop road in the southwest of the old town, where later a leash Legge was established. Today there is a café in the building, which is around 50 m west of the Eickesches Haus .
The Convention
The founders and the year of foundation have not been passed down. The first document dates from 1471. It was dedicated to the Holy Cross , so that it was also called "Süsterhus des St. Cruces". The nuns wore gray woolen clothes. At first it was beguines . But they soon lived according to the rules of St. Francis and St. Clara . They did not have their own church, rather they shared the market church . It was not until 1489 that Saint Alexandri allowed a chapel to be built in the monastery. The headmistress was a mater. A Franciscan Provincial was in charge of supervision.
The monastery had a garden and a courtyard between Altendorfer and Benser Tor from a donation from citizen Husbrand from 1471. It also had some capital in the Hildesheim treasury. During Lent, the nuns collected alms. A procurator took care of the economic affairs. In 1521 the citizen Margaretha Tiesemann gave the monastery 250 Rhenish gold gulden , of which the nuns were supposed to care for 13 poor citizens every year during the Lent period before Easter.
The design of the seal has not been handed down. This nunnery also served as a place of refuge for virgins from Einbeck and the surrounding area. Like the neighboring Höckelheim and Wiebrechtshausen monasteries , education was very important. Since the nuns knew Latin, they copied books and were also good at sewing, knitting and embroidery, which supplemented their services with charitable work for society.
After the introduction of the Reformation, the city council granted the Clarissi a lifelong right to live in the monastery. The building was not used privately until the last member of the convent died in 1582.
The existing structure of the monastery
Although the monastery was supposed to be dissolved after the introduction of the Reformation in 1537, it was rebuilt after the city fire of 1540. Today you can see the massive, 19.5 m long, 8.7 m high and 1.3 m thick fire wall of the second city fire (1549). In addition to this wall, the core substance of the monastery building included a cellar in the southeast that collapsed in 1957 and the two stone basement floors of the southern extension. This extension can be used as a chapel, archive or cloister.
literature
- Thomas Kellmann: Stadt Einbeck (monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, volume 7.3), Michael Imhof Verlag 2017, pp. 399–400. ISBN 978-3-7319-0511-0
- Klinkhardt: The former monasteries in Einbeck and their history , in: Neues Vaterländisches Archiv 1837, pp. 207-213
- Einbecker Geschichtsverein eV (Ed.): History of the City of Einbeck , Volume I, p. 117f
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 9 ° 51 ′ 54 ″ E