Oedingen women's monastery

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The Oedingen women's monastery was a monastery in what is now the Oedingen district of Lennestadt . It was founded around the year 1000 and existed until it was dissolved in 1533.

History and Development

Chapel on the Oedingerberg

Out of mourning over the death of her husband, Count Hermann I von Werl , who died shortly before the year 1000, his wife Gerberga von Burgund founded the Oedingen women's monastery on the Oedinger Berg in Lochtropgau and retired there after it was established. Gerberga was the daughter of King Konrad III. of Burgundy , her mother Mathilde the daughter of King Louis IV of France . Her aunt Adelheid of Burgundy , her father's sister, was the wife of Otto the Great .

The establishment was by Emperor Otto III. Confirmed on (18) May 21, 1000. The monastery received the same rights as the Essen and Quedlinburg monasteries . Emperor Otto III. took the pen into his personal protection. No bishop or secular judge, count or anyone else could judge the pen or claim it in any way. The canonesses were allowed to choose their abbess and their own bailiff , who represented them externally in worldly matters. The foundation was purely a family foundation, the Westphalian Countess Gerberga was the first abbess, the Westphalian Count von Werl the Vogt. The founder Gerberga married Duke Hermann von Swabia after a short time in the monastery . After his death in 1003 she apparently returned to Oedingen Abbey.

Presumably the ladies of the counts as well as others from the high nobility lived in the monastery. They also did not need to take any vows and were allowed to keep their private assets freely. The aristocratic families later saw the monastery as a means of supplying their daughters until they got married.

In 1042 the daughter of Count Hermann II von Werld , the son of the founder, named Gerberge, is the abbess of Oedingen. Documents show that from 1175 to 1200, Adelheid, daughter of Count Heinrich I von Arnsberg , was abbess. Around 1214 the abbess was called Jutta, and in 1232 the dependence on Meschede Monastery no longer seems to have been so great. In 1272 the abbess is called Agnes von Arnsberg , a daughter of Count Gottfried von Arnsberg .

With the sale of the County of Arnsberg by the last Count Gottfried IV. In 1368, he had to return the Oedingen family monastery because he was denied the necessary protection.

Since most of the women's monasteries were converted into monasteries, in the end only two nuns lived in Oedingen, and it was closed in 1533. Archbishop Hermann V temporarily took it into his possession. His successor, Bishop Adolf III. von Schaumburg wanted to transfer it to the Grafschaft monastery , but over what he died. His successor, Bishop Salentin von Isenburg , transferred part of it to the monastery in Meschede, and needed another part to endow the schools in Werl. The remaining pensions were given to the poor nuns at Odacker in 1601 . The collegiate church had already fallen into disrepair in 1670, and the relics in its altar were transferred to today's parish church.

Certificates

  • On May 18, 1000, Emperor Otto III confirmed. in Elspe the foundation of the Oedingen nunnery by Gerberge, the mother of Count Hermann (von Arnsberg), in whose county the place Oedingen and the Pagus Lohtorp, to which it belonged, were located, and gives him excellent privileges. (SU II, No. 18)
  • 1025 free chairs also belonged to many monastery bailiffs and ecclesiastical manors and a. also in Oedingen. All of them can be dated to before 1025
  • On June 30, 1068 Archbishop Anno the Saint released the court Witenchusen in pago Sosaciensi, which belonged to the church in Oedingen, from all tithe duty at the request of Abbess Gerberge, whereas the Villicus von Grening received compensation. (SU II, No. 29)
  • In 1175 Archbishop Philipp I von Heinsberg confirmed the exchange of 2 Mansis between the monasteries of Oedingen and Scheda . The one who thereby acquired the first was in the Villa Ennest, the one who came to the last in the Villa Birincdorb. (SU II, No. 68)
  • On March 12, 1179, Archbishop Philip I announced an exchange between the monasteries of Oedingen and Oelinghausen for two farms in Bredenbeck and Oelinghausen, the last of which belongs to the main farm in Geveren. (SU II, No. 77)
  • On April 15, 1203 According to a document from Abbess Jutta zu Meschede and Oedingen, the priest Henrikus von Elspe is named alongside other clergymen and lay people. Brill page 41
  • In 1216 the monasteries of Oedingen and Rumbeck swap goods belonging to the main farms of Sirenchusen and Berge with the approval of their governors. (SU II, No. 144)
  • In 1232, the abbess Jutta von Meschede and the provostess Guda von Oedingen transferred the fields to Odensvelt to the Wedinghausen monastery with the approval of their bailiff, the Count of Arnsberg, with the obligation to pay 6 denarii annually to the main farm in Ruren. The villicus and the whole family belonging to this farm are in agreement. (SU II, No. 200)
  • On April 24, 1238, Jutta, Abbess of Meschede and Oedingen, gave Count Gottfried II von Arnsberg a forest belonging to the main Oedingen courtyard, whereas the Count waived certain income and rights that he had from the court as an advocate in Oedingen the Schulten entitled to construction, crockery and fire wood as well as to mast in the Odacker Walde. (SU II, No. 210)
  • On March 16, 1272, the provost and convent of Oedingen approved the exchange of some farms with the Oelinghausen monastery, concluded by their abbess Agnes. (SU II, No. 355)
  • On March 10, 1341 Philipp Sobbe confessed that he had received the farm at Sconenlo in lease from the provostess and the chapter of Oedingen. (SU III, No. 677)
  • On February 14, 1354, the courtiers of Ober- and Nieder-Salvey sell a trademark right in their forest to the convent of the church in Oedingen for the benefit of their chapel. (SU III, No. 729)
  • On January 13, 1374 Pope Gregory XI commissioned the dean of Meschede to bring back to the church all goods illegally sold by the church in Oedingen. (SU III, No. 839)
  • On May 31, 1397, the Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne, Konrad von Arnsberg, moved the parish festival of the church in Oedingen from the day of John's beheading, on which it had been celebrated until then, to the birthday of John the Baptist, and gave it indulgences. (SU III, No. 894)
  • On August 6, 1457, the Mayor and Council of Attendorn decide on the disputed Gütchen zu Oedingen in favor of Keyser between the pastor zu Odyngen and the altarist Johan Keyser zu Elspe.
  • In 1533 the Oedingen women's monastery was abolished, and the associated Oedinger tithe went to the Werler council school. (Fiber optic)

literature

  • Joh. Suibert Seibertz : State and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 2–3: The times of prosperity and strength of the German Empire. (912-1272). 2 parts. Ritter, Arnsberg 1861–1864.
  • Joh. Suibert Seibertz: Document book on the state and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia. 3 volumes. Ritter, Arnsberg 1839–1854.
  • Joseph Brill: history of the parish of Elspe. J. Brill et al., Elspe et al. 1948.
  • Karl Uhlirz , Mathilde Uhlirz : Yearbooks of the German Empire under Otto II. And Otto III. Volume 2: Otto III. 983-1002. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1954 ( Yearbooks of German History 10, 2), online (PDF; 41.05 MB) .
  • Ludwig Böhmer: Contributions to the history of the community Oedingen. sn, s. a.
  • Voices from the Olpe district. various years, ISSN  0177-2899 .
  • Josef Hesse: History of the parish and monastery Drolshagen. City of Drolshagen, Drolshagen 1971.

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 41.7 ″  E