Dominican order in Warburg
The Dominican Order resided in Warburg for over 700 years with interruptions .
Founded in 1215 mendicant orders of the Dominicans - Ordo Praedicatorum , "Order of Preachers" - was by Bishop Otto von Rietberg appointed in 1281 by Warburg. On the feast day of John the Baptist , June 24, 1281, they moved into an episcopal house in the vicinity of the old town church. The establishment was confirmed as a convent by the General Chapter of the Order . Right at the beginning of their stay there was resistance to the settlement through envy and competitiveness. This dispute was exacerbated by the fact that the bishop assigned the old town church of St. Maria in vinea to the Dominicans, dissolved the old town parish and united the old towners with the new town parish . This created a conflict between the old townspeople and the bishop. The conflict was defused by the fact that the Dominicans built a new building on the mountain spur and gave up the old town parish. A monastery school was set up on the new Dominican site, which later became the Marianum grammar school .
In 1810 the order was legally suppressed by a decree of King Jérôme Bonaparte , and the monastery and school were dissolved by the subsequent Prussian occupation in 1824. The property was confiscated by the state and the buildings were nationalized. The school was reopened in 1826 as the '' Königliches Progymnasium zu Warburg ''.
At the end of the 19th century, the Dominicans returned to Warburg. They needed a training facility for their offspring. In 1908 the newly constructed building on Klosterstrasse was moved into from 1903. In 1993 this monastery was given up after restructuring of the order province.
The monastery building was bought by the Syrian Orthodox Church in Germany in 1996 . It is still the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Germany and is used as the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Jakob von Sarug .
Well-known Dominicans from Warburg
- Otto Beckmann (1476–1556), theologian, pastor, humanist and opponent of Martin Luther
- Gordian Landwehr (1912–1998), prior in Leipzig, important preacher in the GDR
- Remigius Chmurzynski (1917-2006), theologian, syndic
- Diego Arenhoevel (1930–1983), Old Testament scholar, Bible translator
- Paul-Heinz Guntermann (1930–2006), former head of the foreign secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference
- Christoph Schönborn (* 1945), Cardinal and Archbishop of Vienna
Web links
literature
- Joseph Hense: Catalog of the so-called Dominican Library in Warburg, I. half . In: Annual report of the high school in Warburg . 1886.
- Burkard Runne (ed.): The Dominicans in Warburg. 1281-1993 . 3rd edition, Hermes Verlag, Warburg 1993 (Warburger Schriften; Vol. 9).
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 54.6 ″ E