Dobbertiner registered book
The Dobbertiner registration book provides information about the noble virgins who were registered as conventuals in the Dobbertin monastery in Mecklenburg and was kept for exactly the years 1696 to 1918. The document from the time when the monastery was an evangelical aristocratic women's monastery also contains information on the history of many Mecklenburg noble families. In the 222 years, 160 of the best-known and oldest noble families had their daughters enrolled in the Dobbertin monastery. The original of the Dobbertiner registration book is in the state main archive Schwerin . The first conventual women were probably exclusively virgins of noble class.
The registration of the daughters of advisable bourgeois families in the Mecklenburg rural towns was not made on lists until 1737 and ended in 1919.
Noble registrations
When after the Reformation from 1572 the Mecklenburg monasteries were handed over to the knights and landscape, the Dobbertiner monastery was also designated as an evangelical, aristocratic women's monastery for the Christian upbringing of domestic virgins . In the centuries that followed, single virgins of the landed nobility enjoyed the advantages of this foundation as conventuals, also known as canons, nuns or fräulein.
The admission of the virgins from the nobility and later also from the citizen families of the cities who were able to advise them was, as far as the means and places were sufficient in the women's monastery, initially the sole responsibility of the provisional and the chef as tax officials. Admission requirements according to the monastery order of 1572 were, among other things, not only the Christian religion and virginity, but also the aristocratic origin with the provision of the ancestry.
The previous purchase money was converted into a registration fee. In addition, the monastery rules say: "That a certain number of virgins are taken into the monasteries, who, according to their means, bring in some money for the maintenance of the monastery, if they would stay in the monastery and die, everything has to stay with the monastery ..." In the account book of the Dobbertin Monastery from 1491 to 1872 there are precise records and evidence of the payments made by the virgins made by the prioresses and, after the Reformation, by the dominae.
After 1572, the entries were initially made on lists and in some account books, which were not always complete. In the Schwerin state archives there are still registers from 1491 to 1560 and from 1600 to 1633 of the prioresses and nuns of Dobbertin. The originals are in the Danish Imperial Archives in Copenhagen , where they were copied, compared and authenticated by Friedrich Lisch on May 17, 1859. There are daughters of the following noble families:
- by Barold
- from Bischwang
- by Brockmanns
- of design
- Schlottmann von Freyburg
- von Ganz (von Putlitz)
- from Halberstadt
- from Hagenow
- from Kerkberg
- from Koller
- from Kroepelin
- from Rostke
- from Scharffenberg
- from Schwerin
- by Stoislaff
- by Wamekow
From 1696 onwards, the large leather-bound registered book was kept in Dobbertin with a sequence of numbers, according to which the monastery places were allocated in future. The last entry was made on January 26, 1918 under the number 2066.
The right to enroll his daughters in the state monastery was to become an important privilege of the old and native Mecklenburg nobility. By enrolling, the parents ensured their daughters a regular pension at an early stage. Therefore, just a few days after the birth, they had their eldest daughter enrolled in Dobbertin, the second born in Malchow Monastery and the third in Ribnitz Monastery . The master chef made the order of registrations only after the registration fee had been submitted. Fast enrollment was often decisive for later admission, especially if previous applicants married, died or recognition of the monastic capacity was refused. The examination of the monastery ability was a matter for the provisional. In order to obtain an expektance, the eligibility for a monastery position, the ancestor had to be provided. The birth certificate of the paternal grandmother and the maternal grandparents had to be presented with the pedigree. In dubious cases, the decision, but also the confirmation of monastery ability, was always made by the state parliament.
When a place in the monastery became free, the next registered lady could move up on request. As a rule, 32 conventual women lived in Dobbertin. Since the many enrollments exceeded the number of available places, the fräuleins often had to wait some time until they even got a quarter or half increase, as they called the effortless income in the monastery.
On April 22, 1974, Elisabeth-Charlotte Countess von Bassewitz, who was born on April 20, 1891 at Schlitz Castle and registered under the number 1824, died as the last conventual of the women's monastery to live in Dobbertin. She was buried in the historic monastery cemetery.
Civil / urban enrollments
Little is known about the bourgeois daughters and their admission to the noble convent before 1606. At the state parliament on June 25, 1606, the towns in Sternberg complained to the duke that their daughters should not be excluded, which the knighthood rejected. There are also no entries made in the account books that are still in existence.
In 1696 a list of the then twenty-two conventual women of the Hoch Adelichen Jungfräulein Klosters Dobbertin was made. From 1698 on, detailed audit reports were drawn up.
In 1723 the landscape was excluded from the occupation of monastery positions. It was not until the state parliament resolution in Güstrow on November 14, 1737 that the towns in Dobbertin were able to enjoy three civic / town monastery positions “through a special share”. In 1634 the request of the Lüneburg pastor Tobias Dornkeills and in 1650 the request of Nicolaus Bergmann as the personal barber of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg to admit his sister Ilselbe to the monastery was rejected. However , the position and admission of the Sternberg citizen's daughter Anna Wolter to the Dobbertin monastery, which was awarded in the Landtag of Sternberg am Judenberg in 1634, was described as an extraordinary special case . As the daughter of the Mecklenburg court judge and notary Dr. Ludovici Wolters was given the next vacancy without any legal basis. After 1655, with the maid Elisabeth Jams and from 1685 with the maid Anna Lukretia Wedemann, another "demoiselle" came to the Dobbertin monastery, about which there was heated argument in the state parliaments.
Until 1919, the enrollments were made according to the same admission conditions and formalities as for the aristocratic daughters, only without proof of ancestry. In Dobbertin, up to three monastery posts were to be filled by civil daughters. But they always ranked last among the 32 conventual women in the monastic convent.
The daughters of mayors and magistrates came from the cities of Brüel , Bützow , Crivitz , Dömitz , Goldberg , Grabow , Grevesmühlen , Güstrow , Laage , Malchin , Malchow , Neubrandenburg , Neustrelitz , Parchim , Rehna , Röbel / Müritz , Sternberg , Teterow , Waren ( Müritz) , Warin , Schwaan , Schwerin and Ticino .
Aristocratic families recorded in the registered book
The following table shows an overview of the noble families registered in the book with the number of registered daughters.
literature
- Karl von Kamptz: About the participation in noble monastery positions in Germany, especially in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1844.
- Eduard Viereck: The legal relationships of the four Mecklenburg virgin monasteries according to their historical development , 2 parts in one volume, Berlin 1875.
- S. Ewar: A Mecklenburg ladies' pen. In: Over land and sea. Allgemeine Illustrierte Zeitschrift, Vol. 51 (1884), No. 1–26, pp. 419–421.
- C. Karsten: The Dobbertin convent. In: House and World. Issue 49, September 3, 1910, Leipzig 1910, pp. 11-14.
- Horst Alsleben : The most important document for admission to the monastery: Horst Alsleben about the registered book. (Part 14) In: SVZ Lübz - Goldberg - Plau, December 3, 1999.
- The registered book of the Dobbertin monastery is an important family historical source. In: Oertzen-Blätter. Vol. 43, 2000, No. 61, pp. 12-13.
- Horst Alsleben: The registered book: Document for admission to the monastery. SVZ Mecklenburg-Magazin. 2000, No. 6, p. 22.
- Axel Attula: decorations for women. Evangelical women's pens in Northern Germany and their medals. Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-940207-21-0 .
- Horst Alsleben: The Dobbertiner Konvent - A Christian Community in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Dobbertin Monastery, History - Building - Life. (= Contributions to the history of art and the preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Volume 2) Schwerin 2012, ISBN 978-3- 935770-35-4, pp. 53–63.
- Horst Alsleben: Parchim's daughters in the Dobbertin monastery. In: PÜTT 2019. Series of publications by the Heimatbund e. V. Parchim in Mecklenburg. Parchim 2019, pp. 8-11.
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Unprinted sources
- Church records Dobbertin 1674–1804, 1805–1905.
- Church book of the Dobbertin parish 1906–2012
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State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
- LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin Admission requirements No. 83, 85, 243, 246. Entitlements and enrollments 1660, 1696–1921 No. 223–226, 241–249, 252–262, 315–324. Monastery lists No. 86–89, 212–272. Income in kind and money of the conventual women No. 389–391. Pedigree of individual noble families No. 281–295.
- LHAS 3.121. 2b Mecklenburg Land estates with the Select Committee
- Horst Alsleben: Alphabetical index to the Dobbertiner registration book. Schwerin 2012.
- City archive Ribnitz Monastery Dobbertin D 46, D 50.
- Dobbertin's death register in the Goldberg office 1876–1954.
Printed sources
- (Large) Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerin state calendar. Monasteries, charitable foundations and charities, A. Jungfrauenkloster, Dobbertin Monastery Office. No. 1-143. Schwerin 1776-1918.
- Changed provisions of the Mecklenburg and Wendish districts because of the Expectanz - grants to the landscape agencies in the three state monasteries. Mayor and Council of the Vorderstädte, Parchim and Güstrow, April 3, 1858.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. 232.
- ↑ a b LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. 389, 390.
- ↑ Eduard Vierck: The legal relationships of the four Mecklenburg virgin monasteries. Berlin 1875. Appendix 4, p. 19.
- ^ Friedrich von Meyenn: An account book of the monastery Dobbertin In: Year book of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. 59 (1894), pp. 177-219.
- ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. 242 Admission to the monastery and expectances before the beginning of the monastery list 1600.
- ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and Order of Knights, Dobbertin. 248.
- ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. 217.
- ↑ Ernst Münch, Horst Alsleben: History of the monastery up to secularization and subsequent use. Dobbertin, Benediktinerinnen, 2016. p. 178.
- ↑ Horst Alsleben: The Dobbertiner convent. A Christian community in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. In: Contributions to the history of art and the preservation of monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Volume 2, Schwerin 2012. ISBN 978-3-935770-35-4 , pp. 53-63
- ↑ Walter von Hueck (arrangement): Genealogical manual of the noble houses / B , Vol. 18. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1989 (= Genealogical Manual of the Adels , Vol. 95). ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 ; P. 34. and Art. Monasteries ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Stenberg Parliament , June 25, 1606.
- ^ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag in Güstrow, November 14, 1737.
- ↑ LHAS 2.12-3.2 Monasteries and orders of knights, Generalia, Landeskloster Dobbertin. # 228.
- ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. 242 Directory of Virgins 1600–1696.
- ↑ Horst Alsleben: Parchimer daughters in the Dobbertin monastery. In: PÜTT 2019 . Series of publications of the Heimatbund e. V. Parchim in Mecklenburg. Parchim 2018, pp. 8-11.
