Field monasteries (Hochstift Hildesheim)
As Hildesheim field monasteries nine are monasteries in rural areas of the historic Bishopric of Hildesheim referred to
- founded in the Middle Ages,
- after the Hildesheim collegiate feud under Guelph rule converted into Lutheran corporations,
- after the restitution of the prince-bishopric in 1643 with Catholic convents and renewed
- after secularization at the beginning of the 19th century to the Hanover Monastery Fund or to private property.
From the end of the Thirty Years War until their abolition, these monasteries were Catholic islands in the Lutheran hinterland. The monastery churches were also parish churches for the monastery staff and the scattered Catholics of the surrounding villages.
The building complex of the Hildesheim field monasteries were largely in the late 17th and early 18th century Baroque or rebuilt in the Baroque style, with important works of art. Some have been preserved in this form to this day; their churches are used by Catholic parishes.
image | place | Patronage | founding year | Founding Convention | Restitution Convention | Todays use |
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Derneburg | St. Mary | 1213 1443 |
Augustinian Cistercian Sisters |
Cistercians | 1846–48 converted into a castle; Privately owned | |
Dorstadt | To the holy cross | 1189 | Augustinian women | Augustinian women | Convent building privately owned; Church ruin | |
Ash soil | St. Mary | 1203/1236 | Benedictine women | Benedictine women | State domain ; Church profaned (memory) | |
Grauhof | St. George | 1124 ( Georgenberg ); 1527 (Grauhof) | Augustinian Canons | Canons of Windesheim | Property of the monastery chamber Hanover ; Church Catholic parish church | |
Heiningen | St. Peter and Paul | around 1000 | Augustinian canons | Religious women (canonesses?) | Convent building privately owned; Church property of the monastery chamber, Catholic parish church | |
Lamspringe | St. Hadrian and Dionysius | 9th century | Canonesses | English Benedictine | Property of the monastery chamber; Convent building local government, church Catholic parish church | |
Riechenberg | St. Mary | 1117 | Augustinian Canons | Canons of Windesheim | Property of the monastery chamber; only crypt preserved; evangelical brotherhood Gethsemanekloster | |
Ringelheim | St. Abdon and Sennen | 940 1150 |
Canons Benedictines |
Benedictine | Convent building (castle) private property; Church Catholic parish church | |
Wöltingerode | St. Mary | 1174 1188 |
Benedictine Cistercian Sisters |
Cistercian women | Property of the monastery chamber; hotel and gastronomy |
literature
- Armgard von Reden-Dohna, The Secularization of the Hildesheim Field Monasteries and the Beginning of the Monastery Chamber of Hanover , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte (NsJbLG) 69, 1997, p. 281