Divine Chamber

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Church of God was in Low German in the Middle Ages and later the name for a church poor house . There is also evidence of other meanings of the term, which, however, was probably only used sporadically. In the German dictionary it appears under the keyword God.

Divine Chamber as a social institution

In the Diakonie or the Institute of the Foreign Poor there were Goos chambers or divine chambers in which poor widows were housed. Their existence is attested to, among other places, in the cities of Emden , Norden and Jever , where the street name An der Gotteskammer commemorates it to this day. The northern divine chambers were located in Sielstrasse (occupied for 1560), on Burggraben (two divine chambers; 1646) and in Kirchstrasse. The houses at Burggraben and in Kirchstrasse were foundations of the noble family seat Osterhaus .

Other meanings of the term

In the Roman Catholic Marian piety , Mary, the mother of Jesus, was occasionally venerated as the Cella Dei ( God's Chamber ). A salutation to Maria written in Latin by Christian von Lilienfeld says: “Mater pia, mater dya, / rei via, o Maria, / ave, plena gratia, / O tenella, Dei cella, / interpella pro me, mella / da de celi curia. "

The following Silesian proverb is quoted in the German Proverbs Lexicon (1870) published by Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander : "Gid og a Gotskammer, ´ss sein kene Moise inside." Gotskammer is interpreted as a sacristy in a bracket .

Web links

  • Divine Chamber . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 4 , issue 7 (edited by Hans Blesken and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1963, DNB  453942628 , Sp. 1027 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - first edition: 1944, unchanged reprint).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ God Chamber . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 8 : Glibber – Gräzist - (IV, 1st section, part 5). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1958, Sp. 1132 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ^ Fridrich Arends: Ostfriesland and Jever. Volume 1, p. 259, digitized
  3. ↑ See Timothy G. Fehler: Poor relief and Protestantism: the evolution of social welfare in sixteenth-century Emden. Ashgate 1999, p. 66; 215 f.
  4. ↑ Gretje Schreiber, Thomas Schreiber: The Norder Marktplatz and its history to this day. Aurich 1994, p. 23.
  5. ↑ Ufke Cremer: North through the ages. Published on behalf of the city of Norden for the 700th anniversary celebration. Norden 1955 (Reprint in: Norden - die Stadtchronik. ) Norden 2001, p. 97.
  6. ↑ Quoted from Anton Schwob, Karin Kranich-Hofbauer: Cistercian writing in the Middle Ages. The scriptorium of the Reiner Monks. In: Yearbook for International German Studies. Series A, Volume 71, Bern 2005, p. 217.
  7. ^ Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander: German Proverbs Lexicon. A treasure trove for the German people. Volume II: Got to Teach. Leipzig 1870, column 111.