Gut Holthausen
| Holthausen Monastery | |
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 Picture from Gut Holthausen |
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| location |
 Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Paderborn district |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 32 '51.1 " N , 8 ° 32' 35.1" E |
| founding year | 1243 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1810 |
The Good Holthausen is located in the city of Buren in Paderborn district . It is a former monastery of the Cistercian Sisters . Today the estate is privately owned.
history
The monastery was built in the early 1240s as a family monastery by the noblemen and cousins Bertold the Elder and Bertold the Younger von Büren. In 1243 the convent was first mentioned in a document. An incorporation into the Cistercian order is not documented, but the visitations of the abbot of the Bredelar monastery. The monastery mainly recruited daughters of the Bürener Ministralen.
Despite renovation work in the 18th century and the construction of a baroque monastery church of St. Peter and Paul with a roof turret, which is common for the Cistercian women , the medieval complex can still be seen today . The inner courtyard with cloister is enclosed by a two-storey building quarter. The church occupies the north wing. On September 16, 1810, the monastery was dissolved by secularization .
Together with the associated land of 168 hectares, Holthausen Monastery found a buyer in Franz-Joseph Freiherr von und zu Brenken in 1811, who converted it into an estate. In 1846 the agricultural front building was built.
During the First World War , a prisoner-of-war camp was set up on Gut Holthausen, especially for Russians of German origin who wanted to settle back in Germany. With the help of the “Welfare Association for Returnees”, these prisoners of war were collected there and prepared for repatriation after the war.
In 1944, Maria Freifrau von Fürstenberg b. Baroness von Brenken resides in Holthausen. The property is still inhabited by the von Fürstenberg family.
organ
The organ of the former monastery church was built in 1764 by an unknown organ builder and has 7 stops on a manual (C, D – d 1 ) with the parts Salicional 8 ′, Gedackt 8 ′, Principal 4 ′, fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3 ′, octave 2 ′, Mixtur III and trumpet 8 ′. The latter two registers were added later. In 2005 this instrument was restored and missing pipe material was added. The side play system is original. A special feature is the attached knife back pedal (C, D – d 1 ). The prospectus is silent. The 8 'register Gedackt was probably built as early as 1764.
literature
- Gabriele Maria Hock: The Westphalian Cistercian convents in the 13th century: Founding circumstances and early development. (PDF; 94 kB) Dissertation at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, 1994 (a detailed description of the early history of this monastery can be found here on pages 459 to 480).
- Josef-Georg Pollmann: The camp for German-Russian prisoners of war in Büren-Holthausen . In: The waiting . No. 140 , 2008, p. 2-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the organ of the monastery church
Web links
- Gut Holthausen
- Information about Gut Holthausen. Retrieved May 22, 2013 .
- University of Münster - Holthausen Monastery (PDF; 94 kB)
- Material on Gut Holthausen in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 227 kB)
- Regional association Westphalia-Lippe: Holthausen monastery garden in LWL geodata culture
- Finding aid for the inventory of documents A 291 I (Holthausen Monastery - documents) of the Westphalia department of the NRW state archive
- Finding aid for the files A 291 II (Holthausen Monastery - files) of the Westphalia department of the NRW State Archives