Hermann Bokholt

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Hermann Bokholt († December 4, 1427 ) was a German Cistercian and abbot of the Doberan Monastery . In terms of tradition, Herman Bokholt is still significant today as a Doberan abbot because of his participation in the founding of the University of Rostock .

Life

Seal of the University of Rostock from 1419

Hermann Bokholt was abbot of Doberan Monastery for twenty years from 1404 until his resignation as abbot in 1423/24.

Since at least one abbey should allow theology to be studied in every province, only a few Doberan religious can be found at other universities until the University of Rostock was founded in 1419. On November 12th, 1419 Petrus Stenbeke was appointed by a committee consisting of Abbot Hermann Bokholt, the Rostock archdeacon Johannes Meynesti , the pastor of St. Mary in Rostock Nikolaus Türkow and the Rostock mayor Hinrich Katzow under the direction of the Schwerin bishop Heinrich III. von Wangelin appointed founding rector of Rostock University. For the abbeys in the area of ​​competence of the Doberan abbot there was a clear option to study in Rostock, even if, due to heretical currents in the empire, the university remained without the usual theological faculty until 1433.

It reflects the high reputation of the abbot, as him in 1422 by the General Chapter , shortly before his resignation as Nerfed Abbot for Reformer the province of the order was transferred Bremen. A year later his sphere of activity was extended to the diocese of Cammin with the Cistercian convent of Stettin and the Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Associated with this were disciplinary powers and rights, including recalling and appointing abbots. Bernhard Witte was his successor as Abbot of Doberan .

Grave slab

Inscription on the grave slab after the reconstruction from 1853
Bokholt's grave slab reconstructed from fragments (1853)

His stone grave slab in the monastery Doberan has since the early 19th century as lost, was then however 1853 in fragments , some of which were already made into steps in the then used as material chamber Bülow Chapel of the Doberan Minster retrieved, other parts were on the Monastery grounds. This enabled the inscription on the grave slab to be read critically again and the previous tradition to be corrected in detail. The inscription read

" Anno domini millesimo CCCCXXVII. VI cal. Decembris obiit venerabilis dominus Hermanus Bokholt XXIX abbas, qui per XX annos rexit abbatiam Dobberanensem
Translation: In the year of Lord 1427 on November 26th, the venerable Herr Hermann Bokholt, 29th abbot, who headed Doberan Abbey for 20 years, died "

In terms of art history, a remarkable feature of the image program of the Gothic grave slab was that a dog is depicted at the bottom left , looking up at the full picture of the abbot. In Christian iconography , the dog is a symbol of loyalty and an attribute of the important Cistercian Bernhard von Clairvaux .

From December 2003 to December 2004 restoration work was carried out by the restorer Boris Froberg on grave plate 4, Abbot Hermann Bockholt in the Münsterkirche.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. III. Volume The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubuckow, Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin 1899, pp. 551–681: The Doberan Cistercian Abbey. (Reprint: 1993, ISBN 3-910179-14-2 )
  • Sven Wichert: The Doberan Cistercian Monastery in the Middle Ages (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians. Volume 9). Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-34-7 .
  • Mecklenburg record book
  • Mecklenburg Yearbook

Web links

Commons : Hermann Bokholt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven Wichert: The Doberan Cistercian Monastery. 2000, p. 247, Doberan Abbey List.
  2. ↑ Term of office 1404–1423. MJB IX (1844) pp. 434, 438.
  3. ^ Sven Wichert: The Doberan Cistercian Monastery. 2000, p. 247, Doberan Abbey List.
  4. ^ Johannes Meynesti in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Sven Wichert: The Doberan Cistercian Monastery. 2000, pp. 174, 175, 192.
  6. ↑ Corpse stones. MJB XIX. (1854), pp. 388-391.
  7. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. III. Volume 1899, pp. 589, 666, 668 with a retouched photo of the collapsed fragments of the grave slab (1853).
  8. ↑ Münster administration: Documentation restoration of grave plate 4 in the cathedral church in Bad Doberan. 2004 p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Bokholt, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian and abbot of Doberan Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH December 4, 1427