Himmelgarten (Nordhausen)

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Sky garden
City of Nordhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 50 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 196 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 99734
Area code : 03631

Himmelgarten is a hamlet in the east of the city of Nordhausen in Thuringia . It is part of the village of Leimbach , which is part of the city of Nordhausen. In the Middle Ages , Himmelgarten was a Servite monastery .

Himmelgarten from the east

Geographical location

Himmelgarten is located two kilometers east of the Nordhausen city center and a good one kilometer west of the Nordhausen district of Leimbach on Kreisstraße  18 in a rural area. The Roßmannsbach flows south through Himmelgarten towards the Zorge .

history

The Himmelgarten monastery, which was formerly in Hohnstein's territory, was built at the end of the 13th century on the remains of the Rossungen desert with support from the Nordhausen monastery . The first documented mention of Rossungen was on December 21, 1140, that of the Himmelgarten monastery on June 4, 1295; Johann Georg Leuckfeld cites a document dated July 27, 1297. In 1295 the monastery church was consecrated by the north house provost Elger. The founding convention came from Hasselfelde monastery .

The monastery was looted during the Peasants' War in 1525 and then abandoned. The monks were able to retire to Nordhausen in good time and took their monastery library with them, which fortunately has been preserved to this day.

After the abandonment of the monastery, the property was continued as an estate . A large part of the land (258 ha ) has been cultivated by Count zu Stolberg-Stolberg since 1929. After 1945 the company was expropriated and continued as a state-owned property , later as an LPG .

On July 1, 1994, Himmelgarten was incorporated into the city of Nordhausen as part of Leimbach.

The Himmelgarten Library

Huter notebook

The construction of the monastery library is mainly due to the prior Johannes Pilearius , who received his doctorate in theology in 1514. After the end of the Himmelgarten monastery, the library came to the Church of St. Blasii in Nordhausen, where it was used and the holdings were increased somewhat under Pastor Johann Heinrich Kindervater (1675–1726), who compiled a catalog in 1717. In the 19th century the volumes were in poor condition, so they were "restored" using the methods of the time. Finally, in 1973, the books were taken to the Catechetical College in Naumburg , from where they were transferred to the library of the Evangelical Preacher's Seminary in Wittenberg in 1989 . The Himmelgarten library was there until 2014. For 2013, a return to the newly built Nordhausen City Library was planned.

The library's holdings include 4 volumes with Latin manuscripts from the 15th century, 230 incunabula , 428 titles from the 16th century, 39 titles from the 17th and 17 titles from the 18th century. Some of the prints are unique. The majority of the 714 titles are written in Latin.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the library recorded unexplained losses, probably caused by theft in the 1960s, including three handwritten sources that were particularly irreplaceable for library history: two account books from the 17th and early 18th centuries and the notebook of Prior Johannes Huter , i. e. Pilearius , which contains draft sermons, Bible quotes and proverbs. The notebook was offered and sold in 2006 as a Latin note, excerpt and sermon manuscript by the Berlin antiquarian gallery Gerda Bassenge . In 2014 the library returned to Nordhausen.

The inventory is managed as a deposit and looked after by the Nordhausen City Archives, housed in a special storage cabinet within the special exhibition room of the Flohburg City Museum, which is air- conditioned in accordance with DIN / ISO 11799 .

literature

  • Johann Heinrich child's father: Arcana Bibliothecae Blasinianae, or: actual news from the rare old library S. Blasii in the Kays. Freyen Imperial City of Nordhausen. Nordhausen 1717 online .
  • Richard Rackwitz: News about the St. Blasii library in Nordhausen and the Himmelgarten monastery near Nordhausen, from which the library comes. Nordhausen 1883.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Johann Georg Leuckfeld: M. Heinrich Meybaums Sen. Chronicon Des Jungfräulichen Closter Marien-Berg Vor Helmstedt [...] In addition to a brief message from the former Servite Closter Himmel-Garten [...] , Halberstadt and Leipzig 1721 .
  2. ^ Chronology of the church history of Nordhausen. Retrieved August 19, 2012 .
  3. ^ Horst Gaevert: Begging monks in Hasselfelde. In: Harz journal for the Harz Association for History and Archeology 2011 , p. 104
  4. ^ A b Manual of the historical book inventory (Fabian manual) of the University of Göttingen. Retrieved August 19, 2012 .
  5. ↑ In 2013 the Himmelgarten Library returned to Nordhausen. Thuringian General of February 17, 2011.
  6. Leipziger Wunderzeichen from 1517. Retrieved on August 19, 2012 .
  7. Uwe Czubatynski, Adolf Laminski, Konrad von Rabenau (eds.): Church libraries as a research task . Publications of the Working Group for Archives and Libraries in the Evangelical Church, Vol. 19. Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1992 ISBN 3768620557 ; P. 31
  8. ^ Galerie Gerda Bassenge Berlin (auction catalog): Auction 87, April 26-28, 2006 . Number 818 (87412), pp. 198-199 (with ill.); Description see also: lot-tissimo (accessed on October 9, 2012)
  9. Himmelgarten Library back in Nordhausen ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )