Johannes Heydekyn von Sonsbeck

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Johannes Heydekyn von Sonsbeck (* around 1450 in Sonsbeck ; † around 1516) was a Catholic priest, Augustinian canon , historian and spiritual writer in the Kirschgarten monastery in Worms .

Historical background

The Cistercian monastery of Kirschgarten , first mentioned in a document in 1235, was almost extinct by 1430. The Worms Bishop Friedrich von Domeneck and Elector Ludwig IV of the Palatinate turned to the Windesheim Reform Congregation of the Augustinian Canons about a new settlement . This sent regular canons from the Böddeken monastery , who moved there in 1443, reformed the monastery and quickly made it a local center of church renewal. During the Peasant War in 1525 , the convent was destroyed by insurgents and went under. No structural remains have been preserved.

Live and act

Johannes Heydekyn came from Sonsbeck on the Lower Rhine and entered the Kirschgarten Monastery around 1472. There were at least two other canons from his hometown there, possibly relatives of his. One of them was Johannes Sonsbeck , who moved from Worms to the newly founded branch monastery Birklingen around 1460 , became prior there in 1463 , headed the Kirschgarten monastery in the same office from 1473 and died of the plague in 1482 . The other was called Hermann Sonsbeck , became prior of Kirschgarten in 1503, but died on January 2, 1504.

Johannes Heydekyn appears in 1503 as Subprior of Kirschgarten, later, until his death, as Prior.

In the convent there was an important scriptorium in which Heydekyn was active. Here he wrote his manuscript Chronica civitatis Wormatiensis around 1500 , known as the Kirschgartener Chronik . This manuscript is a valuable source for many locally significant events as well as for the history of the Worms bishops . It reports u. a. also the vitae of Blessed Erkenbert von Frankenthal and Bishop Burchard von Worms . The chronicle lay in the Worms City Archives for centuries and was not rediscovered until 1880. Two other important works form the travel description of the pilgrimage of Elector Ludwig III. to the Holy Land and a Vita of St. Joachim , both are lost.

At the time of Johannes Heydekyn, his confrater Johannes von Lambsheim was also working as an author in the Kirschgarten Monastery. Heydekyn was in friendly contact with the Sponheim abbot Johannes Trithemius and with the Worms bishops Reinhard I. von Sickingen and Johann III. from Dalberg . In 1497 he dedicated his writing Dialogus de amore et inquisicione vere sapiencie to the former , in which he also expresses his admiration for Bishop Dalberg and, according to his own statements, he was ordained priest from Bishop Sickingen .

literature

  • Heinrich Boos : Monumenta Wormatiensia: Annals and Chronicles. Berlin, 1893, p. XX ( urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-20755 : digital scan of the author of the Kirschgarten Chronicle, who was not yet known by name at the time).
  • Hellmuth Gensicke: Johannes Heydekyn von Sonsbeck, the author of the Kirschgarten Chronicle. In: Der Wormsgau , Volume 3 (1951/58), pp. 79–83, (Finding information)
  • Bernhard Kirchgässner, Hans-Peter Becht: Urban Myths: 38th Workshop 1999. Volume 28 of: City in History. Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2003, ISBN 3-7995-6428-4 , pp. 17-20 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Kirschgarten Monastery in Worms
  2. ^ Paulus Weissenberger OSB: History of the Kirschgarten Monastery in Worms (= Der Wormsgau . Supplement. Vol. 6), City Library, Worms 1937, pp. 70, 71 and 74
  3. ^ Website of the Birklingen Monastery
  4. ↑ Website for the Kirschgarten Chronicle .
  5. ↑ Gerold Bönnen : Burkard Keilmann: The Worms Bishop Johann von Dalberg (1482-1503) and his time. Archive for Middle Rhine Church History, Mainz 2005, p. 162, ISBN 3-929135-51-5
personal data
SURNAME Heydekyn von Sonsbeck, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydekyn, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Augustinian canon, historian, spiritual writer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1450
PLACE OF BIRTH Sonsbeck
DATE OF DEATH around 1516