Jostberg Monastery
The Jostbergkloster was a branch of the Franciscan observers on a ridge of the Teutoburg Forest southwest of Bielefeld . The foundation walls of the late Gothic monastery church have been preserved.
history
In a document from 1483, Bishop Simon III. von Paderborn found that two years earlier believers on the Loyckhuserberge had begun to venerate the holy hermit Jodokus , the patron saint of pilgrims , in a little house ( domunculam ). Since a pilgrimage had taken place , the bishop allowed the building of a chapel dedicated to Jodokus and St. Mary. In 1496 at the latest, the Bielefeld Franciscan Johannes Schrage and his brother Wessel asked Duke Wilhelm von Jülich and Berg , Count of Ravensberg, to appoint Franciscans to look after the Jodokus cult on site with the help of a monastic settlement. After a rejection by the order, it came only in 1498 after the intervention of Pope Alexander VI. to found an observant monastery with takeover of the existing chapel.
In 1501 the Franciscans from Rome received permission to rebuild the monastery at another location on the mountain. The new building was consecrated in 1502 . However, the brothers complained about the wind in winter and lack of water in summer, as well as the seclusion, which would significantly hamper pastoral care and begging. On June 10, 1507, Pope Julius II approved the relocation of the monastery to the city of Bielefeld, where the Franciscans had been given a plot of land on Obernstrasse . The new monastery church of St. Jodokus and Franziskus was consecrated in 1511 .
Construction and plant
The late Gothic monastery church has been preserved in the foundation walls at a height of up to one meter. The choir is 9.1 meters wide and 14 meters long. The church had a single nave with three bays and had a 5/8 choir closure and a total length of 24.4 meters inside.
The ruins of the monastery church were uncovered in 1912 at the instigation of the city of Bielefeld and in 1966 by the Roman Catholic parish of St. Jodokus. Since then the structure has fallen into disrepair; Souvenir hunters had repeatedly broken pieces out. An archaeological excavation and documentation did not take place until 1993/94. The repair and partial restoration of the church ruin was completed in 2009.
Web links
- Jochen Rath: July 20, 1511: Consecration of St. Jodokus - From the mountain to the city. In: Historical "RückKlick". Bielefeld City Archives , 2011, accessed on July 6, 2019 .
literature
- Daniel Bérenger: Müdehorst and Jostberg. Two monastery church ruins in Bielefeld. In: Annual report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg 92 (2007), pp. 7–26.
- Daniel Bérenger: On the restoration of the monastery church ruins on the Jostberg near Bielefeld. In: Archäologie in Westfalen-Lippe, Volume 2015, pp. 132–134 Digitized version Retrieved on July 6, 2019
- Daniel Bérenger: Bielefeld: The monastery church ruins on the Jostberg , In: Ostwestfalen-Lippe - excursions to archeology, history and culture , Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8062-2303-3
- Roland Pieper: Jostberg near Bielefeld. Aspects of a Franciscan monastery in a pass location. In: R. Averkorn (ed.): Europe and the world in history. Festschrift for Dieter Berg's 60th birthday , Bochum 2004, pp. 813–832.
- Michael Zozmann: The history of the monastery on the Jostberg up to its relocation to the city of Bielefeld in 1511. In: Johannes Altenberend, Josef Holtkotte (Hrsg.): St. Jodokus 1511 - 2011. Contributions to the history of the Franciscan monastery St. Jodokus in Bielefeld. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-89534-911-9 , pp. 25–40. | Digitized version Retrieved from wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/mzozmann/ on July 6, 2019
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 38.7 " N , 8 ° 29 ′ 25" E