Canon Monastery of St. Martin (Zyfflich / Kranenburg)
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The St. Martin Abbey was a spiritual institute in the Archdiocese of Cologne , Archdiakonat Xanten , which existed from 1002/21 to 1802.
history
At the beginning of the 11th century, Count Balderich von Drenthe, with the consent of his wife Adela von Elten , donated a monastery to the church of St. Martin von Zyfflich , which he consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours . The Zyfflicher Church is still - after numerous renovations and demolitions - an important example of Ottonian architecture in the Rhineland.
The monastery was the seat of a deanery in the archdeaconate of Xanten; the Zyfflicher provosts can often be found in the vicinity of the Cologne archbishops in the High Middle Ages . In 1117 a count of Kleve is first attested as Vogt of the Zyfflicher Stift. In the period that followed, there were frequent conflicts between the canons and the counts, as these possessions of the monastery were appropriated without authorization. In the 13th century, the Klever counts built the castle and town of Kranenburg on Zyfflicher Vogteigut ; In 1297 the canons had to recognize the independence of the Kranenburg parish.
In 1436, Duke Adolf II of Kleve had the Zyfflicher Stift relocated to the parish church of Kranenburg , which was rebuilt in these decades with funds from the Kranenburg cruise pilgrimage . In addition to the argument that the walled city of Kranenburg could offer the canons more security than the village of Zyfflich, located directly on the border with the Duchy of Geldern , the Duke's efforts to gain more influence over the monastery also played a role. In the 16th century the humanist Johann von Vlatten was provost of the monastery. The Martinsstift existed in Kranenburg until the secularization in 1802.
literature
- R. Scholten : Cranenburg and his pen. Startz, Kleve 1902.
- Wilhelm Classen: The Archdiocese of Cologne. Archdeaconate of Xanten. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1938 ( Germania Sacra. Dept. 3: The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne 1).
- Friedrich Gorissen : Kranenburg. An old sanctuary of the Lower Rhine. Boss, Kleve 1950.
- Leo Schaefer: The founding building of the collegiate church St. Martin in Zyfflich. Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1963 ( The Art Monuments of the Rhineland Supplement 9), (At the same time: Bonn, Diss., 1957).
Archival material
Large parts of the monastery archive were lost after 1802. Part of it is now in the main state archive in Düsseldorf , holdings of the Kranenburg-Zyfflich monastery, and other archival material is in the Catholic parish archive of St. Peter and Paul, Kranenburg.
Web links
- Digital copies of the oldest documents of the Zyfflich monastery in the Marburg photo archive of older original documents : 1014/1021 , 1117 , 1134 , 1179 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 23.1 ″ N , 6 ° 0 ′ 21.5 ″ E