Ahrensbök Monastery
The Ahrensbök Charterhouse was a Carthusian monastery of the Carthusian Order in Ahrensbök in Holstein . The convent existed from 1397 until the 1550s. The buildings were demolished except for the church. There are no other visible remains of the monastery.
history
The history of the monastery goes back to a vow made by the Counts von Schauenburg and Holstein Heinrich II. , Nikolaus and Adolf VII. , Who in 1359 pledged to donate a monastery to the Virgin Mary as thanks for the recovery of the island of Fehmarn . It was probably only founded in 1387 after a donation from Canon Jacob Krumbek. In 1397, the Charterhouse "Templum Beatae Mariae" finally received the first prior from Lübeck Bishop Eberhard von Attendorn . It was in the immediate vicinity of an older pilgrimage church, which was integrated as a monastery church . The associated lands comprised more than 40 localities and reached as far as Scharbeutz on the Bay of Lübeck .
In the course of the Reformation , the monastery and its land came into the possession of the ducal house. The monastery had already been sacked during the count's feud in 1534, but it still existed until the 1550s. When the country was divided in 1564, it fell to Duke Johann the Younger of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg , who initially left the Ahrensbök office formed from the monastery to his mother Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg . In 1565 the last two monks left the monastery.
In 1584, Johann the Younger had the monastery buildings demolished. Only the church remained as the parish church of the village of Ahrensbök. The building material obtained in this way was used in the period from 1593 to 1601 to build a castle in Ahrensbök. Hoppenbrook Castle was from 1623 to 1636 the residence of the divided duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön , which was created through the division of inheritance . The duchy existed from 1623 until the death of Duke Friedrich Karl (1706–1761); after that the territory fell to the Danish royal family. Duke Joachim Ernst (1623–1671) had Plön Castle rebuilt. After its completion, the residence was relocated from Ahrensbök to Plön . Hoppenbrook Castle became a widow's seat. After the death of Duchess Juliane Luise , the widow of Duke Joachim Friedrich in 1740, it was torn down. Today, the town hall of the municipality of Ahrensbök stands on the site in a park that still shows the moats of the former palace complex.
Monastery church
→ Main article: Marienkirche (Ahrensbök)
The only remaining building from the Carthusian era is the brick-Gothic church of Ahrensbök, which was begun before the monastery period in the first quarter of the 14th century, and which served as the monastery church during the Ahrensbök Charterhouse. It was expanded several times and in 1400 received the polygonal choir. The tower was only added in 1761 and is adorned with a sandstone plaque with a Rococo inscription above the portal .
literature
- PH [i. e. Peter Hanssen]: Brief, reliable news from the Holstein-Plönische Landen, with the story of the two famous monasteries Arensböck and Reinfeld being communicated largely from unprinted watch customers. J. C. Wehrt, Plön 1759 Digitized , British Library
- Dieter-Jürgen Mehlhorn: Monasteries and monasteries in Schleswig-Holstein. 1200 years of history, architecture and art . Kiel 2007
- Werner Neugebauer: Nice Holstein. Lübeck, Lübecker Nachrichten 1957, pp. 84/85.
- Otto Jarchov: The monastery manor Ahrensbök . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde , Eutin 1978, pp. 30–38
- Otto Rönnpag: The Carthusian monastery in Ahrensbök . In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde , Eutin 1992, pp. 88–92
- Jürgen Wätjer: The history of the Carthusian monastery "Templum Beatae Mariae" in Ahrensbök (1397–1564). Publishing Institute for English and American Studies, University of Salzburg, 1988
- Jürgen Wätjer: Ahrensbök , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 748–753.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 44 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 18 ″ E