Aroldessen Monastery
The monastery Aroldessen , namesake for the modern city of Bad Arolsen , was founded in 1131 as an Augustinian canon women - pen founded in the years 1492/1493 in a Antoniter converted Monastery and lifted 1526/1529.
Founded as an Augustinian Choir Foundation
The oldest known document for this area comes from the year 1030, when a noble named Kuno or Khone from the Northeim family gave the bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn a property: "the Aare, which is now called Kunigsburg". The name Kunigsburg or Conigsholt, i.e. wood or forest of the Kuno, could have survived in today's Arolser Königsberg . The name Aroldeshausen, Aroldessen, Arolten, Arolsen can be derived from the word Aar , which means something like brook, water: house or residence by the water.
The founding charter of the Aroldessen monastery is dated to the year 1131: Gepa von Itter , the widow of Gumbert von Warburg, who was probably the last male relative of the Lords of Itter , founded the Augustinian women's choir monastery Aroldessenden with her three daughters Lutrud, Mechthild and Bertha in 1131 . Bishop Bernhard I of Paderborn confirmed the monastery in the same year. Gepa's grandson, Count Volkwin II. Von Schwalenberg , son of their daughter Lutrud and Count Widekind I von Schwalenberg and, as Volkwin I, founder of the Count's House of Waldeck , took over the bailiwick of the monastery. In December 1182, Pope Lucius III. the pen in his protection and confirmed his possessions.
Conversion into an Antonite monastery
In the 15th century, the monastery ran into difficulties, probably due to moral decline and mismanagement. Count Otto IV von Waldeck had it closed and in 1492/93 transferred it to the Antonites of the Grünberg monastery in Grünberg (Hesse) , under whom it experienced a rapid boom. Nevertheless, the monastery was not to exist much longer.
resolution
With the introduction of the Reformation in both parts of the County of Waldeck between 1525 and 1529 by Count Philip III. von Waldeck-Eisenberg and Philipp IV. von Waldeck-Wildungen also brought the end of the Aroldessen monastery. In the spring of 1526, Landgrave Philipp the Magnanimous of Hesse , liege lord of the Counts of Waldeck, had given the monastery to Count Philip III. Donated by Waldeck-Eisenberg, but with the proviso that it should only be taken into possession after the death of the last Preceptor (Abbot). In November 1526, immediately after the Preceptor's death, the Count's ministerials took possession of the property , who also made a detailed inventory of all fixed and movable goods belonging to the monastery. The monastery was dissolved and secularized .
Conversion to a castle
It was then converted into a count's residential palace with a new Renaissance wing. The monastery brewery continued to operate as a count's brewery . From 1622 to 1634, during the Thirty Years War , it was expanded into a fortress to protect against raids and looting. After a complete renovation of the old castle, the count and later Prince Georg Friedrich von Waldeck-Eisenberg moved his residence from Rhoden to Arolsen in 1664 .
cancellation
From 1710 on, the castle and the remains of the monastery were demolished by the Count and later Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck and Pyrmont. In its place, he had the new residential palace Arolsen from 1713 according to plans by the building director Julius Ludwig Rothweil the Elder . Ä. erect.
literature
- Konrad Wiederhold: The foundation of the Aroldessen monastery in 1131 . In: History sheets for Waldeck [1. 1901-38. 1938:] and Pyrmont 71 (1983)
- Karl Bösch: The Aroldessen Monastery . In: History sheets for Waldeck [1. 1901 - 38. 1938:] and Pyrmont 1 (1901)
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Footnotes
- ^ Heinrich Finke (arr.): The Papal Deeds of Westphalia up to 1304 . Regensberg, Münster, 1888, pp. 52-53, no.136
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 51 ″ N , 9 ° 1 ′ 19 ″ E