Bödingen Monastery

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Pilgrimage church and former monastery

The Bödingen Monastery in Bödingen , a district of Hennef (Sieg) , was built in 1424 next to the pilgrimage church of the Sorrowful Mother of God, which was inaugurated in 1408 .

Legend

Around 1350 the simple worker Christian von Lauthausen had the Vesper picture of the "Mater Dolorosa" carved after an apparition of Mary in a Cologne workshop and first set it up in a wayside shrine next to his hermitage in the forest near Altenbödingen. Because of the large number of pilgrims, he wanted to build a chapel for this Pietà there, but it did not succeed because the walls kept falling down overnight. Then he had another shining apparition of the Mother of God, who commanded him to load his mule and follow it. The chapel was then built where the mule stopped in the wilderness.

Pilgrimage church

Pastor Meisenbach from Geistingen began building a large church in 1397, which would do justice to the growing stream of pilgrims to this place. In 1408 the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was consecrated. It is the oldest place of pilgrimage for the painful mother in Germany. Almost every day, pilgrims still hike up the kilometer-long path from the Blankenberg S-Bahn station .

monastery

Monastery garden

After the introduction of the Compassion Festival in 1424, an Augustinian Canons Monastery of the Congregation of Windesheim was founded by Father Heinrich Loder [Hynrici de Loder], Prior of Nordhorn, to look after the pilgrims . The foundation was entrusted to him by the general chapter (cuius legacio patri Henrico Loeder, in Northorn priori, a capitulo fuit commissa). The monastery residents were initially two priests, two deacons and a novice.

Madonna in the summer refectory from 1732

There are still two wings of the building that were built between 1677 and 1692. In 1732, a still-preserved summer refectory was extended with columns on the facade, as confirmed by the inscription in the chronogram above the entrance: "Sto SaLVatorl Matrls patlentls honorl, HIs perVersa rVant, fLorlDa LVstra fLVant". The columns presumably come from the former church in Dondorf, after it had to be demolished at the end of the 17th century due to dilapidation. In a shrine , a Baroque Madonna is issued. This comes from Blankenburg Castle.

During the Truchsessian War , Bödingen Monastery was plundered by the troops of Count Adolf von Neuenahr and several subjects were miserably killed.

One of the deacons was Johannes Busch , who later reorganized 43 monasteries as apostolic visitor . The monastery was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization .

The area around the monastery is a listed building.

List of priorities

No.
 Surname
 Duration
 Gravestone present
 date of death
1 Berthold v. Muenster 1424 (?) - 1440 (?) No unknown
2 Wilhelm Keppel ? No 1447
3 Heinrich Menyen von Dinslaken 1451-1467 No 1467
4th Johannes Wilde 1467-1469 No unknown
5 Gerhard Ruysch 1469 No unknown
6th Dietrich of Bonn 1469-1476 No 1482
7th Oitbertus Swolle 1476-1478 No 1483
8th Jokob von der Heggen 1478-1485 No 1485
9 Walram up the Koell 1485-1511 No 1511
10 Johannes Ovisheim 1511-1528 No 1529
11 Gottfried von Flittard 1528-1553 No 1554
12 Theodoricus Bergen 1553-1559 No 1559
13 Heinrich Bergen 1559 (?) - 1574 No 1574
14th Wilhelmus Sylvanus Buschman 1574-1600 Yes 1600
15th Balthasar Solingeus de Colonia 1600-1625 No 1625
16 Johannes Schütz 1625-1628 Yes 1628
17th Gottfried Worm 1628-1637 No 1637
18th Wilhelm Birgell 1637-1654 No 1654
19th Johannes Keller 1654-? No unknown
20th Johannes Quinnkarth ? -1675 No 1675
21st Johann Reiner Collmann 1675-1705 Yes 1705
22nd Andreas Myren 1705-1708 Yes 1708
23 Wilhelm Rudolph Buchner 1708-1714 Yes 1714
24 Otto Wilhelm Widemeyer 1714-1728 Yes 1728
25th Johannes Beckmann 1728-1735 Yes 1735
26th Anton Pöttcken 1735-1751 Yes 1751
27 Heinrich Klein 1751-1770 No 1792
28 Leonhard Gade 1770-1791 No 1791
29 Gottbried Oettershagen 1791-1803 No 1792

Portraits:

  • Gottfried von Flittard, 11th Prior

  • Balthasar Solingeus de Colonia, 15th prior

  • Johannes Beckmann, 25th Prior

Tombstones:

  • Wilhelm Buschmann, 14th prior, † 1600

  • Johannes Schütz, 16th prior, † 1628

  • Reiner Collmann, 21st prior, † 1705

  • Andreas Myren, 22nd prior, † 1708

  • Wilhelm Rudolph Buchner, 23rd prior, † 1714

  • Otto Wilhelm Widemeyer, 24th prior, † 1728

  • Johannes Beckmann, 25th prior, † 1735

  • Antonius Poettcken, 26th prior, † 1751

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection (ed.): Hennef-Bödingen. Rheinische Kunststätten, issue 119, Cologne, 1990.
  2. ^ Romanesque remains on the central building of the monastery in Boedingen in Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst No. 8, 1888, Sp. 281–284
  3. ↑ Reclams Kunstführer, Deutschland III, 1975, ISBN 3-15-008401-6 , page 83
  4. ^ Max Lossen: The Cologne War, 2nd vol., P. 336, Munich-Leipzig 1897
  5. ↑ GvBelow: Negotiations of the Duke of Julich-Cleve with Gebhardt Steward and Ernst Cologne in July and August 1583 in: ZdGB, Volume 36, page 72

literature

  • Gabriel Busch (Ed.): Victory in the mirror . Publishing house Michaelsberg Abbey, Siegburg 1979
  • Gabriel Busch: Bödingen is worth a pilgrimage to Reckinger Siegburg 1981
  • P. Mauritius Mittler OSB: Das Bödinger Memorienbuch, Respublica-Verlag Siegburg, 1971

Web links

Commons : Bödingen Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 26 ″  E