Benninghausen Monastery
| Cistercian convent Benninghausen | |
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 Plan and view of the Benninghausen monastery around 1726 |
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| location | Germany Lippstadt , North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 39 '27.9 " N , 8 ° 14' 23.6" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | around 1240 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1804 |
| Mother monastery | Gevelsberg Monastery |
The Cistercian monastery in Benninghausen was a foundation of the Gevelsberg monastery in the community of Benninghausen , now part of Lippstadt , from the 13th century. From a nunnery with predominantly non-noble nuns, it developed more and more into a noble women's monastery in the 17th century. In 1804 the monastery was closed. The church is still used today as a parish church. The Provincial Peasants' House and Workhouse Benninghausen (today part of the Lippstadt LWL Clinic as a Westphalian care and support center ) was housed in the other buildings .
History and Development
In 1240 the knight Johann von Erwitte and his wife Hildegunde founded the Benninghausen monastery. The monastery was founded as a subsidiary of Gevelsberg Monastery. The Archbishop of Cologne Konrad von Hochstaden confirmed the foundation, combined with an indulgence for all who would contribute to the construction of the monastery. The abbots of the Altenkamp monastery took over the spiritual supervision .
The donors transferred their church with some goods in Benninghausen to the monastery. In addition, the monastery received other donations (mostly memory foundations ). The nuns increased this property through various purchases. So after some time they owned lands in the parishes of Erwitte, Horn, Hellinghausen , Ostinghausen , in the Soester and Lippstadt area, near Altengeseke and in the Münsterland. The incorporation of the parish of St. Martin in Benninghausen into the monastery has been documented since 1482 . In the 1720s, the convent received a new baroque building.
When it was abolished on May 10, 1804, the monastery owned 153 acres of arable land, 182 acres of meadows and pastures, around 100 acres of forest and three mills, a grain house and a brewery. The monastery building was on the west side of the church. It consisted of four wings that enclosed a square cloister.
The interior of the church contains a unique work of art: the Benninghauser Cross from the 11th century is one of the oldest large German crucifixes. It probably comes from Cologne. The body of Christ is slender and slender.
In the sources, the monastery is called "cenobium Cysterciensis" (1241) and later "conventus sancte Marie in Benekinchusen" (1297). The first nuns came from the Gevelsberg monastery. For a long time their number was around 50 (1280, 1329 and 1509). By 1700 their number had dropped to 13. At the time of the dissolution of the monastery only five choir sisters lived in the monastery.
School instruction can be proven in the 13th century. In 1479 the monastery was reformed. The monastery remained largely untouched by the turmoil of the Reformation. Since the 17th century, the monastery developed more and more into a noble women's monastery. Initially, the nuns came mainly from the citizens of the cities of Lippstadt, Erwitte and Soest , but from the 17th century onwards they increasingly came from the nobility.
After the monastery was dissolved, the archive was housed in the Münster State Archives . A library has not survived.
List of Abbesses
- 1240 Christina
- 1276 Bertradis
- 1282 Wikburgis
- 1294/1302 Methildis
- 1309/1325 Gertrude
- 1330 Christina
- 1342 Gosta
- 1360 Odilia
- 1363/1365 Margareta van dem Sode
- 1386/1402 Alheid Vrovendorpes
- 1402/1429 Aleken Rostes
- 1442 Styne van Kywe
- 1455/1475 Otberge von dem Rodenberge
- 1484/1486 Anna I. Kettelers
- 1488/1496 Petronilla by Galen
- 1509–1548 Anna II. Kettelers
- 1548–1566 Margareta von Galen
- 1567–1576 Margareta von Merveldt
- 1578/1579 Margareta von Plettenberg
- 1579–1614 Anna von Walraben
- 1614–1635 Anna von der Heese
- 1635–1663 Elisabeth Hellenberg Grüter
- 1663–1677 Erika Elisabeth von Berninghausen
- 1678–1703 Anna Erika von Westphalen
- 1703–1706 Agnes Elisabeth von der Heese
- 1707–1725 Sophia Elisabeth von Oheimb
- 1725–1759 Anna Theodora von Kleinsorgen
- 1759–1772 Maria Theresia von Schorlemer zu Oberhellinghausen
- 1772–1804 Antonette von Amelunxen
List of provosts
- 1245 Werner
- 1261/1262 Meinward
- 1267 Johann
- 1270/1276 Hermann
- 1297 Theodericus
- 1325 Daniel
- 1347 Arnold
- 1455 Johann of Essen
- 1481 Borgerdes
- 1516 Christian von Köllen
- 1521 Heinrich von Schedyngen
- 1528/1535 Nicholas of Antwerp
- 1541/1551 Johannes von Kempen
- 1562 Gerhard von Bamberg
- 1611 John of Dale
- no year Peter Sengelingh
- 1620 Adolph Balke, monk in Marienfeld
- 1621 Bernard Johanninck, monk in Marienfeld (–1654)
- 1625/1628 Joachim Schütte, monk in Marienfeld
- 1628 Jodocus Rose, monk in Marienfeld (1614–1665)
- 1632 Johannes von Werden , Abbot of Marienfeld (1634–1646)
- 1635 Johannes Hageöke, monk in Marienfeld (1626–1672)
- 1647 Bernard Zumfelde, monk in Marienfeld (1628–)
- 1662/1668 Heinrich Voß, monk in Marienfeld (1653–1713)
- 1670/1672 Christian Sternberg, monk in Marienfeld (1654–)
- 1676 Albert Bispinck, monk in Marienfeld (1647–1685)
- 1696/1702 Ludwig Schwolle, monk in Marienfeld (1656–)
- 1743/1744 Heidenreich Quante, monk in Marienfeld (1716–1745)
- 1745/1753 Andreas Abage, monk in Marienfeld (1712–1753)
- 1759/1760 Adolph Hardenack, monk in Marienfeld (1735–1780)
- 1761/1764 Ernestus Eulenberg
- 1765/1785 FK Thoharen
- 1770/1771 Benediktus Klümper
- 1782 Ambrosius
- 1785/1789 H. Ringenberg
- 1790 Ciriacus Frilink
- 1791/1819 Aloys Holz
Literature and Sources
- Walter Werland: Marienfelder Chronik. On the history of the Cistercian abbey and the Marienfeld community , 1968
- Karl Hengst : Westphalian monastery book , part 1, Münster 1992, pages 59–62.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benninghausen Monastery, accessed on July 18, 2010 ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
