Blankenheim Monastery

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The former monastery church in Blankenheim, today the village church

The monastery Blankenheim (also Monastery ouch-Blankenheim ) was an Augustinian nuns - monastery . It existed from 1190 to 1229 in Aua and then until 1527 in Blankenheim , both in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in East Hesse .

history

In 1190, the abbot Siegfried of the Hersfeld monastery in Geisbachgrund in Aua (now a district of Neuenstein ) founded a subsidiary monastery. In honor of the mother of Jesus and the apostle John , it was given the patronage of Mary and John. The extent to which the start-up was provided with real estate and income is only partially known. For example B. Another document from the year 1195, in which the Archbishop of Mainz Konrad I the donation of the churches and chapels in Sipperhausen (and their branch church in Dagobertshausen ), Obergeis and Mühlbach made by Abbot Siegfried von Hersfeld the year before to the Aua monastery approved. In 1197 the monastery of Volkwin von Naumburg bought goods from Giesenrod, among other things.

However, the small monastery does not seem to have prospered in the narrow and remote valley of the Geisbach, because as early as 1229 it was moved by the Hersfeld abbot Ludwig I to Blankenheim an der Fulda , which was first mentioned in a document in 1200 . A year earlier, the Archbishop of Mainz , Siegfried II, had allowed the monastery to return the two churches in Sipperhausen and Dagobertshausen to the Hersfeld Abbey and to exchange them for the church in Braach . The monastery never got rich in Blankenheim either, but was given lucrative goods through donations - for example, in 1233 with goods from the ladies' monastery in Heerse near Meckbach or in 1247 with goods in Hergershausen from the widow of Landgrave Heinrich Raspe IV.

The monastery existed until the introduction of the Reformation and the subsequent secularization of the monasteries in the Landgraviate of Hesse in 1527. Then the monastery complex and the large farmyard were converted into a landgrave's bailiwick and later into a domain .

Todays use

Ouch

The listed former monastery church in Aua (with a font from the 12th century) is now the Protestant church in Aua . In the short, wide, late Romanesque building, a round arch was walled up over battens with a bulge profile in the Gothic period ; this was probably an original triumphal arch of a Romanesque nave planned to the west or which has now disappeared . The interior is divided by a similar but younger round arch.

Blankenheim

The church of the former monastery in Blankenheim, built in the 13th century, is only partially preserved and is also used today as a Protestant village church. Only the choir and the transept are left . The church stands in the east of the domain area at the southern end of the village on the hill west above the Fuldaaue.

Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 11 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 22 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Witnesses included Landgrave Hermann von Thuringia , Count Gottfried II von Ziegenhain and his brother Ludwig I. von Ziegenhain ( Ziegenhainer Regesten online no. 174. Regesten der Graf von Ziegenhain. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).)
  2. ↑ "Giesenrod, Hersfeld-Rotenburg". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Ev. Parish of Obergeis. Aue in detail ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

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