Blauhaus Monastery

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Homestead in Blauhaus Monastery.

The Blauhaus Monastery is a former Premonstratensian monastery in East Frisia . It was in Woltzeten , a district of today's Krummhörn municipality . It probably got its name from the blue roof.

history

The Premonstratensians built the monastery after the convent in Langen had to be abandoned after severe storm surges in 1499. Afterwards, Langen von Blauhaus continued to operate as a manor before it finally sank into the floods.

While the Langen monastery was still under the patronage of St. Jacob , the Premonstratensians chose St. Anna as patroness for Blauhaus . A few years later, after the Reformation , the valuables of the monastery were confiscated by the East Frisian Count Enno II , but the convent was not dissolved. After the death of the last provost from the order, Countess Anna appointed an administrator. The nuns were probably allowed to stay in Blauhaus, as they were mentioned for the last time in 1585. The monastery property has been managed as a state domain since 1566 , the organ of the monastery church was brought to the Great Church in Emden and the bells were processed into guns. The buildings of the monastery were sold for demolition in 1710, so nothing has survived. Today there are two farms on the site of the former monastery.

literature

  • Matthias Bley: Langen / Blauhaus . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 2, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-958-5 , p. 908 ff.
  • Werner Löhnertz: Steinfeld Monastery and its East Frisian daughter monasteries. Notes on the beginnings of the Premonstratensians in Friesland . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden 73/74, 1993/94, pp. 5-42

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Bley: Langen / Blauhaus . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 2, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-958-5 , p. 908 ff.

Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 20 ″  E