Boke Monastery

The Boke Monastery in Boke , today a district of Delbrück in the Paderborn district in Westphalia, was a foundation of Count Erpo von Padberg and his wife Beatrix von Itter . It existed from 1101 to 1104 and was then moved to Flechtdorf , now part of the North Hessian community Diemelsee in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district .

prehistory

The Catholic St. Landolinus parish in Boke is one of the oldest parishes in the Paderborn Monastery. It belongs to the so-called original parishes . Allegedly in 836, Bishop Badurad von Paderborn arranged for the relics of St. Landelin to be transferred from the Crespin monastery in the diocese of Cambrai in western France to Boke. Boke thus became a base of Christianity in the newly evangelized Saxony.

founding

In 1101, Count Erpo von Padberg and his wife Beatrix, with the support of Bishop Heinrich II. Von Werl , who was closely related to them , founded a Benedictine monastery over the bones of the saint, whose presence in Boke is documented for the first time in the deed of foundation. The monastery was allodial owned by Beatrix and received from her extensive property in the Boke area, which she had received as a dowry and through inheritance from her family. Erpo also equipped the new monastery with considerable ownership, so u. a. with its own churches in Langförden (now part of Vechta ) and in Werdohl in the Märkisches Sauerland (the predecessor building of the local Kilian Church ) as well as property in Werdohl, in Wirmighausen (now part of the municipality of Diemelsee ), in Beringhausen (now part of the city of Marsberg ) and in Messinghausen (now part of Brilon ).

Repeal

However, the monastery only existed for a few years, and the planning and construction work was completed as early as 1104. The cause was a bitter inheritance dispute after the childless death of the founder Beatrix. Her brothers, Counts of Nidda , laid claim to their inheritance in Boke and refused to let the estate go to the new monastery. The conflict was resolved by abolishing the monastery in Boke in 1104 and relocating it to Count Erpo in Flechtdorf, where it was occupied by Benedictines from the Abdinghof mother monastery near Paderborn. Most of the Landolinus relics were brought to the new Flechtdorf monastery ; only one arm relic remained in Boke.

Remarks

↑ This is said to have happened at the same time as the transfer of the remains of St. Liborius from Le Mans to Paderborn . However, there is no mention of Landelin in the translation reports; It was not until 1101 when the Boke monastery was founded that its relics were first documented in Boke.

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[1] This is said to have happened at the same time as the transfer of the remains of St. Liborius from Le Mans to Paderborn . However, there is no mention of Landelin in the translation reports; It was not until 1101 when the Boke monastery was founded that its relics were first documented in Boke.