Bottenbroich Abbey
| Bottenbroich Abbey | |
|---|---|
 The former monastery in Alt-Bottenbroich, 1950 |
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| location |
 Germany North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 53 '6 " N , 6 ° 44' 17" E |
| founding year | around 1222 by Cistercian women |
| Cistercian since | (Order of Men) 1448 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1802 |
| Mother monastery | Kamp monastery since 1448 |
| Primary Abbey | In the 13th century directly to the monastery Citeaux assumed |
The Bottenbroich Abbey is a former location of the Cistercian order about three kilometers northeast of Kerpen in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The Bottenbroich farm was acquired by Provost Gottfried von Münstereifel around 1222 under the supervision of the abbot of Hamborn Abbey . Originally the church and the farm at Bottenbroich belonged to the Premonstratensian monastery at Füssenich near Zülpich. Provost Gottfried then donated the land to found the Cistercian convent .
A miraculous image of the painful Mother of God from 1420 made it a center of Marian veneration. In 1448 the monastery ran into financial difficulties and was transferred to the monks of the Kamp monastery . The Cistercian monks from Kamp re-occupied it as a priory with a men's convent and brought it to a new economic boom. With the support of the Lords of Hemmersbach, who chose Bottenbroich as their home monastery and burial site, a new church was built and consecrated in 1484. In 1777 the priory was subordinated to the Abbey of Marienstatt and a provost's office was established; the monks moved to Marienstatt and Mariawald .
In the course of secularization , Bottenbroich Monastery was closed in 1802, but the monastery church continued to be used as a parish church. In 1951 the entire town of Bottenbroich and with it the old monastery church had to give way to the open-cast lignite mine in Frechen . The Pietà is now in the parish church of the Assumption in Frechen-Grefrath .
In 2004, the now recultivated area was used as the venue for the final event of the XX. World Youth Day 2005 selected and named after the Marienfeld pilgrimage site that used to be here .
In September 2006, in Marienfeld on today Frechener area at the site of the former monastery in the presence of monks from Bochum-Stiepel a sundial with the arms of the convent Morimond , the mother monastery of Kamp, situated. Path arrows on the monument are intended to remind pilgrims of their ties with the two monasteries.
Library
Remnants of the monastery library, including a few medieval manuscripts, have been preserved mainly in the Darmstadt University and State Library.
literature
- Hans Elmar Onnau: Bottenbroich Abbey , in: Monasteries and monasteries in the Erftkreis. Pulheim-Brauweiler 1988, pp. 85-106 (in revised form, online 2006 ).