Clarenberg Monastery
The St. Clara Monastery was a Poor Clare Monastery in the former district town of Hörde in what is now Dortmund .
history
It was donated by Count Konrad von der Mark and his wife Elisabeth von Kleve on their own property. The Order of the Poor Clares, founded in 1212 by Francis of Assisi and St. Clare , built the monastery in 1339. At that time it served as a home for around 40 nuns. After separating from her husband in 1344, Elizabeth von Kleve herself entered the Order of the Poor Clares and in 1348 became abbess of its founding. You and Konrad von der Mark were also buried in the monastery church.
Until the end of 1583 Clarenberg was called a monastery, at the beginning of 1584 the term pen or women's monastery was used. Since the Reformation women of different faiths have been in the monastery, which led to the rededication from the monastery to a three-denominational ( Catholic , Lutheran , Calvinist ) monastery.
In 1605, Anna Dietrich von Viermundt , a Calvinist abbess, was elected head of the monastery. This led to religious and political disputes, which is why it after a few years resign had. In 1611 , the predominantly Protestant convent elected a Catholic woman , Anna von Elverfeld, to be her successor .
Clarenberg's regulation as a three-denominational monastery was established in 1682 through a comparison between the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Count Palatine of Pfalz-Neuburg as the legal successors of the Counts of Brandenburg, in 1694 the monastery then issued statutes for itself, according to which Calvinist, Lutheran and Catholic canonesses were always laid down in one Relationship prebends should keep. The abbess's office should alternate between the denominations.
A school in the monastery was mentioned for the first time in 1558, to which the monastery school, which still exists today (as a primary school), traces its history back.
On January 11, 1812, the Clarenberg monastery in Hörde was abolished by Napoleon .
In the Clarenberg monastery, beer was brewed early on at the Hörder Bach . The later Hörder Stifts Brewery , which brewed a Clarissen beer, was built on its premises in 1867 .
Today the large settlement Clarenberg and the eponymous terminus of the U41 light rail line remind us of the Clarenberg monastery .
literature
- Norbert Reimann: Konrad von der Mark († 1353), canon, knight and Franciscan. A contribution to the history of the Clarenberg monastery in (Dortmund-) Hörde. In: Franciscan Studies. 54, Issue 2/3, 1972, ISSN 0016-0067 , pp. 168-183.
- Thomas Schilp : Monastery and Abbey Clarenberg near Hörde (1339-1812). In: Günther Högl, Thomas Schilp (Ed.): Hörde. Contributions to the history of the city. 650 years of town rights Hörde (1340–1990). Wittmaack, Dortmund 1990, ISBN 3-9802117-3-8 , pp. 16-27.
- Thomas Schilp: Clarenberg - Poor Clares in Dortmund-Hörde. In: Karl Hengst (Hrsg.): Westfälisches Klosterbuch. Part 1: Ahlen - Mülheim. Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06886-9 , pp. 181-185, ( Sources and research on the history of church and religion 2, publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44).
- Thomas Schilp: Afterlife provision in cities in the county of Mark. Aspects of mentality, social relationships and politics of the late Middle Ages. In: Westphalian magazine. 149, 1999, ISSN 0083-9043 , pp. 35-55.
- Thomas Schilp: From the Poor Clare Monastery to the three-denominational monastery . In: Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist. Women's convents in the age of confessionalization . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8375-0436-1 .
- Gerhard E. Sollbach: Life in Brandenburg women's monasteries and noble women's monasteries in the Middle Ages and modern times. Herdecke, Clarenberg and Gevelsberg. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1995, ISBN 3-8196-0392-1 , pp. 186-256 ( Dortmunder historical studies 8).
- Manfred Wolf: Confessionally mixed pens. In: Karl Hengst (Hrsg.): Westfälisches Klosterbuch. Lexicon of the monasteries and monasteries established before 1815 from their foundation to their abolition. Part 3: Institutions and Spirituality. Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-402-06893-1 , pp. 246-293, ( Sources and research on the history of church and religion 2, publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 30 ′ 14" E