Daugavgrīva Monastery
| Daugavgrīva Monastery | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Latvia
|
| Coordinates: | 57 ° 2 '40.3 " N , 24 ° 2' 24.5" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
554 |
| founding year | 1208 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1305 |
| Mother monastery | Pforta Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
The Daugavgrīva Monastery (German Dünamünde ; Mons S. Nicolai) was a Cistercian monastery in Latvia . It was 12 km from the Latvian capital, Riga , of which it has been a district since 1959 .
history
The monastery was founded by Bishop Albert I of Riga in 1205 and in 1208 it was occupied by monks from Pforta Monastery from the filiation of Morimond Monastery via Kamp Monastery and Walkenried Monastery . Theodoric, the first abbot of Estonia , had previously served on the mission in Livonia . The monastery partly owned lands far away from it. Rägelin owned 30 hooves of land in the Ruppin rulership , which had been given to him in 1238 by the noble von Plotho , and ran an estate on it. During a local rebellion in 1228, the monastery was destroyed. In 1263 the wooden church was destroyed by fire. The monastery was sold in 1305 to the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order , who set up its commandery there and converted the complex into a fortress; the monks went to the Padise Monastery in Estonia .
Bishop Bernhard zur Lippe was buried in the monastery in 1224.
Buildings and plant
The church was connected to a strong square tower on the east. Along the east wall, two buildings were available to the monks, the Konversen had a building on the west wall. There were two towers to the north. The entrance was in the southwest corner of the outer belt of fortifications, which was surrounded by moats more than 40 m wide.
literature
- Anselme Dimier : L'art cistercien hors de France . Zodiaque, La Pierre-qui-Vire, 1971, p. 55.
- Ambrosius Schneider: Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area , in: Schneider, Ambrosius; Wienand, Adam; Bickel, Wolfgang; Coester, Ernst (Ed.): Die Cistercienser, Geschichte - Geist - Kunst , 3rd edition, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1986, p. 650 f, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 , with references.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From Ruppin to Riga. In a deed from 1238, the Latvian monastery of Dünamünde was granted property rights in the Ruppin region. MAZ dated January 4, 2013, updated June 14, 2013, accessed January 10, 2015.