Dambeck Monastery
Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 11 ° 9 ′ 51 ″ E
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The monastery Dambeck is a former Benedictine monastery in the district office Dambeck the Hanseatic city of Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt . It is seven kilometers south of the core town of Salzwedel on the Jeetze .
architecture
All monastery buildings are made of brick . The monastery church, consecrated to Maria and Kunigunde , is a single-nave, flat-roofed hall church . The inner exam is completely preserved. To the north of the church is an old provost house . A pigeon tower and other, more modern buildings, such as the former manor house , also belong to the monastery grounds .
history
The monastery was founded in 1224 by the Count of Dannenberg. It acquired the Rundling Maxdorf as early as 1283 . In 1542 it was secularized and was given to the Counts of Schulenburg as pledge . In 1540 the monastery became a Protestant and sovereign domain ( Frauenstift ) under the government of Elector Joachim II. Around 1626 the monastery was plundered during the Thirty Years' War . In 1644 it became the property of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin and was used as a school. From 1750 the monastery complex was cultivated for agriculture. The church was restored and received a new roof, the baroque tower and ledge. Parts of the monastery were used as granaries and stables and the structure was changed.
From 1875 until the Second World War, the unicorn altar, built in 1474 from the Dambeck monastery church, was exhibited in Berlin's Humboldt University . Then he came to the Katharinenkirche in Salzwedel, where he can be seen ever since.
The GDR leadership declared the monastery public property in 1953 . From 1962 to 1971 the adjoining manor house was used as a boarding school for agricultural training. In 1986 the church was given up as a place of worship due to increasing vandalism and left to decay.
In 1991 four monks moved in from the Lukas community in Hanover. Since then Brother Jens has been the Prior of the Brotherhood. He has the organizational and spiritual direction of the monastery.
The monastery complex was handed over to the Evangelical-Benedictine Joseph Brotherhood by the Treuhandanstalt in 1993 . However, the lands belonging to the monastery were leased elsewhere. In 1999 the fraternity bought the monastery from donations. The monastery became the " Dambeck Monastery Foundation ". Since then, the brotherhood has been thoroughly restoring the monastery and the entire complex. The church's equipment was donated by various parishes. The agriculture of the monastery is about 15 kilometers away at Mehmke place and is ecologically oriented.
In 2014, the restoration of the provost's office began, which after completion in spring 2015 can be used as an exhibition and event space. The project was supported by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the German Foundation for Monument Protection , Lotto-Toto and the Zeit Foundation as well as another foundation from Hamburg.
People who are in need live with the friars. Children with radiation damage from the Chernobyl region are often present with their carers. For many people, the monastery has become the center of their lives. There are also people who want to spend part of their vacation working and praying with the brothers.
Planning
Guest rooms are to be built in the residential part of the building. Groups can then hold retreats or conferences.
The arable land is leased from the brotherhood. There are long-term plans to buy the land. Agriculture is enough to feed the residents of the monastery.
Others
The Dambeck monastery mill is located near the monastery.
The Friends of Dambeck Monastery e. V. , based in Hamburg, founded in 2012, was deleted from the register of associations in 2016. In 2015 it was reported about its dissolution: There were different views between the association and the monastery brothers as to the future direction of the monastery. While the monks in the Dambeck office saw monastic life in the foreground, the friends of the association were looking for ways to develop the monastery complex for tourism.
In 2016, the association for the rescue of the epitaphs of the former monastery church Dambeck eV was founded based in Salzwedel.
literature
- Michael Scholz: Dambeck. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann, Winfried Schich and others (eds.): Brandenburgisches Klosterbuch. Handbook of the monasteries, pens and commander by the mid-16th century. Volumes I and II (= Klaus Neitmann on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission and in connection with the Brandenburg State Main Archive [Hrsg.]: Brandenburgische Historische Studien . Volume 14). Be.Bra Wissenschaft Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 , pp. 393-406.
Web links
- Official website of the monastery foundation
- Unicorn altar of the Dambeck monastery
- Zeit - article about the monastery 1995
- Bettina Vaupel: Smock instead of a habit , Monuments Online 6.2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the monastery , accessed on July 27, 2011
- ↑ Hartmut Bock and a .: The north-western Altmark - a cultural landscape . Sparkasse Gifhorn-Wolfsburg, Gifhorn 1991, without ISBN
- ↑ Unicorn Altar of Dambeck Monastery , accessed on December 14, 2009
- ↑ Letter from Prior Brother Jens, December 2014
- ↑ Fabian Laaß, Christin Käther: Our work was superfluous . Förderverein Kloster Dambeck has sealed its dissolution. In: Volksstimme Magdeburg, local edition Salzwedel . February 16, 2015 ( volksstimme.de [accessed March 4, 2018]).