Domus St. Mariae monastery
| Cistercian monastery Domus St. Mariae | |
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 Memorial stone for the Domus St. Mariae |
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| location |
 Germany Lower Saxony |
| Coordinates: | 53 ° 6 '35 " N , 10 ° 2' 47" E |
| founding year | 1244 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1253 |
The Domus St. Mariae monastery is a former Cistercian abbey near Steinbeck an der Luhe ( Bispingen ). The Convention was like all Cistercian abbeys the patronage of Mary assumed.
In 1243 the abbot of the Herswig monastery near Paderborn was commissioned to move to Stenbecke in order to found a monastery there. The founding document was in the State Archives in Hanover , where it burned in the Second World War .
The actual foundation of the monastery falls in the year 1244, as a letter from Bishop Luderus in Verden attests in the State Archives in Hanover. The document says that the bishop had a monastery Domus St. Mariae, previously called Stenbecke, built. A convent of monks had already lived in Stenbecke, but he, Ludgerus, had the monastery built from scratch and handed it over to the Cistercian order. Originally, the convent probably lived in log houses, which were probably built near the pagan prayer mark on Holortsberg opposite. A large rock bearing a rune , the meaning of which is no longer known, reminds of the prayer mark .
On January 19, 1253, the monks moved from Steinbeck to Scharnebeck near Lüneburg . Extensive donations from Duke Otto I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (including a court in Scharnebeck) gave the occasion. This monastery was also closed after the Reformation . At the former site of the monastery there is a memorial stone and a plaque with explanations. In addition, there are no more remains to be found.
literature
- Theodor Benecke: Scharnebeck Monastery (historical-topographical description of the former monastery and village Scharnebeck near Lüneburg) . Bremen 1905