Dorlar Monastery

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Former monastery access
View of the former. Klosters from the left side of the Lahn. The image section roughly covers the area of ​​the monastery on the right-hand side of the Lahn. Clear to see the former monastery church. To the left is the Villa Kramer, which was built in 1898 on the remains of the monastery cellar

The Dorlar Monastery is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Dorlar an der Lahn .

history

Little is known about the founding of the Dorlar Monastery on the Lahn (between Wetzlar and Gießen , Lahn-Dill district). If Brower in his extensive investigations puts the foundation of a "coenobium" for the year 1222, this is obviously too early. Eberhard von Merenberg , who was a canon at Speyer , had handed over the church in Dorlar to the widow of his late brother Hartrad and her son, also called Hartrad, provost of the monastery in Wetzlar, in 1297 . This was considered to be the prerequisite for securing a monastic life economically. In that year, a (Premonstratensian) women's monastery was set up there at the far end of the village , which was immediately under the supervision of the Rommersdorf monastery . This convent existed for about 140 years (until 1437). In the following century, rampant diseases brought the monastery near to ruin.

The gaps in the tradition are considerable. In 1322 the master was named Adelheid, who accepted the alms of the knight Gottfried Lesche (wife Benedictina) at that time.

The masters of the women's monastery can still be identified with the help of the Rommersdorf necrology, even if their work cannot be determined in terms of time: Gisela, Lysa, Sophia, Hilla, Gertrud, Irmgard and Adelheid (1322). The masters are likely to reproduce all of these mentions. The Rommersdorf Priors who were active there were also incompletely recorded. Ludwig von Isenburg, Gerhard Schützeichel (Schodeschell), Ada, Johannes Beier and Johannes von Hainenstein were named. Only occasionally do you meet the Dorlar virgins: Gertrud, Clyna, Lysa. The conversations Wentzelaos and Gerlach are also mentioned. At times the clergyman Johann von Heimbach worked there.

The prior Jacob zu Dorlar said of himself in 1360 that he was a clergyman from Rommersdorf. In 1383, Count Philipp von Nassau-Saarbrücken confirmed the freedoms and privileges of the monastery, which at that time had no Stadelhof. The inadequate supply of goods and rampant diseases never left the question of whether the monastery should not be closed.

There has never been a good star over the history of the Dorlar Monastery. Around 1420, the question of a possible downfall became dramatic. Everything conceivably threatening had haunted the monastery. The poverty and epidemics were accompanied by devastating fires, combined with the fact that some right-handers completely overthrew the monastery economically. At times no virgins lived in the monastery or they stayed outside. The Rommersdorfer provost Gerhard then turned to the participants in the Basel Council (1431–1437) a little later , having previously obtained the consent of Count Philip. He submitted the proposal to convert the economically threatened monastery into a provost house, which would be brought under the jurisdiction of Rommersdorf. In 1437 the council approved the provost's proposals. It commissioned the deans of Wetzlar and Weilburg to redesign the Dorlar monastery. The new Dorlar provost's office was now subordinate to the Rommersdorf abbot Hubert Agrippina (1433–1487).

The Dorlar provost's office was mentioned in a document again in 1496, when the Rommersdorf Prior Johann Beer and the provisional Gerlach von Andernach (with the whole community ) were named. The sister ( suster ) Anna Riedesel and other sisters of the hermitage and the Hermannstein church were there when they sold grain rents and sealed a sales letter in the presence of the Rommersdorf abbot Giselbert (1486-1516).

The Dorlar provost's office remained in existence for almost a hundred years, until 1532. The economic hardships from the time of the women's monastery had not changed significantly. In 1532 the property of the provost's office in the immediate vicinity was named. These goods were in and near Atzbach , Girmes , Naunheim , Volpertshausen and Hüttenberg . Of greater importance were the great and minor tithe. In detail, the provost office still belonged:

  • the watermill and fishing in the Lahn, from the drive to the weir at the Kellersbach.
  • The cow pasture.
  • The big and small tithe at Girmes and the wine tithe lying there.
  • Ten malter oats of annual validity in Naunheim (called Pfaffenhafer).
  • Twenty Malter grain and oat gülte, produced in and around Dorlar.
  • Sixty guilders of money (annually), due to some goods at Dorlar.

A farm was in Germes (Girmes?), But it was pledged to Count Philipp von Solms . Another farm was located in the town of Atzbach , which Marcharius von Buseck (Johann von Buseck's father) had once owned .

  • Ten Malter Hafergülte (Pfaffenhafer) in Atzbach (accruing annually).
  • Titles entitlements to Volpertshausen.
  • Three acres of vineyards in Garbenheim.
  • The third part of the firewood in all communities as well as the meadows and pastures (in Dorlar).
  • A slab of wood (called holy wood).
  • Another slab of wood (called Munich site).
  • A slab of wood (called Strutt).
  • The right to drive everywhere, as well as the right to claim in and out of the woods behind the Gleiberg (Cleyberg), which was the responsibility of Count Philipp von Nassau-Weilburg.

In 1532 Thomas von Dieblich sold the aforementioned goods and rights of the Dorlar provost's office for 2300 guilders to Johann von Buseck, Frankfurt bailiff, with the approval of the convent . The Rommersdorfer assured the buyer that he would hold, own, use, sneeze and use these goods and rights forever.

Today as Ev. Church used former monastery church

Initially, the Kirchsatz and the collation of the Dorlar Pastorei were disputed. But then the buyer Johann von Buseck was ordered to proceed with this question in the future as it would be customary for clergymen. After a long back and forth, an inheritance purchase was finally agreed.

The new collator, Count Philipp, agreed to this agreement. When Johann von Buseck died, Abbot Servatius Gerhard (1559–1576) handed over the former provost's office to his son Philipp Ulrich von Buseck.

The former monastery church has since been used as the Protestant church of the parish of Atzbach-Dorlar.

literature

  • Franz Ewert: Small commemorative publication on the 700th anniversary of the founding of the monastery . Dorlar, 1997
  • Evangelical Church Community Dorlar: Festive and thank-you note for the reopening of the renovated old monastery church, Dorlar, 1987
  • FK Abicht: The Wetzlar District, Wetzlar, 1836
  • G. Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments: Hessen . Munich, 1982
  • Günter Bezzenberger, Beatus Fischer: Churches worth seeing, Ev. Press Association, Kassel and Frankfurt, 1987
  • F. Müller: Old, beautiful churches in the Wetzlarer Land, Greifenstein, 1997

Dr. Focko Weberling / Werner Brandl: "The Churches of the Lahnau Community", Regensburg 2006,

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Former monastery access In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  2. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Entire area surrounding the Dorlar Monastery In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  3. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Villa Kramer In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
  4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Evangelical parish church, former monastery church of St. Maria In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 32.9 "  N , 8 ° 33 ′ 52.7"  E