Duissern Monastery
| Duissern Monastery | |
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 Duissern Monastery 1566 |
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| location |
 Germany North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 26 '12.9 " N , 6 ° 45' 51.1" E |
| founding year | 1234 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1806 |
| Mother monastery | Saarn Monastery |
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The Duissern Monastery was a Cistercian abbey in Duissern , Duisburg .
history
The monastery was founded in November 1234 after the Duisburg citizen Alexander de Cassels secured the economic basis of the monastery through donations of land. Initially 13 nuns from the Cistercian monastery in Saarn moved into the new monastery, in 1237 the number of nuns was increased to 25. The Kamp monastery was in charge of spiritual supervision .
As early as 1243, Gernand, Burgrave of Kaiserswerth and then Imperial Bailiff of Duisburg, had the monastery relocated near the Ruhr on the slope of the Kaiserberg , but the slightly slippery clay soil of the mountain did not allow the establishment of secure foundations, so the nuns started shortly afterwards returned to their original location in Duissern. With the acquisition of the Monninghof in 1286, the monastery became the most entitled person in the Duisburg Forest. According to the archive records, the abbey had considerable income.
Against the background of the Reformation and the threat of armed conflict, the then abbess Agnes von Nunum leased the vacant Minorite monastery, and the nuns of the monastery moved to the city of Duisburg in 1582. In 1587 the Duissern Abbey was burned down by the mercenaries of Martin Schenk von Nideggen, who was in Dutch service . After troops from Berg established themselves in the ruins of the monastery in 1589 just outside the gates of Duisburg, the city had the remains of the monastery torn down in 1590 after they had withdrawn. The only pictorial representation of the Duissern Monastery is on the Corputius map from 1566.
In 1608 the abbess Margarete von Vieffhausen bought the three- gabled house on Niederstrasse as the new seat of the monastery. In the course of the 16th century the monastery developed into a noble monastery , as it was first mentioned in a document in 1623, which only accepted nuns from the nobility. In 1694 the monastery, whose area was bordered by Oberstrasse, Niederstrasse, Nonnengasse and Klosterstrasse, built its own small church.
In 1806 the monastery was closed and the nuns who lived in the monastery at that time were paid a lifetime pension. Parts of the monastery were used as gendarmerie barracks from 1812, and a Catholic school was built in another part. The three-gabled house came into the possession of the city of Duisburg in 1961.
Remains of the original Duissern monastery were found during excavations on the corner of Oranienstrasse and Hansastrasse in the 1920s.
Remarks
- ↑ Floor plan of the monastery from 1806 in Roden, Günter von: Geschichte der Stadt Duisburg. Vol. I: The old Duisburg from the beginning until 1905. Walter Braun Verlag, Duisburg 1973, p. 255
literature
- Roden, Günter von: History of the city of Duisburg. Vol. I: The old Duisburg from the beginning to 1905. Walter Braun Verlag, Duisburg 1973, pp. 251-254