Elsey Monastery
The Elsey Monastery was in Elsey , today Hagen-Hohenlimburg .
history
It was founded around 1220 by Friedrich von Isenberg as a Premonstratensian Choirfrauenstift and given the parish church there and other possessions. By far the largest possessions of the monastery were the Niederulten farm in Langendreer since 1266 and the nearby Schulte Suntum farm since 1299. The medieval monastery was in the 15th century in a noble convent converted. In the 16th century the parish became Protestant, and later also the monastery. It existed until secularization in 1810. After its dissolution, the claims for the lease contributions were transferred to the Protestant parish of Elsey. The Romanesque parish church has been preserved (construction started around 1223, first documented mention in 1259) and some curiae of the canons.
After its abolition by the government of the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1811, the monastery had extensive forest and meadow ownership over 53 farms and cottages of various sizes. Among the 11 monasteries and monasteries in the Ruhr Department , Elsey took ninth place in terms of its economic performance (with an average of 8400 francs annual income), making it one of the smallest monasteries in this administrative district.
The evangelical parish of Elsey is still today a patronage parish of the Prince of Bentheim-Tecklenburg in Rheda-Wiedenbrück .
Abbesses
- around 1270 Walburgis (prioress)
- around 1394 Gertrud von Grevel (Prioress)
- around 1396 Bele Kuling (also Kulynges) (Prioress)
- around 1405 Katharina Snyders (prioress)
- around 1414 Else von Eversberg (prioress)
- around 1438 Regula Dudinck (prioress), daughter of Heinrich von Dudinck zu Werdringen
- around 1468–1486 Margaretha von Neuhof (also Greyte van Neyenhove)
- around 1501 Engela von Holte
- 1501–1545 Ida von Syberg
- 1551–1554 Sophie Budberg
- 1556–1577 Anna von der Goy
- 1590–1595 Katharina von Neheim
- 1595–1623 Ludgera von Neheim called Dutscher
- 1623–1625 Anna Rump zu Pungelscheid
- 1626–1630 Helene von Plettenberg
- 1630–1639 Gertrud von der Pforten
- 1639–1640 Anna Lucia von Plettenberg
- 1641–1684 Helene von Syberg , daughter of Adrian von Syberg zum Busch and Margareta von Voss zum Rodenberg
- 1684–1696 Elsebein von Lahr
- 1696–1701 Maria Sybilla von Lahr
- 1701–1704 Theodora Anna Katharina von Hauß
- 1704–1716 Sophia Johanna von Bentheim-Tecklenburg , daughter of Hans Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Johanna Dorothea zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bernburg
- 1716–1753 Sophie Amelie Dorothee von Bentheim-Tecklenburg , daughter of Friedrich Moritz zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Christina Maria zur Lippe-Brake
- 1753–1776 Anna Christine Katharina von dem Bottlenberg called Kessel
- 1776–1797 Amalie Dorothea Elisabeth von dem Bottlenberg called Kessel
- 1797–1802 Wilhelmine Sophie von Cornberg
- 1802–1803 Louise von Ledebur
literature
- Edeltraud Klueting : The (free-worldly) aristocratic women's pen Elsey. History, constitution and manorial rule in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1980 ( Altenaer Posts 14, ISSN 0516-8260 ; also: Bochum, Ruhr-Univ., Diss., 1976).
- Edeltraud Klueting: Elsey Abbey and its spatial integration in southern Westphalia. A contribution to the structural description of the manorial rule of spiritual foundations in the late Middle Ages . In: Westfälische Zeitschrift Vol. 126/27 1976/77, pp. 27-50 ( PDF file ).
- Gerhard E. Sollbach: "The attachment of the canonesses to their institute is no longer as strong as it was then" - The inglorious end of Elsey Abbey 200 years ago. In: Hohenlimburger Heimatblätter , Volume 73 (2012), H. 9, pp. 289-300.
- Clemens Kreuzer: The Elseyer story of the Langendreerer Niederschulten-Hof. In: Hohenlimburger Heimatblätter, Vol. 77 (2016), H. 12, pp. 401-425.
Web links
- Elsey in Hagen-Hohenlimburg
- Reconstruction of Elsey Monastery from 1223 (PDF file)
- Document requests from the Princely Archive Rheda / Digital Westphalian Document Database (DWUD)
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 36.8 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 42.7 ″ E