Eppinghoven Monastery
| Cistercian convent Eppinghoven | |
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 The gatehouse of the former Eppinghoven monastery |
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| location | Germany North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 9 '16.9 " N , 6 ° 40' 46.1" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1214 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1650 |
| Mother monastery | Saarn |
The monastery Eppinghoven is a former Cistercian - Abbey and a former Kanonissenstift , located south of Neuss - Holzheim directly on the Erft is.
history
The monastery was founded as the Mariensaal Monastery together with the Saarn Monastery around 1214, initially in Karlesforst ( Kaarst ), in the same year incorporated into the Cistercian order and placed under the authority of the Abbot of Kamp . For the first two decades of their existence, Kaarst and Saarn were under the joint direction of Abbess Wolberna. As early as 1231, due to a donation from the Neuss couple Sibert and Gisela, the convent was relocated to Eppinghoven, where a farm was exchanged for the new establishment from the property of the Gerresheim monastery .
In 1236 Emperor Friedrich II assured the monastery that it would be protected, and in 1237 the papal confirmation of his ownership by Gregory IX. During the Burgundian War in 1475 the monastery was so badly damaged that the abbess and the convent had to seek refuge in the neighboring fortified Gnadental monastery . In 1650 the nuns' abbey was converted into a noble women's monastery .
In September 1794, the canonesses fled with their valuables from the French in the Düsseldorf Capuchin monastery, which was then plundered when the French troops crossed the Rhine on September 6, 1795. During this time, a hospital for 700 men was set up in Eppinghoven Abbey. In 1795 the nuns were able to return to the monastery building with considerable French contributions, but in the following years were faced with a massive increase in the tax burden, which they could no longer cope with. In 1802 the monastery was abolished, the collegiate church later demolished.
In the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss , the only remnants of the former monastery church's furnishings are two side wings of an altar that was built around 1500. The organ of the monastery church was probably sold to the newly built church of St. Jakobus in Lüttelforst , now part of Schwalmtal, and has been preserved there.
Picture gallery
In the foreground the Erft with the Eppinghovener mill belonging to the monastery
Left the monastery, right the mill
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literature
- Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the Neuss district. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1895 ( Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 3, 3), (Reprint: ibid 1984, ISBN 3-590-32121-0 ).
- Hans Georg Kirchhoff: History of the city of Kaarst , Kaarst 1987. (There all important documents on the founding history of the monastery are printed there)
- Erich Wisplinghoff : History of the city of Neuss. Volume 4: Erich Wisplinghoff: The church Neuss until 1814. Parish relationships and spiritual institutes. Stadt Neuss, Neuss 1989, ISBN 3-922980-13-9 ( series of publications by the Stadtarchiv Neuss 10, 4).
- http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/top10-rheinland/st-jakobus-in-luettelforst-barockorgel-aid-1.6520306
