Freienhagen Abbey
The Freienhagen monastery was a small convent of the Wilhelmites in the city of Freienhagen , today a district of Waldeck , in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse (Germany).
From 1411 to 1502 a settlement of the Wilhelmite order can be documented in Freienhagen. The exact year of foundation is unknown, but from 1411 onwards, various foundations for the holding of soul masses by the monastery brothers are documented in the sources . The brothers came to Freienhagen from the Witzenhausen Monastery , founded in December 1291 , possibly at the instigation of the Hessian Landgrave Hermann II , who had gradually brought the small town into Hessian possession from 1368 onwards.
The branch consisted of only one prior and six brothers and in the course of its existence only acquired modest property, including the Ritmaringhausen estate, which formerly belonged to the Netze monastery . The (or the) convent building was probably located on the current parish grounds east of the 13th century Freienhagen parish church, which the brothers used as a convent church in the absence of a church or chapel of their own.
The existence of the convent is documented until at least 1502. In a document from 1518 the "Convent zom Frienhagen Sant Wilhelmsorden" is mentioned, but without it being clear whether it still existed at that time. Probably in 1527, after the introduction of the Reformation by Count Philip III. von Waldeck-Eisenberg and Philipp IV. von Waldeck-Wildungen in the county of Waldeck , and when the town church became Protestant, the monastery was probably closed. The convent buildings, of which nothing has survived today, and the gardens came to the Protestant parish . A prior is mentioned in 1528, but he must have been a former prior at this point in time.
literature
- Johann Adolph Theodor Ludwig Varnhagen: Basis of the Waldeck country and regent history , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1825 (p. 100-101)
- Louis Friedrich Christian Curtze: History and description of the principality of Waldeck , Speyersche Buchhandlung, Arolsen, 1850 (p. 330, 653)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Jürgen Römer: Waldeck Monastery Life (Lecture on April 2, 2005 in Korbach at the annual general meeting of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Westphalia, Dept. Paderborn, pp. 18-19)
- Joachim Geldmacher: About the Wilhelmiterkloster in Freienhagen (1977) (PDF; 43 kB)
- Freienhagen, Wilhelmiten, Waldeck-Frankenberg district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 45 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 1 ″ E