Galilee Monastery
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The Galilee Monastery was located northwest of Meschede .
In 1483, the small village of Hückelheim and its farms were donated to the Dominican Sisters of the Klausenkapelle from Klausenberg (also Keppelsberg ), who built a monastery here in 1484. They previously lived in a hermitage next to St. Michael's Chapel. Around 1750 it was demolished and a new four-wing house was built. The monastery was looked after by the Dominican monastery in Soest .
In 1810 it was secularized as the last monastery in Westphalia . Since the nuns, under the direction of Prioress Pranghe, refused, the bailiff finally broke the door and extinguished the hearth fire (an important symbolic act at the time). The Dominican Sisters bowed to the pressure and moved out on December 14, 1810.
The church and three monastery wings were demolished in 1860. One wing has been preserved to this day and is used as a residential building. The bell is in the chapel at the southern cemetery of Meschede.
The property west of the monastery is now an industrial area.
literature
- Michael Senger (Red.): Monastery fates. On the history of the secularized monasteries in the Sauerland region of Cologne. Westfälisches Schieferbergbau- und Heimatmuseum, Holthausen 2003 ( Westfälisches Schieferbergbau- und Heimatmuseum Holthausen contributions 13).
Web links
- Galilee Monastery ( Memento from April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the city of Meschede
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '30 " N , 8 ° 15' 48" E