Höckelheim Monastery

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The Höckelheim monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in Höckelheim in Lower Saxony .

history

In 1247 the noblemen of Plesse gave Ludolf I., Gottschalk III. and Poppo the abbess of the Cistercian nunnery in Voremberg near Hameln, the church in Höckelheim with all its accessories, whereupon the nunnery from Vorenberg moved to Höckelheim. The resulting monastery served the Lords of the Plesse as a burial place, whereby they also reserved the right to exercise the sovereign sovereignty and supervisory right over the monastery. They issued commands, prohibitions and penalties, and levied taxes that had to be temporarily given to the empire. In addition, the monastery was obliged to send wagons and horses for service to Plesse Castle or to provide them for the war.

An early donation was that from Duke Otto the Child , who in 1252 gave the Radolfshausen desert with his tithe and all accessories to the monastery and only reserved the bailiff's rights over the village for himself. It was not until almost 35 years later that the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg renounced the Vogteirecht and the village was completely transferred to the monastery. The monastery received further possessions mainly from its donors, the noble lords of Plesse, who repeatedly made sales and pledges, for example the monastery received seven mans of land in the village of Höckelheim in 1256 and another 2½ manses in Radolfshausen and Höckelheim for 80 marks, 1265 Ludolf II gave him three mans of goods in Radolfshausen and the fourth part of his allod in Höckelheim for 30 marks . What was essential, however, was the concession in 1270 that the Plessian monastery could buy hereditary estates as fiefs unhindered, which was aimed at preventing the monastery from falling into poverty and having to submit to a strange master.

From the 14th century onwards, donations to the monastery gradually became rarer. The Bishop of Hildesheim granted him that privilege for the period between 1310 and 1318, which meant safe passage for the wagons used by the monastery to transport grain. In 1313 Gottschalk the Elder and the Younger von Plesse gave the monastery a half of the hooves and two houses without the bailiwick in Kalefeld , in 1322 Count Simon von Dassel transferred a tithe to the three daughters of Bodo von Adelebsen , one of whom lived as a maiden in Höckelheim . The estate of Hildebrand Wolters, a citizen of Göttingen, who prescribes half a cart of beer for the monastery in 1367, should he perish on his pilgrimage to Rome. In order to forestall further indebtedness, a message from 1447 suggests. Gottschalk, Dietrich and Moritz von Plesse agree that the Höckelheim monastery estates will be occupied by four to five men for a period of three years. The numerous feuds of this time also affected the monastery enormously, for example the campaign of Wilhelm of Saxony , in which all people from the villages between Mühlhausen , Heiligenstadt , Göttingen , Northeim and Bad Gandersheim fled to the cities. The monasteries in the area were plundered and destroyed, because de dravanten ginghen yn de klostere and slogen kasten and bencke entwey and ok klocken and wigilsteyne .

If one assumes a report by the Erfurt auxiliary bishop , then the monastery breeding and the economic conditions at the beginning of the 16th century were quite questionable. That auxiliary bishop had to lead the women's monasteries in Weende , Mariengarten , Wiebrechtshausen , Osterode and Hokeln back to monastic life. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Höckelheim nuns' abbey easily joined the Bursfeld monastery reform without formally joining this Benedictine monastery association. The poor financial situation of the monastery resulted from a rent sale, which the prioress, abbess and the convent brought in a total of 200 guilders from Elisabeth von Uslar in 1505 . The monastery undertook to sell an annual pension of 10 guilders to Elisabeth's sister, Jutta von Iber, for life, and both were accepted into the monastery brotherhood. At Elisabeth's request, she should be given accommodation, food and food. In spite of the oppressive financial burdens, the nuns founded a chapel in front of the monastery gate in honor of St. Anne in 1512, in which a mass should be read once a week, as well as on the patron's name days. The priest received one mark of silver annually from the monastery slopes.

After Dietrich III. from the Plesse joined the Lutheran Reformation , the monastery became a Protestant nunnery. When the Pless family of counts died out in 1571, the monastery and village of Höckelheim fell to Hesse. The monastery buildings were completely destroyed by fire in 1770. In 1794 the new Marienkirche was consecrated.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Cuno: Höckelheim - history of the village and monastery . In: History of South Hanoverian castles and monasteries . tape VIII , 1898, p. 9 .
  2. ^ Gustav Schmidt (Ed.): Document book of the city of Göttingen. Volume 1. By 1400 . No. 243 . Hahn, Hanover 1863.
  3. ^ Gustav Schmidt (Ed.): Document book of the city of Göttingen. Volume 2. From the year 1401 to 1500 . No. 225 . Hahn, Hanover 1867.
  4. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: Historical-regional excursion map. Leaf Moringen am Solling . Lax, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-7848-3624-0 , p. 183 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 3 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 49"  E