Hagenrode Monastery

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The Hagenrode monastery was a Benedictine monastery in the rank of provost in the Selketal near the present-day town of Alexisbad in the Lower Harz .

history

When the Benedictine abbey, founded five years earlier in Thankmarsfelde , was relocated to Nienburg in 975 , according to a legend recorded at the beginning of the 13th century, Abbot Hagano stayed with some monks in the Harz in a hermitage named after him in the Selketal. In 983 this place Hagenrode ( Hagananrothe) is confirmed as the possession of the Nienburg monastery by Pope Benedict VII . The abbot Adaldag of the monastery Nienburg received on July 29, 993 from King Otto III. in a document issued in Derenburg the right to set up a market and a mint in the associated town of Hagenrode and to collect market tariffs. This right was renewed on March 23, 1000. A certificate dated November 23, 994 when Quedlinburg was granted market rights shows that the rights granted to Hagenrode were exercised in the neighboring Harzgerode ( Hasacanroth ). This marketing authorization for Quedlinburg was granted by King Otto III. with express consideration of the six market towns in the region that already existed at that time, namely Harzgerode, Eisleben , Wallhausen , Rottleberode , Halberstadt and Seligenstadt .

From the year 1000 the monastery Hagenrode belonged to the protective bailiwick of Adalbert von Ballenstedt , the father of the first Askanier , Esico von Ballenstedt (990-1060). It was dedicated to John the Baptist .

As early as 1035, at the request of Empress Gisela, her husband, Emperor Konrad II , at the intervention of his son, who later became Emperor Heinrich III , opened the Hazechenrode mint . moved to Nienburg . Temporarily no more coins were minted in Harzgerode. In 1239, in a comparison between Prince Heinrich I of Anhalt and Abbot Gebhardt von Nienburg, the Harzgerode coin was mentioned again. (CDA II, No. 145)

On 24 May 1179 the monastery was Hagenrodensis as provost of the Benedictines under the protection of Pope Alexander III. posed and confirmed in his possessions. This property consisted of forest areas, up to 100 Hufen, ten solidi of the abbot, mills on the Selke, six Staßfurt salt pans and the Lusatian honeysuckle. After the provost's brief heyday, the Nienburg abbot had to appeal for donations as early as 1267 for the preservation of dilapidated buildings.

In the Peasants' War plundered in 1525 and by the Conventual leave, there were Hagenrode last only headed by a tutor economy. With the secularization of the Nienburg Benedictine monastery in 1563, the property of the provost's still existing fell to the sovereigns and former guardians, the princes of Anhalt . The last still visible memory of the Propstei Hagenrode, the ruins of the church tower, broke up in the first half of the 19th century. In place of the Klostermühle, which was still working at the time, the Klostermühle Hotel Pension was built a few decades later.

literature

  • Christof Römer : Hagenrode. A Nienburg provost in the Selketal. In: Harz-Zeitschrift. Volume 54/55 . Born in 2002/2003. Berlin 2004. pp. 147-164 .
  • Nils Niklasson : Report on an excavation on the site of the former Hagenrode monastery in the Lower Harz. In: Anhaltische Geschichtsblätter 13. 1937, pp. 81–89.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MGH, SS, Vol. 28, p. 153 f.
  2. ↑ CDA, I, No. 71
  3. ↑ CDA, I, No. 83
  4. ↑ RI II 3 No. 1351; CDA, I, No. 89I
  5. ↑ CDA, I, No. 84
  6. ↑ RI III 1 No. 231
  7. ↑ CDA No. 567
  8. ↑ Christof Römer : Hagenrode. A Nienburg provost in the Selketal , in: Harz-Zeitschrift, 54./55. 2002/2003, Berlin 2004, p. 162 f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '18.8 "  N , 11 ° 7' 3.3"  E