Herchen Monastery

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The Antonius Chapel

The monastery Herchenhainer , formerly Herchingen was an Endowed by 1247 Cistercian convent in Herchenhainer . It existed until it was dissolved in 1581.

history

Around 1247, Countess Mechthild von Sayn founded the Cistercian monastery on the basis of an estate belonging to her. The monastery was initially under the paternity of the Heisterbach Monastery from 1266 before it was under the Marienstatt Abbey from 1459 until its incorporation into the Merten Monastery in 1581 . Later Augustinian women lived there. In 1581 almost all of the nuns died of the plague. On September 25, 1581 Pastor reports of the Herchenhainer Marie rapporteurs Abbot Gottfried von Drolshagen also the death of the Abbess Margaret of Driesch. During the visit to the monastery it was found that the plague had raged among the few nuns still living in the monastery , so that an orderly monastery operation was no longer possible. Only two lay sisters had survived. The budget situation was also tense. The associated Höhnerhof in the parish of Stieldorf was, like the rest of the monastery, attached to the Merten monastery . With that, the institution virtually ceased to exist. In 1702, the Merten monastery donated the Antonius Chapel to commemorate the lost monastery.

The exact location of the monastery in Herchen can no longer be determined today. It was probably below the church . An old quarry stone wall in the town center was assigned to an outbuilding.

literature

  • Handbook of the historical sites of Germany North Rhine-Westphalia. Stuttgart, 1970 p. 310f.
  • Gilbert Wellstein: The Cistercian convent Herchen an der Sieg. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches, (NF 8 and 9) (1918, 1920), pp. 341–375 and pp. 43–74.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ P. Gilbert Wellstein o. Cist., The Cistercian Abbey Marienstatt in the Westerwald, Verlag Abtei Marienstatt, 1927
  2. ↑ HStA Düsseldorf, Mertener Akten No. 37, Bl. 1–12
  3. ^ Kaufmann: Homburg School History
  4. ^ Reissner: Stieldorf - from the history of the community and village, p. 16

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 51 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 44 ″  E