Hopels Monastery

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Memorial stone
Monastery moat

The monastery Hopels was one of Maria consecrated monastery of Norbertine . It was about five kilometers southwest of the village of Friedeburg in East Frisia .

history

The monastery archive and library have disappeared. Large parts of its history are therefore unknown. Dokkum Premonstratensians probably founded the monastery between 1235 and 1290. It was first mentioned in a document in 1290. At that time, according to the order's visitation catalog, it was occupied by 90 inmates. After that there is no documentary information from the monastery for a long time, with the exception of a mention from 1310. From the Stader Kopiar from 1420 it emerges that the St. Nikolai Church of Wangerooge von Hopels was incorporated. The monastery probably owned other properties at the Etzeler Grashaus, between Leerhafe and Möns and partly at the Horster Grashaus. Presumably the construction of the Hopels forest goes back to the initiative of the monastery.

In 1450, the Premonstratensian General Chapter separated from the allegedly very dilapidated women's monastery and handed it over to the Augustinian canons of the Marienkamp monastery in Esens . With that, Hopels lost his independence. After the Reformation , Count Enno II dissolved the Marienkamp monastery in 1528. It is possible that Marienkamp Hopels had already given up. An inmate is mentioned in Hopels for the last time in 1504 (possibly prescribed for 1514) with Johann van Covert, the priest tho Hopels . The count's administration converted all lands into domains . The stones of the church are said to have been put to a new use when the church in Remels was expanded . The bells may also have been brought there, but they were lost when the church tower collapsed in 1507.

The former monastery grounds are now located in the Hopels state forest west of the Friedeburg Deep . The monastery complex is surrounded by a well-preserved, approximately 4 m wide ditch and an external wall, 4 m wide and 0.7 m high. On the site there is an approximately 1.5 m high mound of irregular shape on which several larger granite boulders have been placed. This is a memorial stone for Cirk von Friedeburg , the so-called Cirk Steen, which was erected there around 1900 on the presumed monastery cemetery. The inscription reads: "CIRC + SIT TIBI TERRA LEVIS" (Cirk + may the earth be easy for you).

In 1980 a training excavation was carried out on the site.

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Reimers : Hopels Monastery in East Frisia. In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History, vol. 43 (1938), pp. 94-106
  • Siefke Ortgies Siefken: The Hopels monastery in the Frisian country of Östringen. Self-published, 1979
  • Rolf Bärenfänger : The deserted monastery of Hopels In: Archaeological monuments between Weser and Ems. Isensee 2000 p. 485
  • Werner Löhnertz: Steinfeld Monastery and its East Frisian daughter monasteries. Notes on the beginnings of the Premonstratensians in Friesland . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Art and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden 73/74, 1993/94, pp. 5-42

Web links

Commons : Hopels Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Burkhard Schäfer: Hopels . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 2, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-958-5 , pp. 820-822.

Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '50.9 "  N , 7 ° 47' 44.2"  E