Kemnade Monastery

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The monastery Kemnade at the Weser was founded around 960 by two daughters of Bill Unger Count Wichmann the Younger († 22 September 967), Frederuna († 1025) and Irma, in Kemnade , a modern suburb of Bodenwerder . The name of the monastery was derived from the heated room in the women's chamber, the caminata . The name of the village was derived from this.

Kemnade Monastery, middle of the 17th century
Detail from an engraving by Matthäus Merian

history

Frederuna became the first abbess. The monastery possessed great wealth through the inheritance of the sisters: Dölme , Grave , Hehlen , Heyen , Hohe , Linse , Halle , Lüerdissen , Rühle , Forst , Börry , Tündern , Ohr , Esperde , Latferde , Grohnde , Hajen , Pegestorf and Bodenwerder .

The high bailiffs of the Corvey monastery belonged to the Northeimer family . The last Northeimer, Count Siegfried IV. Von Boyneburg , had his brother Heinrich elected Abbot of Corvey and his sister Judith as Abbess of Kemnade in 1143 to strengthen his position of power and his influence on the possessions of the Corvey Monastery . Count Volkwin II. Von Schwalenberg had tried in vain to appoint his niece as abbess . After Siegfried's death in 1144, the bailiwick rights for the Corvey monastery were transferred to Hermann II von Winzenburg .

When the monastery fell into disrepute under Judith, the Pope let the Roman-German King Konrad III. to evict. In 1147 Conrad III gave the Fischbeck and Kemnade monasteries of the Corvey Benedictine Abbey, and Kemnade was a monastery until 1168. After that, it stood empty for 25 years. In 1542 the monastery was abolished. In 1592, the monastery reverted to Corvey by judgment of the Reich Chamber of Commerce. The last provost Christoph von Esleve married and converted to Protestantism . The property fell to Friedrich Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , who later handed it over to Christoph von Esleve as a pledge. There were long disputes about the rights, but it remained under the sovereignty of the House of Braunschweig.

Preserved buildings

  • Former building of the monastery (today residential building)

  • Remains of the tower of St. Dionysius

From the former monastery only the monastery church and a building that has changed significantly in substance and which is now used as a residential building have been preserved. To the north of the monastery church you can find remains of the village church of St. Dionysius, which can be seen in its original state on the Merian engraving on the right.

The still existing Romanesque church of St. Mary, embedded in an ensemble of half-timbered houses and the remains of the village church, was consecrated in 1046. Among other things, the "Baron of Lies" von Münchhausen was buried in the family crypt in the church. The sarcophagus of Count Siegfried von Homburg , who died in 1380, has also been preserved.

archive

  • State Archive NRW Westphalia Department (until 2008 State Archive Münster)
    • A 39 II Kemnade Monastery - files

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 59 ″  N , 9 ° 30 ′ 54 ″  E