Leeden Monastery

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Collegiate Church and Stiftshaus

The monastery Leeden was from about 1240 to 1812 first a monastery of the Cistercian women , from 1538 a women's monastery , in Leeden , city of Tecklenburg , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Count Otto von Tecklenburg , brother of the holy bishop Adolf von Tecklenburg , founded the women's monastery Leeden in 1240, which in turn settled the monastery Segenstal in Vlotho in 1252 . It was not until 1491 that the monastery was fully incorporated into the Cistercian order under Bishop Konrad IV of Rietberg by Kamp monastery , but it was converted into a secular women's monastery as early as 1538 under the pressure of the Reformation . It existed as such until 1812, with the exception of the years 1631 to 1633, in which it served as the Clarisse monastery . The monastery church is now a Protestant collegiate church. The Cistercian and Abbey Museum Leeden is located in the preserved abbey house (formerly abbess house). The exhibition contains documents on the founding and dissolution of the monastery and provides information about life in Leeden Abbey.

literature

  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 44 C.
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 1579.
  • Karl Hengst (Ed.): Westphalian monastery book. Lexicon of the monasteries and monasteries established before 1815 from their foundation to their abolition . Vol. 1. Ahlen - Mülheim. Aschendorff, Münster 1992, pp. 495-499.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 565.
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, pp. 356–357.
  • Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg : Monasticon Westfaliae . Coppenrath, Münster 1909, p. 40.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '49.1 "  N , 7 ° 53' 0.9"  E