Lippehne Monastery

The monastery Lippehne was a monastery of the order of the Wilhelmites and the Augustinian hermits near Lippehne , today Lipiany, in the then border area between Pomerania and Brandenburg in the 13th century.

location

The monastery was probably located on a peninsula in the Wendelsee about 2.5 kilometers north-northeast of the city of Lippehne, on which the name Mönchenende or Münchenende was later passed down. The area belonged to the Pomeranian diocese of Cammin and in 1276 went to the Brandenburg Neumark .

history

The monastery was founded shortly before 1255 as the first monastery east of the Elbe by the new order of the Wilhelmites. The founder was either the Bishop of Cammin, to whose worldly possession the area probably belonged at that time, or the Duke of Pomerania. In 1255 the monastery changed to the order of the Augustinian hermits. In August 1266 the monastery was first mentioned in a papal bull in which it was allowed to remain in the Augustinian order. In the same year a prior of the monastery was named as a witness in a document from Duke Barnim of Pomerania.

In 1290 the prior Henning and another brother asked the duke to found daughter monasteries in Königsberg and Friedeberg. After that, the monastery was no longer mentioned. No further information about the monastery has been obtained.

literature

• Michael Wernicke: Lippehne (Lipiany). Augustinian Hermits . In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich u. a. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies, volume 14). Volume 2. Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 . P. 828f.