Maria Stern Monastery (vinegar)

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Access to the former cloister courtyard, 2013
Baroque structures of the former main monastery building and wind vane with the symbol of the star, which was later incorporated into the local coat of arms

The Maria Stern Monastery (also: Monastery of Marienstern or Monastery of Essig ) was founded in the first half of the 15th century in the village of Essig (municipality of Swisttal ) in the Rhein-Sieg district (today with the address Sternstraße 7 ) and existed until his Dissolution as part of the secularization in 1802. Only a few remains of the old complex have been preserved; a tree nursery is now operated on the former monastery property.

history

In March 1452 the responsible apostolic legate confirmed the establishment of a convent in the Essig monastery. The monastery was founded around 1439. It was preceded by the establishment of a hospital, a chapel and a poor cemetery. These buildings had been erected from 1432 on a piece of land donated by the married couple Johann von Schleiden and Anna von Blankenheim; In September 1432 the pastor of St. Peter's Church in neighboring Odendorf , Heinrich Woebel von Euskirchen, gave the appropriate approval. The named chapel ( patronage : BMV Maria und Heiliger Jakob ) had its builder, Nicolaus Sasse, assigned to the Order of the Redeemer in October 1446 for the attention of the abbess of the Sonnenberg monastery in the diocese of Utrecht , Milla Ameloncks. Vinegar lay on the old Jakobus pilgrimage route from the Jakobushospital in Bonn as well as on the medieval "coronation road" from Frankfurt to Aachen ( coming from Rheinbach , leading to Euskirchen ), which was also used by pilgrims , and the monastery built here was supposed to take care of needy believers passing through. There was a Way of the Cross in the village in the form of the Seven Footfalls .

The monastery was initially run by the Birgitten. But already in 1454 Cologne Augustinian choir women took over the business. The Archbishop of Cologne, Adolf von Schaumburg , made the convent subordinate to the Abbot of Steinfeld in 1551 . From 1663 or 1666 female members of the Premonstratensian order, who lived according to the Augustine Rule , ran the monastery in the area of ​​the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1716 there were 16 non-aristocratic nuns living in the monastery.

In 1802 there was secularization in the areas on the left bank of the Rhine ; the monastery was auctioned, the inventory was dissolved in 1803 and in 1804 the monastery chapel was laid down. In 1803 the St. Georg church in Swisttal-Miel was probably given the Essiger monastery organ. According to other sources, the organ was first sold to the Evangelical Reformed parish in Odenkirchen (now a part of Mönchengladbach ) and later given away to the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Hilberath . In 1905 most of the monastery buildings were demolished. The Johannes Brauweiler tree nursery , which specializes in ornamental trees , was established in 1980 (by inheritance) on the farm run here .

Only a few parts of the former monastery are left. Parts of the surrounding wall have been preserved as well as a baroque- style gable of the main house from around the end of the 17th century. The wind vane on the roof that goes with it shows the seven-pointed star of the Virgin Mary . Parts of the outbuilding are also available. The existing components have been registered in the Essiger monument protection list since 1992. The street names Sternstrasse and Klosterstrasse are reminiscent of the former monastery.

Trivia

Various stories about monastery life in Essig are rumored in the area, the truth of which cannot be verified. In the late 18th century, when the French troops marched in, one of the nuns is said to have had himself walled in alive. When the soldiers broke the freshly mortared wall in search of the monastery treasure, the confused nun is said to have jumped at them screaming. According to tradition, she was then killed.

See also

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Finding aid: Authorities and holdings before 1816, Marienstern auf dem Essig, documents AA 0404 : 121.49.00 Marienstern auf dem Essig , at the Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland department
  2. ^ Helmut Fischer, Folk Tales Between the Rhine and Eifel: Narrator and Writer, Collector and Editor from the 12th to the 21st Century , Volume 28 of the publications of the History and Antiquity Association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg District , ISBN 978-3- 93853-5-295 , Rheinlandia-Verlag, 2007, p. 191
  3. ↑ Rüdiger Schneider, An old Jakobus pilgrimage route: From the Jakobushospital in Bonn to the Marienstern Monastery in Essig , 2010
  4. ^ A b c Marie Antoinette di Donato, On the way in vinegar "We are a funny village community" , November 6, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. ↑ Christoph Schaden, The Antwerp carved altars in the former Deanery Zülpich , Volume 14 of: Geschichte im Kreis Euskirchen , ISBN 978-3-89498-0-856 , SH-Verlag, 2000, p. 19
  6. ↑ According to other information, the monastery was uninhabited for a long time until it was only taken over by the Augustinians in 1482, according to Marienstern in Swisttal-Essig (Rhein-Sieg-Kreis) , travel guide of the Premonstratensian Order to the present and former monasteries in the German-speaking area, Premonstratensian Abbey Hamborn (ed.)
  7. ↑ a b c Marienstern in Swisttal-Essig (Rhein-Sieg-Kreis) , travel guide of the Premonstratensian Order to the present and former monasteries in the German-speaking area, Premonstratensian Abbey Hamborn (ed.)
  8. ↑ a b Peter Jurgilewitsch and Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow, The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district , Bouvier, 1990, ISBN 978-3-41680-6-060 , p 506
  9. ↑ a b Helmut Fischer, Sagen aus dem Land an Rhein und Sieg , Chapter 115: The walled-in nun in the Mariastern Monastery, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86680-974-1 , p. 101
  10. ^ Organ table , website of Catholic church music in the Rhein-Sieg district
  11. ↑ Franz-Josef Vogt, Contributions to the History of Organ Building in the North Eifel ( Memento of the original from October 31, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weimbs.de
  12. ^ Walter Janssen, Studies on the desert issue in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and Eifelnordrand , Volume 35 of the supplements, Bonner Jahrbücher of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn and the Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege in the Landschaftsverband Rheinland and the Verein von Altertumsfreunden im Rheinlande , ISBN 978-3 -79270-2-079 , Rheinland-Verlag, 1975
  13. ↑ Appendix II - Monuments, List of Monuments of the Municipality of Swisttal , in: Municipality of Swisttal, Rationale for the Land Use Plan , Draft, April 2015, p. 150

Web links

Commons : Kloster Maria Stern (Essig)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Website of the Brauweiler tree nursery (current user of the facility)

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 26.6 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 9 ″  E