Marienfließ Monastery (Pomerania)

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Marienfließ Monastery
location Marienfließ in western Pomerania
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '45.3 "  N , 15 ° 15' 56.7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 22 '45.3 "  N , 15 ° 15' 56.7"  E
founding year 1248
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1569
Former "Immaculate Conception" monastery church in Marianowo

The monastery Marienfließ is a former convent in Marianowo ( Marienfließ ) in Stargard County in Poland . It is located 16 kilometers northeast of Stargard ( Stargard ) on the Great Lake (Jezioro Marianowskie). At the beginning of the 17th century it became famous through the witch trial against Sidonia von Borcke .

The Marienfließ monastery was built on November 2, 1248 as the monastery of "All Saints and the Divine Mary" of the Cistercians by the Pomeranian Duke Barnim I for the purpose of settling and reclaiming his newly acquired Stargard land. The monastery, which was built at the northwestern end of the Great Lake, was given 1,100 Hufen land in an 8 km wide strip, which stretches for about 35 km from the confluence of the Nonnenbach in the Krampehl (Krąpiel) near Uchtenhagen (Krzywnica) to the Great Mellensee near Zamzow (Ziemsko) extended to the east. In addition to various landlords, Barnim also donated 600 Hufen from ducal property. That his daughter Barbara was the first prioress of the monastery is only mentioned in a document forged by Gottlieb Samuel Pristaff in the 18th century. Their priory is just as little documented as that mentioned by Johann Joachim Steinbrück for Elisabeth von Podewils in 1272.

By the 16th century, the monastery laid out eight villages on this land south of Lake Enzig (Jezioro Ińsko) near Nörenberg , another two were partly owned by the monastery. As a result of the frequent fights between the Pomeranian dukes and the Brandenburg margraves, the monastery suffered multiple damage. The chaplain, Duke Wartislaw VII. And provost of the monastery, Konrad Flemming, finally managed to get the duke to leave the village of Ebeneow (Gogolewo) to the impoverished monastery .

The continued existence of the monastery after the Reformation was initially guaranteed by the assurance made by the Treptower Landtag in 1534 that the property of the Johanniter and the nunneries would not be secularized. On the part of the nobility, it was finally achieved that the five women's monasteries in Pomerania were placed under ducal supervision and converted into “breeding schools” and supply institutions for noble ladies. This form of Protestant women's monastery was fixed in the Pomeranian church order of 1563. The monastery archive was lost in a fire in 1549. In 1569 the Marienfließ monastery was converted into a virgin monastery by a resolution of the Wollin state parliament .

The noble maiden Sidonia of Borcke (1548-1620), who lived in the pen, was in 1619 in a witch trial accused of witchcraft and on September 28, 1620 Stettin beheaded and burned. As a "monastery witch" she stayed alive in legend and literature.

The Fräuleinstift was damaged in the Thirty Years' War when the Swedes occupied and looted the buildings. On June 28, 1643, Gustav II Adolf's daughter, Christine of Sweden , left the goods of the Fräuleinstift Marienfließ for ten years to General Duke Franz Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg for loyal service to free usufruct. The new sovereign, the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm then fell Marienfließ by way of devolution to after Elector and Duke compensation for Francis Henry had agreed on 12 December 1653 improvements. In 1730, 13 unmarried noble ladies lived in the monastery, each with their own house with a kitchen.

The women's monastery went under in 1945 due to flight, expulsion and expropriation. The last mayor was Margarete Hahn, her deputy Selma von Goddenthow. Parts of the monastery buildings have been preserved and are open to the public, others are inhabited.

literature

  • Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Volume 2, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, pp. 110-120.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Friedrich Wutstrack, addendum to the brief historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal Prussian duchy of Vor and Hinter-Pomerania , Stettin: Johann Samuel Leich, 1795, p. 179.
  2. Paul Schulz, 40 years of sponsorship in the Saatzig / Pomeranian district of Ostholstein : 2 parts, part 2: Memories of the Saatzig district, pp. 25seq.