Pöhlde Monastery

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Pöhlder Church; Marking the foundation walls of the monastery (cloister) in the lawn

The Pöhlde monastery was a Premonstratensian monastery (initially a Benedictine monastery ) in Pöhlde , a small village that today belongs to the town of Herzberg am Harz in Lower Saxony .

history

The monastery was probably founded as a palatinate monastery around the middle of the 10th century and was converted into a Benedictine monastery in the following decades. Norbert von Xanten , Archbishop of Magdeburg, made the monastery in 1129/30 the first Premonstratensian provosty in northern Germany.

Heinrich der Vogler handed the lands of Pöhlde over to his wife Mathilde the saint as Wittum in 927 . This is the earliest written mention of the place.

The monastery was dedicated to John the Baptist and St. Servatius . The abbey was founded by Mathilde in 952 and received generous donations from her son Otto I. The monastery benefited greatly from its close connection to the Palatinate Pöhlde, which was also in Pöhlde at the time, and was at times one of the richest monasteries in Germany. The oldest real documentary mention of the St. Servatius Monastery is Otto II's deed of donation from 981.

An important medieval manuscript, the Pöhlder Annals , was created in Pöhlde Monastery .

The so-called Pöhlder Hof in Duderstadt also belonged to the Pöhlde monastery . It was a monastery courtyard. Among other things, the parish church of St. Albani in Göttingen belonged to the Pöhlde monastery.

In 1200 the old Romanesque church burned down. Its Gothic successor was consecrated in 1240.

In 1525, the church and monastery were destroyed by farmers from Eichsfeld during the Peasants' War. The monks moved to Duderstadt. In 1533 Duke Philipp von Grubenhagen dissolved the abbey during the Reformation and took over its property.

In 1629 a brief attempt to revive the abbey failed. Later in the Thirty Years War, what little that remained on the site was completely destroyed. After the Peace of Westphalia, today's half-timbered church was built on the foundations of the nave of the destroyed abbey church.

Todays situation

There are no visible traces of the monastery. Between 1971 and 1974, some remains of the monastery and the Palatinate , with which the monastery buildings were physically connected, were uncovered during archaeological excavations, but covered again for better preservation. The course of the walls was marked in the lawn.

literature

  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine: Early castles and palaces in Lower Saxony . Hildesheim 1995.
  • Otto Zander: Historical forays through the southwest Harz . Herzberg 1983.
  • Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff : Art monuments and antiquities in Hanover. Vol. 2: Principality of Göttingen and Grubenhagen ... Helwing, Hannover 1875, pp. 176–179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Schubert: History of Lower Saxony. Vol. 2.1: Politics, constitution, economy from the 9th to the end of the 15th century. Hahnsche Buchh. 1997, p. 111.
  2. ^ Schubert History of Lower Saxony, Vol. 2.1, p. 334.
  3. ↑ MGH DD O II, p. 300.
  4. ^ Haas / Cramer: Klosterhöfe , p. 399 f.
  5. ↑ Leuckfeld: Antiquitates Poeldenses , pp. 64–67.
  6. ^ Nolde: About the former Pöhlde monastery .

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 46.2 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 31.1"  E