Paradises

Paradises City of Soest Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 59 ″ N , 8 ° 3 ′ 21 ″ E
Height :	approx. 85 m
Residents :	63 (2008)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969

Soest and its districts

Paradiese is a district of Soest in Westphalia .

history

Paradise is the name set up on a 1253 Dominican - Convention return, the first time this year as Paradyso was mentioned.

The courtyard on which this convent was established by the Soest Dominican monastery “Zum heiligen Kreuz” was previously called Alvoldinchusen (with the typical Saxon and regional name ending -inchusen, today -ingsen). The Paradiese monastery became known through Grimmelshausen's novel The adventurous Simplicissimus . The monastery building, which had fallen into disrepair over the past two centuries, has been extensively restored in recent years with the support of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and today houses a private oncological health center.

local community

The community was created around 1865 by outsourcing from the community of Schwefe.

On July 1, 1969, Paradiese was incorporated into the district town of Soest by the Soest / Beckum Act .

Population development

year	Ew.
1933	62
1939	56
1961	61
1998	60
2005	69
2008	63

The place has an area of about 151 ha.

Culture and sights

monastery

The establishment of the nunnery was suggested in 1251 by the Cologne order provincial of the Dominicans Johannes von Wildeshausen . The prerequisite for founding the monastery on site was the donation of the Alvoldinchusen farm by Otto von Tecklenburg . The feudal man on this farm was knight Heinrich von Alvoldinchusen, immediate liege lord Theodor von Honrode . The approval to found the monastery was given on July 25, 1252 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden . Together with Albertus Magnus , who accepted the profession of the nuns in 1255 , Hochstaden is considered the founder of the monastery.

View through the gate to the west of the main house

In 1259 the monastery church was consecrated under the patronage of the Archangel Michael . With the acquisitions of 1263 (from Conrad III, lord of the castle of Stromberg ) the foundation stone was laid for the close relationship between Paradiese and the neighboring village of Schwefe (now part of the municipality of Welver ); the patronage over the church of St. Severin in Schwefe existed well beyond the time of the Reformation until 1811. The acceptance of the Lutheran confession in 1531 by the city of Soest, which also extended to its territory, the Soester Börde , was initially not accepted by the monastery carried along. So Johannes Gropper was able to try from Paradiese to win the nearby city back to Catholicism. During the Thirty Years' War , Grimmelshausen had his novel hero Simplicius Simplicissimus, the " Hunter of Soest ", spend the winter months of 1636/37 in the monastery. In 1660 a Protestant women's monastery was built next to the still Catholic monastery . Between 1690 and 1710 the monastery buildings were redesigned in the Baroque style. Raimund Bruns died in 1780 as provost of Paradiese.

In accordance with the provisions of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , the Catholic monastery was abolished in 1808 and the Protestant women's monastery in 1811. As a result, the monastery property was sold and land and buildings were divided up, some of which also went to the last abbess Dorothea Kipp. Until 1995 the historical monastery area fell into disrepair; In addition to agricultural use, some of the buildings were used for commercial purposes, e.g. B. as a nail smithy (19th century). From 1995 to 2001, the property was restored by the new owners, who set up an oncological health center here.

The Pilgrim House in Soest also belonged to the Paradiese monastery .

literature

Günter Beaugrand : Paradiese monastery. From the Dominican convent to the medical center . Wilke, Hamm 2002, ISBN 3-931283-46-1 .
Michael Gosmann: Paradises - Dominicans . In: Karl Hengst (Hrsg.): Westfälisches Klosterbuch. Part 2: Münster - Zwillbrock. Aschendorff, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-402-06888-5 , pp. 262-268 ( sources and research on the history of church and religion 2, publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44).
Marga Koske : On the history of the former Paradiese monastery / abbey . In: Soest magazine of the association for the history of Soest and the Börde. No. 101 (1989), pp. 127-168.
Walter Melzer: New excavations at the beginnings of the Paradiese monastery and at the sources of the city of Soest . In: Soester magazine. 108, 1996, ISSN 0176-3946 , pp. 15-20.
Bernhard Thiemann: The monasteries of the city of Soest . In: Claudia Kimminus-Schneider (Ed.): Monasteries and monastic culture in Hanseatic cities . Leidorf, Rahden 2003, ISBN 3-89646-278-4 , pp. 297-311 ( Stralsund contributions to archeology, history, art and folklore in Western Pomerania 4).

Individual evidence

↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 272 .
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 92 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Info sheet 2010 (PDF; 78 kB)
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 237 .