Reinbek Monastery

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The monastery Reinbek was a monastery of Cistercian nuns in the present city of Reinbek in Schleswig-Holstein .

history

The monastery goes back to a chapel donated to St. Mary Magdalene in 1224 , at which a congregation of nuns gathered thanks to a donation from Count Albrecht von Orlamünde . In 1226, Archbishop Gebhard von Bremen confirmed the foundation of the Reinbek monastery in Hoibek (today in the Sachsenwaldau district). Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein , who founded numerous monasteries and churches after the Battle of Bornhöved , confirmed the founding of the already flourishing monastery in 1229. In 1233 the monastery relocated to Köthel , located on the upper reaches of the Bille . As early as 1235, 15 nuns could be sent from here to found the Uetersen monastery . In 1238 Adolf IV furnished the monastery with a generous amount of land. Several of today's districts of Reinbek owe their first mention to this donation. Around 1251 new buildings were erected again near Hinschendorf on the local mill pond. The monastery kept its seat there.

Unlike in the Cistercian order, the monastery was not subordinate to the abbot of the neighboring Cistercian monastery Reinfeld , but directly to the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen . Both the rulers of Holstein and Lauenburg made donations to the monastery on the border between the two areas. The monastery therefore had rich land holdings in the area, both in Stormarn , Lauenburg and Hamburg . In addition to Reinbek, this included a. also Reitbrook , Kirchsteinbek , Wentorf and Wohltorf .

The nuns, mostly daughters of wealthy Hamburg families, turned to the Reformation early on. In 1523 Stephan Kempe preached in the monastery rooms. In 1528 they received Johannes Bugenhagen . At that time, several nuns had already left the monastery to get married. Reinbek monastery was one of the first monasteries in the country to be secularized : Probably because of the financial pressure that Frederick I of Denmark exerted on the clergy, the remaining 40 or so nuns left the monastery on April 7, 1529 and thus dissolved the convent . The last provost of the monastery, Detlev von Reventlow, organized that the nuns sold the buildings and lands located on Holstein land for 12,000 marks to King Friedrich. Each nun received 300 marks. After moving out, the abandoned buildings were plundered by citizens of Hamburg. From then on, the monastery belonged to the Danish Kingdom and was its southernmost border point. Duke Magnus von Lauenburg also withdrew the foundations of his ancestors, which led to the division of Köthel into a Lauenburg and a Stormarn part , and a process that lasted 150 years. Lübeck mercenaries under captain Marx Meyer destroyed the former nunnery on May 15, 1534 in armed conflicts between Lübeck and Denmark, the so-called Count Feud. When the rule in Schleswig-Holstein was divided between King Christian III. and his brothers In 1544 the monastery properties came to the Dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf and were converted into the Reinbek office.

Despite extensive excavations and investigations, it is no longer possible to precisely locate the earlier buildings today. In 1572 a three-wing Renaissance castle was built on the site of the destroyed monastery .

literature

  • Hans Heuer: The Reinbek Monastery: Contributions to the history of the. Stormarn landscape. (First edition 1938) In: Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1985 (reprint) ISBN 3529021865

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: The granting of the Reinbek monastery by Count Albert von Orlamünde, Count of Northern Albingia, and the possessions of the monastery in Meklenburg :. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 25 (1860), pp. 190-202
  2. ↑ Hellwig: Bergedorfs Relationship to the Diocese of Ratzeburg. In: Archives of the Association for the History of the Duchy of Lauenburg 1906/2 p. 62
  3. ↑ Belief · Knowledge · Life. Monasteries in Schleswig-Holstein . Exhibition volume from the Schleswig-Holstein State Library; Kiel 2011, p. 107 (there also illustration of the certificate)
  4. ^ Topography of the Kirchspiel Kirch-Steinbek
  5. ^ A b Dieter-Jürgen Mehlhorn: Monasteries and monasteries in Schleswig-Holstein: 1200 years of history, architecture and art . 2007, p. 129
  6. ^ Kai Fuhrmann: The knighthood as a political corporation in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from 1460 to 1721 ; 2002, pp. 176-179

Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 26 ″  N , 10 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  E