Schaaken Monastery
The Benedictine - monastery Schaaken was between Lichtenfelser districts Goddelsheim and Immighausen in northern Hesse Waldeck-Frankenberg .
history
It was founded in 1189 by the Corvey Imperial Abbey, initially in the village of Goddelsheim, which had belonged to Corvey since 888, but was relocated to Schaaken, a few hundred meters east of Goddelsheim, in 1223. Later that year, Pope Honorius III. the monastery in its protection. The area of the later county of Waldeck has been under the ecclesiastical influence of Corvey since the early Middle Ages, who was the largest landlord in the area through extensive donations and acquisitions and also dominated in ecclesiastical terms. Corvey sought to consolidate and expand his position by founding places (such as Fürstenberg , Sachsenberg ), building castles ( Lichtenfels ) and monastery foundations (Schaaken).
The monastery existed until 1591. After that, until 1848 it was a Protestant-free world women's monastery for female members of the nobility.
investment
The late Romanesque-early Gothic monastery church built in the second half of the 13th century burned down in 1518, but was rebuilt in a partially modified form. After 1848, like the former convent building, it was used as a barn for what is now the monastery property. In 1913 it burned down again completely after a lightning strike. The remaining building stock was not secured until 1958.
The monastery building was attached to the south side of the church. Of these, only the walls of a convent building that was later converted into a barn remain. There is still a head of envy above today's barn door . To the east was or is the cemetery .
Abbesses
Among the abbesses of Schaaken were a number of daughters and sisters of the counts and princes of Waldeck , as follows:
- Katharina von Waldeck (born September 20, 1547 - † July 8, 1613), daughter of Count Wolrad II.
- Christiane Magdalene von Waldeck (born July 30, 1669 - † March 18, 1699), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his first marriage
- Dorothea Elisabeth von Waldeck († 1702), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his first marriage, until her wedding to Rudolph von Lippe-Brake on November 4, 1691
- Charlotte Sofie von Waldeck (* January 18, 1667; † September 6, 1723), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his first marriage, who took over the office of abbess after the wedding of her sister Dorothea in 1691 until her own wedding ; ⚭ 1707 Johann Junker (born June 3, 1680 - † October 25, 1759)
- Christine Eleonore Luise von Waldeck (born April 11, 1685; † February 8, 1737), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his second marriage
- Sofie Wilhelmine von Waldeck (June 6, 1686 - August 23, 1749), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his second marriage
- Charlotte Florentine von Waldeck (* October 10, 1697; † May 6, 1777), daughter of Count Christian Ludwig von Waldeck-Wildungen from his second marriage
- Henriette von Waldeck and Pyrmont (* October 17, 1703; † August 29, 1785), daughter of Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Luise Albertine Friederike von Waldeck and Pyrmont (* June 12, 1714 - March 17, 1794), daughter of Prince Friedrich Anton Ulrich von Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Christiane Friederike Auguste von Waldeck and Pyrmont (born March 23, 1787; January 16, 1806), daughter of Prince Georg I of Waldeck and Pyrmont
Photo gallery
Information board at Schaaken Monastery
Nave, view to the east wall
Nave, view to the west wall
Schaaken Monastery (entrance to the cemetery)
Eastern gable wall
Church entrance gable
West wall of the church ruins and barn
West and north sides of the church ruins
West facade of the church ruin
Gravestone cemetery
Individual evidence
literature
- Regina E. Schwerdtfeger, Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Franziskus Büll, red .: The Benedictine monastery and nunnery in Hessen , Germania Benedictina Volume VII, St. Ottilien 2004 (pp. 517-527), ISBN 3-8306-7199-7
- Helga Zöttlein: "Disputes between canons and sovereigns about the corporate independence of the Protestant free-world ladies' monastery Schaaken at the beginning of the 18th century." In: Geschichtsblätter für Waldeck and Pyrmont , Waldeckischer Geschichtsverein, Arolsen, vol. 85, 1997 (pp. 68-77 ), ISSN 0342-0965
- Heinz Wegener, "Investigations into the history of the Schaaken monastery in Waldeck," In: Geschichtsblätter für Waldeck and Pyrmont , Vol. 80, 1992 (pp. 7–58)
- The legend of the silver altar of Schaaken (link not available)
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 59 ″ N , 8 ° 50 ′ 7 ″ E