Monastery shell
| Monastery shell | |
|---|---|
 View of the church, side view |
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| location |
 Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Steinfurt district |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 26 '47.3 " N , 7 ° 37' 32.4" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1278 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1527 |
The monastery shell was a Cistercian monastery in shell , a district of the municipality Hopsten in the Westphalian Tecklenburger Land ( Steinfurt district ). It was founded in 1278 and bought up by Konrad von Tecklenburg at the beginning of the Reformation and converted into a Protestant parish. The monastery buildings are believed to have burned down in the Thirty Years War .
history
In 1278 the brothers Johannes and Lambertus founded the Cistercian convent in shell and furnished it with some goods. The establishment was confirmed with a document from Osnabrück Bishop Konrad II von Rietberg on October 21, 1278. The convent came from the Börstel monastery . The monastery was named ad Scalam dei (= to the ladder of God, to the heavenly ladder), which is why a ladder is shown in the Schaler coat of arms.
In 1527 the monastery was closed with the beginning of the Reformation. On July 3, 1535, Konrad von Tecklenburg bought the building and converted the monastery church into a Protestant parish church. The remaining monastery buildings fell into disrepair and were probably used as a quarry.
It is believed that the monastery buildings burned down in the Thirty Years War . The former monastery church was spared and, after some renovations, has been preserved as a village church.
Monastery church
The monastery church was built in the second half of the 13th century in the transition between Romanesque and Gothic . Both arched windows and pointed arched portals are available. Originally the church consisted of a single-nave , two-bay nave , a single - bay, square choir and the west tower, which is open to the nave. In the 19th century, the tower was destroyed up to the height of the nave and was covered by the gable roof of the nave.
In 1899 the church was expanded in the neo-Romanesque style : a second nave was added on the south side, the tower was raised and a tent roof was provided.
literature
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, II. Westphalia, Unveränd. New edition with Nachtr., Munich / Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-422-00390-8 .
- Albert Ludorff : The architectural and art monuments of Westphalia . Volume 21: The architectural and art monuments of the Tecklenburg district. Münster iW 1907.
