Schledenhorst monastery
The Schledenhort monastery was a Cistercian monastery near Haldern .
location
The monastery was four kilometers southeast of Haldern. The site of the former monastery is now in the area of the city of Rees in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Kleve .
history
The monastery was founded in 1240 by a knight Bernard von Rees. 1243 takes archbishop of Cologne , the nunnery under his protection. In 1249 the monastery was accepted into the Cistercian order and placed under the spiritual care of the abbot of the Kamp monastery. The priory building burned down in 1366 and 1400. After the end of the occidental schism , Abbot Heinrich von Rhaey from Kamp monastery had to restore monastic breeding in Schledenhorst in 1459. 1598 Schledenhorst was in the Eighty Years 'War sacked by Spanish soldiers in the Thirty Years' War in 1631 by marauding soldiers and 1638 by imperial soldiers. During the Dutch War , French soldiers looted and ravaged the monastery in 1672. The monastery did not recover economically from this looting, so that it was heavily indebted in the 18th century. In the course of secularization , the monastery was closed in 1803. The last nuns left the monastery in 1806. The land, buildings and inventory were sold, the church and most of the monastery buildings demolished.
Current condition
Today there is a farm on the site of the farm buildings. The Schledenhorster Chapel is located at the former entrance to the monastery. The small chapel was built from the rubble of the monastery church and contains a crucifixion group from the 15th century. In the outer walls of the chapel there are two tombstones of abbesses, which used to be in the floor of the monastery church. A small bell of the monastery church hangs in the roof turret. Two more bells in the monastery church now ring the bell for the Protestant church in Haldern. The so-called Halderner Altar, a late Gothic winged altar which is attributed to the Master von Schöppingen , probably comes from the monastery church. It was found at the end of the 19th century in a storage room above the Catholic parish church in Haldern and is now in the Westphalian State Museum in Münster. In the parish church in Haldern there are still carved figures from the monastery church. The cabinet organ of the monastery church , built around 1780, is now in the organ museum of Leipzig University . Since 1990, a memorial service has been celebrated every year on August 20, the anniversary of the death of Bernhard von Clairvaux , the founder of the Cistercian order, on the site of the former monastery church.
literature
- Bogs: Schledenhorst Abbey in Rees. In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine. XIII, p. 290.
- Paul Clemen (Ed.): The art monuments of the Rees district. (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 2, Section 1). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1892, p. 110.
- J. Röben: Schledenhorst Monastery. In: Home calendar of the Kr. Rees. 1957.
- Elke Dißelbeck-Tewes: Women in the Church. The life of women in the medieval Cistercian monasteries of Fürstenberg. Graefenthal and Schledenhorst, Cologne 1989. (also Diss. Bochum 1988/89)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 47 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 19" E