Segeberg Monastery

The Segeberg Monastery was an Augustinian canon monastery or monastery in Bad Segeberg in Holstein . It belonged to the Windesheim congregation of this order.

history

In 1134, Emperor Lothar III. Encouraged by the Augustinian Canons Vicelin to build a church and a monastery at the foot of the Siegesburg on the Kalkberg . A few years later, " Pribislaw von Lübeck used the opportunity, gathered a band of robbers and thoroughly destroyed the castle town of Segeberg and all the surrounding places where Saxons lived" ( Helmold von Bosau ). It was not until 1143 that the castle was restored by Adolf II . Vicelin moved the monastery , which had evaded to Neumünster, to Högersdorf (Slavic: Cuzalina ) and devoted himself more to missionary work. In 1155 the monastery was moved back to Segeberg and over the next centuries it acquired rich property in the area. Well-known missionaries of the monastery were Heinrich of Latvia and the first bishop of Livonia Meinhard von Segeberg . The Augustinian Canons' Monastery was closed during the Reformation in 1566 under Duke Hans the Elder .

The Marienkirche is the former monastery church and one of the oldest church buildings in Holstein .

literature

• Enno Bünz : Between Canon Reform and Reformation. Beginnings, flowering time and setting of the Augustinian Canon pins Neumünster-Bordesholm and Segeberg (12th to 16th century) (= signature number of the Academy of Augustinian canons of Windesheim. 7), Augustine canons-Verlag, Paring 2002. ISBN 3-9805469 -9-3

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 13.3 "  N , 10 ° 18 ′ 38.2"  E