St. Georg Monastery (Homberg)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 45 ″  E The St. Georg monastery in the north Hessian town of Homberg (Efze) existed from 1269 to 1527.

history

In 1269 founded Norbertine - Choir, female from the 1217 founded choir Female pen Eppenberg at Gensungen a Prämonstratenserinnen- woman pin east below Homberg in the Valley of Efze . It existed as such until after 1322; after that Augustinian women lived there.

The monastery was founded as fundamentum religionis ad sanctum Georgium in 1269; the foundation was confirmed in the same year by Archbishop Werner von Mainz . The first women choirs came from the Eppenberg Choir Foundation, about 15 km away. It was founded probably at the instigation and with the active support of Eppenberger Propsts Arnold, the new pen as a founding equipment Freehold Homberg Hausen and Rockhausen and slope in Lützelwig and Mosheim over appropriated. The von Holzsadel family, who are well-to-do in the area, is said to have supported the foundation of the monastery materially. Over the years, the monastery also acquired property in Mörshausen , Holzhausen , Oberbeisheim , Mühlhausen , Dagobertshausen , Sondheim , Arnsbach and Mitteldissen .

Although the Premonstratensian Order decided in 1270 to exclude nuns from the order and transfer them to other orders, the house belonged to the Premonstratensian order at least until 1322. After that, the Augustinian nuns lived in St. Georg Abbey.

The general decline of the monastery in the 15th century was also visible in Homberg. In 1508, Landgrave Wilhelm II of Hesse felt compelled to send a petition for the monastery to all counts, prelates, pastors, bailiffs, mayors, councilors, parishes, etc. in his country:

“The monastery had become so dilapidated and desolate in its buildings and equipment that the nuns could no longer stay there without substantial improvements; However, this is not possible without the help of pious people, so that the Landgrave authorized the presenter of this document to collect alms for the monastery; in return, every alms donor will participate in the indulgences and church services of the monastery. "

The End

Nunnery of the former Georg monastery

There was probably no renewal, because as early as 1527, after the Homberg Synod of 1526, with which the Reformation was introduced in Hesse, the monastery was abolished by Landgrave Philip I. In 1540 he assigned the income from the property of the former monastery to the University of Marburg .

Current condition

The monastery and farm buildings were located in the area between Wasmuthshäuser Straße and St. Georg Monastery. With one exception, they have long since disappeared. Only the so-called "nuns house" has been preserved. It dates from the 13th century and is probably the oldest building in the city of Homberg. Today it is a comparatively inconspicuous privately owned house and cannot be visited.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hombergshausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ The goods in Rockshausen are said to have been handed over as early as 1228. Rockshausen, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Lützelwig, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  4. ^ Mosheim, Schwalm-Eder district. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  5. ^ Monastery of St. George in the travel guide of the Premonstratensian Order.
  6. ↑ Landgrave Regests online No. 5041. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Web links

literature

  • Bettina Toson: Medieval hospitals in Hesse between Schwalm, Eder and Fulda. Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt and Historical Commission for Hesse, Darmstadt and Marburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-88443-319-5
  • Norbert Backmund: Monasticon Praemonstratense , Volume 1, Berlin, 1983, p. 137