St. Pauli Monastery (Minden)

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The remains of the dormitory of St. Pauli

The St. Pauls Monastery was a convent of Dominican in Minden ( Minden-Lübbecke ). Parts of the dormitory on Alte Kirchstrasse have been preserved.

history

The exact founding circumstances of the Minden convent of the Dominican mendicants are not known. The monastery was probably founded in 1236, but Dominican brothers were already active in Minden at the instigation of the Roman Curia from 1231 onwards . In 1260 the monastery church was consecrated by the Minden Bishop Wedekind . In 1293 Bishop Volquin von Schwalenberg and in 1368 Otto II von Wettin were buried in the church. The historian Heinrich von Herford lived in the monastery. Also members of the monastery were Hermann von Lerbeck , Hermann von Minden , Gerhard von Minden and in particular Bishop Otto I. von Minden .

In 1530 the brothers handed over the monastery to the city in exchange for right to live in a wing, which finally had it divided up and established the precursor school of today's Ratsgymnasium in the eastern area . Ultimately, the monastery was dissolved in the course of the Reformation . In 1736 the church was handed over to the Reformed congregation, and it was finally demolished in 1777. The grammar school was housed in the former convent wing until a new school building was built on Immanuelstrasse in 1880. From 1766 a sugar factory was set up in the former dormitory, which Frederick the Great had privileged. In 1885 a cigar factory moved in.

Construction and plant

The church of the Mindener Konvent, a vaulted hall building, was next to the Dominican Church in Soest the oldest mendicant order church in Westphalia and was located on the site of the current school building. The remaining west wing of the monastery building housed the dormitory and remter . Vaulted bays of the cloister have been preserved on the ground floor, while small rectangular windows on the west side of the upper floor, which may have belonged to the monks' bedrooms. A detailed archaeological excavation has not yet taken place.

literature

  • Christa Peczynsky: The Dominicans in Minden. On the history of the former Dominican monastery St. Pauli in the Alte Kirchstraße. In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 62 (1990), pp. 131–142.
  • Karl Hengst (Ed.): Westphalian monastery book. Part 1: Ahlen - Mülheim. Aschendorff, Münster 1992, ISBN 3-402-06886-9 , ( sources and research on church and religious history 2, publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44).
  • Roland Pieper : Historical monasteries in Westphalia-Lippe. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-87023-244-7 ( Kulturlandschaft Westfalen 7).

Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 44 ″  E