Steinhaus Monastery
The Steinhaus Monastery is a Kreuzherrenkloster in the Beyenburg district of Wuppertal, founded in 1298 , which was secularized in 1804, but consecrated again in 1964.
history
Before 1296, Count Adolf V. von Berg († 1296) donated the nearby Oberhof Steinhaus and the associated chapel in favor of the Order of the Cross , which was demolished in 1811. In 1298 his brother Konrad I von Berg , formerly cathedral propst and archdeacon in Cologne , confirmed the gift of his deceased brother with the consent of his mother Margarete von Hochstaden . This confirmation certificate is the first written mention of the process. In 1298 a Kreuzherrenkloster was founded here, the first Steinhaus monastery.
Since the farm with its location on the local Hanse- und Heerstrasse , the Heerweg Cologne – Dortmund , which was also a pilgrimage and travel route, was not very suitable for a monastic life, the counts expanded their donation in 1303/04 to include the nearby Beyenberg on which Beyenburg Castle, first mentioned in 1336 , was built next to the new monastery .
The single-nave late Gothic monastery church of St. Maria Magdalena , which still exists today, was built in 1485. In the period that followed, the monastery provided pastoral care, schooling and poor relief for the surrounding villages.
In 1804 the monastery was secularized , during which the goods were nationalized and the library was burned. A large part of the former monastery building was demolished.
In 1964, the Order of the Crosses settled again in the former monastery. Today the Kreuzherrenkloster Steinhaus is the only German monastery of this order.
literature
- Stefan Bringer: Lords of the Cross . In: Orders and Monasteries in the Age of Reformation and Catholic Reform 1500–1700 vol. 2 (Catholic life and church reform in the age of religious schism vol. 66), pp. 175–192, Münster 2006.
- Robert Haaß : The Lords of the Cross in the Rhineland . Bonn 1932. (Chapter Beyenburg on pages 42–58).
- Walther Zimmermann , Hugo Borger (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 3: North Rhine-Westphalia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 273). Kröner, Stuttgart 1963, DNB 456882847 .
- Gerd Helbeck, "Beyenburg - History of a place on the Bergisch-Märkische border and its surrounding area" , Volume I (The Middle Ages: Basics and Ascent) , ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5
- Book directory of the former Beyenburg canyon. Düsseldorf 1805 digitized
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 4 ″ E