Vinnenberg Monastery

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Vinnenberg Monastery
Vinnenberg Monastery around 2011
Vinnenberg Monastery around 2011
location GermanyGermany Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
Lies in the diocese Diocese of Münster
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '39.7 "  N , 7 ° 58' 2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 '39.7 "  N , 7 ° 58' 2"  E
founding year 1256 by Cistercians
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1810
Year of repopulation 1891
Year of re-dissolution 2005

The Vinnenberg monastery was a former Cistercian and Benedictine monastery , which is run today as a seminar and retreat house for spiritual experiences, sponsored by the diocese of Münster . It is located in the eastern Münsterland north of Warendorf in the Milte district , in close proximity to the Bever . Vinnenberg Monastery is one of the oldest places of pilgrimage in the diocese of Münster and a place of devotion to Mary . The monastery is best known for the Vinnenberg image of grace . The monastery is located in the middle of the Vinnenberger Busch nature reserve and the Am Vinnenberger Busch - Großer Dyk nature reserve .

The retreat house

The retreat house consists of two buildings: the monastery building and the old rectorate.

  • The monastery building has a total of 28 rooms: 25 single and 3 double rooms with wet room, of which 2 are small suites and two are rooms for speakers, 1 lecture hall (70 people), 4 seminar rooms (10 - 20 people), 1 common room with tea kitchen, 1 refectory ( Dining room for 55 people), 1 small refectory, plus 30,000 m² monastery garden.
  • The old rectorate offers 9 single rooms (wet room / bathroom / toilet in the hallway for 2-3 rooms each); 1 eat-in kitchen for 12 people, 1 library, 2 meditation rooms (14-26 people), 1 silent garden by the water, 1 bathroom / toilet / kitchen / living room.

concept

The concept of "awakening to new life" rests on four pillars:

  • 1st pillar: Continuity of the contemplative life (space and time for search for meaning and longing for God)
    • Days of silence and retreats
    • Competent support for individuals and groups
    • Practice in prayer and meditation and contemplation
    • Worship - centuries-old and new forms of prayer
  • 2nd pillar: Personality development (maturing faith - changing life)
    • Spiritual self and body experience
    • Pastoral psychology training
    • Rituals and religious symbols
    • Training in pastoral discussions, communication and advice
    • Dealing with literature, art and dance
  • 3rd pillar: Renewal of Christian value orientation (see challenge - act ethically)
    • Business ethics : leadership culture for people with responsibility
    • Medical ethics : dealing with borderline experiences in life
    • Find new sources in everyday working life
    • Practice mindfulness
    • Achieve sustainability
  • 4th pillar: Continuity of religious culture (appreciating and writing on the legacy)
    • Care of pilgrimage and pilgrimage
    • Expansion and deepening of the liturgical offer
    • Spiritual concerts, literature and art

For individuals there is also the possibility of the "oasis days", where you can enjoy the tranquility of the monastic surroundings with hikes in the Vinnenberger Busch nature reserve . A total of 15 employees work for the well-being of the guests.

photos

  • Vinnenberg with monastery mill

  • Gate of Vinnenberg

  • Chapel with miraculous image

  • Chapel with nuns choir

  • Residential wing with single rooms

  • Wet cells

  • Single room

  • The refectory (dining room)

  • clear stairwells

  • Seminar room

  • reception

  • Garden of silence

  • Monastery garden

history

Surname

“Vinnen: heather on the swamp or peat bog. The i in the name is probably explained by the West Frisian finne as a subsidiary formation to ahd. Fenna , nd. Ve (e) n , ags. Es in Venne. "

- Hermann Jellinghaus

founding

The first documentary mentions are from the year 1256. The Münster bishop Count Otto II von der Lippe (1247–1259) transferred the Milter parish church to the convent, including the right to appoint the local pastor.

"Marienberg Monastery in Vinnenberg is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1256: On May 5th of this year, Bishop Otto II of Münster (1247-59) gave the conventus montis sancte Marie quod antea Vinnenberg vocabatur, which he called novella congregatio, that Patronage of the parish church in Milte. LEIDINGER, Westfälisches Klosterbuch, offers an overview of the history of the monastery.The curia Vinnenberg, which is already mentioned in the document as a location, was acquired by the nuns about six weeks later from the episcopal ministerial Bernhard von Vinnenberg, a brother of the founder of Rengering monastery , which was only about 3 km away. It can be assumed that initially only the establishment of a monastery was planned in this area, and that only because of the serious disputes over the equipment in Rengering and the resulting poor development prospects of this monastery, the settlement of a second convent after only about 10 years in Was considered. "

- Gabriele Maria Hock

The Vinnenberg Monastery was founded in the time of the religious awakening in the 13th century. It is very likely that around 1252 two nuns from the Cistercian monastery of St. Aegidii in Münster near the Winnenburg / Winnenberg farm (= Vinnenberg) founded a small monastery named Mons Mariae (= Marienberg). The first documentary mentions are from the year 1256. The Münster bishop Count Otto II von der Lippe (1247–1259) transferred the Milter parish church to the convent, including the right to appoint the local pastor. The monastery received an extraordinarily large number of papal and episcopal recommendations for the new building and for its protection, because the foundation was supposed to pass those northern regions to the pious, as stated in the papal deed of 1256. In a document from the same year there is a reference to the Vinnenberg manor owned by the knight Bernhard. The bishop transferred the rights of the court, which Bernhard von Vinnenberg owned as his fief, to the monastery. In this context, however, the knight Bernhard did not donate the farm to the monastery, but sold it to it. The name of the property quickly became established as the name for the monastery. While it was often called "Marienberg" in the documents, it was now called Vinnenberg Monastery among the population. In 1267 the monastery was given a courtyard in the Telgte parish . In 1297 it acquired property and houses in Warendorf . The monastery acquired further property through donations and purchases.

Rengering and Vinnenberg, the double foundation on the Bever

The founders of the Rengering monastery founded the Vinnenberg monastery about four kilometers away, also on the Bever, after less than ten years. This is due to the unfavorable conditions that the Rengering monastery encountered in the first ten years of its establishment: While the founder's two brothers, Bernhard and Johann von Vinnenberg, agreed to the foundation, two other relatives, Hermann and Albero, were looking for the young one Foundation in 1252 through robbery and fire, but reconciled with the monastery in 1253 for compensation of 5 silver marks. It is assumed that this early dispute initiated or at least promoted the foundation of the Vinnenberg monastery. It could not be improbable that the Rengering monastery should be given up when the Vinnenberg monastery was founded in 1256. But in 1257 Pope Alexander IV asked the General Chapter of the Cistercians to formally admit the Rengering monastery to the order, "after having observed the rules of the order for ten years and more"

“The curia Vinnenberg, which was already mentioned as a location in the document, was acquired by the nuns about six weeks later from the episcopal ministerial Bernhard von Vinnenberg, a brother of the founder of Rengering Monastery , which is only 3 km away. It can be assumed that initially only the establishment of a monastery was planned in this area, and that only because of the serious disputes over the equipment in Rengering and the resulting poor development prospects for this monastery (according to Vinnenberg monastery, author's note ), the settlement of a second convent was considered after only about 10 years. "

- Gabriele Maria Hock

The Vinnenberg monastery and the Rengering monastery are connected approx. 4.7 km via the Beverstrang. From this time until the abolition of both monasteries in 1810, these two Cistercian monasteries existed in close proximity to each other. This has led to the fact that the Rengering monastery has developed more to the west, oriented down the Beverstrom to Ostbevern , while the Vinnenberg monastery turned its gaze to the east, the Bever up to Füchtorf and south towards Milte . The development of the Rengering monastery cannot be explained without the Vinnenberg monastery and vice versa.

Founding legend

The Vinnenberg Madonna

An old legend tells of the origins of the Vinnenberg monastery in a pious medieval way of thinking. The two brothers Ritter Bernhard von Rengering and Johannes von Vinnenberg, who fell out over the inheritance, are said to have seen two figures pacing their court on a moonlit night. They identified the woman and the young man as Mary and the apostle John . After a while, the two "surveyors" sat down on a log lying around. When the two brothers and sisters ran into the courtyard, however, the figures had disappeared. Only a red silk thread was found on the log. The brothers interpreted the vision accordingly and donated their inheritance shares in honor of the mother of Jesus, John the Baptist and the Apostle John to the sisters of the small Marienberg monastery “for the expansion and foundation of the aforementioned Jungfrawen Cloisters”. According to tradition, they had four saints carved from the log: three images of the Mother of God and one of St. Anna . The smallest of these portraits was the well-known Vinnenberg image of grace: the "Mother of God of Heaven", which has since been venerated in Vinnenberg and made Vinnenberg a place of pilgrimage.

middle Ages

Vinnenberg is an important place of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages in all dioceses of Münster , Osnabrück and Paderborn :

  • In 1257, the Bishop of Münster Otto II von Lippe, like the Bishop of Osnabrück Bruno von Isenberg in the same year, granted an indulgence of 40 days "in front of his subordinate sheep as a pilgram to Vinnenbergh ".
  • In 1290 the Bishop of Münster Everhard von Diest repeated this order
  • In 1291 the Bishop of Paderborn Otto von Rietberg agrees to the 40-day indulgence " to increase the devotion and fear of God to his subordinate sheep as pilgrams to Vinnenbergh ".
  • In 1296 a bull of Boniface VIII , which bears the seals of thirteen church princes, confirms the various indulgences for the days: the birth of Christ, the apparition of the Lord, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, on all feasts of the Blessed Virgin, on the feasts of Apostles Peter and Paul, Saints John, Laurentius, Martinus, Archangel Michael, All Saints, Maria Magdalena, Katharina, Magaretha, the church patron and the consecration.

In 1297 the monastery received its first property in Warendorf , which then grew steadily. Many donations were given and the pilgrimage to Vinnenberg was supported by bishops and popes with special indulgences. The first abbess recorded in the chronicles was a certain Angela. She had ruled her monastery in "all grace and spiritual awareness" and died in 1301. From this time a number of 28 abbesses are seamlessly included in the chronicle. The Vinnenberg monastery exercised the right of patronage in Milte. It provided the church staff and also provided material for the parish church. Numerous farmers in the village of Milte were subservient and committed to the monastery . Until the middle of the 15th century, the monastery was a Cistercian abbey and the Marienfeld monastery in Marienfeld .

In the 15th century there was an internal and external decline due to the integration of the monastery into the economic and social structures of the time. Some of the nuns were secular and some had private property. On the initiative of the Münster bishop Johann and the Liesborn abbot Heinrich von Kleve , Abbess Ursula Swaneken succeeded in transforming the convent into a Benedictine abbey in 1465 as part of the renewal of monastic life . From 1468 it belonged to the Bursfeld Congregation and was now subordinate to the Liesborn Monastery .

The convent owned extensive estates in and around Milte and was the landlord of many Milter farmers and families in the area. The monastery property was probably recorded systematically in writing from 1465 onwards. In addition to the exchange book, which extends from 1465 to 1610, old income registers (from 1503) and an old stock book (from 1567) have been preserved. At the same time, the monastery itself was a handsome manor with numerous farm buildings: a mill, an oil mill, a brewery, a wool house and large livestock. Employed servants and maids did the heavy agricultural work of the nunnery. The monastery burned down on Palm Sunday at 10 a.m. in the year 1550. After painstaking construction, a fire devastated the monastery again in 1568. But each time it was rebuilt. It is thanks to the Benedictine nuns of Liesborn that the storms of the Reformation passed the monastery without major damage (iconoclasm).

Thirty Years' War and the difficult aftermath

The economic situation in the Thirty Years' War was devastating, so that the monastery was often the prey of the marauding Soldateska. In 1639 Anna Maria Plönies became abbess of the monastery. Through the initiation and promotion, the pilgrimage to Vinnenberg is donated and the monastery is saved from ruin.

Secularization and Restoration

In 1803, as part of the secularization , the Prince Diocese of Münster came into the possession of Prussia . Similar to the Rengering monastery , the continuation of the monastery was assured by the "highest cabinet order" on August 4th. After the death of Abbess Josepha Ostendorf, Abbess Adolphine Haase was elected with royal approval in 1804. She stayed in office for only six years. However, when in the course of the Napoleonic conquests the area around Vinnenberg was added to the Grand Duchy of Berg, which was under French administration , the new rulers began to dissolve the convent. The disbandment occurred simultaneously with the Rengering Monastery , which is only 5 km down the Bever. The same officials were responsible for this:

  • December 2, 1808 Amtsrentmeister Reinharz put the monastery archive and account books under seal.
  • December 6, 1808 List of the entire inventory and dismissal of some of the monastery staff
  • January 16, 1809 Further layoffs
  • July 1809 Sale of rye on the stalk
  • October 1809 Lease of fields, meadows and pastures to the highest bidder
  • 1809 Transfer of the church treasure to Düsseldorf for melting
  • January 30, 1810 Formal dissolution of the monastery. In addition to the abbess Elisabeth von Hase (from Dortmund), nine choir sisters and two novices, as well as six lay sisters and two candidates lived in the monastery when it was repealed.
  • February 17, 1810 Determination of pensions: The abbess receives 900 francs annually and a one-time flat-rate fee of 100 francs. The prioress 800 Franks and the remaining nuns 650 Franks.
  • February 24, 1810 Amtsrentmeister Reinharz informs the convention of the repeal. In the afternoon at 2 p.m. this is formally announced to the abbess and the convent, then to the lay sisters and finally to the servants in the presence of clergy Hermann Ficken and Wolfgang van Nuys.
  • February 26, 1810 On Monday the sale or auction of the inventory and furniture: beds, cupboards, stoves, linen, etc. There is a fireplace from the Vinnenberg monastery in Loburg Castle today . The residents were free to stay in the monastery. For this, a tenth of their pension was deducted as rent.
  • On August 4, 1810 on the feast of St. Dominic, the image was brought to Füchtorf on the orders of the Episcopal Vicariate General.
  • March 23, 1813 Death of the last abbess Adolphine Elisabeth von Haase. The chronicle of the monastery is closed with the following words:

"O Seculum Destructionis, quo res sacra ad usum profanum destinabatur"

- Wolfgang van Nuys
  • 1815 Even during the restoration and recapture of the area by Prussia in 1815, the monastery was not reconstituted.
  • July 8, 1824 Church and grounds are offered for sale, but have not found a buyer.
  • In 1827 the Prussian king donated the still standing monastery church to the village of Milte. But this refuses the complete demolition of their old church, but renews the nave. The development is completely different from the neighboring monastery Rengering. Probably the miraculous image, which was temporarily kept in Füchtorf, played a major role in this.
  • October 6, 1829 Inauguration of the renewed nave.
  • May 19, 1831, Bishop Kaspar Maximilian Droste zu Vischering visited the monastery occasionally on a confirmation trip. Through him on
  • September 26, 1831 stipulates that the miraculous image should be returned to its place of origin, with the proviso that when the service ends, it should be set up again in the church in Füchtorf. It was Father Confessarius Wolfgang van Nuys who personally received the image of grace from Pastor Eickholt from Füchtorf and put it back at the altar in a solemn procession after 21 years of absence.
  • In 1835 the monastery property was again offered for sale in vain.
  • 1865 Thorough renovation of the remaining monastery buildings. Construction of a retirement home for priests.
  • In 1879 the chaplain Bernhard Billmann from Haltern in Milte was paid the salaries that had been banned in the Kulturkampf . Since the chaplain was able to stay afloat through donations from the population during this time, he donated the money paid to Vinnenberg. This was the first time that the miraculous image was renovated and the choir of the monastery church was redesigned by the sculptor Fritz Ewertz (1860–1926).
  • 1894 completion of the renovation work. When the hardened fronts between the Prussian state and the Catholic Church dissolved after the end of the Kulturkampf , the monastery buildings were made available to Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad by a government decree . He decided to fill the buildings with new monastic life.
  • April 13, 1898 Handover of the monastery to the Benedictine Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament from the Hamicolt monastery near Dülmen and construction of the other monastery buildings.
  • June 18, 1898, the prioress Mother Maria Hermann Joseph arrived with the first sisters. Hermann Josef Windhoff became prior. Agriculture was rebuilt. A wafer bakery and parament embroidery ensured the community's economic livelihood.
  • February 15, 1902 At the request of Bishop Hermann Jakob Dingelstad , according to Breve, Leo XIII. the perfect indulgence, which until then was only intended for the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary and its octave, now extended to the months of August and September.

National Socialism

As early as 1934 the Vinnenberg monastery had unpleasant experiences with the new regime of the National Socialists . The then rector of the monastery complex, Otto Böcker, was arrested after speaking out on political issues at a sermon and making derogatory remarks to government representatives in personal conversations. The presiding judge imposed five months imprisonment for violating the pulpit paragraph . At the same time, Rector Böcker was sentenced to ten months in prison for defamatory insults, but released earlier from his prison term because of a general amnesty.

Klostersturm 1941

The Gestapo inspected the monastery at the beginning of July 1941. It was expected that children from big cities would be accepted. The sisters were ready for that too; nobody thought that because of a secret decree of the NSDAP - Reichsleiter Martin Bormann of 13 January 1941, the religious community in a second Klostersturm from Westphalia should be expelled. On July 15, 1941, the Gestapo confiscated the monastery. The approximately 50 sisters were informed of their expulsion from the Rhineland and Westphalia . The prioress Mother Hermanna was held overnight in the monastery and was supposed to testify against Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen , which she refused. The sisters were told that they had to get ready, as they would be evacuated that night and only allowed to take the most basic personal items with them. The Sanctissimum and the image of grace were hastily fetched from the church and given to a neighboring clergyman in the care. Then buses pulled up and you had to get on. None of the 50 sisters knew where to go. During the night the transport stopped in front of the Adoration Monastery in Osnabrück at Hasetor. The monastery was able to accept the nuns at short notice, but permanent accommodation was not possible. The Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen intervened. He had already defended himself against the seizure of monasteries in Munster and the surrounding area in a sermon on July 13th. He went to the sisters in Osnabrück and told them that they should all stay in his diocese . Now the diocese of Münster also had an area outside of Westphalia, the Bischöflich Münstersches Officialat , which also included the Oldenburger Münsterland , the home of the bishop. There the bishop had made contact with his nephew Count Bernhard and asked for quarters for the sisters. After the nephew's acceptance, the Dinklage chaplain, Dr. Portmann, take all the precautions. So 25 of the sisters were able to turn Dinklage Castle into a monastery. The castle chapel was used for choir prayers. It was not until 1945 that the nuns were able to return to Vinnenberg. The Dinklage Castle was then used by the expelled nuns of the Alexanderdorf monastery .

The buildings of the Vinnenberg monastery were used as a "National Socialist people's home" by the NS district leadership of Münster and Warendorf, as well as the Luftgaukommando VI Westphalia. The monastery church was converted into a warehouse.

  • The Vinnenberg image of grace remained from then on under the care of the Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen. When on Sunday, October 10, 1943, at 2 p.m., suddenly and completely unexpectedly - until then all bombing raids were always in the night - the city was bombed, the image of grace was in the bishop's office in the Episcopal Palace . The palace was also badly hit. In vain one looked for the wooden miraculous image in the completely burned-out building.

post war period

In April 1945 the Americans invaded Milte. The US Army only used the monastery as a hospital for a few days because of its unfavorable location . Russian and Polish forced laborers temporarily quartered themselves in the rooms. After the American troops had given their consent, the sisters returned to the rooms that the neighbors had restored on May 2, 1945.

The sculptor Josef Picker replaced the Vinnenberg image with a copy. He used the old templates of the image of grace for the creation and at the same time created an independent reinterpretation.

The post-war years were mainly characterized by the reconstruction and expansion of the monastery. An extension was added to the monastery and agriculture was rebuilt. The main areas of activity of the wafer bakery, equipped with an automatic baking machine since 1975, and the parament embroidery ensured the convent's economic existence.

Vinnenberg played a decisive role in establishing a German confederation within the branch of the Benedictine Sisters of the Most Holy Sacrament. So the German prioresses met in 1952 for the first discussions for the establishment of a congregation and the creation of uniform constitutions.

  • In 1957 the German federation was founded in Vinnenberg and the Vinnenberg prioress, mother Hermanna, was appointed first president.
  • In the same year, the new image of grace was officially recognized by the Vatican following a petition from Bishop Michael Keller on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the pilgrimage site .

After the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, there were radical changes in the religious life of the sisters. The cloister was extended to the choir room of the church and the nuns were allowed to go down from the nuns choir to the church room for worship . The bars in the consulting room have been removed, and the differences between choir, lay and gate nurses have been removed.

Dissolution of the monastery community

While the Vinnenberg monastery had reached its highest level in the 1950s with around 60 nuns, the numbers decreased continuously in the following years. As early as the 1970s, problems arose in staffing the night prayer services, which were then completely discontinued. In the mid-1980s, a partnership was agreed with the Benedictine Abbey of Dinklage in order to promote mutual exchange. In the 1990s the convent was downsized, the Paterhaus was separated from the monastery and the Christian community made “Bread of Life” available, which continued to run the wafer bakery. In 2004, during a visitation, the Vinnenberg sisters expressed their wish to move, as the eight remaining religious could no longer run the convent themselves. The prioress of the Dinklage monastery organized the departure of the sisters, who were ceremoniously adopted on June 19, 2005 in the monastery church. Two sisters moved to a nursing home run by the Clement sisters in Münster. The other six nuns were accepted into the Paulusheim in Osnabrück, where they continue to live as a Benedictine community in a closed wing of the home.

Retreat and education house for spiritual experiences

After the nuns vacated the premises, the service was maintained by the neighboring parishes of Füchtorf and Milte . On December 11, 2006, the Association for the Promotion of the Vinnenberg Monastery was founded with the significant participation of the priest and psychologist Carl B. Möller, who developed a new concept for the use of the building. The last service for the time being took place on October 4, 2009, and the building had been completely renovated by 2010. The 60 monastery cells became 30 guest rooms, meditation rooms, a library and an apartment were also created. In August 2010 the new educational center was officially opened. Carl B. Möller became Rector ecclesiae of the pilgrimage church. Nevertheless, the monastic life in Vinnenberg is not completely over, because two Mauritz Franciscan Sisters live and work in the Vinnenberg monastery in the guest care.

Building history

Vinnenberg Monastery was built on an island in the Bever . All buildings seem to have been completed in 1296, because no construction work is mentioned in an indulgence granted by various bishops at the time. The founding church of the monastery from the 13th century is no longer preserved. This first church was completely destroyed in a devastating fire on Palm Sunday 1550 along with the monastery buildings. Already 18 years later the church burned down again shortly after the Easter holidays, this time the surrounding wall was preserved. The church was a single-nave, five-bay hall with a broken choir.

The west gable of the monastery church was designed in baroque style at the beginning of the 18th century under the abbess Anna Maria von Brakel . Two mighty late Gothic sandstone altar panels on the west facade, which can still be seen in pictures from the time before the monastery was rebuilt in 1898, were brought to Münster at a later date. A Johannes altar comprising several scenes (Maria and Elisabeth, baptism of Jesus and beheading Johannes) reached the Diocesan Museum and was installed in the east transept of the cathedral after the reconstruction of the cathedral after the Second World War . A second sandstone panel, meanwhile preserved in the Westphalian State Museum, shows a representation of the Gregorian mass .

Of the convent buildings, from the time before the first abolition (1810), only the Paterhaus from 1722 remains as a western extension of the former south wing. The buildings of the original Vinnenberg monastery adjoined the church in the south and formed a square inner courtyard. Only the priest or father house advanced on the southwest corner of the monastery square. This building from 1722 is the only part of the old monastery that has been preserved today. The buildings were demolished or fell into disrepair during the secularization . On the site of the early east wing, a new building, a home for old priests, was built in 1865. This meant that the monastery should be transferred to a different destination. All other buildings were erected after the sisters returned and the monastery was rebuilt in 1898 or later. They were rebuilt during the new settlement in 1898, as was the neo-baroque church tower next to the west facade. The monastery garden was redesigned between the two world wars. A concrete wall protected the extended gardens and pastures. Religious figures were set up in the cloister garden. After the Second World War, the sisters built an extension that was inaugurated in 1955. The Bevermühle is used today as an inn. From 2009 to 2010 it was converted into an education center, which also partially included the pilgrimage church.

Building history

  • The monastery around 1800

  • The monastery at the end of the 18th century

  • The monastery at the end of the 18th century

  • Floor plan around 1930

  • Vinnenberg Monastery around 2011

  • Aerial photograph (2014)

Today's equipment of the church

The simple hall church with Gothic tracery windows tapers towards the choir. The spatial impression is mainly shaped by the large nuns' gallery, which takes up over half of the nave and is supported by a flat-vaulted three-aisled hall.

The monastery church is equipped with sculptural decorations from the late Gothic to modern times. In the 1960s, the choir room was given a modern design. The Oelder artist Heinrich Lückenkötter made the block altar, on which a bas-relief shows the sacrificial lamb surrounded by the four evangelist symbols (man, lion, bull and eagle). Behind it rises the Sakarament stele , also erected by Lückenkötter , which was given a bronze work by the Münster sculptor Carlo Dürselen in the 1970s . Johannes Niemeier from near Gütersloh made a bronze stele for the choir room in the mid-1960s, which presented the miraculous image in a halo, and the bronze ambo on the other side of the choir .

organ

The organ was built in 1965 by the organ builder Gebrüder Stockmann . The instrument has 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal . The game actions are mechanical, the stop actions and couplings are electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Capstan flute 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Night horn 2 ′
5. Mixture IV-VI 0 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Wooden dulcian 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Pointed flute 4 ′
9. octave 2 ′
10. Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Quintzimbel III 0 1 ⁄ 2 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Open bass 08th'
14th Night horn 04 ′
15th Rauschpfeife III 0 02 ′
Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program of the Vinnenberg Monastery 2018.
  2. ↑ Hermann Jelinghaus: village names to Osnabrück , Verlag JG Kiessling, Osnabrück 1922, p 10
  3. ↑ WUB 3 n. 594. The documents of the monastery are now in the Münster State Archives; those exhibited before 1325 are printed in WUB 3 and 8. References to later documents are taken from the finding aid for the holdings in the State Archives. Cf. on this monastery: BAHLMANN, Vinnenberg monastery and its miraculous image, 1912; DERS., Miracle reports from Vinnenberg 1626-1686, 1912; CRAMER, Vinnenberg Monastery in the 19th century, 1929/30; DARPE, Inventory of Goods, Income and Revenue, 1900; FRÖND, Monastic Life in Vinnenberg from the 16th Century to Secularization, 1964; HÖWENER, Contributions to the history of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1931/32; HÜCKELHEIM, On the history of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1909; DERS., Documents from the Vinnenberg monastery, 1910; DERS., From the chronicle of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1910; DERS., Abbesses of the Vinnenberg monastery (based on the older chronicle of 1723), 1910/11; JÜNGST, Our Lady of Vinnenberg, (1948); KEMPER, From the history of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1988; KRIMPHOFF, description of the awarding of the Milte parish by the abbess of Vinnenberg, 1904; DERS., Donations received for the Vinnenberg monastery, which burned down in 1550, 1904; DERS., The sufferings of the Vinnenberg monastery at the time of the Thirty Years War, 1905; DERS., Income and expenses of the Vinnenberg monastery in 1805, 1906; DERS., Regulations concerning the acceptance of the nuns in the Vinnenberg monastery, their novitiate and their profession (17th century), 1907; DERS., Various regulations for the abbess and the nuns in the Vinnenberg monastery (from the chronicle of P. Wolfgang van Nuys), 1907-1909; DERS., Visitations in Vinnenberg, 1909; KUNTZE, Not in the Vinnenberg Monastery under French rule, 1932/33; LEIDINGER, origin and development of the women's monasteries Rengering and Vinnenberg, 1988; LINNEBORN, Klöster, pp. 293f; SCHÜTTE, the change book of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1992; The EXCHANGEABLE BOOK of the Vinnenberg Monastery 1465 to 1610, 1994; WERLAND, Vinnenberg Monastery near Milte, its history and treasures, 1974; WIBBELT, The Vinnenberger Höfe in the Münster district, 1941; WITTE, WALLMEIER, From the history of the Vinnenberg monastery, 1956; ZUHORN, The Vinnenberg Houses in Warendorf, 1912; DERS., Church history of the city of Warendorf, 1920.
  4. ↑ a b The Westphalian Cistercian Convents in the 13th Century Founding Circumstances and Early Inaugural Development - Dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree of the Philosophical Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster (Westphalia) presented by Gabriele Maria Hock from Düsseldorf 1994 PDF of the doctoral thesis p. 116
  5. ^ Karl Hölker: Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, published by Wilhelm Rave Provinzialkonservator 42 on behalf of the Provincial Association. Volume: District Warendorf, Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1936 p. 317.
  6. ^ Antonie Jüngst : Our Lady of Vinnenberg, Münster 1906, p. 12
  7. ↑ a b c d e Church + Life , Oldenburger Official District, week from July 31 to August 6, 1966, Volume 21 / No. 31 / p. 13
  8. ^ Helmut Müller: The dioceses of the church province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 5. The canon monastery and Benedictine monastery Liesborn . Germania Sacra Neue Episode 23, 1987, p. 244
  9. ^ Karl Hölker: Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen, edited by Wilhelm Rave Provinzialkonservator 42. Volume: Kreis Warendorf, Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1936 p. 374 on behalf of the Provincial Association .
  10. ^ Karl Hölker: Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen On behalf of the Provincial Association, edited by Wilhelm Rave Provinzialkonservator, 42nd volume: District Warendorf, Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1936, p. 381
  11. ^ Karl Hölker: Architectural and Art Monuments of Westphalia, edited by Wilhelm Rave Provinzialkonservator 42 on behalf of the Provincial Association. Volume: District Warendorf, Aschendorfsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1936 p. 394
  12. ^ "Josef Picker still carves", in: Westfälische Nachrichten of February 12, 1981
  13. ↑ See Art. "Liturgically and artistically successful", in: Westfälische Nachrichten of September 7, 1963
  14. ↑ Churches and Life
  15. ^ Westfälische Nachrichten on Friday, September 18, 2009.
  16. ↑ feel-a-little-removed-from-the-world
  17. ↑ More information about the organ on an information board inside the church

literature

  • Antonie Jüngst : Our Lady of Vinnenberg , Münster 1906 (self-published by the monastery with the imprimatur of Felix von Hartmann as Vic. Genlis)
  • J. Hobbeling: Description of the Münster monastery. printed by Wittib Raeßfeldt zu Munster 1689, p. 24: "Brief but thorough report of the origin and miacules of the miraculous image of the Mother of God ... in Vinnenberg."
  • P. Bahlman: Miracle report from Vinnenberg 1629 - 1636. Warendorfer Blätter 11, 1912, p. 33 f.
  • Paul Leidinger: Vinnenberg - Cistercian women, then Benedictine women. In: Karl Hengst (Hrsg.): Westfälisches Klosterbuch. Lexicon of the monasteries and monasteries established before 1815 from their foundation to their abolition. Part 2: Münster - Zwillbrock. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1994, ISBN 3-402-06888-5 , pp. 389-396.
  • Siegfried Schmieder: Ostbevern, contributions to the history and culture of a community in the Münsterland. Warendorf 1988.
  • Working group of the Westphalian Society for Genealogy and Family Research: The change book of the Vinnenberg monastery. 1465 to 1610. Sources and research on the history of the Warendorf district / QFW Vol. 27, Warendorf 1994, ISBN 3-920836-12-X .
  • Carl B. Möller, Markus Nolte and Anselm Skogstad: Waiting rooms. Münster 2006, ISBN 3937961380 .

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