Monastery Chamber of Hanover

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Monastery Chamber of Hanover
Legal form: State authority and foundation body in the service area of ​​the Lower Saxony. Ministry of Science and Culture
Purpose: Foundation purposes "church", "school" and "charitable purposes of all kinds"
Chair: Hans-Christian Biallas (President)
Consist: since 1818
Founder: Prince Regent Georg of Hanover
Number of employees: 135
Seat: Hanover
Website: www.klosterkammer.de

The Hanover Monastery Chamber , based in Hanover, is a special authority in the business area of ​​the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture . It manages formerly ecclesiastical, mediatized property and maintains churches and monasteries. As a foundation body , it also manages four independent foundations under public law .

The monastery chamber maintains and promotes church, social and school projects. It is one of the oldest and most traditional state authorities in Lower Saxony , the forerunner organization of which arose in the 16th century.

history

Listed headquarters of the monastery chamber in Hanover, facade facing Uhlemeyerstraße

The monastery chamber of Hanover was created during the time of the sovereign church regiment , when state and church were still institutionally connected. The roots of it in the time of the Reformation in the Principality of Calenberg -Göttingen to 1542. At that time the regent possessed Elisabeth von Calenberg inventory of the documents of the former Catholic monasteries in the Reformation Lutheran Ladies pins had been converted. This was only partially carried out. After Elisabeth von Calenberg's reign ended in 1545 due to her son Erich II reaching the age of majority , the reformation of the monasteries came to a standstill because Erich II had converted to the Catholic faith. It was not until after his death in 1584 that the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen was inherited by Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel that the monastery was reorganized under Duke Julius according to the Wolfenbüttel church order of 1569.

As a forerunner organization , the General Hannoversche Klosterfonds experienced a significant increase in assets as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. In 1815, the spiritual principalities of Hildesheim and Osnabrück fell to the Kingdom of Hanover . The assets of the abolished monasteries were not collected by the state, but transferred to the monastery fund. This increase in assets was the reason for the establishment of the Hanover Monastery Chamber as the central authority. Prince Regent Georg IV established it on May 8, 1818 to manage the former monastery property. In the time of the Prussian province of Hanover from 1866 to 1945 the monastery chamber with its own president was subordinate to the upper president of the province in Hanover.

Numerous former collegiate and monastery churches in Lower Saxony are still owned by the monastery chamber; they are used as parish churches by Protestant and Catholic parishes. Furthermore extensive property of the former monasteries. The president of the monastery chamber is responsible for representing the associated prelatures in the Calenberg-Grubenhagen state parliament .

Administration and real estate

The monastery chamber is located in the eastern part of Hanover, not far from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media . It administers the General Hanover Monastery Fund (AHK), the Verden Cathedral Structure Fund , the Ilfeld Abbey and the St. Benedikti Hospital Fund in Lüneburg .

The monastery chamber has an administration, a property and a construction department as well as the monastery chamber forest operation, which is managed by the monastery forest offices in Soltau and Westerhof , as a state operation. Around 135 employees work there and look after the foundation's extensive assets. This mainly consists of around 40,000 hectares of land with agricultural and forest areas, gravel pits, nature conservation and leisure areas. Three quarters of the monastery chamber is financed from almost 16,000 leasehold properties. In addition, around 800 buildings, mostly listed buildings, belong to the chamber , including the Calenberg convents Barsinghausen, Mariensee, Marienwerder, Wennigsen and Wülfinghausen. It also owns around 10,000 works of art.

activity

Seal mark Royal Prussian Monastery Chamber - Hanover

The administration of the four foundation assets by the monastery chamber also includes the fulfillment of performance obligations towards numerous Protestant and Catholic parishes. In the vast majority of cases, the performance obligations have always been a burden on the assets pooled in the foundations, in particular in the Allgemeine Hannoversche Klosterfonds (AHK). A first list can be found in Falk's memorandum of 1877. Their order of magnitude varies widely. In the case of the parish of St. Michaelis Lüneburg, the AHK is obliged to bear the entire costs of the parish, i.e. all personnel, material and building maintenance costs. In other cases, the AHK fully or partially bears the parish salary and / or the construction maintenance of church buildings, parsonages and cemetery chapels. In addition, he makes grants for salaries and heating costs. Based on a contractual agreement from 1963/83 with the State of Lower Saxony, the AHK bears the performance obligation of the State of Lower Saxony towards the so-called Lüneburg monasteries, i.e. women's monasteries, Ebstorf, Isenhagen, Lüne, Medingen, Walsrode and Wienhausen. In return, the AHK was released from its performance obligation towards the University of Göttingen and the excessive claim was offset by the transfer of agricultural and forestry assets. In addition, the monastery chamber advises the women's monasteries Bassum, Börstel, Fischbeck and Obernkirchen on administrative, construction and other specialist matters.

From the economic surpluses of asset management, the monastery chamber grants annual funds of around three million euros for projects in Lower Saxony in accordance with the church, social and school purpose of the foundation.

Managed pens and monasteries

Ground plan of Lüne Monastery around 1800

Lueneburg monasteries

  1. Lüne Monastery
  2. Ebstorf Monastery
  3. Isenhagen Abbey
  4. Medingen Monastery
  5. Walsrode Monastery
  6. Wienhausen Monastery

Calenberg monasteries

  1. Barsinghausen Monastery
  2. Mariensee Monastery
  3. Marienwerder Monastery
  4. Wennigsen Monastery
  5. Wülfinghausen Monastery

Field monasteries

  1. Grauhof Monastery
  2. Riechenberg Monastery
  3. St. Peter and Paul (Heiningen)
  4. Lamspringe Monastery
  5. Wöltingerode Monastery

Others

  1. Minster Church of St. Alexandri (Einbeck)
  2. Fischbeck Abbey
  3. Obernkirchen Abbey
  4. Börstel pen
  5. Bassum Abbey
  6. Ilfeld Abbey with the Ilfeld Abbey School and more than 1,500 hectares of forest in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia
  7. Bursfelde Monastery
  8. Marienburg Castle (Pattensen) (takeover was planned for 2019)

Directors and Presidents

literature

  • Herbert Röhrig : Klosterfonds and Klosterkammer , Hanover: Self-published Alleehof 3 , 1971
  • Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen (ed.): The general Hanover monastery fund and the monastery chamber Hanover. Schlueter, Hannover 1999, ISBN 3-87706-546-5 .
  • Andreas Franitza: The General Hanover Monastery Fund and the Hanover Monastery Chamber . Studies on legal historical development (= writings on state church law 2), Frankfurt am Main et al. [2000]
  • Klosterkammer Hannover (Ed.): Monastery goods. A legacy from Lower Saxony. Hinstorff, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01396-2 .

Web links

Commons : Klosterkammer Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lower Saxony buys Marienburg for one euro , Burgerbe.de, November 29, 2018
  2. ^ Report on the inauguration .

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 41.4 ″  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 7 ″  E