Monastery Park (Schortens)
The monastery park ( full name Klosterpark Oestringfelde ) is an old park in the town of Schortens in the district of Friesland that is under landscape protection . The park is located in the west of the city in the Oestringfelde district and is already noticeable from a bird's eye view due to its almost round structure.
The monastery park has a size of 8.78 hectares and is surrounded by a ring moat and a wall hedge running parallel to it . On the grounds of the park are the ruins of the monastery , more precisely the remains of the former defensive tower of the Oestringfelde monastery and the building of the RUZ, the regional environmental center of the city of Schortens.
history
The Oestringfelde monastery was built in 1175 after a victory by the Östringers over the Rüstringers near Schakelhave. The collegiate monastery with church, living quarters and outbuildings was consecrated to the holy mother Mary and became the spiritual center of the rural community Östringen. This is where the so-called Östringer Chronik was created , the only medieval chronicle in Jeverland , of which only partially different copies have survived today. In 1272 the monastery buildings were destroyed by fire. In 1323 the foundation stone was laid for the defensive tower of the monastery, which also served for national defense. After the plague epidemic around 1350, the Dominican Order in the north received the abandoned buildings to build a Dominican convent and the tower was completed with state funds from the Östringians.
The tower of the monastery is said to have been around 50 meters after the church tower in Marienhafe, the highest on the East Frisian peninsula . An official report from 1769 describes the tower with a square base area of 13 meters by 13 meters. The walls were four meters thick in the lower area and two meters in the upper area. The masonry consisted of granite blocks on the outside and bricks on the inside . A sketch enclosed with the official report shows two rows of three arched window openings, one on top of the other, on the two upper floors, one divided by a pillar. The church built on the tower had a single nave.
The monastery was used as a fortification , meeting place and for conferences. In the monastery, for example, the Östring Treaty between Maria von Jever and Count Enno II of East Friesland was negotiated.
The monastery was abolished in 1577 by Count Johann VII of Oldenburg and Count Anton Günter von Oldenburg began demolishing the building in 1609. The mighty tower stood for around 150 years and was only demolished in 1769 under the rule of Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst .
In 1839 the monastery grounds with the remaining building were sold to the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Councilor Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut (1798–1866). He laid out a garden and used the granite stones found during excavations in 1844 to recreate the floor plan of the monastery tower. After 1900 the former monastery property was gradually dismantled and sold. The community of Schortens acquired part of the site and converted the garden into today's monastery park, which was placed under landscape protection in 1985 .
Web links
- Monastery park in Schortens
- Klosterpark-Freunde eV
- Regional environmental center Schortens in the monastery park
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 2, page 492 ff.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 10.8 " N , 7 ° 55 ′ 30.1" E