Monastery ruins Ober-Werbe

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Monastery ruins Ober-Werbe
Ruins

The Ober-Werbe monastery ruin is located above the village of Ober-Werbe , a district of the town of Waldeck . The remains of the Romanesque building stand on a limestone rock in which peregrine falcons breed and which offers a wide view of the village and the surrounding area. The ruin of the monastery is one of the most charming in the Waldecker Land .

history

The Werbe monastery is said to have existed as early as 1038. The first documentary mentions, however, are only found in the years 1124/1125, when Pope Honorius II took the monastery consecrated to Saints Mary and Peter under his protection. At first the monastery was a Benedictine monks' convent. In 1155 Pope Hadrian IV gave Ober-Werbe to the Corvey monastery . From 1207 at the latest it was a Benedictine monastery . In 1494 nuns from the Vinnenberg monastery near Warendorf were sent to Werbe in order to implement the monastery reform there according to the rules of the Bursfeld congregation .

After the Reformation in the county of Waldeck in 1525/1526, Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen closed the monastery in 1537 and the inmates were compensated. The last abbess married the first Protestant pastor in Ober-Werbe, the preacher Kaspar Jäger. Count Philipp sold the entire system, the so-called "Haus Werbe", with all accessories, tithes, slopes and mills on May 5, 1553 for 3800 gold guilders and 1200 Joachimsthalers to Wilhelm Wolff von Gudenberg , who also took over the duty, the four still to feed the local monastery people and to occupy the parish. When Wilhelm Wolff von Gudenberg died just a few months later, his widow Margarete pledged the Werbe house to Samuel von Waldeck , son of Count Philip IV on September 29, 1553. In 1564, the Landgrave Hessian councilor Simon Bing bought the Werbe house as a pledge with all accessories. Five years later, on May 1, 1569, after redeeming the pledge, he ceded it to Count Philip IV of Waldeck-Wildungen. His granddaughter Margarete, daughter of Samuel von Waldeck, fell to her death from the rugged rock in 1575. From 1578 the former monastery was a count's dairy , which was moved to the valley in 1640.

Former monastery church

Gradual decline began after the Thirty Years War and most of the monastery buildings were eventually demolished or used as building material for new constructions in the village.

The church

The church in the valley represents the origin of the monastery on the rock above the village. Only at a later point in time did the monastery move onto the rock, the long stone. Probably not quite, which caused the facility to be spatially separated, the church in the valley remained a monastery church. This relocation of the monastery is unique in the Waldecker Land. Why this happened is unclear. Reasons for moving the monastery could have been the unstable subsoil of the church in the valley or the fact that the location on the hill was better suited for defense.

  • Information board for the ruined monastery

  • Monastery ruins Ober-Werbe

  • Facade and chimney

  • Chimney of the ruin

  • Fireplace back

literature

  • Architectural and art monuments Kassel NF 4, pp. 256–258.
  • Louis Curtze : Waldeck 830. p. 655.
  • Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser, Wilhelm Lotz: The architectural monuments in the administrative district of Cassel. Kassel 1870, p. 209.
  • Johannes Linneborn: The reformation of the Westphalian Benedictine monasteries in the 15th century by the Bursfeld congregation. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Volume 20, Brünn 1899, p. 266ff., P. 531ff. Volume 21, 1900, p. 53ff., P. 315ff., P. 554ff. Volume 22, 1901, p. 48ff., P. 396ff., P. 144f.
  • FWE Roth in Korrespondenzblatt 40 (1892), p. 147 (Parish Hoen assigned to Marienstatt in 1560)
  • Schultze: Waldeck Reformation History. P. 38ff. (Siegel), p. 90, p. 104f., P. 359ff.
  • Georg Schreiber: Curia and monastery in the 12th century. Volume 1 (canonical treatises, volume 65), Stuttgart 1910, p. 22, p. 35f.
  • Varnhagen: Basis 1. 93ff., S. 188ff.
  • Varnhagen: First introduction of Christianity. P. 44f., P. 56f.

swell

  • Marburg State Archives in the Waldeck Archives: Documents. Hs. 92 (letter register 15th century). Copiar . Interest register 1501/03. 1564. Langenbeck's estate (list of provosts and abbesses).
  • Court library Bad Arolsen Klettenberg, Msc. 1, 729f. 773f. Marburg, State Archives. Samthof court files W 199. 200 (1531–1539). State Archives Münster : Corvey Monastery , documents; Files A IV, 5 (1533).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Benedictine monastery Ober-Werbe, Waldeck-Frankenberg district". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of June 30, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ^ History of the monastery. Retrieved March 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ The former monastery Ober-Werbe. Website of the Klosterhof Ober-Werbe.
  4. ↑ The former monastery Ober-Werbe. Website of the Klosterhof Ober-Werbe.

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 36.2 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 57.7"  E