Collegiate monastery Soldin

The Soldin monastery was a collegiate monastery in Soldin , today Myślibórz, in what was then Neumark in Brandenburg from 1198 to 1546.

location

The town church of St. Marien belonged to the monastery, as well as a monastery house and probably several canons' houses (of which there are no written or archaeological reports). There was no closed monastery grounds.

history

The collegiate foundation was founded in 1298 by Margrave Albrecht III. founded by Brandenburg . It should become the ecclesiastical center of the Neumark. A Propstei Soldin was assigned to the monastery. Some of the canons came from the Marienstift in Stettin .

In 1335 the monastery was badly damaged "by fire and robbery". In the following two decades, Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg promoted it through extensive donations. In 1433 the monastery and the rest of the city were devastated by the Hussites . In 1459, Pope Pius II dissolved the collegiate monastery at the request of Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg from the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Cammin , but this was ignored by the monastery according to the documents at hand.

The canons initially opposed the introduction of Protestant worship in the town church in 1538 by maintaining the liturgy according to the Catholic rite. Some left the pen soon after. In 1539 the church burned down in a city fire, and some canons' houses probably too. The remaining gentlemen then lived in the monastery house. In 1543, Margrave Johann von Küstrin demanded the abolition of the monastery, but this was refused by the remaining canons. As a result, their income from benefices was withdrawn. After the contract was signed by Cantor Hamme in 1546 without the consent of the others, the monastery was dissolved. In 1547 the last canons left the house, but some continued to live in the city.

Constitution

The chapter consisted of twelve canons. These had spiritual ordinations, but did not belong to any order and were not obliged to live on site ( secular canons ). Some also had other canon or canon positions, or were also active at the court as electoral councilors, Dietrich Mörner even as chancellor. The monastery was headed by a provost and a dean , who apparently acted formally equally, in some documents the dean was even named before the provost. The canons were often consulted by bishops and electors, monasteries and private individuals as arbitrators or lawyers in legal disputes in Neumark, but also in Pomerania, Niederlausitz or Kurmark.

The church of the Soldin monastery belonged to the diocese of Cammin, to which it was de facto still subject even after the formal exemption of 1459.

economy

The monastery had patronage over the town churches in Soldin, Landsberg, Berlinchen, Bärwalde (all since 1298), Lippehne, Friedeberg, Woldenberg (since 1335), Schönfließ, Mohrin (since 1355), all in Neumark, in Strausberg near Berlin and through two village churches with the corresponding income. It also owned several villages in the area, as well as free float and income from altars.

literature

• Christian Gahlbeck, Blandine Wittkopp: Soldin (Myślibórz). Kollegiatstift. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich (eds.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies, volume 14). Volume 2. Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 . Pp. 1123–1147,