Upcoming Boekzetel

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The monastery cemetery.

The Coming Boekzetel (also called Boekzetel Monastery ) was an East Frisian Coming of the Johanniter . In the Middle Ages it was located west of the Boekzeteler Meer in East Friesland . Even today, three farmsteads with the name Boekzeteler Kloster mark the property of the former commander. Enclosed semicircle of the courts is also located on a mound a cemetery . The foundations of medieval wall remnants, which extend from the courtyard bordering the cemetery to the east, to under the cemetery, suggest that the former monastery church stood there.

According to tradition, the Benedictines founded a monastery in Boekzetel, which they later moved to Thedinga Monastery . When Boekzetel came into the possession of the Johanniter is unknown. The coming one is already mentioned in a document from 1319 as "Boukesete", so at that time it was already in the possession of the Order of St. John, who did not settle in a complete wasteland, but received at least partly cultivated land. Little is known about the further history. In 1499 the order house Boekzetel was to be incorporated into the Coming Abbingwehr , but then became the outer courtyard of the then still existing Hasselter Coming . With the dissolution of the Hasselter Kommende by Enno II , Boekzetel also became the property of the count. In 1608 the Johanniter Hasselt and his Vorwerk Boekzetel got back. It was not until 1806 that the King of Holland , to which East Frisia was subject at that time, had the goods confiscated and declared them a state domain .

In the 17th century the monastery property was leased to the Harsebrock family from Emden. Members of this family, Caspar and Paul Harsebrock initiated the establishment of the Boekzetelerfehn.

After economic difficulties in the owner families Cramer, Hoiten and Schinkel, Jan Hansen Onken gradually bought the remaining parts of the monastery in the 1890s (from 1791).

The monastery courtyards remained in the possession of the Onken family and their descendants until the 20th century.

In July 2011, the East Frisian landscape carried out a geophysical survey on behalf of the municipality of Moormerland . Both the results of the geomagnetic investigation and those of the electrical resistance measurements provided a diffuse picture. In the cemetery, which is still in use today, the archaeologists recorded the vague outlines of an approximately 25 × 8–10 meter rectangular area. There they suspect the monastery church, the long walls of which have a foundation width of 1.50 to two meters. Accordingly, the nave could have been seven to eight meters wide. It may have had a transept on the north wall, which was only hinted at when examined in the south. There was also a vestibule on the north wall. Based on the resistance measurements, the archaeologists were able to record a geometrically rectangular structure on the meadow south of the cemetery, which extends over an area of ​​36 m in length in an east-west direction and a width in north-south of at least 15 m. A more massive foundation wall may have been preserved in the ground there. Large parts of the area in question for the monastery development could not be examined, however, because they are overbuilt with agricultural buildings.

literature

  • Marc Sgonina: Boekzetel - Benedictine? before 1319 Johanniter . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1-4. Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3895349569 . Pp. 90-91.
  • Walter Deeters : Benedictine double monasteries in East Frisia. In: Res Frisicae. Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1975, pp. 73–85.
  • Enno Schöningh: The Order of St. John in Ostfriesland , Aurich 1973, p. 32f
  • Hemmo Suur: History of the former monasteries in the province of East Friesland: An attempt . Hahn, Emden 1838, p. 121 (reprint of the edition from 1838, Verlag Martin Sendet, Niederwalluf 1971, ISBN 3-500-23690-1 ). Online at archive.org.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enno Schöningh: The Order of St. John in Ostfriesland , Aurich 1973, p. 32f
  2. ↑ Marc Sgonina: Boekzetel - Benedictine? before 1319 Johanniter . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1-4. Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3895349569 . Pp. 90-91.
  3. ↑ Jan F. Kegler, C. Schweitzer: Boekzetelerfehn, Gde. Moormerland, Ldkr. Leer, FStNr. 2611/4: 18 Geophysical investigation on the former Boekzetel monastery . In: News of the Marschenrat to promote research in the coastal area of ​​the North Sea. Issue 49/2012, p. 33, accessed online on July 26, 2017
  4. ↑ Ostfriesische Landschaft (Ed.): Annual Report 2011 . S 50. Aurich 2012.

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 23 ″  E